What is this place?
These are some books I want. It is very difficult to
make a coherent wish list: there are so many books that I know are
interesting or that I think are interesting, so it is hard to
quantify and prioritize the way I feel about each one. I have wish
lists at all the book-related sites I belong to, and they overlap
but aren't all that similar. And anyway, it isn't as if I'm
currently suffering for lack of things to read on my own shelves. Oh
well.
Kinds of Books I Want
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Used - Books or editions
of books I want that are no longer in print.
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New - In-print and available
new. (May be cheaper used.)
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Maybe - Books I might
want.
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Used
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| Title |
Author |
Notes |
Ruth Chew books |
| Three Cheers for Polly |
Carol Morse |
HCDJ ideally not ex-lib |
| Spanish translations |
Ruth Chew |
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Intrepid Linguist Library paperbacks
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| Cruel and Unusual Puns |
Don Hauptman |
0440208505 |
| Acronymania |
Don Hauptman |
0440211603 |
| Fighting Words |
Christine Ammer |
0440206669 |
| Just Ask Mr. Wordwizard |
David Grambs |
0440217199 |
| Eatioms |
John Jacombson |
0440208874 |
| If I Had a Hi-Fi |
William Irvine |
0440211425 |
| The Devil's Dictionary |
Ambrose Bierce |
044020853X |
Other |
| Talking Parcel |
Gerald Durrell |
Original American HB
like
this one.
Maybe also a PB
like this one. |
| Amber Spyglass |
Philip Pullman |
paperback with red and
black Knopf triangles on the spine |
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New
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| Title |
Author |
Notes |
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Terry Pratchett
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Wintersmith
|
Terry Pratchett |
already read.
mass market paperback
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Nation
|
Terry Pratchett |
already read. mass market paperback
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I Shall Wear Midnight
|
Terry Pratchett |
mass market paperback
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Comic Strips
|
| The Party After You
Left : Collected Cartoons 1995-2003 |
Roz Chast |
|
| Unshelved, Vol. 1 (Unshelved) |
Gene Ambaum, Bill
Barnes |
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| Stone Soup 1 |
Jan Eliot |
Stone Soup |
| Stone Soup 3 |
Jan Eliot |
The Comic Strip |
| Stone Soup 4 |
Jan Eliot |
Roadkill in the Closet |
| Stone Soup 5 |
Jan Eliot |
Not So Picture Perfect |
| Stone Soup 6 |
Jan Eliot |
Desperate Households |
Children's and YA Fication |
| The Tales of Beedle the
Bard |
JK Rowling |
any version |
| The Spellcoats |
Diana Wynne Jones |
Dalemark 3 - already
read
|
| The Crown of Dalemark |
Diana Wynne Jones |
Dalemark 4 - already
read
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Other |
| The Dot and the Line: A
Romance in Lower Mathematics |
Norton Juster |
|
| Photo Idea Index |
Jim Krause |
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| Type Idea Index |
Jim Krause |
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| Beautiful Evidence |
Edward R. Tufte |
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| Envisioning Information |
Edward R. Tufte |
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| The Visual Display of
Quantitative Information |
Edward R. Tufte |
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| Visual Explanations |
Edward R. Tufte |
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Maybe
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| Title |
Author |
Notes |
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Computer Books
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Essential PHP security
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9780596006563
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Beginning PHP and MySQL (3rd ed)
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9781590598627
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Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP
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9781590599068
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Pro PHP Security
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9781590595084
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PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites (Visual QuickPro
Guide)
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9780321525994
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Children's and YA Fiction |
| The Mislaid Magician or
Ten Years After |
Wrede and Stevermer |
|
| The Book of Beginnings |
Kladstrup |
|
| The Final Storm |
Batson |
|
