Bookshelf
I sometimes post book recommendations on Twitter and people often respond asking if I have an overall list of books I think are worth reading. I don't, and end up feeling a bit guilty about being so haphazard. So, maybe this will be interesting to some people: below is a fairly complete catalog of the physical books I own. I always enjoy reading others' lists and browsing their bookshelves, so this intended to be a digital version of that. I've only read about half of the books here. (I guess I fall somewhere in the middle in the Umberto Eco theory of the library.)
I flagged a few books that I thought were particularly great in green and those that I thought were substantially above average in light blue. These designations are non-exhaustive, though—it's kinda hard to recommend books in the abstract. And I've no doubt missed some.
Since the stacks and shelves lack any particular order, so too does this list.
If you like books, you may enjoy Stripe Press.
- How Judges Think
- Aftermath
- The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
- The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
- Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
- Popper Selections
- Feynman Lectures On Gravitation
- The Ascent of Man
- American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
- Quantum Electrodynamics
- Men, Machines, and Modern Times
- The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability
- The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
- The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence & Japan's Computer Challenge to the World
- A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
- GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History
- This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital
- Pop Internationalism
- Trading Places: How We Are Giving Our Future to Japan and How to Reclaim It
- Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America
- Recent economic changes, and their effect on the production and distribution of wealth and the well-being of society
- Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition (New Accents)
- Enemies: A Love Story
- Labyrinths
- Mind-Body Problem
- The Road
- The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
- The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World (Bradford Books)
- Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear (Vintage International)
- Fear No Evil
- The Arrival
- Last and First Men: A Story of the near and far future
- Invisible Cities
- Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
- William Blake and the Age of Revolution
- The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible!
- War and Peace
- The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
- Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
- Managing Oneself
- The End of Error: Unum Computing
- The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
- Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
- Photoviz: Visualizing Information through Photography
- Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares A Context Sensitive Approach
- Urban Street Design Guide
- Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
- Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
- Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
- The 40s: The Story of a Decade
- Perfidia: A novel
- The 60s: The Story of a Decade
- Alexander Hamilton
- Ask Me Anything (A collection of Reddit's best from r/IAmA Volume 1)
- American Tabloid
- The Revolt of the Masses
- Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment
- Mapping the Airways
- The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
- Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model
- An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays
- Suck: Worst-Case Scenarios in Media, Culture, Advertising, and the Internet
- Underworld
- Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865
- All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
- The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
- How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)
- The Journalist And The Murderer
- The Hunters
- The Lost Daughter
- Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
- Radical Software Number Five
- The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
- Sea Ranch... Diary of an Idea
- The Sea Ranch: Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community on the Northern California Coast
- Process and Reality
- The Wealth of Nations
- The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
- Chronicles of Wasted Time: An Autobiography
- Are Prisons Obsolete?
- The Essays
- New Atlantis
- How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
- Montaigne: Complete Essays
- Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
- Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
- Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
- The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
- The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
- The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue
- Toward a radical middle: Fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism
- Reckless Disregard
- Speedboat (NYRB Classics)
- Existential America
- Once An Eagle
- Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model
- Dictator (Cicero Trilogy)
- In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations With the Visionaries of the Digital World
- CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping
- Has Globalization Gone Too Far?
