medium	associatedURL	boxHeightInInches	boxLengthInInches	boxWeightInPounds	boxWidthInInches	scannednumber	upc	asin	country	title	fullTitle	series	numberInSeries	edition	aspect	mediacount	genre	price	currentValue	language	netrating	description	owner	publisher	published	rare	purchaseDate	rating	used	signed	hasExperienced	notes	location	paid	condition	notowned	author	illustrator	pages
book							9780865681743	0865681740	us	Xing Yi Nei Gong: Xing Yi Health Maintenance and Internal Strength Development	Xing Yi Nei Gong: Xing Yi Health Maintenance and Internal Strength Development				Paperback			$21.95	$14.05		4.5	This is the most complete book on the art of xing yi (hsing Yi) available. It includes the complete xing yi history and lineage going back eight generations; manuscripts handed down from famous practitioners Dai Long Bang and Li Neng Ran; 16 health maintenance and power development exercises; qigong (chi kung) exerices; xing yi long spear power training exercises; and more.		Unique Publications	1998-02-10 12:00:00 +0000		2007-02-03 02:22:25 -0500										Dan Miller/ Tim Cartmell		200
book							0752064712459	073571245X	us	Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design	Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design				Paperback		Web Site Design/ Internet Publishing/ HTML - General/ jp-unknown1/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$45.00	$9.99		4.5	There are several other books on the market that serve as in-depth technical guides or reference books for CSS. None, however, take a more hands-on approach and use practical examples to teach readers how to solve the problems they face in designing with CSS - until now. Eric Meyer provides a variety of carefully crafted projects that teach how to use CSS and why particular methods were chosen. The web site includes all of the files needed to complete the tutorials in the book. In addition, bonus information is be posted.		New Riders Press	2002-06-28 12:00:00 +0000		2007-02-03 02:21:00 -0500										Eric A. Meyer		352
book							9780961454739	0961454733	us	Art & Fear	Art & Fear				Paperback		Study & Teaching/ Criticism	$12.95	$7.25		4.5	"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially-statistically speaking-there aren't any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place. For all practical purposes making art can be examined in great detail without ever getting entangled in the very remote problems of genius."
--from the Introduction/ Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. The book's co-authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, are themselves both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is expeienced by artmakers themselves./ This is not your typical self-help book. This is a book written by artists, for artists -- it's about what it feels like when artists sit down at their easel or keyboard, in their studio or performance space, trying to do the work they need to do. First published in 1994, Art & Fear quickly became an underground classic. Word-of-mouth response alone-now enhanced by internet posting-has placed it among the best-selling books on artmaking and creativity nationally./ Art & Fear has attracted a remarkably diverse audience, ranging from beginning to accomplished artists in every medium, and including an exceptional concentration among students and teachers. The original Capra Press edition of Art & Fear sold 80,000 copies./ An excerpt:/ Today, more than it was however many years ago, art is hard because you have to keep after it so consistently. On so many different fronts. For so little external reward. Artists become veteran artists only by making peace not just with themselves, but with a huge range of issues. You have to find your work.../ 		Image Continuum Press	2001-04-01 12:00:00 +0000		2007-02-03 02:20:32 -0500										David Bayles/ Ted Orland		122
book							9780135974445	0135974445	us	Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices	Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices				Hardcover		C & C++ Windows Programming/ Object-Oriented Design/ Software Development/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$68.20	$38.50		4.5			Prentice Hall	2002-10-15 12:00:00 +0000		2007-02-03 02:20:25 -0500										Robert C. Martin		552
book							9780312275631	0312275633	us	Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance	Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance				Paperback		Meditation/ Mysticism/ Self-Help/ Spiritualism/ Osho/ Personal Transformation	$11.95	$7.61		4.5	Underlying all meditation techniques, including martial arts-and in fact underlying all great athletic performances-is a quality of being awake and present to the moment, a quality that Osho calls awareness. Once we can identify and understand what this quality of awareness is, we have the key to self-mastery in virtually every area of our lives.According to great masters like Lao Tzu or Buddha, most of us move through our lives like sleepwalkers. Never really present in what we are doing, never fully alert to our environment, and not even aware of what motivates us to do and say the things we do.At the same time, all of us have experienced moments of awareness-or awakening, to use another-in extraordinary circumstances. On the road, in a sudden and unexpected accident, time seems to stop and one is suddenly aware of every movement, every sound, every thought. Or in moments that touch us deeply-welcoming a new baby into the world for the first time, or being with someone at the moment of death.Awareness, says Osho, is the key to being self-directed, centered, and free in every aspect of our lives. In this book, Osho teaches how to live life more attentively, mindfully, and meditatively, with love, caring and consciousness.OSHO challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people-along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha-who have changed the destiny of India. More than a decade after his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.		St. Martin's Griffin	2001-12-10 12:00:00 +0000		2007-02-03 02:20:16 -0500										Osho		192
book							9780690012903	069001290X	us	Flower, Moon, Snow: A Book of Haiku	Flower, Moon, Snow: A Book of Haiku				Library Binding		20th Century/ Japanese & Haiku/ United States	$12.89	$4.40					Crowell	1977-02-04 12:00:00 +0000		2007-02-03 02:19:27 -0500										Kazue Mizumura		48
book							9780060958404	0060958405	us	Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language	Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language				Paperback		Logic & Language/ Grammar/ Linguistics/ Neuroscience/ Cognitive	$15.00	$3.50		4	Human languages are capable of expressing a literally endless number of different ideas. How do we manage it--so effortlessly that we scarcely ever stop to think about it? In Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language, a look at the simple concepts that we use to devise works as complex as love sonnets and tax laws, renowned neuroscientist and linguist Steven Pinker shows us how. The latest linguistic research suggests that each of us stores a limited (though large) number of words and word-parts in memory and manipulates them with a much smaller number of rules to produce every writing and utterance, and Pinker explains every step of the way with engaging good humor./ Pinker's enthusiasm for the subject infects the reader, particularly as he emphasizes the relation between how we communicate and how we think. What does it mean that a small child who has never heard the word wug can tell a researcher that when one wug meets another, there are two wugs? Some rule must be telling the child that English plurals end in -s, which also explains mistakes like mouses. Is our communication linked inextricably with our thinking? Pinker says yes, and it's hard to disagree. Words and Rules is an excellent introduction to and overview of current thinking about language, and will greatly reward the careful reader with new ways of thinking about how we think, talk, and write. --Rob Lightner/ 		Harper Perennial	2000-01-15 12:00:00 +0000		2007-02-03 02:18:58 -0500										Steven Pinker		368
book							9781592400874	1592400876	us	Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation	Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation				Hardcover		Essays/ Grammar/ Reference/ Writing Skills	$19.95	$1.84		4	A bona fide publishing phenomenon, Lynne Truss's now classic #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes its paperback debut after selling over 3 million copies worldwide in hardcover./ We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in e-mail, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species./ In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with. BACKCOVER: Praise for Lynne Truss and Eats, Shoots & Leaves:

Eats, Shoots & Leaves“makes correct usage so cool that you have to admire Ms. Truss.”
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“Witty, smart, passionate.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books Of 2004: Nonfiction 

“Who knew grammar could be so much fun?”
—Newsweek

“Witty and instructive. . . . Truss is an entertaining, well-read scold in a culture that could use more scolding.”
—USA Today“Truss is William Safire crossed with John Cleese's Basil Fawlty.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“Lynne Truss has done the English-speaking world a huge service.”
—The Christian Science Monitor

“This book changed my life in small, perfect ways like learning how to make better coffee or fold an omelet. It's the perfect gift for anyone who cares about grammar and a gentle introduction for those who don't care enough.”
—The Boston Sunday Globe

“Lynne Truss makes [punctuation] a joy to contemplate.”
—Elle

“If Lynne Truss were Roman Catholic I'd nominate her for sainthood.” —Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes

“Truss's scholarship is impressive and never dry.”
—Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review/ 		Gotham	2004-04-12 12:00:00 +0000		2007-02-03 02:18:24 -0500										Lynne Truss		209
book							9780142000281	0142000280	us	Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity	Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity				Paperback		Health & Stress/ Time Management/ Guides/ Labor & Industrial Relations/ Motivational/ Office Skills/ Creativity/ Self-Esteem/ Stress Management	$15.00	$7.01		4.5	With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance./ Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do's clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24//7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)/ As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen's is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can't junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket"/ That's where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen's system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen's ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there's anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It's commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). --Timothy Murphy/ 		Penguin (Non-Classics)	2002-12-31 12:00:00 +0000		2007-02-03 02:16:57 -0500										David Allen		267
book							9780140195682	0140195688	us	Sitting: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation	Sitting: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation				Paperback		Rituals & Practice	$12.00	$2.90		4.5			Penguin (Non-Classics)	1998-05-01 12:00:00 +0000		2007-02-03 00:20:13 -0500										Diana St. Ruth		96
book							9780060922245	0060922249	us	Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life	Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life				Paperback		Personal Transformation/ New Age/ Spiritual/ Pastoral Theology	$14.00	$0.01		4	Care of the Soul is considered to be one of the best primers for soul work ever written. Thomas Moore, an internationally renowned theologian and former Catholic monk, offers a philosophy for living that involves accepting our humanity rather than struggling to transcend it. By nurturing the soul in everyday life, Moore shows how to cultivate dignity, peace, and depth of character. For example, in addressing the importance of daily rituals he writes, "Ritual maintains the world's holiness. As in a dream a small object may assume significance, so in a life that is animated by ritual there are no insignificant things." This is the eloquence that helped reintroduce the sacred into everyday language and contemporary values.		Harper Paperbacks	1994-01-26 12:00:00 +0000		2007-02-03 00:19:54 -0500										Thomas Moore		336
book							9780977616602	0977616606	us	Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers)	Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers)				Paperback		Object-Oriented Design/ Internet	$32.95	$22.46		4.5	Rails is large, powerful, and new. How do you use it effectively? How do you harness the power? And, most important, how do you get high quality, real-world applications written?/ From the latest Ajax effects to time-saving automation tips for your development process, Rails Recipes will show you how the experts have already solved the problems you have./  • Use generators to automate repetitive coding tasks./  • Create sophisticated role-based authentication schemes./  • Add live search and live preview to your site./  • Run tests when anyone checks code in./  • How to create tagged data the right way./  • and many, many more.../ Owning Rails Recipes is like having the best Rails programmers sitting next to you while you code./ 		Pragmatic Bookshelf	01-06-2006		01-02-2007	3									Chad Fowler		332