#books

55 items tagged books.

• Amazing — Books I gave five stars on Kindle. Sourced from my own ratings, not a guess.
• All the Birds in the Sky — Rated five stars.
• Battle of the Linguist Mages — Rated five stars.
• Daemon — Rated five stars.
• Ghosts — Rated five stars.
• The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt (Pantheon Graphic Library) — Rated five stars.
• Cooking — Books about how cooking actually works, rather than what to make tonight.
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat — Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
• Modernist Cuisine — The Art and Science of Cooking
• Books — Books that rearranged how I think, with a line on why.
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities — The founding text of human-scale thinking — observation over ideology, sidewalks over master plans.
• A Pattern Language — 253 patterns for building places people love — and, quietly, the ancestor of every 'design pattern' in software.
• Intellectual — The shelf I actually think with — systems, power, myth, story, collapse, and a couple of technical books that changed how I build.
• 1177 B.C. — The Year Civilization Collapsed
• 3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes
• Behave
• Black and Blur — consent not to be a single being
• Deep Thinking — Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
• Democracy in Chains — The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
• Disunited Nations
• Eating Dirt — Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
• Entangled Life
• King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
• Light of the Stars — Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
• Locally Played
• Mirror Worlds — or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox
• On Tyranny — Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
• The Anatomy of Story — 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
• The Art Spirit
• The Future
• The Girl with Seven Names — A North Korean Defector's Story
• This Voice in My Heart — A Runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness
• Who Owns the Future?
• Women Who Run With the Wolves
• Trash — Books I bounced off hard. Some are here because I gave them one star or told Amazon to stop recommending things like them; the rest are here because I say so. Nothing on this shelf was inferred by a machine.
• D: Based on a True Story — On this shelf because I rated 1 star.
• God's Cradle — On this shelf because I rated 1 star.
• The Atlantis Gene: A Thriller — On this shelf because I excluded from recommendations.
• The Atlantis Plague: A Thriller — On this shelf because I excluded from recommendations.
• The Infinity Courts — On this shelf by my own reckoning.
• The Ninth Metal — On this shelf by my own reckoning.
• Victories Greater Than Death — On this shelf by my own reckoning.
• World Engines: Creator — On this shelf by my own reckoning.
• World Engines: Destroyer — On this shelf by my own reckoning.
• Water — Books about the ocean and what lives in it — fiction and not. The shelf that sits closest to the diving and to Into The Blue.
• All the Water in the World — A Novel
• A Letter to the Luminous Deep
• The Mountain in the Sea — A Novel
• How to Speak Whale — The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
• Deep
• New York 2140
• Moby-Dick
• The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth — The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere
• Venomous Lumpsucker
• Submersed — Wonder, Obsession, and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines