Product Description: Objective-C the language of choice for iOS and OS X development, is a decades-old language built upon the C language. It's powerful and dynamic nature allow you to write incredible software, and it's C underpinnings allow you to write performance-heavy code as well...read more

Product Description: This project is designed to educate and instruct the public about various ways that are currently and immediately practical to address serious issues that now surround the topics of fuel, transportation and utilities. These issues include both the high costs and shortages (perceived or real) now involved, as well as the environmental impacts of either immediately and actively addressing or not addressing these current problems...read more

Product Description: The Cocoa Touch frameworks and APIs are powerful tools for creating native iOS apps, and they're free with Xcode, Apple's development environment. If you've already gotten your feet wet with Objective-C, and you're ready to learn more about iOS development, then Learn Cocoa Touch for iOS is the book for you...read more

Product Description: Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection is a breathtaking and insightful survey of post-Tiananmen Square Chinese art and culture. As this richly illustrated work reveals, contemporary Chinese art—often discussed as a cynical reaction to emerging consumerism or as a satiric response to the academic patriotism of socialist realism—is more haunted than cynical, more a matter of a nation's suppressed psychic expression than of pop iconoclasm or ironic detachment...read more

Product Description: This Chinese art book profiles the modern, metallic sculptures of one of China's greatest contemporary artists.Rocks Into Gold is an exhibition of site-specific sculptures by Zhan Wang, one of China's most celebrated contemporary artists...read more

Product Description: A November 2001 account in the New York Metro states, "The staff at the Tribeca Grand Hotel got a shock recently when a man drove up and unloaded a ten-foot-high fiberglass statue of a Mao Tse-tung jacket on the street in front of the lobby entrance...read more

Product Description: This curated collection of paintings by renowned Chinese artist, Liu Xiodong spotlights China's Three Gorges Project, the workers who built it and the lives it disrupted along with insightful commentary on about Chinese society.A figurative painter with an understated touch, Liu Xiaodong (born 1963 in Liaoning province, China) is one of China's leading and most passionate artists...read more

Product Description: As the creator of "Happenings" and "Environments," Allan Kaprow is the prince and prophet of all we call performance art today. He is also known for having written some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential essays of his generation...read more