Looks at electric motors and magnets, power generation, electric circuits, home appliances, batteries, the human nervous system, and electricity in plants and animals

Electricity (Visual Science)

COOPER, Alan

Children's Books

Silver Burdett Pr

This completely updated volume presents the effective and practical tools you need to design great desktop applications, Web 2.0 sites, and mobile devices. You’ll learn the principles of good product behavior and gain an understanding of Cooper’s Goal-Directed Design method, which involves everything from conducting user research to defining your product using personas and scenarios. Ultimately, you’ll acquire the knowledge to design the best possible digital products and services.

About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

Computers & Technology

Reimann, Robert

Cronin, Dave

Web Development & Design

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

YA (Young Adult) book for ages 12 and up. Characters include teenagers and 20s and 30s adults. A satire on sibling relations, international relations, unprovoked war, and parental inability to let go.

Prince Paskudnyak and the Giant Bats

Literature & Fiction

lulu.com

The Inmates are Running the Asylum argues that, despite appearances, business executives are simply not the ones in control of the high-tech industry. They have inadvertently put programmers and engineers in charge, leading to products and processes that waste huge amounts of money, squander customer loyalty, and erode competitive advantage. They have let the inmates run the asylum. Alan Cooper offers a provocative, insightful and entertaining explanation of how talented people continuously design bad software-based products. More importantly, he uses his own work with companies big and small to show how to harness those talents to create products that will both thrill their users and grow the bottom line.

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Science & Math

Mathematics

Sams.

Imagine, at a terrifyingly aggressive rate, everything you regularly use is being equipped with computer technology. Think about your phone, cameras, cars-everything-being automated and programmed by people who in their rush to accept the many benefits of the silicon chip, have abdicated their responsibility to make these products easy to use. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum argues that the business executives who make the decisions to develop these products are not the ones in control of the technology used to create them. Insightful and entertaining, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum uses the author's experiences in corporate America to illustrate how talented people continuously design bad software-based products and why we need technology to work the way average people think. Somewhere out there is a happy medium that makes these types of products both user and bottom-line friendly; this book discusses why we need to quickly find that medium.

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

Games & Strategy Guides

Sams - Pearson Education

Logo

Hyperion Books

"The following description is for the second edition of About Face. The 3rd Edtion, About Face 3 (ISBN 0470084111), is now available." 
First published seven years ago-just before the World Wide Web exploded into dominance in the software world-About Face rapidly became a bestseller. While the ideas and principles in the original book remain as relevant as ever, the examples in About Face 2.0 are updated to reflect the evolution of the Web. Interaction Design professionals are constantly seeking to ensure that software and software-enabled products are developed with the end-user's goals in mind, that is, to make them more powerful and enjoyable for people who use them. About Face 2.0 ensures that these objectives are met with the utmost ease and efficiency. Alan Cooper (Palo Alto, CA) has spent a decade making high-tech products easier to use and less expensive to build-a practice known as "Interaction Design." Cooper is now the leader in this growing field. Mr. Cooper is also the author of two bestselling books that are widely considered indispensable texts. About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, intro-duced the first comprehensive set of practical design principles. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum explains how talented people and companies continually create aggravating high-tech products that fail to meet customer expectations. Robert Reimann has spent the past 15 years pushing the boundaries of digital products as a designer, writer, lecturer, and consultant. He has led dozens of interaction design projects in domains including e-commerce, portals, desktop productivity, authoring environments, medical and scientific instrumentation, wireless, and handheld devices for startups and Fortune 500 clients alike. Joining Cooper in 1996, Reimann led the development and refinement of many goal-directed design methods described in About Face 2.0. He has lectured on these methods at major universities and to international industry audiences. He is a member of the advisory board of the UC Berkeley Institute of Design.

About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design

Computer Science

wiley

A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying

In "A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying" Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, a physician and a clinical psychologist with many years of experience, offer insights to help medical students, residents, physicians, nurses, and others become more aware of the different stages in the dying process and learn how to communicate more effectively with patients and their families. They also discuss the ways physicians and other caregivers can learn to reduce their own stress levels and avoid the risk of burnout, allowing them to achieve balance in their lives and be more effective professionally.

Politics & Social Sciences

Swanson MD, Jan

Social Sciences

McGill-Queen's University Press

Philip Roth and the Jews (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature & Culture)

Examines Philip Roth's use of Jewish ideas and materials in his novels, considering also the responses to Roth's work and his relations with the Jewish community and contemporary Jewish writers. In a style richly accessible to the general reader, this book presents Roth’s secular Jewishness, with its own mysteries and humor, as most representative of the American Jewish experience. Thirty years into his career as a writer, Philip Roth remains known to most readers as a self-hating Jew or a flawed would-be comic. Philip Roth and the Jews shows Roth the ironist, the master of absurdity, for whom twentieth-century America and modern Jewish history resonate with each other’s signal accomplishments and anxieties. Roth’s “egoism” is a persona, an abashed moralist discomfited by the world. Cooper shows that in the “Jewish” works Roth has taken the pulse of America and read the pressures of the world. Modernism, the universal tug for individual sovereignty and against tribal definition, is an issue everywhere. Roth’s own odyssey of betrayal, loss, and return―the pattern of the Jewish writer in the last 200 years―is so shaped by his origins that Roth has carried his home and neighborhood into the corners of the earth and thus never left them.

Philip Roth and the Jews (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) (Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)

State University of New York Press

Examines Philip Roth's use of Jewish ideas and materials in his novels, considering also the responses to Roth's work and his relations with the Jewish community and contemporary Jewish writers. In a style richly accessible to the general reader, this book presents Roth’s secular Jewishness, with its own mysteries and humor, as most representative of the American Jewish experience. Thirty years into his career as a writer, Philip Roth remains known to most readers as a self-hating Jew or a flawed would-be comic. Philip Roth and the Jews shows Roth the ironist, the master of absurdity, for whom twentieth-century America and modern Jewish history resonate with each other’s signal accomplishments and anxieties. Roth’s “egoism” is a persona, an abashed moralist discomfited by the world. Cooper shows that in the “Jewish” works Roth has taken the pulse of America and read the pressures of the world. Modernism, the universal tug for individual sovereignty and against tribal definition, is an issue everywhere. Roth’s own odyssey of betrayal, loss, and return―the pattern of the Jewish writer in the last 200 years―is so shaped by his origins that Roth has carried his home and neighborhood into the corners of the earth and thus never left them.

History & Criticism

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