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Leonard Bernstein The Unanswered Question Sean M. Carroll The Big Picture John Clute, John Grant The Encyclopedia of Fantasy John Clute, Peter Nicholls The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Daniel C. Dennett Consciousness Explained Daniel C. Dennett Darwin's Dangerous Idea Stephen Jay Gould Wonderful Life I. S. Gradshteyn, I. M. Ryzhik Table of Integrals, Series and Products Brian Greene The Elegant Universe Douglas R. Hofstadter Le Ton beau de Marot Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett The Mind's I George Lakoff Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things David Langford The Silence of the Langford Benoit B. Mandelbrot The Fractal Geometry of Nature Marvin L. Minsky The Society of Mind Hans Moravec Mind Children Donald A. Norman The Psychology of Everyday Things Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jurgens, Dietmar Saupe Fractals for the Classroom Part 1 Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jurgens, Dietmar Saupe Fractals for the Classroom Part 2 Edward R. Tufte Visual Explanations Joseph M. Williams Style Hans Christian von Bayer QBism
Robert P. Abelson Statistics as Principled Argument Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl King, Shlomo Angel A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander The Timeless Way of Building W. Brian Arthur The Nature of Technology Philip Ball The Self-Made Tapestry Wolfgang Banzhaf, Lidia Yamamoto Artificial Chemistries Michael F. Barnsley Fractals Everywhere Gregory Bateson Mind and Nature Michael Benson Beyond K. G. Binmore Logic, Sets and Numbers K. G. Binmore Topological Ideas Susan Blackmore The Meme Machine David Brin The Transparent Society Frederick P. Brooks Jr The Mythical Man-Month Sean M. Carroll Dark Matter, Dark Energy Sean B. Carroll Endless Forms Most Beautiful Sean M. Carroll The Higgs Boson and Beyond Gregory J. Chaitin The Limits of Mathematics Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths Algorithms to Live By Irun R. Cohen Tending Adam's Garden Stefan Collini What are Universities For? Richard E. Cytowic The Man Who Tasted Shapes Richard Dawkins The God Delusion Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene Manuel DeLanda A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History David Deutsch The Fabric of Reality K. Eric Drexler Engines of Creation Harlan Ellison The City on the Edge of Forever Gary Felder The Big Bang and Beyond Robert L. Forward Indistinguishable from Magic Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph E. Johnson, John Vlissides Design Patterns George Gamow Mr Tompkins in Paperback Atul Gawande Being Mortal Peter Godfrey-Smith Other Minds Brian Greene The Fabric of the Cosmos Franklin M. Harold The Way of the Cell Douglas R. Hofstadter Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies Darrell Huff How to Lie with Statistics Kameron Hurley The Geek Feminist Revolution Stuart A. Kauffman At Home in the Universe Kevin Kelly Out of Control J. A. Scott Kelso Dynamic Patterns Tracy Kidder The Soul of a New Machine James Ladyman, Karoline Wiesner What is a Complex System? George Lakoff, Rafael E. Nunez Where Mathematics Comes From Jenny Lawson Let's Pretend This Never Happened Paul Lockhart A Mathematician's Lament Bertrand Meyer Object-oriented Software Construction John Pastor What Should a Clever Moose Eat? Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie The Book of Why Tom Peters Liberation Management Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants Luciano Ramalho Fluent Python Kate Raworth Doughnut Economics Stephen Ressler Do-It-Yourself Engineering Stephen Ressler Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach Stephen Ressler Everyday Engineering Stephen Ressler Understanding Greek and Roman Technology Carlo Rovelli The Order of Time Rudy Rucker Mind Tools SMP Advanced Tables Oliver Sacks An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Anil K. Seth Being You Tom A. Shippey J. R. R. Tolkien Brent Slatkin Effective Python Lee Smolin The Life of the Cosmos Lee Smolin Three Roads to Quantum Gravity Bernard Suits The Grasshopper Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Black Swan R. D. Tennent Principles of Programming Languages R. D. Tennent Semantics of Programming Languages Francis-Noel Thomas, Mark Turner Clear and Simple as the Truth Lynne Truss Eats, Shoots & Leaves Robert L. Weber A Random Walk in Science Susanne Wedlich Slime Gerald M. Weinberg The Psychology of Computer Programming David Weinberger Everything is Miscellaneous Noson S. Yanofsky Theoretical Computer Science for the Working Category Theorist Marcus du Sautoy The Music of the Primes
Scott Aaronson Quantum Computing Since Democritus Harold Abelson, Andrea diSessa Turtle Geometry Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Shlomo Angel, Sara Ishikawa, Denny Abrams The Oregon Experiment Dan Ariely Predictably Irrational Robert Axelrod, Michael D. Cohen Harnessing Complexity Robert Axelrod The Evolution of Co-operation Per Bak How Nature Works Julian B. Barbour The End of Time David Beazley, Brian K. Jones Python Cookbook Kent Beck Extreme Programming Explained Kent Beck Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns Stafford Beer Designing Freedom K. G. Binmore Mathematical Analysis Mary L. Boas Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedict Gross, Julia Laub, Claudius Lazzeroni Generative Design Steven J. Brams Superior Beings Julian R. Brown The Quest for the Quantum Computer James Burke Connections Bill Buxton Sketching User Experiences Eugenia Cheng Cakes, Custard, and Category Theory Andy Clark Being There Alistair Cockburn Agile Software Development Alistair Cockburn Writing Effective Use Cases Paul Cockshott, Lewis M. Mackenzie, Greg Michaelson Computation and its Limits John Horton Conway, Richard K. Guy The Book of Numbers Frederick C. Crews Postmodern Pooh Frederick C. Crews The Pooh Perplex Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Beyond Boredom and Anxiety Richard Dawkins A Devil's Chaplain Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker Daniel C. Dennett Brainstorms David Deutsch The Beginning of