Ahmer's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 19 Jan 2023 02:20:22 -0800 60 Ahmer's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide]]> 35888383 Photographic is a symbolic, poetic, and deeply personal graphic biography of this iconic photographer. Iturbide's journey will excite readers of all ages as well as budding photographers, who will be inspired by her resolve, talent, and curiosity.]]> 96 Isabel Quintero 1947440004 Ahmer 0 3.93 2017 Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide
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]]> Frankenstein 6260806 208 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Ahmer 4 4.09 1818 Frankenstein
author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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average rating: 4.09
book published: 1818
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Case in Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation]]> 7203833 228 Marc P. Cosentino 0971015856 Ahmer 4 3.83 2001 Case in Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation
author: Marc P. Cosentino
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 382506 A landmark work of American photojournalism “renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality� (New York Times)

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In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their lives, is intensely moving and unrelentingly honest, and today—recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century—it stands as a poetic tract of its time. With an elegant new design as well as a sixty-four-page photographic prologue featuring archival reproductions of Evans's classic images, this historic edition offers readers a window into a remarkable slice of American history.]]> 432 James Agee 0618127496 Ahmer 4 3.93 1941 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
author: James Agee
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average rating: 3.93
book published: 1941
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]]> <![CDATA[Picture This: How Pictures Work]]> 897683 96 Molly Bang 1587170302 Ahmer 4 4.12 1991 Picture This: How Pictures Work
author: Molly Bang
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average rating: 4.12
book published: 1991
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Pleasures of Good Photographs]]> 8161536 The Pleasures of Good Photographs is an intellectual and aesthetic excursion led by Gerry Badger, one of the field's eminent critics and popular writers and the author of more than a dozen books including both volumes of The A History . In this new volume of essays, Badger offers insight into some of his favorite images, artists and themes, drawing upon nearly three decades of experience writing and thinking about photography. With deep discernment and a readable blend of scholarly finesse and wit, Badger elucidates works by dozens of photographers, from Dorothea Lange and Eugène Atget to Martin Parr, Luc Delahaye, Susan Lipper and Paul Graham. Among the broader topics discussed are the photobook, where Badger believes photography sings its loudest and most complex song, and Photoshop's role in art-making. An interlude at the heart of the book pairs the author's evocative meditations with nearly a dozen particular images. Alongside some of Badger's classics, The Pleasures of Good Photographs showcases primarily new essays, making it an important addition to the canon of photographic writing.]]> 256 Gerry Badger 1597111392 Ahmer 5 4.01 2010 The Pleasures of Good Photographs
author: Gerry Badger
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[The Emerald City of Oz (Oz, #6)]]> 8135279 L. Frank Baum Ahmer 4 4.08 1910 The Emerald City of Oz (Oz, #6)
author: L. Frank Baum
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> <![CDATA[The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners]]> 19196229 Timeless work by one of the greatest art critics of all time begins with bare fundamentals and offers brilliant philosophical advice.Ěý48 illustrations.