- The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
- Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up
- I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
- The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
- The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress
- The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
- The Transit of Venus
- The feminine mystique
- Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science
- From Satori to Silicon Valley: San Francisco and the American Counterculture
- The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets
- Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell
- Book from the Ground: from point to point
- Simulation and Its Discontents: (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
- Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity
- The Biology of Cancer, 2nd Edition
- The Child's Discovery of Space: From Hopscotch to Mazes
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
- Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128
- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd Edition)
- How to Lie with Statistics
- Oliver Byrne: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
- How to Study Public Life
- The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
- A Decade of Research: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 1970-1980
- The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
- The Long Way
- Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
- What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
- Designing for People
- The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
- Tenth of December: Stories
- Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
- Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
- The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
- The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
- Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
- Global Catastrophic Risks
- The Culture of Education
- Libraries of the Future
- Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
- Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
- Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications
- Our Knowledge of the External World (Routledge Classics)
- Toward a Theory of Instruction
- Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
- Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
- A History of Western Philosophy; And its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
- The Oregon Experiment (Center for Environmental Structure)
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
- If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
- An Introduction to Harmonic Analysis (Cambridge Mathematical Library)
- Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring sanity to our politics, our economy, and our lives
- The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning: A Polar Journey
- Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
- Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization
- Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story - 1965-2000
- The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
- Stories of Your Life and Others
- Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World
- The Clockwork Rocket (Orthogonal)
- Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
- A Theory of Fun for Game Design
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph: The Complete 1922 Text
- Whisky Classified: Choosing Single Malts by Flavour
- Steve Jobs
- The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement (Springer Praxis Books)
- The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus
- The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition
- Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)
- Pompeii: A Novel
- Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World
- Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation
- Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice
- Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West
- Inside the Peloton: My Life as a Professional Cyclist
- It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower
- The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes
- A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
- Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
- The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer
- Priceless: The Case that Brought Down the Visa/MasterCard Bank Cartel
- Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet 1st (first) Edition by Blum, Andrew published by Ecco (2012)
- Foucault's Pendulum By Umberto Eco
- Applied Cryptography 2nd (second) edition Text Only
- Two Lucky People: Memoirs
- Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, 3rd Edition
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
- PARC: The Second Decade 1980-1990
- Beautiful Evidence
- Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920-1965 by Hollis, Richard (2006)
- MCAT Biology (Examkrackers)
- The Age Of Discontinuity
- The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, Vol. 1
- The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life (Harvard Business School Press)
- The New Turing Omnibus: Sixty-Six Excursions in Computer Science
- From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
- LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night (Edge Question Series)
- Make Better Landings
- Photography
- The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (Inside Technology)
- Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game
- A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
- The Chicken from Minsk: And 99 Other Infuriatingly Challenging Brain Teasers from the Great Russian Tradition of Math and Science
- The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1: Fundamental Algorithms, 3rd Edition
- The Paris Review Interviews, I
- The Paris Review Interviews, II
- The Paris Review Interviews, III
- The Paris Review Interviews, IV
- Mindstorms
- My Years with General Motors
- Statistics As Principled Argument
- Perfect Health Diet
- Abstract Algebra
- Wireshark Network Analysis: The Official Wireshark Certified Network Analyst Study Guide
- Operating Systems: Design and Implementation
- The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America
- Pioneer Aviators of the World: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Pilots of 100 Countries
- Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (Tempus)
- Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
- Real Analysis
- The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form
- The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials, Book 2
- Kenneth Clark's Civilisation: A Personal View
- Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals
- Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style
- Murder Trials
- Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates the Gift of Language
- Pigeon
- Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
- The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
- The Monkey Wrench Gang
- The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
- The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life
- Ragtime
- Accelerando (Singularity)
- Trout Fishing in America
- A Minor Momentousness in the History of Love (in) One Story: Volume 8, Number 14
- Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
- The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials
- The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806 (Oxford History of Early Modern Europe)
- On the Shortness of Life
- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
- BSD Hacks
- Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
- A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures)
- The Futurists
- Special Relativity
- Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region
- Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
- Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
- My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math)
- On Inequality
- Democracy in America: Abridged Edition (Mentor Series)
- Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture
- Blade Runner
- How to Abandon Ship
- Bunreacht na hEireann (English and Irish Edition) Constitution of Ireland
- Science: A History
- The Portable Medieval Reader
- The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
- Bill Bolton: Flying Midshipman
- Ocean Flying: A Pilot's Guide
- The Blind Watchmaker
- Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
- Medieval Technology and Social Change
- We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories From Rwanda
- China Airborne - 12 edition
- The Alexiad
- Winged World. the Coming of the Air Age
- The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
- A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
- The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, 13th Edition
- New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Instrument Flying
- The Gutenberg Galaxy
- Say Again, Please: Guide to Radio Communications
- Fate Is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir
- Beyond The Checkride: What Your Flight Instructor Never Taught You
- The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die 1st Edition
- Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital
- Return to the Little Kingdom: How Apple and Steve Jobs Changed the World
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
- The Old Way: A Story of the First People
- The German Generals Talk
- Ghosts by Daylight: Love, War, and Redemption
- The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky 1st ed.
- In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
- Types and Programming Languages 1st Edition
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 2.
