June 2011

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  Clout

  Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content by Colleen Jones : New Riders (Pearson/Penguin), Berkeley, CA; 2011 paperback isbn 9780321733016

  There is a need for a writing guide/design book on how to build websites — no, not the underlying code, or HTML and CSS and CMS...

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  Leiber's Lankhmar

  Moving past a particular book, to an author’s body of work or oevure, it gets more difficult; I set up BookNom to recommend books, which in 98% of all cases are contiguous with the works of an author. But go back into the stacks a bit, or further into the...

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  Evil Plans

  Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination by Hugh MacLeod : Portfolio (Penguin), New York; 2011 hardcover isbn 9781591843849

  from the publishing info [fine print] “Selections from this book first appeared on the author’s website, gapingvoid.com“

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  This is the book I’ve been recommending to everyone as a graduation...

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  The Great Book of Amber

  The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles 1-10 by Roger Zelazny : Eos Books (Avon, HarperCollins; in 2010 HarperCollins renamed the Eos imprint Harper Voyager), New York; 1999 paperback, re-released in 2010; isbn 9780380809066. Collects material previously released 1970-1992.

  There are many classic series in Science Fiction and...

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