]]> 235 John Ruskin Ahmer 4 3.59 1857 The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners
author: John Ruskin
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average rating: 3.59
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]]> As You Like It 6267028 320 William Shakespeare Ahmer 4 4.12 1599 As You Like It
author: William Shakespeare
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average rating: 4.12
book published: 1599
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]]> Through the Looking-Glass 8137463 208 Lewis Carroll Ahmer 4 4.15 1871 Through the Looking-Glass
author: Lewis Carroll
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average rating: 4.15
book published: 1871
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]]> <![CDATA[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)]]> 6324090 96 Lewis Carroll Ahmer 4 4.04 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
author: Lewis Carroll
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average rating: 4.04
book published: 1865
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]]> <![CDATA[Photographer's Guide to Yellowstone & the Tetons]]> 7060658 128 Joseph Lange 0811735559 Ahmer 4 4.24 2000 Photographer's Guide to Yellowstone & the Tetons
author: Joseph Lange
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average rating: 4.24
book published: 2000
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]]> <![CDATA[Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler's Companion to the National Park]]> 6348275 392 Janet Chapple 0970687338 Ahmer 4 4.27 2002 Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler's Companion to the National Park
author: Janet Chapple
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average rating: 4.27
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]]> <![CDATA[Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC]]> 5650531 Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers begins with an overview of the Photoshop interface and the fundamentals of how to use Photoshop, followed by how to configure and optimize your computer's performance to run the program and then it dives straight into the essentials of Camera Raw image editing. The Sharpening chapter shows how to use the Camera Raw controls to obtain optimum capture sharpening and noise reduction and the Essentials chapter outlines how to work with all the basic image adjustment tools that are in the program, some of which have been there since the very beginning.
Practical workshops show you how to master the essential techniques, such as color correction, retouching techniques, toning a black and white image, creating composite images and so on. Each technique is described in step-by-step detail, showing exactly which command to use, whether you are working with a Mac or PC computer.
The accompanying DVD contains a Photoshop for Photographers Help Guide. This is supplied in a web browser format that you can either run from the DVD or copy to your computer hard disk for off-line viewing. The Help Guide contains a complete guide to all the tools and panels in Photoshop as well as other items in the program. It is like having an off-line manual with which to learn more about what each Photoshop tool and palette does. The guide also provides 120 minutes of movie tutorials on Photoshop CS4. If you are just beginning to work with digital images or are looking for new ideas, the best techniques and ways to improve the quality of your work, this is the book for you
* Learn Photoshop the Martin Evening way Get up to speed fast with the essential information you need to create superb images in Photoshop CS4.
* Accompnying DVD includes the images you need to follow along as you read, with QuickTime movie tutorials for hands-on learning
* Contains over 750 professional, color images]]> 704 Martin Evening 0240521250 Ahmer 4 3.81 2008 Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC
author: Martin Evening
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average rating: 3.81
book published: 2008
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]]> <![CDATA[Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera]]> 142239 160 Bryan Peterson 0817463003 Ahmer 3 4.30 1990 Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera
author: Bryan Peterson
name: Ahmer
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1990
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Photographer's Guide to the Maine Coast: Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take Them]]> 622612
Directions to each site (including detailed maps), seasonal timing, places to eat and stay, and photographic tips accompany each site location, in addition to appendices featuring the authors' favorite places to photograph and tips on digital photography. Whether you want to capture close-up images of seaside flora and fauna or an old lobster boat to create your own postcard, this book will take you where you need to go. 60 full-color photographs, 15 maps]]> 96 David Middleton 0881505358 Ahmer 4 4.08 2004 The Photographer's Guide to the Maine Coast: Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take Them
author: David Middleton
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> The Kite Runner 50513552
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies.

A sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.
--khaledhosseini.com]]> 382 Khaled Hosseini Ahmer 4 4.47 2003 The Kite Runner
author: Khaled Hosseini
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average rating: 4.47
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]]> <![CDATA[City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi]]> 124430 City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way—from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities of Delhi as well as the eighth city—today's Delhi. Underlying his quest is the legend of the djinns, fire-formed spirits that are said to assure the city's Phoenix-like regeneration no matter how many times it is destroyed. Entertaining, fascinating, and informative, City of Djinns is an irresistible blend of research and adventure.]]> 350 William Dalrymple 0142001007 Ahmer 5 4.12 1993 City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
author: William Dalrymple
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average rating: 4.12
book published: 1993
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]]> <![CDATA[Optimal Database Marketing: Strategy, Development, and Data Mining]]> 1283181 424 Ronald Drozdenko 0761923578 Ahmer 5 3.67 2002 Optimal Database Marketing: Strategy, Development, and Data Mining
author: Ronald Drozdenko
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> Sas Programming by Example 369679 337 Ronald P. Cody 1555446817 Ahmer 4 4.26 1995 Sas Programming by Example
author: Ronald P. Cody
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average rating: 4.26
book published: 1995
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]]> <![CDATA[Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using SAS, Second Edition]]> 1149212
A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using SAS, Second Edition comes to the rescue. Fully revised to reflect SAS Version 8.1, it gives a concise, straightforward description of how to conduct a range of statistical analyses. The authors have updated and expanded every chapter in this new edition, and have incorporated a significant amount of new material. The book now contains more graphical material, more and better data sets within each chapter, more exercises, and more statistical background for each method. Completely new topics include the ]]> 376 Geoff Der 158488245X Ahmer 4 4.09 1996 Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using SAS, Second Edition
author: Geoff Der
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average rating: 4.09
book published: 1996
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]]> <![CDATA[New Business Ventures And The Entrepreneur]]> 1183643 692 Howard H. Stevenson 0256204772 Ahmer 4 4.00 1985 New Business Ventures And The Entrepreneur
author: Howard H. Stevenson
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> The Inscrutable Americans 37447 Faced with the relentless sexuality of his fellow college students, the quintessentially decent Gopal reacts with a mixture of disbelief, sly amusement, and hormonal overload. Throughout his battles with racism, his own insecurity, and his family's warning that he will be severely judged should he dabble in America's temptations, Gopal retains a dignity and surprising shrewdness, rejecting the worst of what American offers even as he recognizes the best. Following reluctantly behind the outrageous leadership of his American friend Randy, the naive but observant Gopal reacts with a wit that far transcends his linguistic limitations.]]> 250 Anurag Mathur 1577310241 Ahmer 5 3.27 1991 The Inscrutable Americans
author: Anurag Mathur
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average rating: 3.27
book published: 1991
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]]> <![CDATA[In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster]]> 575795 In Katrina's Wake, his series of 50 photographs, layer, the horror of ruin with the uncanny beauty of nature, even in its most savage incarnation. His images show how the remnants of a placefrom Mardi Gras beads to church pews, from computer stations to swing setsrecall the essence of a place. Essays by Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Royte, and Susan Zakin explore the causes and effects of global warming, noting that we are all responsible for the future of our planet.

A portion of the proď¬ts from the sale of this book will be donated to organizations dedicated to rebuilding New Orleans.]]> 96 Susan Zakin 156898622X Ahmer 0 4.00 2006 In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster
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]]> <![CDATA[The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)]]> 202859 224 Charlotte Cotton 0500203806 Ahmer 0 3.95 2004 The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)
author: Charlotte Cotton
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]]> <![CDATA[The A-Z of Creative Photography: Over 70 Techniques Explained in Full]]> 1459138 160 Lee Frost 0817433139 Ahmer 0 3.76 1998 The A-Z of Creative Photography: Over 70 Techniques Explained in Full
author: Lee Frost
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average rating: 3.76
book published: 1998
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]]> <![CDATA[Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs]]> 2160960 170 Ansel Adams 0821215515 Ahmer 0 4.54 1983 Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
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]]> The Ongoing Moment 378529 304 Geoff Dyer 1400031680 Ahmer 0 4.01 2005 The Ongoing Moment
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]]> American Photographs 15841699 208 Walker Evans 087070835X Ahmer 0 4.56 1938 American Photographs
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]]> Bad Land: An American Romance 497183 Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award
Winner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award
"No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land and sky that gives this country both its beauty and its terror. "-Washington Post Book World

In 1909 maps still identified eastern Montana as the Great American Desert.ĚýĚýBut in that year Congress, lobbied heavily by railroad companies, offered 320-acre tracts of land to anyone bold or foolish enough to stake a claim to them. Drawn by shamelessly inventive brochures, countless homesteaders--many of them immigrants--went west to make their fortunes. Most failed. In Bad Land, Jonathan Raban travels through the unforgiving country that was the scene of their dreams and undoing, and makes their story come miraculously alive.ĚýĚýĚýĚý

In towns named Terry, Calypso, and Ismay (which changed its name to Joe, Montana, in an effort to attract football fans), and in the landscape in between, Raban unearths a vanished episode of American history, with its own ruins, its own heroes and heroines, its own hopeful myths and bitter memories. Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West.

