Ani Phyo: Return on Design: Smarter Web Design That Works
I helped develop the project, then co-wrote and edited the final version of the book, which details a seven-step, user-focused process for designing successful Web sites.
Karen Ogulnick, Ed.: Language Crossings: Negotiating the Self in a Multicultural World (Language and Literacy Series (Teachers College Pr))
Includes my essay, "Learning Chinese," about struggling to fluency in that language, trying to understand what it means to be a speaker of Chinese. My son contributed an essay about growing up tri-lingual - English, French, and Chinese.
Doug Millison: Firebrands: Building Brand Loyalty in the Internet Age
Co-authored with Michael Moon of GISTICS, Inc.), Firebrands explains how to build brands by creating and maintaining trusted interactive relationships with customers, using the Internet and digital media. From the dustjacket: "If you want to get venture capital, you'd better read this book. Companies will either brand or die. It's up to you." -- Guy Kawasaki, CEO, Garage.com, Palo Alto, CA.
David Siegel: Creating Killer Web Sites (2nd Edition)
This book, co-authored with David Siegel, was a pathbreaker. This book was Amazon.com's number five bestseller in 1997; the first edition was Amazon's number one bestseller in 1996. You won't find my name on the cover, but I am credited as Executive Editor to the Second Edition on the book's Acknowledgements page, which also includes a good description of the job I did as co-author to update the book, research and write new material, organize and manage the book development and production process, and coordinate contributions from several people in author David Siegel's web design firm, Studio Verso.
Moira Anderson Allen: Writing.Com: Creative Internet Strategies to Advance Your Writing Career
I contributed the section on online journalism.
Richard Melo: Jokerman 8
Just received this from Melo, an author who declares a Pynchon influence. Looks fun.
Jonathan Burt: Rat
Competent and compelling overview of the human's shadow twin. Recommended.
Nathaniel Philbrick: Mayflower
...shocking story of how, barely 50 years later, the holier-than-thou hypocrite Pilgrims were murdering and selling into slavery and stealing the land of the Indians who saved their sorry starving asses that first winter - men, women, children, old folks, many of them cruelly butchered and burned alive. Well-written revisionist page-turner, highly recommended.
Frank Dikotter: Narcotic Culture : A History of Drugs in China
....everything you know is wrong....from the Amazon.com description: "To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium--a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused by opium addiction, launched its own version of the "war on drugs," which lasted roughly sixty years, from 1880 to World War II and the beginning of Chinese communism. But, as Narcotic Culture brilliantly shows, the real scandal in Chinese history was not the expansion of the drug trade by Britain in the early nineteenth century, but rather the failure of the British to grasp the consequences of prohibition."
In a stunning historical reversal, Frank Dikötter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun tell this different story of the relationship between opium and the Chinese. They reveal that opium actually had few harmful effects on either health or longevity; in fact, it was prepared and appreciated in highly complex rituals with inbuilt constraints preventing excessive use. Opium was even used as a medicinal panacea in China before the availability of aspirin and penicillin. But as a result of the British effort to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances. Narcotic Culture provides abundant evidence that the transition from a tolerated opium culture to a system of prohibition produced a "cure" that was far worse than the disease.
Delving into a history of drugs and their abuses, Narcotic Culture is part revisionist history of imperial and twentieth-century Britain and part sobering portrait of the dangers of prohibition.
Thomas B. Roberts: Psychedelic Horizons
...satisfies 100% of RDA (recommended daily allowance) for visionary ideas....
Helen Macdonald: Falcon
...fascinating overview of a compelling creature...Amazon.com book description: "A sacred god, a military tool, an erotic symbol: the falcon is a natural wonder of speed, power, beauty, and ferocity that has become embedded in human cultures in myriad ways. Helen Macdonald's Falcon examines the diverse symbolism and roles attached to the falcon throughout the centuries. Macdonald presents a cultural and natural history of the falcon that spans the globe and several millennia. Her wide-ranging survey considers the many facets of the falcon, including conservation efforts; the sport of falconry; and the use of falcons in secret military projects by the Third Reich and the U.S. space program. Falcon also explores the rich imagery of the falcon over history, including the veneration of falcons as gods in ancient Egypt, their role in erotic stories, and even the use of falcons in advertising to promote photocopiers and jet planes. Filled with illustrations and a wealth of fascinating facts, Falcon will be an enjoyable guide for ornithologists, amateur birdwatchers, and nature lovers alike."
Thomas Pynchon: Mason & Dixon
...a fine line...
Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow
...everything connects...
Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code
...everything marginal eventually goes mainstream...& you've got to wonder how a sequel will work; plot twist I'd like to see: Jesus' contemporary female descendant pregnant, unwed, claims immaculate conception...
Temple Grandin: Animals in Translation : Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
...interesting, so far...
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