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The non-fiction books that I refer to somewhere on my pages, or have
reviewed. I especially recommend to the
general reader the emboldened authors and titles; of the rest,
some are also recommended, but for specialists only. For each author, I
list those books that I've read (and ones that are on my "to
be read" pile) [and ones on my "to be bought when I find
them" list]. I make no pretense to completeness: there might be
other books by the author that I don't intend to buy, or don't know
about.
latest reviews
alphabetical by author
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André Bacard
•
The Computer Privacy Handbook
Per Bak •
How Nature
Works
Philip Ball •
The
Self-Made Tapestry
Julian Barbour •
The
End of Time
Rosalind Barden, Susan Stepney, David
Cooper • Z in Practice
Michael Barnsley •
Fractals
Everywhere
John D. Barrow
Jon Barwise, John Etchemendy •
The
Liar
——, Lawrence Moss •
Vicious Circles
Laurie Bauer, Peter Trudgill, eds •
Language
Myths
John Bear •
Send This
Jerk the Bedbug Letter
Kent Beck
Michael Benson •
Beyond
Peter J. Bentley •
Digital
Biology
Kevin Beresford •
Roundabouts
of Great Britain
Ludwig von Bertalanffy •
General
System Theory
Ambrose Bierce
Richard J. Bird •
Chaos
and Life
Susan Blackmore •
The
Meme Machine
Sandra Blakeslee, Matthew Blakeslee •
The
Body has a Mind of Its Own
Michael Blastland, Andrew Dilnot •
The
Tiger that Isn't
William Goldbloom Bloch •
The
Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
Margaret Boden •
The
Philosophy of Artificial Life
George S. Boolos, Richard C. Jeffrey •
Computability
and Logic
Valentino Braitenberg •
Vehicles
Mark Breier •
The Ten
Second Internet Manager
David Brin •
The
Transparent Society
Damien Broderick •
The
Spike
Rodney A. Brooks •
Cambrian
Intelligence •
Robot
Julian Brown •
The
Quest for the Quantum Computer
William J. Brown et al •
AntiPatterns
•
AntiPatterns and Patterns in Software Configuration
Management
Colin Bruce •
Conned
Again, Watson!
Bill Bryson •
Mother
Tongue
Mark Buchanan •
Small
World •
Ubiquity
Armin Bunde, Shlomo Havlin, eds •
Fractals
in Science
Jeremy Butterfield •
Damp
Squid
Bill Buxton •
Sketching
User Experiences
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Roy MacLean, Susan
Stepney, et al • Analysing Systems
Stewart Mader •
Wikipatterns
William Majeski •
The
Lie Detection Book
Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Richard L.
Hudson •
The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets
Jim and Michele McCarthy •
Software
for Your Head
Wil McCarthy •
Hacking
Matter
Pete McBreen •
Questioning
Extreme Programming •
Software Craftsmanship
Gary McGraw, Edward W. Felten •
Java
Security: Hostile Applets, Holes, and Antidotes
Michael D. McMaster •
The
Intelligence Advantage
John McWhorter •
The
Power of Babel
Donella H. Meadows •
Thinking
in Systems
Bertrand Meyer
Mary Midgley •
Utopias,
Dolphins and Computers
Peter Millican, Andy Clark •
Machines
and Thought
Marvin Minsky •
The
Emotion Machine •
The Society of Mind
Melanie Mitchell •
Analogy-Making
as Perception
Leonard Mlodinow •
Some
Time with Feynman
Mark Monmonier •
How
to Lie with Maps
Hans Moravec •
Mind
Children •
Robot
Harold J. Morowitz •
The
Emergence of Everything
Richard Morris •
Artificial
Worlds
Mugumogu •
I am Maru
Haruki Murakami •
What
I Talk About When I Talk About Running
David Mumford, Caroline Series,
David Wright •
Indra's Pearls
Miyamoto Musashi •
A
Book of Five Rings
S
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Donald G. Saari •
Decisions
and Elections
Karl Sabbagh •
Dr.
Riemann's Zeros
Oliver Sacks
Carl Sagan •
The
Demon-Haunted World
Marcus du Sautoy •
The
Music of the Primes
Susan Schaller •
A
Man without Words
Matthias Scheutz, ed •
Computationalism:
new directions
Eric D. Schneider, Dorian Sagan •
Into
the Cool
Al Seckel •
Masters of
Deception
Keith Selkirk, William Wynne Willson •
Fifty
per cent Proof
Ricardo Semler •
Maverick!
Richard Sennett •
The
Craftsman
Yen-Ping Shan, Ralph E. Earle •
Enterprise
Computing with Objects
David Shenk •
Data Smog
B. Shriver, P. Wegner •
Research
Directions in Object-Oriented Programming
Neil Shubin •
Your
Inner Fish
Tom Siegfried •
The
Bit and the Pendulum
Donald E. Simanek, John C. Holden •
Science
Askew
Simon Singh •
Fermat's
Last Theorem
Suzanne Skublics, E. J. Klimas, D.
A. Thomas •
Smalltalk with Style
N. J. A. Sloane, Simon Plouffe •
The
Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Neil Smith, Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli •
The
Mind of a Savant
Lee Smolin
Ricard Solé, Brian Goodwin •
Signs
of Life
Ian Sommerville, Pete Sawyer •
Requirements
Engineering
Robert Solomon, Fernando Flores •
Building
Trust
Joel Spolsky •
Joel
on Software •
Smart and Gets Things Done
Hugo Steinhaus
Susan Stepney • High
Integrity Compilation
——, Rosalind Barden, David
Cooper • Object Orientation in Z
Ian Stewart •
Nature's
Numbers
——, Jack Cohen •
Figments
of Reality
J. Michael Straczynski •
The
Complete Book of Scriptwriting
Steven Strogatz •
Sync
Leonard Susskind, James Lindesay •
An
Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution
Michael Swift, George Grant •
Britain
from the Air