"Exceptional. . . .ĚýĚýA beautifully told historical meditation. "
--Time

"Championship prose. . . .ĚýĚýIn fifty years don't be surprised if Bad Land is a landmark."
--Los Angeles Times]]> 384 Jonathan Raban 0679759069 Ahmer 0 3.94 1985 Bad Land: An American Romance
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]]> <![CDATA[The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Profitable Decision Making]]> 1668932 398 Thomas T. Nagle 013026248X Ahmer 0 3.88 1986 The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Profitable Decision Making
author: Thomas T. Nagle
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average rating: 3.88
book published: 1986
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]]> <![CDATA[A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R]]> 2787705 A Proven Guide for Easily Using R to Effectively Analyze Data


Like its bestselling predecessor, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R, Second Edition provides a guide to data analysis using the R system for statistical computing. Each chapter includes a brief account of the relevant statistical background, along with appropriate references.



New to the Second Edition




New chapters on graphical displays, generalized additive models, and simultaneous inference
A new section on generalized linear mixed models that completes the discussion on the analysis of longitudinal data where the response variable does not have a normal distribution
New examples and additional exercises in several chapters
A new version of the HSAUR package (HSAUR2), which is available from CRAN



This edition continues to offer straightforward descriptions of how to conduct a range of statistical analyses using R, from simple inference to recursive partitioning to cluster analysis. Focusing on how to use R and interpret the results, it provides students and researchers in many disciplines with a self-contained means of using R to analyze their data.

]]> 376 Torsten Hothorn 1420079336 Ahmer 0 3.79 2006 A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R
author: Torsten Hothorn
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> <![CDATA[Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)]]> 7480479
Thorough updates reflect the technical changes and modernizations that have taken place in the field since the last edition, including new material on Data Transformations, Ensemble Learning, Massive Data Sets, Multi-instance Learning, plus a new version of the popular Weka machine learning software developed by the authors. Witten, Frank, and Hall include both tried-and-true techniques of today as well as methods at the leading edge of contemporary research.
*Provides a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts as well as practical advice on applying the tools and techniques to your data mining projects *Offers concrete tips and techniques for performance improvement that work by transforming the input or output in machine learning methods *Includes downloadable Weka software toolkit, a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks-in an updated, interactive interface. Algorithms in toolkit cover: data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, visualization]]> 664 Ian H. Witten 0123748569 Ahmer 0 3.87 1999 Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
author: Ian H. Witten
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average rating: 3.87
book published: 1999
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]]> Of Love and Other Demons 2135793 147 Gabriel García Márquez 1400034922 Ahmer 0 3.84 1994 Of Love and Other Demons
author: Gabriel García Márquez
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average rating: 3.84
book published: 1994
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]]> <![CDATA[Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals]]> 102748 Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.� Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best.
Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.

Contents

The Purpose
Of Means and Ends
A Word about Words
The Education of an Organizer
Communication
In the Beginning
Tactics
The Genesis of Tactic Proxy
The Way Ahead]]> 196 Saul D. Alinsky 0679721134 Ahmer 0 3.74 1971 Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
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average rating: 3.74
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]]> Omeros 786699 325 Derek Walcott 0374523509 Ahmer 0 currently-reading 3.97 1990 Omeros
author: Derek Walcott
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]]> Prodigal Summer 14249 Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.

From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.

Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. Prodigal Summer demonstrates a balance of narrative, drama and ideas that is characteristic of Barbara Kingsolver's finest work.]]> 444 Barbara Kingsolver 0060959037 Ahmer 0 4.03 2000 Prodigal Summer
author: Barbara Kingsolver
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]]> <![CDATA[Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage]]> 19288239 A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84

Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning â€red pineâ€�, and Oumi, â€blue seaâ€�, while the girlsâ€� names were Shirane, â€white rootâ€�, and Kurono, â€black fieldâ€�. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it.

