Arlene G. Taylor

Daniel N. Joudrey

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

New York

Social Studies

This third edition of Taylor's modern classic continues to articulate the theory, principles, standards, and tools behind information organization.

As with previous editions, it begins with strong justification for the continued importance of organizing principles and practice. Following a broad overview of the concept and its role in human endeavors, Taylor and Joudrey provide a detailed and insightful discussion of such basic retrieval tools as inventories, bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, registers, databases, major bibliographic utilities, and other organizing entities; and subsequently trace the development of the organization of recorded information in Western civilization from 2000 B.C.E. to the present. Standards of codification (MARC, SGML, and various DTDs), controlled vocabularies and ontologies, and Web 2.0 technologies are but a sample of its extensive topical coverage.

The Organization of Information remains the title of choice for students and professionals eager to embrace the heritage, immediacy, and future of this fascinating field of study.

* Restructured and expanded sections on metadata (description, access, and access control) and subject analysis and aboutness

* Significant revisions to sections dealing with indexing and abstracting, systems and system design, and authority control (especially FRAR)

* Expanded coverage of archives and archival finding aids, museums and galleries, and digital libraries

The Organization of Information

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Russ Unger

Carolyn Chandler

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Computer Science

For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making

Describes UX design methods, covering such topics as creating a proposal, user research, personas, search engine optimization, site maps, wireframes, prototyping, and design testing.

A Project Guide to UX Design

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Dan Saffer

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Touchscreens and Interactive Devices

Designing Gestural Interfaces

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David Weinberger

Minor pencil notes within; shelf wear to dusk jacket 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

Internet philosopher Weinberger shows how business, science, education, and the government are learning to use networked knowledge to understand more than ever and to make smarter decisions than they could when they had to rely on mere books and experts.

Too Big to Know

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Timothy Burke

Name on title oage; minor pencil notes and occasional highlight within text (fewer than 10)

Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe

How do people come to need products they never even knew they wanted? How, for example, did indigenous Zimbabweans of the 1940s begin to believe that they required Lifebuoy soap? Offering a glimpse into the intimate workings of modern colonialism and global capitalism, Timothy Burke takes up these questions in Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women, a study of post-World War II commodity culture in Zimbabwe. With particular attention to cosmetic products and the contrast between colonial and pre-colonial ideas of cleanliness, Burke examines the role played by commodity culture, changing patterns of consumption, and the spread of advertising in the making of modern Zimbabwe. His work combines history, anthropology, and political economy to show how the development of commodification in the region relates to the social history of hygiene. Within this framework, and drawing on a wide variety of historical sources, Burke explores dense interactions between commodity culture and embodied aspects of race, gender, sexuality, domesticity, health, and aesthetics in a colonial society. Rather than viewing the production of needs simply as an imposition from above, Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women shows what heterogeneous and complex processes, involving the aims and histories of both colonizers and colonized, produced these changes in Zimbabwean society. Integrating political economy, cultural studies, and a wide range of the social sciences, Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women will find readers among scholars of colonialism, African history, and ethnography as well those for whom the problem of commodification is a significant theoretical issue.

Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women

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Tim Brown

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas are identified and developed before being realized as new offerings and capabilities. This book introduces the idea of design thinking‚ the collaborative process by which the designer′s sensibilities and methods are employed to match people′s needs not only with what is technically feasible and a viable business strategy. In short‚ design thinking converts need into demand. It′s a human−centered approach to problem solving that helps people and organizations become more innovative and more creative. Design thinking is not just applicable to so−called creative industries or people who work in the design field. It′s a methodology that has been used by organizations such as Kaiser Permanente to icnrease the quality of patient care by re−examining the ways that their nurses manage shift change‚ or Kraft to rethink supply chain management. This is not a book by designers for designers; this is a book for creative leaders seeking to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization‚ product‚ or service to drive new alternatives for business and society.

Change by Design

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Ned Sublette

From Spanish Silver to Congo Square

Tells the story of one of America's most complex cities, with an emphasis on New Orleans's musical heritage and its first century filled with war, religious conflicts, slavery, and its struggles with France, Spain, and England.

The World That Made New Orleans

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Tyler Cowen

New Rules for Everyday Foodies

Tyler Cowen discusses everything from slow food to fast food, from agriculture to gourmet culture, from modernist cuisine to how to pick the best street vendor, and shows how to get good, cheap eats just about anywhere.

An Economist Gets Lunch

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Jim Collins

Minor shelf wear to jacket, otherwise like new

Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

Good to Great

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Daniel Silva

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to restore a painting owned by a reclusive millionaire banker, art expert and sometime Israeli agent Gabriel Allon discovers his would-be employer murdered and finds himself back in the espionage game, tangling with a rogue assassin he had trained. Reprint..

