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A History of Video Games in 64 Objects

Dey Street Books, 2018

Inspired by the groundbreaking A History of the World in 100 Objects, this book draws on the unique collections of The Strong museum in Rochester, New York, to chronicle the evolution of video games, from Pong to first-person shooters, told through the stories of dozens of objects essential to the field’s creation and...

Visualizing Data

O'Reilly, 2008

Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused today, simply because people can't visualize the quantities and relationships in it. Using a downloadable programming environment developed by the author, Visualizing Data demonstrates methods for representing data accurately on the Web and elsewhere, complete with user interaction, animation, and...

From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Although this book focuses on the problems and potentials for electronic representations of the fundamental materials of document-based knowledge in literature, similar conditions obtain for representations of works in music, philosophy, history, the law, and religion. These fields find in paper documents the primary materials of...

Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism

MIT Press, 2006

"Bogost challenges humanists and technologists to pay attention to one another, something they desperately need to do as computation accelerates us into the red zones of widespread virtual reality. This book gives us what we need to meet that challenge: a general theory for understanding creativity under computation, one that will apply...

Aircraft Performance & Design

McGraw-Hill, 1998

Written by one of the most succesful aerospace authors, this new book develops aircraft performance techniques from first principles and applies then to real airplanes. It also address a philosophy of, and techniques for aircraft design. By developing and discussing these two subjects in a single text, the author captures a degree of synergism not...

About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

When the first edition of About Face was published in 1995, the idea of designing products based on human goals was a revolutionary concept. Thanks to the work of Alan Cooper and other pioneers, interaction design is now widely recognized as a unique and vital discipline, but our work is far from finished.

This completely updated volume...

The Radio Station, Seventh Edition: Broadcast, Satellite & Internet

Focal Press, 2006

Keith's masterful updated survey of what has changed and what remains the same in the dynamic audio industry.
- Christopher Sterling,
George Washington University

The bible for beginning radio professionals. A complete guide to the internal workings of radio stations and the radio industry. The book is now a...

A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites

The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2010

The Web is always moving, always changing. As some Web sites come, others go, but the most effective sites have been well established. A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites provides a list of key web sites in various disciplines that will assist researchers with a solid starting point for their queries. The sites included in this collection...

The Da Vinci Code

Doubleday, 2003

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in...

Klimt (Mega Square Collection)

Parkstone Press, 2011

Gustav Klimt first made himself known by the decorations he executed (with his brother and their art school companion F. Matsch), for numerous theatres and above all (on his own this time) for the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he completed, in a coolly photographic style, the work begun by Makart. At the age of thirty he moved into...

Lonely Planet Discover Egypt (Country Guide)

Lonely Planet, 2012

Experience The Best of Egypt
The Pyramids of Giza, Siwa Oasis, Luxor Museum – we’ve selected the most iconic sights and incredible places so you can enjoy the real Egypt with the minimum of fuss.

Highlights reveal the must-see attractions and unbeatable experiences
Itineraries...

The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer

MIT Press, 2003

Sitting in the reading rooms of the Public Record Office in London, a historian is in the center of a museum of organization. Copies of the catalogue to the museum fill several walls (although these are now complemented by online versions). The catalogue lists are dominated by references to objects of one kind: the file. The file has in its...

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