One day Tsukuru Tazaki’s friends announced that they didn't want to see him, or talk to him, ever again.

Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections with anyone. But then he meets Sara, who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago.]]> 386 Haruki Murakami 0385352107 Ahmer 0 3.82 2013 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hero with a Thousand Faces]]> 2617434 “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won�

Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero’s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world’s mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.

As part of the Joseph Campbell Foundation’s Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, this third edition features expanded illustrations, a comprehensive bibliography, and more accessible sidebars.

As relevant today as when it was first published, The Hero with a Thousand Faces continues to find new audiences in fields ranging from religion and anthropology to literature and film studies. The book has also profoundly influenced creative artists � including authors, songwriters, game designers, and filmmakers � and continues to inspire all those interested in the inherent human need to tell stories.]]> 418 Joseph Campbell 1577315936 Ahmer 0 currently-reading 4.10 1949 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
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]]> Man’s Search for Meaning 4069 Man's Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.]]> 165 Viktor E. Frankl 080701429X Ahmer 0 4.39 1946 Man’s Search for Meaning
author: Viktor E. Frankl
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average rating: 4.39
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]]> <![CDATA[Melting Away: A Ten-Year Journey through Our Endangered Polar Regions]]> 20706901 Melting Away collects seventy-five of Seaman's most captivating photographs, lifeaffirming images that reveal not only what we have already lost, but more importantly what we still have that is worth fighting to save.]]> 156 Camille Seaman 1616892609 Ahmer 0 4.32 2014 Melting Away: A Ten-Year Journey through Our Endangered Polar Regions
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> Badly Repaired Cars 31359438 72 Ronni Campana 191056608X Ahmer 0 3.50 Badly Repaired Cars
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]]> Counting on Community 23992473 Counting on Community is Innosanta Nagara's follow-up to his hit ABC book, A is for Activist. Counting up from one stuffed piñata to ten hefty hens—and always counting on each other—children are encouraged to recognize the value of their community, the joys inherent in healthy eco-friendly activities, and the agency they posses to make change. A broad and inspiring vision of diversity is told through stories in words and pictures. And of course, there is a duck to find on every page!]]> 24 Innosanto Nagara 1609806328 Ahmer 0 4.26 2015 Counting on Community
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best of LensCulture: Volume 1]]> 35916494 288 LensCulture 9053308806 Ahmer 0 3.40 The Best of LensCulture: Volume 1
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]]> Chicken with Plums 4469020
When Nasser Ali Khan, the author’s great-uncle, discovers that his beloved instrument is irreparably damaged, he takes to his bed, renouncing the world and all its pleasures. Over the course of the week that follows, we are treated to vivid scenes of his encounters with family and friends, flashbacks to his childhood, and flash-forwards to his children’s future. And as the pieces of his story fall into place, we begin to understand the breadth of his decision to let go of life.

The poignant story of one man, it is also stunningly universal—a luminous tale of life and death, and the courage and passion both require of us.]]> 84 Marjane Satrapi 0375714758 Ahmer 0 3.93 2004 Chicken with Plums
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]]> <![CDATA[Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking]]> 17912916 413 Foster Provost 1449361323 Ahmer 0 4.13 2013 Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking
author: Foster Provost
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]]> <![CDATA[Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems]]> 31332949
By using concrete examples, minimal theory, and two production-ready Python frameworks--scikit-learn and TensorFlow--author Aurelien Geron helps you gain an intuitive understanding of the concepts and tools for building intelligent systems. You'll learn a range of techniques, starting with simple linear regression and progressing to deep neural networks. With exercises in each chapter to help you apply what you've learned, all you need is programming experience to get started.

* Explore the machine learning landscape, particularly neural nets
* Use scikit-learn to track an example machine-learning project end-to-end
* Explore several training models, including support vector machines, decision trees, random forests, and ensemble methods
* Use the TensorFlow library to build and train neural nets
* Dive into neural net architectures, including convolutional nets, recurrent nets, and deep reinforcement learning
* Learn techniques for training and scaling deep neural nets
* Apply practical code examples without acquiring excessive machine learning theory or algorithm details]]> 566 Aurélien Géron 1491962291 Ahmer 0 4.41 2017 Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems
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]]> <![CDATA[Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals]]> 26535513 Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you'll learn how
Together, the lessons in this book will help you turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. Rid your world of ineffective graphs, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time. There is a story in your data � Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it.]]> 288 Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic 1119002257 Ahmer 0 4.39 2015 Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
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]]> <![CDATA[Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (The Strategyzer Series)]]> 22505488
Practical exercises, process illustrations, and workshop suggestions help you immediately apply the tools in the book to your daily work. The book includes an online access to Strategyzer.com to complete and assess exercises interactively, learn from peers, and download pdfs, checklists, and more.

You'll love "Value Proposition Design" if you've been overwhelmed by the task of true customer value creation, frustrated by unproductive product meetings and misaligned teams, involved in bold shiny projects that blew up, or simply disappointed by the failure of a good idea."Value Proposition Design" will help you successfully understand the patterns of value creation, leverage the experience and skills of your team, avoid wasting time with ideas that won't work, and guide you through the design and test of products and services that customers want.]]> 320 Alexander Osterwalder 1118968050 Ahmer 0 4.31 2013 Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (The Strategyzer Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs]]> 37702964 Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth--and how it can help any organization thrive.

In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They'd have to know when to pull the plug on losing propositions, to fail fast. And they needed timely, relevant data to track their progress -- to measure what mattered.

Doerr taught them about a proven approach to operating excellence: Objectives and Key Results. He had first discovered OKRs in the 1970s as an engineer at Intel, where the legendary Andy Grove ("the greatest manager of his or any era") drove the best-run company Doerr had ever seen. Later, as a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Grove's brainchild with more than fifty companies. Wherever the process was faithfully practiced, it worked.

In this goal-setting system, objectives define what we seek to achieve; key results are how those top-priority goals will be attained with specific, measurable actions within a set time frame. Everyone's goals, from entry level to CEO, are transparent to the entire organization.

The benefits are profound. OKRs surface an organization's most important work. They focus effort and foster coordination. They keep employees on track. They link objectives across silos to unify and strengthen the entire company. Along the way, OKRs enhance workplace satisfaction and boost retention.

In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.]]> 320 John Doerr 0525536221 Ahmer 0 4.04 2017 Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
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]]> Business Model Generation 21222172 288 Alexander Osterwalder Ahmer 0 4.27 2010 Business Model Generation
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]]> <![CDATA[The New World: Comics from Mauretania]]> 36419027
This new collection, selected and designed by the acclaimed cartoonist Seth, includes short stories, a novella, and the full-length graphic novel Mauretania. It is the ideal guide to all the mystery and wonder of one of the most underappreciated cult classics in the history of comics.

This NYRC edition is a hardcover with foil stamping, debossing, full-color endpapers, and extra-thick paper, and features new scans of the original artwork.]]> 267 Chris Reynolds 168137238X Ahmer 0 3.90 2018 The New World: Comics from Mauretania
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]]> <![CDATA[Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures]]> 34014399

A timely collection of work about race and immigration in Paris by one of France's most revered cult comic book artists.
Yvan Alagbé is one of the most innovative and provocative artists in the world of comics. In the stories gathered in Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures —drawn between 1994 and 2011, and never before available in English—he uses stark, endlessly inventive black-and-white brushwork to explore love and race, oppression and escape. It is both an extraordinary experiment in visual storytelling and an essential, deeply personal political statement.