- Metamagical Themas
- Winning the Story Wars: Why Those Who Tell (and Live) the Best Stories Will Rule the Future
- The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications 1st Edition
- Connections
- Postcards from Tomorrow Square
- About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design
- n+1 Number Thirteen: Machine Politics
- Cessna 1978: Model 152, Pilot's Operating Handbook
- The Andromeda Strain
- The Anabasis: Or, Expedition of Cyrus, and the Memorabilis of Socrates
- Asimov: The Complete Stories vol 2
- Foundation's Edge
- The Early Asimov: Book Two
- The Diary of John Evelyn Volumes 1 + 2
- The Diary of John Evelyn Volume 2
- The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
- The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer
- The Case for Mars
- Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering
- I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
- The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
- Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning
- The Art and Craft of Problem Solving 1st Edition
- The Seasoned Schemer
- The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
- Kawasaki Klr650 1987-2006: Service, Repair, Maintenance (Clymer Motorcycle Repair)
- Snowdrops
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) 1st Edition
- On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp
- Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages
- Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
- K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- Principles of Quantum Mechanics
- Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
- Manifestoes: A Study of the National Recovery Administration
- Fifty Classic Destinations for Pilots
- Model View Culture Quarterly No. 2: New writing on technology, diveristy and culture
- Model View Culture Quarterly No. 1: New writing on technology, diveristy and culture
- FAA Multiengine Flying
- Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well
- General Knowledge
- The New Rules of Lifting: Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle
- North Star over My Shoulder: A Flying Life
- Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition
- Envisioning Information
- Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
- Jeppesen Instrument Commercial
- Calculus On Manifolds: A Modern Approach To Classical Theorems Of Advanced Calculus
- Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell: Techniques for Multicore and Multithreaded Programming
- Swimming Across: A Memoir
- Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
- Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 1St Edition Edition
- Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
- Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity 1st Edition
- A course in mathematical analysis
- Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy (East Gate Books)
- Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
- The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials, Book 3
- JavaScript: The Good Parts
- On Ugliness
- Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Justice as Fairness
- Technics and Civilization
- The Disappearance of Childhood
- Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage
- The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
- The Pea and the Sun: A Mathematical Paradox
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Transatlantic Classics)
- No Future for You: Salvos from The Baffler
- Popper Selections
- Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
- Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Hamlet
- Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology 1st Edition
- Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
- Open City: A Novel
- English Society in the Early Middle Ages (1066-1307) Vol. 3
- Science in History: Volume 1 the Emergence of Science; Volume 2 the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions; Volume 3 the Natural Sciences in Our Time; Volume 4 the Social Sciences, Conclusion
- Arguably: Writings on Love, War, God and Mammon
- What It Takes: The Way to the White House
- Future Shop: How New Technologies Will Change the Way We Shop and What We Buy
- The Nature of Mathematical Modeling
- History of Engineering Drawing
- Oliver Byrne: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
- Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles
- Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
- The Social Conquest of Earth
- The Casual Vacancy
- The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science
- Einstein's Dreams
- Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow (Princeton Paperbacks)
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel
- Wandering Significance: An Essay on Conceptual Behaviour 1st Edition
- Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story
- Evolution Of Cooperation
- Stairway Walks in San Francisco
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
- The Scientist as Rebel
- Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa Kindle Edition
- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
- The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
- The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
- Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
- Feynman Lectures on Computation
- Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Great Team
- Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
- Upstart: Friends, Foes & Founding a University
- Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
- Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- No One a Neutral: Political Hostage-Taking in the Modern World
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
- The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs [Hardcover] [2009] Michael Belfiore
- The Chosen Instrument: Pan Am, Juan Trippe, The Rise and Fall of an American Entrepreneur
- Technics and Civilization
- Logic & Design in Art, Science, and Mathematics
- Bicycle Design: An Illustrated History
- Lapham's Quarterly: Crimes & Punishments (4 Volumes)
- Payments Systems in the U.S.
- The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
- A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It 1st Edition
- Electricity and Magnetism: Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 2
- A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class
- The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
- Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation
- Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning
- The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
- Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
- Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
- The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- East African: An Airline Story
- The thirty years war
- China Takes Off: Technology Transfer and Modernization
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
- New hopes for a changing world
- Has Man A Future?
- The Book of Disquiet (Serpent's Tail Classics)
- What Technology Wants
- How to Survive in Your Native Land
- The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science
- Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra
- Flying IFR: The Practical Information You Need to Fly Actual IFR Flights (General Aviation Reading series)
- Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
- Plagues and Peoples
- First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
- Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book
- FAR/AIM 2013: Federal Aviation Regulations/Aeronautical Information Manual (FAR/AIM series)
- Practical Common Lisp
- The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World
- The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
- The Old Way: A Story of the First People
- Max Trescott's G1000 Glass Cockpit Handbook with WAAS 4th Edition
- Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management
- In Our Time: Speeches That Shaped the Modern World
- The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
- Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
- Racing Weight: How to Get Lean for Peak Performance
- Introduction to Common Lisp
- The American Challenge
- Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon
- The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure)
- City of Thieves: A Novel
- Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!
