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of Plant and Floral Ornament
Richard G. Hatton. 1200 illustrations of flowers and plants
from herbal woodcuts of the 1500's. Nature, observation, and
design combined.
It is out of print, but I got my copy through Half.com
The book suits
my current interest in things more permanent than television
news.
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Early
History to Reformation
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Reformation to Present Day
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The
Story of Christianity
Justo L. Gonzalez. I am not a theologian, which is
why these superb and quite accessible books are perfect
for explaining why Christians worship the way they do, who
the martyrs were, where the Creeds came from and everything
else.
I sure don't
remember learning any of this in Sunday school or
history class. Maybe it takes growing up and having kids
to have appreciation for any kind of history at all.
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Edward
Tufte "Envisioning
Information" should be in everyone's bookshelf. This
book applies specifically to conveying large amounts of information
in the limited space of a page or monitor screen. The book
itself is a work of art, and pulls examples from a huge range
of sources throughout history.
The book was shown to me shortly after it was published and
my first thought was, "I have that space debris graphics
right here in my scrap book, filed under graphics that
don't suck."
Tufte insists that
good information does not need to be dumbed- down for it's
audience. If you're numbers are boring, you have the wrong
numbers. Read and understand these books.
The
Edward Tufte website.
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Web
Design in a Nutshell
Jennifer Niederst.
If it is time for you to buckle down and learn about how web
pages are built, this O'Reilly book is clear, straightforward
and thorough. Perfect for people who don't want to be completely
divorced form their work with Front-page or some other editor.
Learn the building
blocks and you will be more successful and less frustrated.
I designed the web page for my father's church entirely by hand
writing HTML with this book, and I am no programer. By far the
best book for beginners, intermediate or reference.
Since then, I have made a site for our church, Life
In Jesus. But this was mostly Dreamweaver |
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 Indian
in the Cupboard Lynne
Reid Banks. We are reading this to our five-year-old. He looks forward
to it every night. I could not recommend a better book to start
reading to your children after picture books.
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Giant
Robot A very
cool zine for all kinds of Asian-American pop culture stuff.
I've sorta moved on, but I recommend it for people who want
to read more about Michele Yeoh, Jet Li or Cibo Matto than
Newsweek will give you.
 There
are articles about skateboarding, bands, and lots of irreverent
stuff. Let's
check it out.
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