With unsettling power, the title story depicts the lives of undocumented migrant workers in Paris. Alain, a Beninese immigrant, struggles to protect his family and his white girlfriend, Claire, while engaged in a strange, tragic dance of obsession and repulsion with Mario, a retired French Algerian policeman. It is already a classic of alternative comics, and, like the other stories in this collection, becomes more urgent every day.

This NYRC edition is an oversized paperback with French flaps, printed endpapers, and extra-thick paper, and features new English hand-lettering and a brand-new story, exclusive to this edition.]]> 109 Yvan Alagbé 1681371766 Ahmer 0 3.50 1995 Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures
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]]> Alpha: Directions 25997741
Alpha is the first in a trilogy covering the world and mankind's evolution. Alpha is the starting point of investigating the pre-history of Earth, from just a speck in the sky to the birth of life that we cherish so much today. It is the 'greatest story in the world']]> 360 Jens Harder 0861662458 Ahmer 0 4.44 2009 Alpha: Directions
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]]> The Arrival 431274
Shaun Tan evokes universal aspects of an immigrant's experience through a singular work of the imagination. He does so using brilliantly clear and mesmerizing images. Because the main character can't communicate in words, the book forgoes them too. But while the reader experiences the main character's isolation, he also shares his ultimate joy.]]> 128 Shaun Tan 0439895294 Ahmer 0 4.46 2007 The Arrival
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]]> <![CDATA[The Most Magnificent Thing (Most Magnificent, 1)]]> 18383325 32 Ashley Spires 1554537045 Ahmer 0 4.29 2014 The Most Magnificent Thing (Most Magnificent, 1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Executive Transition Playbook: Strategies for Starting Strong, Staying Focused, and Succeeding in Your New Leadership Role]]> 27027328 180 Hilary Potts 151536075X Ahmer 0 4.29 2015 The Executive Transition Playbook: Strategies for Starting Strong, Staying Focused, and Succeeding in Your New Leadership Role
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]]> <![CDATA[The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build or Merge Your Team, and Get Immediate Results]]> 27192886 240 George B. Bradt 1119223237 Ahmer 0 3.80 2006 The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build or Merge Your Team, and Get Immediate Results
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]]> Infonomics 34702821


Infonomics is the theory, study, and discipline of asserting economic significance to information. It strives to apply both economic and asset management principles and practices to the valuation, handling, and deployment of information assets. This book specifically shows:



CEOs and business leaders how to more fully wield information as a corporate asset CIOs how to improve the flow and accessibility of information CFOs how to help their organizations measure the actual and latent value in their information assets.



More directly, this book is for the burgeoning force of chief data officers (CDOs) and other information and analytics leaders in their valiant struggle to help their organizations become more infosavvy.



