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The Design of Everyday Things
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment
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Making Things Talk: Using Sensors, Networks, and Arduino to see, hear, and feel your world
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Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers
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Dan O'Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Living With Complexity
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The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 190,939 ratings
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Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics
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Paul C.W. Davies (Editor)
3.81 avg rating — 126 ratings
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A New Kind of Science
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Stephen Wolfram (Goodreads Author)
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Making Things See: 3D vision with Kinect, Processing, Arduino, and MakerBot (Make: Books)
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Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis
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How Designers Think
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Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists
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Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)
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The Information Design Handbook
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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
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The Foundations of Social Research: Meaning and Perspective in the Research Process
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Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
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Cities for People
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Acting With Technology: Activity Theory And Interaction Design (Acting With Technology Series)
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Multimodal Discourse (Hodder Arnold Publication)
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Teaching as a Design Science
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The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)
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Richard E. Mayer (Editor)
4.06 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays
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Lee T. Lemon (Translator, introduction)
3.84 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Real World Research: A Resource for Social Scientists and Practitioner-Researchers
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3.64 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
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3.90 avg rating — 2,517 ratings
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Architectural Research Methods
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Design Research: Methods and Perspectives
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Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography
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James Clifford (Editor)
3.89 avg rating — 752 ratings
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Doing Visual Ethnography
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The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis
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Carey Jewitt (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook, 2nd Edition
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4.11 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analysing Talk, Text and Interaction
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Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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James Gleick (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 16,990 ratings
score: 63,
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Texture: Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload
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3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Sensory Design
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4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and how it Changes
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4.13 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Information Anxiety 2
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3.97 avg rating — 176 ratings
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