Benjamin: 3278 books
by Benjamin H. Bratton
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
What is the new normal? Something has shifted, it seems. We are making new worlds faster than we can keep track of them, and the pace is unlikely to slow. If our technologies have advanced beyond our ability to conceptualize their implications, such gaps can be perilous. In response, one impulse is to...
Getting a Life
The Social Worlds of Geek Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Comic book superheroes, fantasy kingdoms, and futuristic starships have become inescapable features of today’s pop-culture landscape, and the people we used to deride as “nerds” or “geeks” have ridden their popularity and visibility to mainstream recognition. It seems it’s finally hip...
The Wrong Dog
A Rachel Alexander Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
From former detective turned noted author and dog trainer, Carol Lea Benjamin, comes the fifth book in the critically-lauded Rachel Alexander mystery series, for the first time in mass market.
Sophie Gordon didn't let her epilepsy get in the way of her life as a teacher of deaf children. But...
Georges Bataille
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2000
This is a guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated erotic novel, The Story of the Eye. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a writer out of step with the dominant intellectual trends of his day - surrealism and existentialism...
Don't Stop Thinking About the Music
The Politics of Songs and Musicians in Presidential Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
In this insightful, erudite history of presidential campaign music, musicologist Benjamin Schoening and political scientist Eric Kasper explain how politicians use music in American presidential campaigns to convey a range of political messages. From “Follow Washington” to “I Like Ike” to...
by Benjamin R. Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Meeting the challenge of realistic drawing involves the application of science to an individual design sense. Here is a clear, jargon-free primer on recreating objects from nature by using perspective techniques. Author Benjamin R. Green's straightforward approach teaches artists and students at all...
The Naked and the Lens, Second Edition
A Guide for Nude Photography
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Nude photography can be intimidating, for the artist and the subject. Technique, creativity, and psychology all need to be considered and executed seamlessly to achieve a photographer‘s desired artistic and professional result. Author Louis Benjamin has built a career by studying the intricacies...
Origami 101
Master Basic Skills and Techniques Easily Through Step-by-Step Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
**Geared toward the absolute beginner, Origami 101 contains more than 40 amazing folding projects for the whole family, including models that evolve from one of four basic origami shapes.
Have you always been intrigued by origami, but often found the diagrams confusing or the models uninspiring? Origami...
by Thoriq Firdaus, Ben Frain, Benjamin LaGrone
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Design robust, powerful, and above all, modern websites across all manner of devices with ease using HTML5 and CSS3
About This Book
Use Responsive Grid System, Bootstrap, and Foundation frameworks for responsive web design
Learn how to use the latest features of CSS including custom fonts, nth-child...
by Benjamin M. Bolker
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Ecological Models and Data in R is the first truly practical introduction to modern statistical methods for ecology. In step-by-step detail, the book teaches ecology graduate students and researchers everything they need to know in order to use maximum likelihood, information-theoretic, and Bayesian...
by Christopher Duffy, Mohit, Cameron Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Unleash the power of Python scripting to execute effective and efficient penetration testsAbout This BookSharpen your pentesting skills with PythonDevelop your fluency with Python to write sharper scripts for rigorous security testingGet stuck into some of the most powerful tools in the security...
A Hacker's Life Starter
Security Penetration Anywhere & Anytime
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
How many people have you seen with the fantasy of learning hacking? A lot right? Now how many books you read with the material of hacking that didn't en-light you step-by-step?A few right? The A hacker's Life Starter will be demonstrating the most demanding topics used everyday...
Handcuffs and Chain Link
Criminalizing the Undocumented in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Handcuffs and Chain Link enters the immigration debate by addressing one of its most controversial aspects: the criminalization both of extralegal immigration to the United States and of immigrants themselves in popular and political discourse. Looking at the factors that led up to criminalization,...
Louder Than Words
The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning—a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else’s mind. You can use it to talk about...