Lisa Lopuck. 2001. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Publishing, Inc. [ISBN 0-7645-0823-7. 336 pages, including index and CD-ROM, $24.99 USD (soft-cover).] You're probably familiar with the characteristic yellow and black publications from Wiley Publishing, Inc. (formerly Hungry Minds). They publish the For dummies series that now exceeds 1,000 titles and fills shelf after shelf in the bookstores. Not…
Robin Williams Web Design Workshop John Tollett, Robin Williams, and David Rohr. 2002. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press. [ISBN 0-201-74867-3. 372 pages, including index. $39.99 USD (softcover)]. I've been a fan of Robin Williams' work since I first read her simple, common-sense design principles years ago in The non-designer's design book (Peachpit Press, 1994; reviewed in the August 1995 iss…
Peter Kentie. 2002. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press. [ISBN 0-201-71712-3. 436 pages, including index. $39.99 (softcover)]. Peter Kentie's new book bridges a gap between books for beginning Web designers and advanced works for practitioners interested primarily in the usability of Web pages. Beginners' books are exemplified by Robin Williams and John Tollett's The non-designer's Web book…
Patricia Bou-Franch and Pilar Garces-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.), Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 400 pp., $127.85 (hardcover). Digital technologies have greatly expanded the ways in which people communicate, form social relationships, and engage in discourse practices. The past three decades have seen an increasing in…
Judith B. Sedaitis (ed.): Commercializing High Technology. East and West 1997 Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 376 pages. The main theme of the book is the transformation of technology policy and R&D in both East and West after the Cold War. During that period, many resources were spent on defense research and the development of military technology. In the new era, however, the need for d…