- Feynman Lectures on Computation
- An Evil Cradling: The Five-Year Ordeal of a Hostage
- Purely Functional Data Structures
- Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age
- What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer
- Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (Modern Library Paperbacks)
- Popper Selections
- The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
- The Arabs: A History
- The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
- Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
- The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
- Engineers' Dreams
- Computers and Society
- The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
- Airplane Performance Stability and Control
- Frame of government: A book of documents
- Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the space age
- An Autobiography
- The Little Airplane
- In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays (Routledge Classics)
- Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
- Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur
- Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
- The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
- Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
- Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!
- Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought
- Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
- The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
- Backpacking California: Mountain, Foothill, Coastal and Desert Adventures in the Golden State
- The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
- Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life
- Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism
- Borges: Collected Fictions
- Lonely Planet Brazil (Country Guide)
- Watchmen
- The Lives of the Poets: A Selection
- Hitch 22: A Memoir
- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
- The A. B. C. Murders
- Death in the Clouds
- Technology, Management, and Society
- Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel
- The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
- How to Be a Carioca: The Alternative Guide for the Tourist in Rio
- Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
- The Great Gatsby
- Brrm Brrm
- A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving
- Dracula
- Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists
- Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
- Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
- Republic
- The Odyssey: Revised Prose Translation
- The Origin of Species
- Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight)
- Maui Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook
- Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
- Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and Work
- St. Augustine Confessions
- Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
- Hard Times
- The Handmaid's Tale
- On Intelligence
- Notes on the Synthesis of Form
- Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons In Life, Love, And Language
- Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
- How Will You Measure Your Life?
- Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
- The Emperor's New Mind - Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
- In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
- Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe by Rees, Martin J. ( Author ) ON Oct-05-2000, Paperback
- Citizen Sim: Cradle of the Stars
- Instrument Oral Exam Guide: The Comprehensive Guide to Prepare You for the FAA Oral Exam (Oral Exam Guide series)
- Network Security Hacks
- Lady Icarus the Life of Irish Aviator Lady Mary Heath
- The Pillars of the Earth
- Globalization and Its Discontents
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
- Quantum Computing since Democritus
- Bicycling Science
- Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
- Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon
- The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
- e: The Story of a Number
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World
- Hooligan
- The Process of Education: A Searching Discussion of School Education Opening New Paths to Learning and Teaching
- The Aeneid
- Human Society in Ethics and Politics
- The Soul of A New Machine
- Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
- How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
- Engines of Logic: Mathematicians and the Origin of the Computer
- The Dynamics of Creation
- How to Be Alone: Essays
- Machine Learning for Hackers
- Designing Data Visualizations: Representing Informational Relationships
- Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age
- Maritime Economics 3e
- Inside the Painter's Studio
- Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
- And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
- An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
- The Seasons of Thomas Tebo
- Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (Canto)
- Topology
- The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
- Selections from Science and Sanity, Second Edition
- Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
- The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
- Biology, 8th Edition
- Fall of Giants
- Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
- Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
- Wind, Sand and Stars
- About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
- Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning
- Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, 2nd Edition
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- A Primer of Drug Action
- Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
- Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
- A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America
- Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society
- Tender Is the Night
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years
- Act of Creation a Study of the Conscious
- Human Enhancement
- Computer Applications in Aircraft Design and Operation
- The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
- Out of the Crisis
- River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
- Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts-- the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution
- This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works (Edge Question Series)
- The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
- The World Without Us
- Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will
- Historic San Francisco: A Concise History and Guide
- Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed
- Isn't it Well for Ye?
