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Books & Articles of Note Read in 2018
updated: 2018-12-29
- Subjects
- Computers:
- Alex Foege 2013 _The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DYIers, and Inventors Who Make the USA Great_ (216 pages; 609.2273)
- Mark Lutz 1996, 2006, 2010 _Programming Python_ (1,550 pages; 28.8MB)
- Eli Pariser 2011 _The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You_ (252 pages; 004.678)
- Allen G. Taylor 2013 _SQL for Dummies_ (440 pages; 005.7565; Main)
- other computer books
- Economics
- George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller 2015 _Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception_ (296 pages; 330.019)
- Bob Benmosche, Peter Marks & Valerie Handy 2016 _Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back the USA_ (255 pages; 368.0092 Main)
- William John Bennett 2001, 2002 _The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family_ (199 pages; 515KB; 306.8)
- Yaron Brook & Don Watkins 2012 _Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government_ (230 pages; 330.122; hard; Main)
- Julian B. Gewirtz 2016, 2017 _Unlikely Partners: Red Chinese "Reformers", Western Economists, and the Making of Global Red China_ (377 pages; 338.951)
- Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron & Meera Balarajan 2011 _Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future_ (385 pages; 304.8)
- Mark Reed Levin 2017 _ReDiscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Regressivism_ (259 pages; 3.4MB; 320.520973)
- Michelle Malkin & John Miano 2015 _Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & BiPartisan BeltWay CarpWeasels Are [Cheating/Destroying] America's Best & Brightest Workers_ (340 pages; 10.6MB)
- Charles Murray 2006 _In Our Hands: A Plan to [Eradicate osr Entrench the Illfare] State_ (190 pages; 798KB; 361.6)
- P.J. O'Rourke 2018 _None of My Business_ (244 pages; 332)
- Donald J. Trump, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Meredith McIver & Sharon Lechter 2006 _Why We Want You to be Rich_ (345 pages; 332.024)
- J.D. Vance 2016 _Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis_ (264 pages; 305.562092)
- Paul Vigna & Michael J. Casey 2015 _The Age of CryptoCurrency: How BitCoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order_ (340 pages; 332.42)
- Rick Wartzman 2017 _The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in the USA_ (418 pages; 331.700973; too much leftist union collectivist propaganda)
- Jack McIver Weatherford 1997 _The History of Money: From SandStone to CyberSpace_ (332.49; hard)
- Lauren Weber 2009 _In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood USA Virtue/Vice_ (300 pages; 332.024; Main+NE)
- see separate page of econ books jgo has read
- Science:
- James E. Baggott 2013 _FareWell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth_ (338 pages; 530)
- Eula Biss 2014 _On Immunity: An Inoculation_ (200 pages; 616.079; Main)
- Spike Briggs, MD & Campbell MacKenzie, MD 2016 _OutDoor Medical Emergency HandBook: First Aid for Travelers, BackPackers, & Adventurers_ (234 pages; 616.02)
- Sue E. Huether, Kathryn L. McCance, Margaret M. Andrews, Barbara J. Boss, Gale D. Danek, Sheryl S. Davey, Judith A. Farley, Cyrena M. Gilman, Sandra W. Haak, Lynn B. Jorde, Melva Kravitz, Patti Ludwig-Beymer, Frances Lynn McCullough, Kathleen Hardin Mooney, Leona A. Mourad, Noreen Heer Nicol, Lee K. Roberts, Kristynia M. Robinson, Neal S. Rote, Jane Shelby, Peter M. Sunderland, Susan B. Zekauskus 1996 _Understanding PathoPhysiology_ (1,136 pages)
- Eugene W. Nester, C. Evans Roberts & Martha T. Nester 1995 _MicroBiology: A Human Perspective_ (785 pages)
- Jon Palfreman 2015 _Brain Storms: The Race to UnLock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease_ (251 pages; 616.833)
- Martin Rees 2000 _Just Six Numbers_ (165 pages; 523.1)
- Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky 2013 _The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics_ (230 pages; 3.1MB; 530)
- Eric Zielinski 2001 _The Healing Power of Essential Oils: Soothe Inflammation, Boost Mood, Prevent AutoImmunity, and Feel Great in Every Way_ (305 pages; 615.3219; Main+E)
- Geoffrey Zubay, William W. Parson & Dennis E. Vance 1995 _Principles of BioChemistry_ (900 pages)
