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Observing the User Experience 1st Edition A Practitioners Guide to User Research
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Mike Kuniavsky
SophyLou
, August 09, 2012
Excellent, thoughtful, practical how-to book for conducting a range of user studies. I was assigned this my library school users' class and was astonished when other students sold their copies -- to me this was THE most useful book I was assigned in the whole program.
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Binocular Vision New & Selected Stories
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Edith Pearlman
SophyLou
, August 05, 2012
The first story sets the tone for the book -- quiet stories about presence, witness, and love in many forms.
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Mirador Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky By Her Daughter
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Elisabeth Gille, Marina Harss
SophyLou
, January 19, 2012
This is not an easily categorizable book -- written in the first person, it is a "dreamed autobiography" of Irene Nemirovsky written by her daughter Elisabeth Gille, which by its very existence raises fascinating questions about the writer's voice (both that of Nemirovsky, whose works the daughter draws on) and the complicated role played by Gille's voice. The story itself is gripping, as we follow Irene (or perhaps, "Irene") from her privileged childhood in Russia into exile in France through the French occupation, up to Nemirovsky's deportation to Auschwitz. The story becomes even more complex, though, especially the pressing question of why Nemirovsky and her husband (who would also die at Auschwitz) chose not to leave France when urged to by friends, when you consider that The Mirador is written by her youngest daughter (both of Nemirovsky's daughters narrowly missed being taken to the camps themselves), whose life was so powerfully affected by that decision. I was thinking about this book for at least a week after reading it. Worth reading, and worth a second read, too.
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