Bob's Home Library
Developing Android Applications with Adobe AIR
Véronique Brossier
编程/技术 [22]: If you want to use your ActionScript skills to build mobile applications for the Android OS, this thorough guide will show you how to use the unique programming environment, architecture, and tools in the Adobe AIR for Android SDK. You'll...
Dubliners
James Joyce
小说 [64]: "Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?...To give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something th...
THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE (2011 EDITION)
William Strunk Junior
文学理论 [4]:
The Elements of Style is a prescriptive American English
writing style guide comprising eight "elementary rules of usage", ten
"elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list
of forty-nine "words ...
Factory Girls(前六章)
Leslie T. Chang
历史/纪实 [40]: An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girl...
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Dahl Roald
童话 [17]: Amazon.com ReviewIn the tradition of The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, this is a "garden tale" of farmer versus vermin, or vice versa. The farmers in this case are a vaguely criminal team of three stooges: "Boggis and Bunce and Bean / One fat,...
Here is New York
White, E.B.
随笔 [27]: Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten ...
HTML5 Canvas
Steve Fulton and Jeff Fulton
编程/技术 [21]: HTML5 is revolutionizing the way web applications are developed, and this practical, hands-on book puts you right in the middle the action. You'll learn how to build interactive multimedia applications with HTML5's Canvas, using this new ...
Ignore Everybody
MacLeod, Hugh
励志成功 [5]: 不写说明了，直接去看别人的书评吧，这本书不错～Book Review:(中文)http://sivers.org/ie/zh(English)http://sivers.org/ieBook Descrption:(from his own website)http://gapingvoid.com/ie/
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
David Flanagan
编程/技术 [23]: Whether you need an example-driven programmer's guide or a complete desk reference, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide is the most authoritative book on the language that runs the Web. The sixth edition offers comprehensive coverage of ECMA...
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
诗词 [10]: WHEN Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American...
The Stars My Destination
阿尔弗雷德·贝斯特(Alfred Bester) and Alex Eisenstein and Phyllis Eisenstein
科幻/奇幻/玄幻 [21]: Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.(子乌注：中文版《群星，我的归宿》)
This Republic of Suffering
Drew Gilpin Faust
历史/纪实 [47]:
More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the
American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population
would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin
Faust reveals the ways that death...
WATER FOR ELEPHANT
Sara Gruen
小说 [67]: An atmospheric,
gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus
world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons .
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps
onto a passi...
Why Leaders Lie
John J. Mearsheimer
社会 [8]: For more than two decades, John J. Mearsheimer has been regarded as one
of the foremost realist thinkers on foreign policy. Clear and incisive
as well as a fearlessly honest analyst, his coauthored 2007 New York Times bestseller, The Israel...
Writing Analytically, 6th Edition
David Rosenwasser and Jill Stephen
文学理论 [3]:
The popular, brief rhetoric that treats writing as
thinking, WRITING ANALYTICALLY, Sixth Edition, offers a series of
prompts that lead you through the process of analysis and synthesis and
help you to generate original a...
失控:机器、社会与经济的新生物学
凯文·凯利
其他 [19]: 《失控》,全名为《失控:机器、社会与经济的新生物学》(Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World)。 2006年,《长尾》作者克里斯·安德森在亚马逊网站上这样评价该书: “这可能是90年代最重要的一本书”,并且是“少有的一年比一年卖得好的书”。“尽管书中的一些例子在十几年后可能有些过时,但(它们所表达的)信息却 越来越成为真知灼见”。“在那时人们还无法想...