- see separate pages
- Engineering/ Making/ Manufacturing/ Building/ Designing:
- Roma Agrawal 2018 _Built: The Hidden Stories behind Our Structures_ (275 pages; 524.1)
- Randy Alfred, John C. Abell, Amy Ashcroft, Chris Baker, Keith Barry, Tony Borroz, Eliot van Buskirk, Michael Calore, Brian X. Chen, Dooug Cornelius, Tony Long, et al. 2012 _Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries That Made our World_ (390 pages; 500)
- Mario Salvadori, Saralinda Hooker & Christopher Ragus 1980, 1990 _Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture_ (302 pages; 624.17)
- History:
- Karen Abbott 2014 _Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: 4 Women UnderCover in the Civil War_ (500 pages; 973.785)
- Max Adams 2016 In the Land of Giants: A Journey through the Dark Ages (British isles; archaeology/travelogue; sketchy on location/place designations; needs index; 432 pages; 942.01; hard)
- Richard Ammon & Bill Farnsworth _Conestoga Wagons_ (388.341; junior)
- Tyler G. Anbinder 1994 _Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s_ (330 pages; 320.973; Main)
- John Patrick Douglas Balfour lord Kinross 1977 _The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire_ (624 pages; 956.101)
- John Leonard Bell 2016 _The Road to Concord: How 4 Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War_ (200 pages; 4.9MB; 973.311 NE)
- Jeff Benedict 2003 _No Bone UnTurned: The Adventures of a Top Smithsonian Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for America's Oldest Skeletons_ (282 pages; 979.701; hard)
- Henry William Brands 2005 _Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence_ (608 pages; 776KB; 976.304; NE+Jax+FtBraden)
- David Brog 2017 _ReClaiming Israel's History: Roots, Rights, and the Struggle for Peace_ (240 pages; 2.1MB; 956.94054; E)
- Beatrice Gottlieb 1992 _The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age 1350-1800_ (272 pages; 306.85; *2)
- Yuval Levin 2013 _The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left_ (296 pages; 320.5097; Main)
- Thomas K. McCraw 2012 _The Founders of Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy_ (485 pages; 4.5MB; 330.973; Main)
- Jeff Sypeck 2006 _Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of 800CE_ (284 pages; 944.0142)
- Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1956, 1984, 2011 _Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour_ (349 pages; 1.8MB)
- Philip Ziegler 1973, 1974, 1987, 2014 _Omdurman_ (237 pages; 16.4MB; 962.6; Main; officially ended slavery in Sudan...at least for a time)
- see separate pages
- Career
- Erika Andersen 2016 _Be Bad First: Get Good at Things Fast to Stay Ready for the Future_ (180 pages; 854KB; 650.1)
- see career books
- Screen-plays/Movie-Making
- J. Kris Malkiewicz, Robert E. Rogers & Jim Fletcher 1973 _Cinematography: A Guide for Film Makers and Film Teachers_ (207 pages)
- see movie-making books
- Religion
- see earlier pages
- Fiction
- R.L. Akers 2013 _Prometheus ReBound_ (Gryphens #1; 480 pages; qpb)
- R.L. Akers 2014 _Prometheus Revealed_ (Gryphens #2?; 475 pages)
- Pam Allyn 2009 _What to Read When: The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child and the Best Times to Read Them_ (330 pages; 936KB; 649.58 junior)
- Neal L. Asher 2015 _Dark Intelligence_ (Transformation #1; Polity #?; 402 pages; hard)
- Lyman Frank Baum, William Wallace Denslow, Michael Patrick Hearn & Martin Gardner 1900, 2000 _The Annotated Wizard of Oz_ (496 pages; hard)
- Raymond Benson/David Michaels 2004 _Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell_ (SC #1; 355 pages; paper)
- Raymond Benson/David Michaels 2005 _Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda_ (SC #2; 326 pages; paper)
- Steven Brust & Skyler White 2014 _The Incrementalists_ (368 pages; paper)
- Jim Butcher 2001 _Grave Peril_ (Dresden #3; 378 pages; paper)
- Martin Caidin 1995 _Buck Rogers: A Life in the Future_ (343 pages; hard)
- C.J. Cherryh 2005 _Destroyer_ (Foreigner #7; 345 pages)
- Tom Clancy & Mike Maden _Point of Contact_ (JackRyan #10 or JackRyanii #23; 655 pages)
- John Darrin & Michael Gresalfi 2015 _The Rockets' Red Glare_ (367 pages; qpb)
- John de Chancie 1995 _Living with Aliens_ (183 pages; paper)
- David Drake, David Weber, Mark L. van Name, Steve M. Stirling & Eric Flint 2001 _Foreign Legions_ (308 pages; story collections "For")