| Fire Thief |
Terry Deary |
|
| The Coming of
Dragons |
A.J. Lake |
Darkest Age
Book I |
| Forest in the Hallway |
Gordon Smith |
|
| Enna Burning |
Shannon Hale |
|
| The Goose Girl |
Shannon Hale |
|
| Escape from Castle Cant |
K.P. Bath |
|
| The Door Within |
Wayne Thomas |
The Door Within Trilogy
- Book One |
| The Penderwicks |
Jeanne Birdsall |
|
| Howl's Moving Castle
|
Jones, Diana Wynne |
US ed. HB
like this |
| Castle in the Air |
Jones, Diana Wynne |
HB of particular type |
|
The Children's Shakespeare |
Edith Nesbit |
|
| Mouse Manor |
Edward Eager |
|
| Read Head (poems) |
Edward Eager |
|
|
Playing Possum |
Edward Eager |
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| Bunnicula Strikes Again |
James Howe |
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| Peter Duck |
Arthur Ransome |
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| Winter Holiday |
Arthur Ransome |
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| Coot Club |
Arthur Ransome |
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| Pigeon Post |
Arthur Ransome |
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| We Didn't Mean To Go To
Sea |
Arthur Ransome |
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| Secret Water |
Arthur Ransome |
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| The Big Six |
Arthur Ransome |
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| Missee Lee |
Arthur Ransome |
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| The Picts And The
Martyrs |
Arthur Ransome |
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| Great Northern? |
Arthur Ransome |
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| Mr. Bass's Planetoid
(1958) |
Eleanor Cameron |
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| A Mystery for Mr. Bass
(1960) |
Eleanor Cameron |
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| Time and Mr. Bass
(1967) |
Eleanor Cameron |
|
| Out of Their Minds
(1998) |
Carol Matas |
Minds 3 |
| A Meeting of Minds
(1999) |
Carol Matas |
Minds 4 |
| The Keys to the Kingdom
(1-7) |
Garth Nix |
have 1 & 2 |
| Green Knowe (series) |
Boston |
read 1 |
| Dr. Dolittle (series) |
Hugh Lofting |
have story, voyages,
garden, caravan, post office |
| The Wind on Fire (1-3) |
William Nicholson |
read 1 |
| Charlie Bone (4-5) |
Jenny Nimmo |
HC |
| Septimus Heap (series) |
Angie Sage |
Have 1 & 2 |
| Echorium (series) |
Roberts |
Chicken House |
| The Gateway (1-3) |
Carmody |
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| Stravaganza (1-3) |
Hoffman |
have 1 |
| Shamer Chronicles (1-4) |
Lere Kaaberbol |
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| Briar Rose |
Jane Yolen |
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| The Prydain Companion
|
Michael Tunnell |
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| The Hunting of the Last
Dragon |
Sherryl Jordan |
|
Fiction |
| Return to Quag Keep |
Andre Norton |
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| Gray Magic |
Andre Norton |
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| Rogue Reynard |
Andre Norton |
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| Lyon’s Pride |
Anne McCaffrey |
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| The Tower and The Hive |
Anne McCaffrey |
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| Partnership |
Anne McCaffrey |
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| City Who Fought |
Anne McCaffrey |
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| Ship Avenged |
Anne McCaffrey |
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| Power Play |
Anne McCaffrey |
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| Jeeves and Wooster
Books |
PG Wodehouse |
Have Carry On,
Jeeves |
| Shadow Magic |
Patricia C. Wrede |
Lyra 1 |
| Caught in Crystal |
Patricia C. Wrede |
Lyra 4 |
| Raven Ring |
Patricia C. Wrede |
Lyra 5 |
| The Mabinogion
Tetralogy |
Evangeline Walton |
|
| Troy |
Roger Lancelyn Green |
|
| Ancient Egypt |
Roger Lancelyn Green |
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| Greek Heroes |
Roger Lancelyn Green |
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| Roadmarks |
Roger Zelazny |
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| Captain Grant's
Children |
Jules Verne |
available as ebook? |
|
Language Non-Fiction
|
| The Great Eskimo
Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of
Language |
Geoffrey K. Pullum |
|
| Word Myths, Debunking
Linguistic Urban Legends |
David Wilton |
|
| Empires of the Word: A
Language History of the World |
Nicholas Ostler |
|
| Samuel Johnson's
Dictionary |
Lynch |
|
| The Adventure of English |
Bragg |
|
| Johnson's Dictionary: A
Modern Selection |
McAdam and Milne |
|
| The Oxford University
Press: An Informal History |
Sutcliffe, Peter |
|
| Empire of Words |
Willinsky, John |
|
| The Penguin Dictionary
for Writers and Editors |
Penguin |
|
| The Birth of Writing |
Claiborne, Robert |
