Product Description: The mobile device is changing the ways we interact with each other and with the world. The mobile experience is distinct from the desktop or laptop experience; mobile apps require a significantly different design philosophy as well as design methods that reflect the unique experience of computing in the world...read more

Product Description: Fundamentally, Persons and Liberal Democracy is an explication and defense of classical liberalism. It explains the relatively recent shift in the Church's political theory and, in the process, defends what could be deemed a non-statist form of welfare liberalism...read more

Product Description: Sheepshead Bay is composed largely of prose poems. Although Sheepshead Bay is a real place in Brooklyn, and the author's birth place, these poems are not really "about" that time or place. Rather, they address a larger life that we merely intuit, but cannot grasp for long...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Most books on Web design focus on the appearance of the finished product and pay little attention to the ideas and processes involved in intelligent interactive design. This book is based on the premise that the principles that have defined good communication design in the past apply equally well to the Web...read more

Product Description: Framework models built from the FMM set show to scale the mutual relations of atoms in a molecule. The molecular framework is specified by internuclear distances and accurate bond angles. Multiple bonds and pi orbital systems are designated using special connectors...read more

Contextual Media expands upon the theme of social construction of knowledge developed in Edward Barrett's three previous volumes. The thirteen contributions focus on specific applications of multimedia technology to cultural institutions such as museums, universities, and corporate environments; they analyze narrative and other navigational structures in various interactive multimedia systems and make recommendations for the design of future systems based on these analyses; and they present innovative uses of multimedia that break out of the confines of a single terminal to develop interactive transformational environments.ContributorsColin Beardon, Walter Bender, Edward Brown, Mark H. Chignell, Glorianna Davenport, Ben Davis, Peter S. Donaldson, Larry Friedlander, Geri Gay, Ricki Goldman-Segall, Janet H. Murray, Patrick Purcell, Michael Roy, Niall Sweeney, Laura Teodosio, Suzette Worden

Product Description: Sociomedia continues the assessment of hypertext and hypermedia systems begun in Text, ConText, and HyperText and The Society of Text. It examines the use of integrated multimedia to support social or collaborative research, learning, and instruction in the university, one of the best environments for developing and analyzing the effects of computing technologies on our understanding of complex sets of information...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "Ed Barrett's stunningly lucid meditations remind us that writing can be a way of making a place for the soul to dwell in. These 'common preludes' have all the ingredients needed to return us to ourselves refreshed and gladdened, as if we had taken a walk on the first day that winter gives way, and we could actually perceive the light pouring back into the world like a great intimate secret we had always wanted to know...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays continues Barrett's investigations into implementing networked online systems described in his first book Text, ConText, and HyperText, with a more focused emphasis on specific hypermedia systems. In four parts the 22 essays take up designing hypertext and hypermedia systems for the online user; textual intervention and collaboration; new roles for writers; and sensemaking and learning in the online environment...read more

Product Description: Text, ConText, and HyperText presents recent developments in three related and important areas of technical communication: the design of effective documentation; the impact of new technology and research on technical writing; and the training and management of technical writers...read more