nimbupani

Bookshelf: Read

List with no coverCover onlyList with coverList with Google Books previewCheck Library
Displaying 1 - 10 of 460 books.
No Book Bookshelf Google Preview
1

The Laughing Policeman (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Paperback
  • 5.0 of 5 stars
(1)

Book Description

The incredible fourth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Martin Beck heading a major manhunt in pursuit of a mass-murderer.On a cold and rainy Stockholm night, nine bus riders are gunned down by a mysterious assassin. The press portrays it as a freak attack and dubs the killer a madman. But Superintendent Martin Beck thinks otherwise—one of his most ambitious young detectives was among those killed—and he suspects it was more than coincidence. Working on a hunch, Beck seeks out the girlfriend of the mur...

2
 
Fav_on nimbupani
nimbupani has read this book, rated
  • 5.0 of 5 stars
1 week ago (added to shelf 3 weeks ago)
2

The Art and Science of CSS

Paperback
  • 1.0 of 5 stars
(1)

Book Description

CSS-based design doesn 't need to be boring. The Art & Science of CSS brings together a talented collection of designers who will show you how to take the building blocks of your web site's design (such as headings, navigation, forms, and more) and bring them to life with fully standards-compliant CSS. This full color book helps you to design web sites that not only work well across all browsers, are easy to maintain, and are highly accessible, but are also visually stunning. Create truly attention-grabbing headings. Discover multiple ways to present images effectively. Use background imag...

1
 
nimbupani
nimbupani has read this book, rated
  • 1.0 of 5 stars
2 weeks ago
3

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series

Paperback
  • 5.0 of 5 stars
(1)

Book Description

"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the "London Sunday T...

6
 
Fav_on nimbupani
nimbupani has read this book, rated
  • 5.0 of 5 stars
2 weeks ago (added to shelf May 11, 2008)
4

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

Paperback
  • 4.5 of 5 stars
(2)

Book Description

An innovative, dramatic graphic novel about the treacherous pursuit of the foundations of mathematics. This exceptional graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. In his agonized search for absolute truth, Russell crosses paths with legendary thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert, and Kurt Gödel, and finds a passionate student in the great Ludwig Wittgenstein. But his most ambitious goal—to establish unshakable logical foundations of mathematics—continues to loom before him. Through love and hate, peace and war, Russell persists in the dogged mission ...

5
 
Fav_on nimbupani
nimbupani has read this book, rated
  • 5.0 of 5 stars
2 weeks ago (added to shelf Dec 30, 2009)
5

Palestine

Paperback
  • 5.0 of 5 stars
(2)

Book Description

Fantagraphics Books is pleased to present, for the first time, a single-volume collection of this 288-page landmark of journalism and the artform of comics. Interest in Sacoo has never been higher than with the release of his critically acclaimed book, Safe Area Gorazde. Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s (where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews), Palestine was the first major comics work of political and historical nonfiction by Sacco, who has often been called the first comic book journal...

6
 
Fav_on nimbupani
nimbupani has read this book, rated
  • 5.0 of 5 stars
2 weeks ago
6

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1

Paperback
  • 4.0 of 5 stars
(3)

Book Description

Proving that mainstream comics could be infused with past literary/cultural ideals and still be bestsellers, the America's Best Comics imprint took the dilapidated superhero genre and created three vastly entertaining hybrids with Tom Strong, Promethea and Top Ten. Now, a stunning coup de grace is delivered with this masterful pairing of Victorian adventure fiction's greatest characters and the old war-horse of the super-group. With the stunning The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it would be no exaggeration to say that Alan Moore has produced a near-perfect piece of adventure fiction th...

8
 
nimbupani
nimbupani has read this book, rated
  • 4.0 of 5 stars
3 weeks ago (added to shelf Jul 10, 2008)
7

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 5

Paperback
  • 5.0 of 5 stars
(1)

Book Description

The corpses whose last wishes Kurosagi deliver usually died not too long ago . . . for reasons that are gruesomely obvious. But when the ominous Mr. Nire returns to the scene with a re-animated mummy in tow, what they're gonna do is go back . . . way back, as the kids kick it Egyptian Old Kingdom school! Then, travel from the past into the future of death, as the Kurosagi crew unlocks the cold business behind some cryogenically frozen heads!

1
 
nimbupani
nimbupani has read this book, rated
  • 5.0 of 5 stars
3 weeks ago
8

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 8

Paperback
  • 5.0 of 5 stars
(1)

Book Description

Shigo kekkon-marrying the dead! It's a quaint old country custom in Japan that's becoming the next big fad in Tokyo . . . and that makes it the business of the Corpse Delivery Service! And meanwhile back on campus, since they're technically a college club, the kids from Kurosagi host a membership drive at the start of the new semester! But you've got to like corpses, you know.

1
 
nimbupani
nimbupani has read this book, rated
  • 5.0 of 5 stars
3 weeks ago
9

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 1

Paperback
  • 5.0 of 5 stars
(1)

Book Description

Your body is their business! Five young students at a Buddhist university, three guys and two girls, find little call for their job skills in today's Tokyo... among the living, that is! But all that stuff in college they were told would never pay off - you know, channeling, dowsing, ESP - gives them a direct line to the dead... the dead who are still trapped in their corpses and can't move on to the next reincarnation. The five form the Kurosagi ("Black Heron" - their ominous bird logo) Corpse Delivery Service: whether suicide, murder, accident, or illness, they'll carry your body whereve...

1
 
Fav_on nimbupani
nimbupani has read this book, rated
  • 5.0 of 5 stars
3 weeks ago
10

Skim

Paperback
  • 4.0 of 5 stars
(1)

Book Description

"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school in the early '90s. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself — possibly because he's (maybe) gay — the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's what happens to Skim when she starts meeting secretly with her neo-hippie English teacher, Ms. Archer. But then Ms. Archer abruptly leaves the school, and Skim has to cope with her confusion and isolation while her best friend, Lisa, tries to pull her into "...

1
 
nimbupani
nimbupani has read this book, rated
  • 4.0 of 5 stars
4 weeks ago
Amazon Kindle