|
| Loose Cannons, Red
Herrings, and Other Lost Metaphors |
Claiborne, Robert |
|
| Books: Their history,
art, power, glory, infamy and suffering according to their
creators, friends and enemies. |
Donaldson, Gerald |
(1981) |
| Predicting New Words
|
Metcalf, Allan A. |
|
| Common Phrases and
Where They Come From |
Mordock, John |
|
| The Oxford Dictionary
of Foreign Words and Phrases |
Oxford |
|
| The Oxford Dictionary
of Word Histories |
Oxford |
|
| Word Games |
Oxford |
|
| The Grouchy Grammarian
|
Parrish, Thomas |
|
| British English A to
Zed |
Schur, Norman W. |
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| British Self-Taught:
With Comments in American |
Schur, Norman W. |
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| English English: A
Descriptive Dictionary |
Schur, Norman W. |
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Other Non-Fiction
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|
Awakenings |
Oliver Sacks |
|
|
The Island of the Colorblind |
Oliver Sacks |
|
|
Migraine |
Oliver Sacks |
|
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Pikachu's Global Adventure |
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A Gentle Madness |
Nicholas A. Basbanes |
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Patience and Fortitude |
Nicholas A. Basbanes |
|
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Among the Gently Mad |
Nicholas A. Basbanes |
|
|
A Splendor of Letters |
Nicholas A. Basbanes |
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The Long Tail : Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of
More |
Chris Anderson |
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Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things |
Donald A. Norman |
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Necessity, Volition and Love |
Harry Frankfurt |
|
|
Crimes Against Logic |
Jamie Whyte |
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| The Knave of Hearts
(illustrations) |
Saunders, Louise |
10 speed press
reproduction |
| How Do Astronauts
Scratch an Itch: An Imponderables Book |
David Feldman |
|
| How Does Aspirin Find a
Headache? |
David Feldman |
|
| World of Late Antiquity
|
Brown, Peter |
|
| Hong Kong |
Simon Winchester |
|
| Korea |
Simon Winchester |
|
| The River at the Center
of the World |
Simon Winchester |
|
| Rock and Gem |
DK/Smithsonian |
lg. format $40 retail. |
| Crystal and Gem |
Eyewitness |
Have Rock and Mineral |
| Volcanoes |
Firefly |
|
Avoid
- Joan Aiken
- Eva Ibbotson
- Roald Dahl
- Eoin Colfer
Authors to keep in mind:
- Michael Molloy
- Edith Pattou
- Rupp
- Vivian Vande Velde
- Tanith Lee
- Pat O-Shea
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
- Phyllis Naylor
- Anthony Horowitz
- Avi
- Sidney Harris
- Henry Petroski
- Edith Wharton
- Walter Wick
- Walter Dean Myers
- Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers
- Mary Pope Osborne
More books to consider:
- English as She Is Spoke : Being a Comprehensive Phrasebook
of the English Language, Written by Men to Whom English was
Entirely Unknown (Collins Library Series): Books: José da
Fonseca,Pedro Carolino,Paul Collins
- Noah Webster : The Life and Times of an American Patriot:
Books: Harlow Giles Unger
- John Masefield:
“Midnight Folk”
“The Box of Delights”
- Mary Stewart:
Walk in Wolf Wood,
Ludo and the Star Horse (Hodder Modern Classic)
- Astrid Lindgren:
Most Beloved Sister,
Mio My Son
- Elaine Horseman ”Hubble's bubble”
- Alan Garner:
“Elidor”
The Owl Service "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" "The Moon of Gomrath"
- Michael Ende:
“Momo”
“The Night of Wishes”
- Ottfried Preussler: ”The Curse of the Darkling Mill”
- Pamela L. Travers “Mary Poppins" books
- Penelope Farmer “Charlotte Sometimes”
- Margaret Mahy ”The Changeover” and others
- Vivien Alcock ”The Haunting of Cassie Palmer ”
- E.L. Konigsburg "Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William
McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth"
- Leonie Kooiker:
”The Magic Stone”
"Legacy of Magic”
- Absolut Sequel: The Absolut Advertising Story Continues by
Richard W. Lewis
- Omiyage : Handmade Gifts from Fabric in the Japanese
Tradition by Kumiko Sudo
- Cats, Rats & Other Creatures: 15 Patterns & Design
Techniques by Neysa A. Phillippi
- Soft Animals A to Z: Sew a Collection of 26 Realistic Toys
by Carolyn Vosburg Hall
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by
Christopher Alexander
- A Pattern Approach to Interaction Design by Jan Borchers
- Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web by
Christina Wodtke
- The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World 1969
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly by Nassim Nicholas
Taleb
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- Blank: The Power of Not Actually Thinking at All (A Mindless
Parody) by Noah Tall
- Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Mad... by Michael R.