Author Douglas Laney has spent years researching and developing Infonomics and advising organizations on the infinite opportunities to monetize, manage, and measure information. This book delivers a set of new ideas, frameworks, evidence, and even approaches adapted from other disciplines on how to administer, wield, and understand the value of information. Infonomics can help organizations not only to better develop, sell, and market their offerings, but to transform their organizations altogether.]]> 344 Douglas B. Laney 1138090387 Ahmer 0 3.93 Infonomics
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]]> <![CDATA[The Chief Data Officer Handbook for Data Governance]]> 25404331 Ěý
The relatively new role of chief data officer (CDO) has been created to address the issue of managing a company’s data as a strategic asset, but the problem is that there is no universally accepted “playbook� for this role. Magnifying the challenge is the rapidly increasing volume and complexity of data, as well as regulatory compliance as it relates to data. In this book, Sunil Soares provides a practical guide for today’s chief data officers to manage data as an asset while delivering the trusted data required to power business initiatives, from the tactical to the transformative. The guide describes the relationship between the CDO and the data governance team, whose task is the formulation of policy to optimize, secure, and leverage information as an enterprise asset by aligning the objectives of multiple functions. Soares provides unique insight into the role of the CDO and presents a blueprint for implementing data governance successfully within the context of the position. With practical advice CDOs need, this book helps establish new data governance practices or mature existing practices.]]> 80 Sunil Soares 158347417X Ahmer 0 3.72 2015 The Chief Data Officer Handbook for Data Governance
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]]> Habibi 10138607 From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets , a highly anticipated new graphic novel.
Ěý
Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts,Ěýharems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them. We follow them as their lives unfold together and apart; as they struggle to make a place for themselves in a world (not unlike our own) fueled by fear, lust, and greed; and as they discover the extraordinary depth—and frailty—of their connection.
Ěý
At once contemporary and timeless, Habibi gives us a love story of astounding resonance: a parable about our relationship to the natural world, the cultural divide between the first and third worlds, the common heritage of Christianity and Islam, and, most potently, the magic of storytelling.]]> 672 Craig Thompson 0375424148 Ahmer 0 4.02 2011 Habibi
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]]> <![CDATA[The Chief Data Officer's Playbook]]> 37670743 208 Caroline Carruthers 1783302577 Ahmer 0 3.99 The Chief Data Officer's Playbook
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]]> <![CDATA[Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Navigating Major Career Transitions]]> 6895683
Yet far too often, leaders fail to move effectively into new roles. The resulting costs are high, for your career and the organization.

In Your Next Move, Michael Watkins shows how you can survive and thrive in all the major transitions you will face during your career, including promotion, joining a new organization and making an international move. With real-life examples and case studies, he illustrates the defining hurdles associated with each type of transition.

He then provides the insights, strategies, and tools-including relationship reengineering, business systems analysis, and "organizational immunology"-you'll need to accelerate through these crucial turning points and continue moving up in your career.]]> 240 Michael D. Watkins 1422147630 Ahmer 0 3.59 2009 Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Navigating Major Career Transitions
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]]> <![CDATA[Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World]]> 49689484 288 Marco Iansiti 1633697622 Ahmer 0 4.08 2020 Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World
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]]> The Plague 109155 The Plague tells the story of a terrible disease that descends upon Oran, Algiers, in a year unknown. After rats crawl from the sewer to die in the streets, people soon begin perishing from terrible afflictions. How the main characters in the book--a journalist, a doctor & a priest--face humanity in the wake of the plague presents one of the book's many lessons. The book deserves to be read on several levels, because the pandemic represents any of a number of worldwide catastrophes--both past & future--& the difficult choices everyone must make to survive them.]]> 278 Albert Camus 0075536498 Ahmer 5 4.00 1947 The Plague
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The perfect book to read during the COVID pandemic
]]> Kafka on the Shore 4929 Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.]]> 467 Haruki Murakami 1400079276 Ahmer 5 4.14 2002 Kafka on the Shore
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The best Murakami book in personal opinion
]]> In Custody 36004 204 Anita Desai 0140238131 Ahmer 4 3.37 1984 In Custody
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]]> <![CDATA[Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews]]> 6867642 208 Frank Gohlke 1936102064 Ahmer 5 4.09 2009 Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews
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]]> A Confederacy of Dunces 310612
His mother thinks he needs to go to work. He does, in a succession of jobs. Each job rapidly escalates into a lunatic adventure, a full-blown disaster; yet each has, like Don Quixote's, its own eerie logic.

His girlfriend, Myrna Minkoff of the Bronx, thinks he needs sex.

Ignatius is an intellectual, ideologue, deadbeat, goof-off, glutton, who should repel the reader with his gargantuan bloats, his thunderous contempt, and one-man war against everybody: Freud, homosexuals, heterosexuals, Protestants, and the assorted excesses of modern times.

A tragicomedy, set in New Orleans.]]> 394 John Kennedy Toole 0802130208 Ahmer 0 emily, currently-reading 3.89 1980 A Confederacy of Dunces
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