Books

July 22nd, 2009 by alephnaught

Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design

Title: Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design Author: Andy Clarke Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: New Riders Press; 1 edition (November 25, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0321410971 ISBN-13: 978-0321410979 This book isn’t really about Transcending CSS but instead equal parts history, technique, design, process and futures. And if you want to do more with […]

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June 28th, 2009 by alephnaught

24 Declassified: Head Shot

Title: 24 Declassified: Head Shot Author: David Jacobs Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Harper; Mti edition (April 28, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 006177152X ISBN-13: 978-0061771521 I try to read the 24 novels when they come out – call it a dirty pleasure, but I grew up reading pulp novels from people like Earl Stanley […]

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June 16th, 2009 by alephnaught

Marks and Meaning (M+M) 0.5

•    Title: Marks and Meaning 0.5 •    Author: Dave Grey and friends •    Paperback: 382 pages •    Size: 6″ x 9″ This book is available as a PDF file because its not done.  This book may never be done.  The book contains a mix of typeset material, hand-written and drawn material, and open areas to […]

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May 24th, 2009 by alephnaught

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Title: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art Author: Stephen Nachmanovitch Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Tarcher (May 1, 1991) Language: English ISBN-10: 0874776317 ISBN-13: 978-0874776317 This is a dense book for such a small volume.  The subject is important to me – I used to improvise a lot in bands, and I think that comfort […]

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April 16th, 2009 by alephnaught

Uzumaki, Volume 3

Title: Uzumaki, Volume 3 Author: Junji Ito Paperback: 264 pages Publisher: VIZ Media LLC (February 12, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 1421513919 ISBN-13: 978-1421513911 This is the last volume of the Uzumaki graphic novel trilogy.  This book is not as good as the others, chiefly because I don’t like the ending at all. The stories are […]

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April 12th, 2009 by alephnaught

The Shape of the Book: From Roll to Codex

Title: The Shape of the Book: From Roll to Codex Author: Franka Arduini (ed.), Guglielmo Cavallo (essay) Publisher: Mandragora, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-88-7461-116-4 I bought this book in the Duomo Museum in Siena.  As the title indicates, its a book about books, or more accurately a catalog of some of the history of the written word.  […]

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April 7th, 2009 by alephnaught

The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures

Title: The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures Author: Phoebe Gloeckner Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Frog Books (November 14, 2002) Language: English ISBN-10: 1583940634 ISBN-13: 978-1583940631 I love the mix of graphics and story.  This is a hard book to read from a content perspective.  Its part graphic novel and […]

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March 29th, 2009 by alephnaught

A Short History of Siena

Title: A Short History of Siena Author: Giuliano Catoni Paperback ISBN-10: 8877813199 ISBN-13: 978-8877813190 Bought this book in Siena with high hopes; unfortunately, it was mostly a waste of time to read this on the flight home from Italy. The author’s writing style is scattered; at times I thought Catoni would have some unifying themes, […]

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March 29th, 2009 by alephnaught

China Underground

Title: China Underground Author: Zachary Mexico Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Soft Skull Press (March 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1593762232 ISBN-13: 978-1593762230 I bought this book for our trip to Italy from an independent LA bookstore. And I loved it!  I want to go to China more now than ever before. There are 16 stories, […]

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March 27th, 2009 by alephnaught

The Taqwacores

Title: The Taqwacores Author: Michael Muhammad Knight Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Soft Skull Press; Revised Edition edition (January 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1593762291 ISBN-13: 978-1593762292 This book claims to be about Muslim punks, but in reality its a coming of age, and coming to his personal understanding of Islam, story of a Muslim young […]

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