LeGault
- A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston
- Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking by D.Q. Mcinerny
- The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and... by Chip Heath
- Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
- David Micklethwait. Noah Webster and the American Dictionary
(2005)
- John S. Morgan. Noah Webster (1975), popular biography
- Richard Rollins. The Long Journey of Noah Webster (1980)
(ISBN
0812277783)
- Harlow Giles Unger. Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an
American Patriot (1998)
- Harry R. Warfel, Noah Webster: Schoolmaster to America
(1936), standard biography
- Wilbur Smith
- Courtney Series
- When the Lion Feeds (1964)
The Sound of Thunder (1966)
- A Sparrow Falls (1977)
The Burning Shore (1985)
- Power of the Sword (1986)
- Rage (1987)
- A Time to Die (1989)
- Golden Fox (1990)
- Birds of Prey (1997)
- Monsoon (1999)
- Blue Horizon (2003)
- The Triumph of the Sun (2005)
- Ballantyne Series
- A Falcon Flies (1980) aka Flight of the Falcon
- Men of Men (1981)
- The Angels Weep (1982)
- The Leopard Hunts in Darkness (1984)
- Ancient Egyptian Series
- River God (1993)
- The Seventh Scroll (1995)
- Warlock (2001)
- The Quest (2007)
- Novels
- The Dark of the Sun (1965)
- Shout At the Devil (1968)
- Gold Mine (1970) aka Gold
- The Diamond Hunters (1971)
- The Sunbird (1972)
- Eagle in the Sky (1974)
- The Eye of the Tiger (1975)
- Cry Wolf (1976)
- Hungry As the Sea (1978)
- Wild Justice (1979) aka The Delta Decision
- Elephant Song (1991)
- Ibid: A Novel by Mark Dunn
- Ayn Rand centennial editions
- "The Green-Eyed Monster" by Joseph Epstein
- Photoshop
- Visual Quickstart Guide Photoshop
- Sam's Teach Yourself Photoshop
- Truth, Secrets, Lying, Self-Deceiption, BS, Logic
- The Post-Truth Era: Dishonesty and Deception in
Contemporary Life - Ralph Keyes
- Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life - Sissela
Bok
- Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation -
Sissela Bok
- Lies! Lies!! Lies!!!: The Psychology of Deceit - Charles
V. Ford
- The Truth About Lying - Stan Walters
- Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace,
Politics, and Marriage (Revised and Updated Edition) - Paul
Ekman
- Lying and Deception in Everyday Life - Michael Lewis
- The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own: Insights from a
Practicing Neurologist - Richard Md Restak
- Self-Deception Unmasked - Alfred R. Mele
- Perspectives on Self-Deception (Topics in Philosophy) -
Brian P. McLaughlin
- Self-Deception and Morality - Mike W. Martin
- Self-Deception - Herbert Fingarette
- Irrationality: An Essay on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and
Self-Control - Alfred R. Mele
- Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the
Unconscious Mind - David Livingstone Smith
- The Varnished Truth - David Nyberg
- A Pack of Lies: Towards a Sociology of Lying (Themes in
the Social Sciences) - J. A. Barnes
- Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of
Confabulation (Philosophical Psychopathology) - William
Hirstein
- The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives
to Reality (Bradford Books) - Ruth M. J. Byrne
- Pathological Lying, Accusation And Swindling - William
Healy
- Bullshit and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy)
(Paperback) by Gary L. Hardcastle (Editor), George A. Reisch
(Editor)
- Web Design
- Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists
by Shirley Kaiser
- PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro
Guide Larry Ullman
- PHP & MySQL: Your visual blueprint for creating dynamic,
database-driven Web sites (Visual Blueprint) - Janet Valade
- Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional - W.