- Branding Terror: The Logotypes and Iconography of Insurgent Groups and Terrorist Organizations
- The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
- Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life
- The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America (Penguin History American Life) (Hardback) - Common
- Payments Systems in the U.S. - Second Edition
- Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
- A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History)
- Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American
- Out of the Blue Too: More scary and often funny tales from the Royal Air Force and Friends
- John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman
- Shark Bait: The "Misadventures" of an Oceanic Ferry Pilot
- Go Set a Watchman: A Novel
- Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century
- Ulysses
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
- Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective (Chapman & Hall/Crc Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition)
- Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People
- Flying the Alaska Wild: The Adventures and Misadventures of an Alaska Bush Pilot
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
- Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
- The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
- The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society (The Da Capo series in science)
- The Baffler (No. 12)
- The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) (Collins Business Essentials)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
- The Machinery of Life
- Polemics
- The Master and Margarita
- Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
- The Character of Physical Law
- Battle Royale
- The Bell System Technical Journal: July-August 1978, Vol 57 No. 6 Pt. 2 , UNIX Time-Sharing System
- WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy
- Sands of Mars
- Labyrinths
- A Mathematician's Apology
- Computer Lib/Dream Machines
- The Computer and the Brain
- The Irony of American History
- The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
- Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing
- The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
- The Rain Forests of Home: Profile Of A North American Bioregion
- Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
- The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
- Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
- A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park
- The Society of Mind
- The National Parks: America's Best Idea
- Codex Seraphinianus
- The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries, 1939-1955
- This Will Make You Smarter
- Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
- Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning
- The Letters of Anton Chekhov
- The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers
- A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
- The Move beyond Form: Creative Undoing in Literature and the Arts since 1960
- The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm
- Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965
- This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future (Edge Question Series)
- Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext (Anthem Scholarship in the Digital Age)
- Dune
- Saint-Exupery: A Biography
- Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
- How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
- Functional Differential Geometry
- The Dark Forest
- Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy
- Writing to the Moment: Selected Critical Essays, 1980-95
- The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
- The Transit of Venus
- America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11; The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on Terror
- The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
- The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
- Money Game
- The Spectator: Volume 1
- My First Trip to China: Scholars, Diplomats, and Journalists Reflect on their First Encounters with China
- Back to Barbary Lane: The Final Tales of the City Omnibus
- Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor
- The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
- The Missing Risk Premium: Why Low Volatility Investing Works
- Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
- Extrapolation, Interpolation, and Smoothing of Stationary Time Series: With Engineering Applications (M.I.T. Press Paperback Series)
- Computers and the World of the Future
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- The Right Stuff, Revised Edition
- Trees of Golden Gate Park and San Francisco, The
- Private Pilot and Recreational Pilot FAA Knowledge Test 2010: For the FAA Computer-based Pilot Knowledge Test
- Cooking as Courtship (Under Structure)
- Possiplex
- How to Repair Your Motorcycle (Motorbooks Workshop)
- Amazing Airplanes (Amazing Machines)
- Learn to Play Go: A Master's Guide to the Ultimate Game (Volume I) (Learn to Play Go Series)
- Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 (Inside Technology)
- Lore of Running
- Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25A (FAA Handbooks)
- Instrument Procedures Handbook: FAA-H-8261-1A (FAA Handbooks series)
- King Instrument Rating Knowledge Test Course
- Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators: NAVWEPS 00-80T-80 (FAA Handbooks series)
- Instrument Oral Exam Guide: The Comprehensive Guide to Prepare You for the FAA Oral Exam (Oral Exam Guide series)
- Yamaha XJ600 SECA II 92-98 (Clymer Motorcycle Repair)
- The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer
- Instrument Flight Training Manual As Developed by Professional Instrument Courses, Inc. 3rd Ed.
- Jeppesen: Guided Flight Discovery: Private Pilot Maneuvers
- Instrument Flying Handbook 2007 (FAA Handbooks)
- The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Definitive Edition Volume 3 (2nd Edition)
- Guided Fight Discovery: Private Pilot
- The Philosophy Book
- The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
- Flying Across America
- The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
- Apple Inside Macintosh, Volumes I, II, and III
- Bruno Munari: Design as Art
- Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition
- Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Essays of E. B. White
- Reamde: A Novel
- Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
- Asimov's New Guide to Science
- Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
- A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing
- The Elements of Typographic Style
- The Periodic Table
- "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
- The Clash Of Civilizations: And The Remaking Of World Order
- Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring)
- An Essay on Typography First Thus Edition
- Principles of Quantum Mechanics
- The Entrepreneur's Manual: Business Start-Ups, Spin-Offs, and Innovative Management
- The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers
- The New Typography: A Handbook for Modern Designers (1st English translation)
- India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India
- A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
- Common LISP. The Language.
- Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps
- Inside WikiLeaks
- A Fine Balance
- The Charisma Myth
- Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Paradise Lost
- The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought
- Theoretical Aerodynamics
- Red Plenty
- A Journey: My Political Life
- Roskam's Airplane War Stories: An Account of the Professional Life and Work of Dr. Jan Roskam, Airplane Designer and Teacher
- The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation, 1900-1950
- Computer Lib
- The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog
- Whole Earth Epilog: Access to Tools
- The Next Whole Earth Catalog
- The Great Fire
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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