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Life: An Unauthorized Biographyby Richard Fortey The story of life from its lowliest beginnings to today - told in an almost non-scientific manner laced with anecdotes and entertaining diversions. Definitely NOT a textbook! |
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuationby Lynne Truss How can a book about English language punctuation be so accessible, amusing and downright enjoyable? Treat yourself to a copy and find out! |
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The Day of the Triffidsby John Wyndham My favourite book - only read it about 12 times! Why wasn't it included in the nation's top 100? |
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Earth Abidesby George R Stewart Another favourite of mine. After a plague wipes out most of humanity, Isherwood Williams tries to put his life back together. |
HTML/CSS programming |
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HTML for the World Wide Webby Elizabeth Castro The 5th edition of this book is both excellent as a beginner's guide as well as a reference for those more experienced in HTML. Covers XHTML and CSS as well. |
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Designing With Web Standardsby Jeffrey Zeldman How to design lean, practical web sites using standards-based CSS and still have them produce reasonably attractive pages in old, non-compliant browsers. |
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Eric Meyer on CSSGuides the user through implementing CSS using a practical, hands-on, project-based approach. |