Jason Gilmore
- The Non-Designer's Web Book, 3rd Edition - Robin
Williams
- Net Words: Creating High-Impact Online Copy - Nick
Usborne
- Creating Websites Bible
- Information Architecture Blueprints
- A Pattern Approach to Interaction Design
- PA Pattern Language
- The Timeless Way of Building
- Database Design for Mere Mortals Addison Wesley
- Beginning Database Design (Wrox Beginning Guides) by
Gavin Powell
- Learning Web Design by Robbins
- Art Nouveau Graphic Design
- Art Nouveau Designs (Agile Rabbit Editions) by Rabbit
Editions Agile
- Art Nouveau Initials CD-ROM and Book (Dover Pictorial
Archives) - Dover
- 293 Art Nouveau Designs and Ornaments CD-ROM and Book
(Electronic Clip Art) - Dover
- Art Nouveau Floral and Animal Designs CD-ROM and Book
(Dover) - M. P. Verneuil
- Full-Color Art Nouveau Floral Designs CD-ROM and Book
(Dover) - E. A. Seguy
- Art Nouveau Floral Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover
Electronic Clip Art) - Marty Noble
- Full-Color Art Nouveau Designs and Motifs CD-ROM and
Book (Dover)
- Full-Color Art Nouveau Stained Glass Designs CD-ROM and
Book - Dover
- Art Nouveau Motifs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Pictorial
Archives) - Dover
- ...and Victorian Design (Dover Pictura) - Dover
- Learning Languages
- How to Learn Any Language by Barry M. Farber
- How To Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily,
Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own by Barry Farber
- Learning Foreign Languages: Everything You Need To Know
by Brandon Simpson
- The Quick and Dirty Guide to Learning Languages Fast by
A. G. Hawke
- The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the
Languages of the World by Charles Yang
- How Children Learn Language (Cambridge Approaches to
Linguistics) by William O'Grady
- How Children Learn the Meanings of Words (Learning,
Development, and Conceptual Change) by Paul Bloom
- How Babies Talk: The Magic and Mystery of Language in
the First Three Years of Life by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
- A Passion for Books : A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories,
Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing,
Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books - Harold Rabinowitz
- Creative Kumihimo - Jacqui Carey
- The Agile Rabbit Book of Historical And Curious Maps (Pepin
Press)
- Encountering the Chinese
- Standing by Words
- Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language by
Seth Lerer
- Spell Bound by James Essinger
- Magic Knight Rayearth Omnibus ($10 at BNN?)
- Spunk and Bite by Arthur Plotnik
- The Information/Internet/Technology Revolution by J. R. Okin
- Creating Handmade Books by Alisa Golden
- Creating Books and Boxes by Benjamin Rinehart
- Celtic Pieced Illusions by Karen Combs
- Lettering in Crazy, Cool, Quirky Style
- Word Watching
- Dictionary of Proverbs
- Michael Cadnum
- Starfall
- Daughter of the Wind
- Raven of the Waves
- Forbidden Forest
- In a Dark Wood
- Suzanne Collins's Underland Chronicles
- Kathryn Lasky's Guardians of Ga'Hoole series?
- Laveidem by Jennifer McFann
- Klutz books that look cool:
- Battery Science
- Beadlings
- Cootie Catcher
- Fairies
- Explorabook
- Earthsearch
- Simple Embroidery
- Googly eyes
- Mini books
- Knots
- Spiral Draw
- Animorphs
- Remnants
- The Rhianna Chronicles
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