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Bookshelf

This is a list of the books I own and want to own.

• Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn & tensorflow [PDF (color)]
• The Master Algorithm
• Superintelligence
• Networks: An Introduction
• An Introduction to Statistical Learning
• The Elements of Statistical Learning

The following (like most of this site) is borrowed from Patric Collison

• 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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