IAM Recommended Books
Interactive Media Theory (includes interface design and usability)
| Title | Artist | ISBN | In Columbia Library? | Call Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software | Steven Johnson | 0684868768 | Yes | Call Number |
| Swarm Intelligence | James Kennedy and Russell C. Eberhart | 1558605959 | Yes | Call Number |
| The Humane Interface | Jef Raskin | 0201379376 | Yes | Call Number |
| The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity | Alan Cooper | 0672326140 | Yes | Call Number |
| Designing Web Usability | Jakob Nielsen | 156205810X | Yes | Call Number |
| Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative | Mark S. Meadows | 0735711712 | Yes | Call Number |
| Information Visualization | Colin Ware | 1558608192 | Yes | Call Number |
| Labyrinths: The Art of Interactive Writing and Design, Content Development for New Media (LAB) | Domenic Stansberry | 0534519482 | Yes | Call Number |
| Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art | Scott McCloud | 006097625X | Yes | Call Number |
| Hackers & Painters (Hard Cover) Big Ideas from the Computer Age | Paul Graham | 0596006624 | Yes | Call Number |
Information Design (Visual) Edward R. Tufte
| Title | Artist | ISBN | In Columbia Library? | Call Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Visual Display of Quantitative Information | Edward R. Tufte | 0961392142 | Yes | Call Number |
| Envisioning Information | Edward R. Tufte | 0961392118 | Yes | Call Number |
| Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative | Edward R. Tufte | 0961392126 | Yes | Call Number |
| Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making | Edward R. Tufte | 0961392134 | Yes | Call Number |
| Beautiful Evidence | Edward R. Tufte | 0961392177 | Yes | Call Number |
Process and Workflow
| Title | Author | ISBN | In Columbia Library? | Call Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web Redesign: Workflow That Works | Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler | 0735714339 | Yes | Call Number |
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 
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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
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
Sound
Exploring Sound Design for Interactive Media: Joseph Cancellaro ISBN 1-4018-8102-5, Published by Thomson Delmar Learning 
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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
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
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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
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
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Simulation Design
| Title | Author | ISBN | In Columbia Library? | Call Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Learning by Doing: A Comprehensive Guide to Simulations, Computer Games, and Pedagogy in e-Learning and Other Educational Experiences (Hardcover) | Clark Aldrich | 0787977357 | Yes | Call Number |
Flash & ActionScript
| Title | Author | ISBN | In Columbia Library? | Call Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential ActionScript 2.0 | Colin Moock | 0596006527 | Yes | Call Number |
| ActionScript for Flash MX the Definitive Guide, Second Edition | Colin Moock | 059600396X | Yes | Call Number |
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 
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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 
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Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 and Databases by John Kauffman, Bradley Millington ISBN 0471781347 
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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