The English Assassin

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Kurt Vonnegut

A Novel

A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time), featuring a new introduction by Kevin Powers, author of the National Book Award finalist The Yellow Birds Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.” An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.” Fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut's portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties. “Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement.”—The Boston Globe

Slaughterhouse-Five

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Helen Ellis

Dissects Southern social-climbing and the lives of three Alabama girls, Sarina, Nicole, and Bitty Jack

Eating the Cheshire Cat

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Andrew Williamson

Lucy Kee

Bruce Foster

In protective plastic sleeve; never opened 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The first ever illustrated Harry Potter pop-up book, based on the creative work of the most successful film franchise in history, Harry Potter: The Pop Up Book is the must have pop-up gift for Potter fans and aspiring wizards!

This collectible Harry Potter pop-up book, based on the creative development of the films, features exquisite original artwork by Andrew Williamson, concept artist for all eight movies. With dynamic pop-ups animating memorable moments and locations -- like the Triwizard Tournament, Diagon Alley, and Hogwarts Castle -- Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book offers a 3-D glimpse into the amazing world, as seen in the films. This deluxe book will delight Harry Potter fans with dynamic pop-up ingenuity, insights from the creative team who turned JK Rowling's stories into movie magic, fascinating facts about the magical universe seen in the movies, and Harry Potter memories and memorabilia packed into every page.

Harry Potter: a Pop-Up Book

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David A. Carter

Here at last is the definitive book on how to make a pop-up. Every aspect of the creation of a pop-up, known as paper engineering, is clearly and thoroughly covered. All types of parallel folds, angle folds, wheels and pull tabs are accurately detailed verbally and visually, flat and in dimension. Also included is a history of pop-ups and a step-by-step photographic essay on how a pop-up is made from start to finish. This guided tour is perfect for aspiring pop-up creators, paper engineers, students and appreciators of this unique art form.

The Elements of Pop-Up

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Kathleen Murphy Colan

A Pop-up Gallery of the World's Most Amazing Marvels

Armchair travellers will be thrilled to explore the world's most recognized and memorable buildings with the innovative and interactive Architectural Wonders. The large format three-dimensional pop-up spreads are engineering marvels in their own right, designed by top paper engineers, illuminating all of the spectacular details of each building and highlighting key structural elements. They showcase landmarks such as Notre Dame, the Empire State Building, the Taj Mahal and the Sydney Opera House.History buffs will also appreciate the sections featuring captivating details about the history of each building, including how many years (or centuries!) it took to complete, the socio-political climate of the era and other insightful information.For those who aren't necessarily interested in architecture or history, Architectural Wonders makes a wonderful coffee-table book.

Architectural Wonders

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Norman Rockwell Museum Staff

A Pop-up Art Experience

Published in association with the Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, this imaginatively-designed pop-up book is a novel way of experiencing the art of Norman Rockwell-- America's best known and easily most beloved artist. Tour Rockwell's famed studio, a New England schoolroom, a period salon, the New England landscape peopled with Rockwell's endearing characters, and the museum established for celebrating his art. The accompanying full-color pullout takes a look at Rockwell's life, his inspirations, and his world famous art from his "Saturday Evening Post" covers to his splendid view of small-town America.

Norman Rockwell

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Lewis Carroll

Still in original sleeve
Pop-up version of Alice in Wonderland by pop-up book icon and artist Robert Sabuda

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is Robert Sabuda's most amazing creation yet, featuring stunning pop-ups illustrated in John Tenniel's classic style.

Faithful to Lewis Carroll's original text, this incredible novelty book features special effects like a Victorian peep show, multifaceted foil, tactile elements, and more! This pop-up is sure to become an instant favorite--one that readers will return to admire again and again.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Pop-Up Popup

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Jinny Johnson

Roland Lewis

Lovers of beauty and creativity will experience Gehry's deconstructive designs in the interactive Frank Gehry in Pop-Up. The curious will peruse his personal history and lifeworks to get to know the man behind the buildings.In addition to amazing photographs, Frank Gehry in Pop-Up features three-dimensional, full-spread pop-ups of the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Venice Beach House in California, Der Neue Zollhof in Dusseldorf, Experience Music Project in Seattle and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.Readers will compare and contrast Gehry's many different sides, from the whimsical laid-back Californian to the closet elitist-and sometimes obsessive perfectionist.

Frank Gehry

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Marie Salerno

Historic New York, Celebrating the Century

With colorful, scaled-down models of New York City's biggest attractions, take a trip through the Big Apple on an exclusive celebration of history, innovation and heritage. 150 illustrations, 7 spreads, 19 pop-ups, 50 interactive items, postcards and more.

The New York Pop-up Book 

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Neal Shusterman

Like new condition, however it has a handwritten inscription on the title page and some pencil notes in the margins (approx 10 or fewer). 

In the highly anticipated finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy, dictators, prophets, and tensions rise. In a world that’s conquered death, will humanity finally be torn asunder by the immortal beings it created? Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder.

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