Infinity Guy Deutscher Through the Language Glass Joshua M. Epstein, Robert Axtell Growing Artificial Societies Eric Evans Domain-Driven Design Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton 'What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?' Robert L. Forward, Joel Davis Mirror Matter Martin Fowler Analysis Patterns Martin Fowler Domain-Specific Languages Martin Fowler Refactoring Martin Fowler, Kendall Scott UML Distilled Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests Percival Frost Curve Tracing Stephen Fry The Ode Less Travelled Connel Fullenkamp Crashes and Crises Atul Gawande Complications Atul Gawande The Checklist Manifesto Henry Gee Deep Time Murray Gell-Mann The Quark and the Jaguar James Gleick Chaos Jonathan Glover Causing Death and Saving Lives Stephen Jay Gould The Mismeasure of Man Temple Grandin Thinking in Pictures Alan H. Guth The Inflationary Universe J. Storrs Hall Nanofuture David Harel Algorithmics Robert L. Harris Information Graphics Julian Havil The Irrationals Vicki Hearne Adam's Task David Herman Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas Cay S. Horstmann Scala for the Impatient Sabine Hossenfelder Lost in Math David C. 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Minsky The Emotion Machine Alan Morton The Complete Directory to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Television Series Michael A. Nielsen Reinventing Discovery Patrick Niemeyer, Joshua Peck Exploring Java Denis Noble The Music of Life Jenny Odell How to Do Nothing Arika Okrent In the Land of Invented Languages Paul Ormerod Butterfly Economics John Ousterhout A Philosophy of Software Design Tom Peters Thriving on Chaos Ivars Peterson Newton's Clock Ivars Peterson The Mathematical Tourist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini Inevitable Illusions Steven Pinker The Language Instinct Steven Pinker The Sense of Style Steven Pinker The Stuff of Thought Steven Pinker Words and Rules Karl R. Popper The Open Society and Its Enemies Volume 1 William Poundstone The Recursive Universe Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee Phantoms in the Brain Venkatesh Rao Tempo Eric S. Raymond The Cathedral and the Bazaar Eric S. 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Fox An Introduction to Infectious Diseases Atul Gawande Better David Gelernter The Aesthetics of Computing Neil A. Gershenfeld When Things Start to Think Malcolm Gladwell Blink Malcolm Gladwell Outliers Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point James Gleick Faster Neal Goldstein, Jeff Alger Developing Object-Oriented Software for the Macintosh Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Plato at the Googleplex Brian C. Goodwin How the Leopard Changed Its Spots Stephen Jay Gould Ever Since Darwin Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson Animals in Translation Chris Hadfield An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth Stephen W. Hawking A Brief History of Time John Hawks The Rise of Humans David J. Helfand The Physics of History Dee Hock Birth of the Chaordic Age Douglas R. Hofstadter I am a Strange Loop Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, Reginald B. Adams, Jr. Inside Jokes Michael R. A. Huth, Mark D. Ryan Logic in Computer Science Harold Jeffreys, Bertha Jeffreys Methods of Mathematical Physics Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson Extreme Programming Installed Jeff Johnson GUI Bloopers Neil D. Jones, Carsten K. Gomard, Peter Sestoft Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation Evelyn Fox Keller Making Sense of Life Spencer Kelly Language and the Mind Joshua Kerievsky Refactoring to Patterns Gordon Laing Digital Retro David Langford Up Through an Empty House of Stars Robert B. Laughlin A Different Universe Ralph Leighton Tuva or Bust! Douglas B. Lenat, R. V. Guha Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems Seth Lerer The History of the English Language Emily Levesque Great Heroes and Discoveries in Astronomy Steven Levy In the Plex C. S. 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Pullum The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax Edward Regis Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition Edward Regis Nano! Matt Ridley Genome Todd Rose The End of Average Oliver Sacks Musicophilia Susan Schaller A Man without Words Ricardo Semler Maverick! Wolfgang Sieber, Richard Wielebinski Pulsars Simon Singh Fermat's Last Theorem Suzanne Skublics, Edward J. Klimas, David A. Thomas Smalltalk with Style N. J. A. Sloane, Simon Plouffe The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences Neil V. Smith The Twitter Machine Raymond M. Smullyan What Is the Name of This Book? Ricard V. Solé, Brian C. Goodwin Signs of Life Rebecca Solnit A Field Guide to Getting Lost Scott Solomon Why Insects Matter Ian Sommerville, Pete Sawyer Requirements Engineering Joel Spolsky Joel on Software Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned Ian Stewart, Martin Golubitsky Fearful Symmetry Clifford Stoll The Cuckoo's Egg Steven H. 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Millican, Andy Clark Machines and Thought Melanie Mitchell Analogy-Making as Perception Leonard Mlodinow Some Time with Feynman Richard Morris Artificial Worlds Milton Muldrow Jr Synthetic Biology David Mumford, Caroline Series, David Wright Indra's Pearls Nicholas Negroponte Being Digital Alva Noe Out of Our Heads Donald A. Norman Emotional Design Donald A. Norman Living with Complexity Donald A. Norman The Design of Future Things Donald A. Norman The Invisible Computer Donald A. Norman Things That Make Us Smart Michael O'Neill, Conor Ryan Grammatical Evolution Susan Oyama The Ontogeny of Information John Allen Paulos Once Upon a Number Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow The Last Lecture Daniel Pennac The Rights of the Reader David Perkins The Eureka Effect Tom Peters The Circle of Innovation Ivars Peterson Islands of Truth Rosalind W. Picard Affective Computing Clifford A. Pickover Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty Mircea Pitici The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 Mason A. 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