IAM Recommended Books

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[edit] Interactive Media Theory (includes interface design and usability)

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson ISBN 0684868768 Call Number

Swarm Intelligence by James Kennedy and Russell C. Eberhart ISBN 1558605959 Call Number

The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin ISBN 0201379376 Call Number

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper ISBN 0672326140 Call Number

Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen ISBN 156205810X Call Number

Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative by Mark S. Meadows, ISBN 0735711712 Call Number

Information Visualization by Colin Ware ISBN 1558608192 Call Number

Labyrinths: The Art of Interactive Writing and Design, Content Development for New Media (LAB) by Domenic Stansberry ISBN 0534519482 Call Number

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud ISBN 006097625X Call Number

Hackers & Painters (Hard Cover) Big Ideas from the Computer Age By Paul Graham First Edition May 2004 ISBN 0596006624 http://www.paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html Call Number

[edit] Information Design (Visual) Edward R. Tufte

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information ISBN 0961392142 Call Number

Envisioning Information ISBN 0961392118 Call Number

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative ISBN 0961392126 Call Number

Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making ISBN 0961392134 Call Number

Beautiful Evidence ISBN 0961392177 Call Number

[edit] Process and Workflow

Web Redesign: Workflow That Works by Kelly Goto Emily Cotler ISBN 0735714339 Call Number

[edit] Teams & Project Management

Software for Your Head: Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining Shared Vision by Jim McCarthy, Michele McCarthy, 1st edition, 2001, Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN 0201604566 Call Number

Dynamics of Software Development (Best Practices) (Paperback) by Jim McCarthy ISBN 0735623198 Call Number

The Usability Engineering Lifecycle by Deborah J. Mayhew ISBN 1558605614 Call Number

[edit] Visual Design and Information Visualization

Visual Thinking by Rudolf Arnheim ISBN 0520242262 Call Number

Information Visualization : Perception for Design (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) by Colin Ware ISBN 1558605118 Call Number

[edit] Sound

Exploring Sound Design for Interactive Media: Joseph Cancellaro ISBN 1-4018-8102-5, Published by Thomson Delmar Learning Call Number

Modern Recording Techniques, Sixth Edition by David Miles Huber, Robert E. Runstein ISBN 0240806255 Call Number

Principles of Digital Audio by Ken C Pohlmann ISBN 0071441565 Call Number

The Sound Reinforcement Handbook by Gary Davis, Ralph Jones ISBN 0881889008 Call Number

[edit] HTML/Web/Interactive

Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition by Eric Meyer ISBN 0596005253 Call Number

Learning XML by Erik T. Ray ISBN 0596004206 Call Number

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville ISBN 0596527349 Call Number

The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience, Van Duyne, Landay, & Hong, ISBN 0-201-72149-X, Addison-Wesley, 2007 Call Number

Information Architecture: Blueprints For The Web," Christina Wodtke, ISBN 0-7357-1250-6, New Riders, 2004 Call Number

Designing with Web Standards, by Jeffrey Zeldman, ISBN 0735712018, New Riders, Call Number

Eric Meyer on CSS, by Eric Meyer, ISBN 0-7357-1245-X, New Riders Call Number

[edit] Game Culture

Gaming As Culture: Essays on Reality, Identity And Experience in Fantasy Games (Paperback) by J. Patrick Williams (Editor) ISBN 0786424362 Call Number

Everything Bad is Good for You (Paperback) by Steven Johnson ISBN 1594481946 Call Number

What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Paperback) by James Paul Gee ISBN 1403965382 Call Number

Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture (Hardcover) by T. L. Taylor ISBN 0262201631 Call Number

Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds (Hardcover) by Jesper Juul ISBN 0262101106 Call Number

The Video Game Theory Reader (Paperback) by Mark J. P. Wolf ISBN: 0415965799 Call Number

Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism (Hardcover) by Ian Bogost ISBN 026202599X Call Number

From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, edited by Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins Call Number

The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology edited by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman Call Number

Gender Inclusive Game Design: Expanding the Market by Sheri Graner Ray Call Number

Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H. Murray Call Number

The Medium of the Video Game by Mark Wolf Call Number

Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman Call Number

Shared Fantasy: Role-playing Games as Social Worlds by Cary Alan Fine Call Number

Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games by Edward Castronova Call Number

Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence (Hardcover) Publisher: Basic Books (April 2, 2002) Language: English ISBN-10: 0465036953 ISBN-13: 978-0465036950 Call Number

[edit] Simulation Design

Learning by Doing: A Comprehensive Guide to Simulations, Computer Games, and Pedagogy in e-Learning and Other Educational Experiences (Hardcover) by Clark Aldrich ISBN 0787977357 Call Number

[edit] Flash & ActionScript

Essential ActionScript 2.0 by Colin Moock (or the newest version) ISBN 0596006527 Call Number

ActionScript for Flash MX the Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Colin Moock (or the newest version) ISBN 059600396X Call Number

[edit] Programming

Learning C# 2005: Get Started with C# 2.0 and .NET Programming (2nd Edition) by Jesse Liberty and Brian MacDonald ISBN 0596102097 Call Number

Structured & Object-Oriented Problem Solving Using C++ by Andrew C. Staugaard, Jr. ISBN 0130284513 Call Number

Small C++ How to Program by Deitel ISBN 0131857584 Call Number

Head First Design Patterns by Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra ISBN 0596007124 Call Number

SQL Pocket Guide, Second Edition By Jonathan Gennick ISBN 0596526881 Call Number

SQL in a Nutshell, Second Edition A Desktop Quick Reference By Kevin Kline With Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt ISBN 0596004818 Call Number

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides ISBN 0201633612 Call Number

The Game Programmer's Guide to Torque: Under the Hood of the Torque Game Engine (GarageGames) (Paperback) by Edward F. Maurina III ISBN 1568812841 Call Number

Developing Application Frameworks in .NET by Xin Chen ISBN 1590592883 Call Number

AI for Game Developers by David M. Bourg, Glenn Seemann ISBN 0596005555 Call Number

Physics for Game Developers by David M Bourg ISBN 0596000065 Call Number

Beginning Math and Physics for Game Programmers by Wendy Stahler ISBN 0735713901 Call Number

Concise Prelude to Programming: Concepts and Design by Steward Venit ISBN 1576761320 Call Number

Problem Solving and Programming Concepts by Maureen Sprankle ISBN 0130482684 Call Number

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, David Flanagan ISBN 0596000480 Call Number

Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Core Reference, by Dino Esposito ISBN 073562206X Call Number

Refactoring to Patterns (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series) (Hardcover) by Joshua Kerievsky (Author) Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (August 5, 2004) Language: English ISBN 0321213351 Call Number

Beginning Database Design (Wrox Beginning Guides) by Gavin Powell ISBN 0764574906 Call Number

Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 and Databases by John Kauffman, Bradley Millington ISBN 0471781347 Call Number

Computer Architecture and Organization: An Integraded Approach by Miles Murdocca and Vincent Heuring, ISBN 9780471733881 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Call Number

PIC in Practice by D.W. Smith, ISBN 0750648120

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold, ISBN 073940752X Call Number

Computer Systems: A Programmers Perspective by Randal Bryant and David O’Hallaron, ISBN 013034074X