- Eric Flint & Griffin Barber 2017 _1636: Mission to the Mughals_ (411 pages)
- Eric Flint & Charles E. Gannon 2017 _1636: The Vatican Sanction_ (468 pages; hard)
- Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills 2016 _Order to Kill_ (Mitch Rapp #13; 494 pages; large)
- Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills 2017 _Enemy of the State_ (Mitch Rapp #14; 511 pages; hard)
- Cecil Scott Forester/Cecil Louis Troughton Smith 1946 _Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies_ (Hornblower #11; 342 pages)
- Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Ludwig Emil Grimm, Jack Zipes & Andrea Dezsoe 1812, 1815, 2014 _Grimm's Fairy Tales_/_Kinder und Haus-Maerchen_/_The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm_/_The Complete First Edition The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm_ (#1 & #2; 500 pages; 398.2094; Main)
- Tom Holt 2014 _The OutSorcerer's Apprentice_ (387 pages; hard; Jax + NE)
- Ken MacLeod 2008, 2012 _The Night Sessions_ (261 pages; qpb)
- Andre Norton 1963, 2001 _Time Traders 2_/_The Defiant Agents_/_Key Out of Time_ (RossMurdockTimeTrader #2; 370 pages; hard)
- Robert B. Parker 2003 _Stone Cold_ (Stone/Paradise #4; 323 pages)
- Robert B. Parker & Ace Atkins _WonderLand_ (Spenser #41; large; NE)
- Kathy Reichs 2014 _Bones Never Lie_ (Bones #17; 480 pages; large; paper)
- Mark E. Russinovich & Howard Schmidt 2011 _Zero Day_ (328 pages; hard)
- Robert Silverberg 2003 _Roma Eterna_ (396 pages; hard)
- Steve M. Stirling 2008 _Dies the Fire_ (Change #1; 483 pages; hard)
- Jodi Taylor 2014 _Just One Damned Thing After Another_ (ChronicleSt.Marys #1; 335 pages; qpb)
- Jodi Taylor 2016 _A Symphony of Echoes_ (ChronicleSt.Marys #2; 327 pages; qpb)
- Jodi Taylor 2016 _A Second Chance_ (ChronicleSt.Marys #3; 335 pages; qpg)
- Jodi Taylor 2015, 2016 _A Trail through Time_ (ChronicleSt.Marys #4; 336 pages; qpb; NE+Jax)
- Josephine Tey 1951, 1966, 1988 _The Daughter of Time_ (206 pages; hard; large)
- Brad Thor 2015 _Code of Conduct_ (Scot Harvath #14; 635 pages; large; hard)
- Michael Walsh 2009 _Hostile Intent_ (Devlin #1; 407 pages; paper)
- David Weber 2002 _The Short Victorious War_ (Honor Harrington #3; 400 pages; paper)
- David Weber 2002 _Field of Dishonor_ (Honor Harrington #4; 373 pages; paper)
- David Weber 2002 _Flag in Exile_ (Honor Harrington #5; 472 pages; paper)
- David Weber 1997 _Honor among Enemies_ (Honor Harrington #6; 538 pages; paper)
- David Weber 1997, 1998 _In Enemy Hands_ (Honor Harrington #7; 530 pages; paper)
- David Weber 1998 _Echoes of Honor_ (Honor Harrington #8; 569 pages; hard)
- David Weber 2000 _Ashes of Victory_ (Honor Harrington #9; 560 pages; hard)
- David Weber 2002 _War of Honor_ (Honor Harrington #10?; 862 pages; hard)
- David Weber 2005 _At All Costs_ (Honor Harrington #11; 850 pages; hard)
- David Weber 2005 _Mission of Honor_ (Honor Harrington #12; 584 pages; hard)
- John Charles Wright 2002 _The Golden Age_ (GoldenAge #1; 336 pages; hard)
- Thomas W. Young 2010 _The Mullah's Storm_ (278 pages; hard)
- Other
- Diane Ackerman 2014 _The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us_ (520 pages; 304.2)
- Scott Adams 2013 _How to Fail at Almost Everything & Still Win Big_ (248 pages; 4.9MB; 741.56973; skill stack theory)
- Fred Anderson & Andrew Cayton 2005 _The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America 1500-2000_ (450 pages; 4.5MB; 973)
- Dan Ariely 2010 _The UpSide of "Irrationality": The UnExpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home_ (334 pages; 153.4)
- Jennifer Bachner, Benjamin Ginsberg, Steven L. Mitchell & Laura Shelley 2016 _What Washington DC Gets Wrong: The UnElected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their MisConceptions [about and hostility to] the USA People_ (260 pages; 7.1MB; 351.73; Main)
- Howland Blackiston 2015 _BeeKeeping for Dummies_ (414 pages; 638.1; Perry)
- Jon Entine & Les Pockell 2007 _Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People_ (432 pages; 305.8924)
- James Hillman 1996 _The Soul's Code: Character, Calling, and Fate_ (286 pages; 150)
- Ian Leslie 2014 _Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It_ (216 pages; 153.8)
- Charles Murray 2015 _By the People: ReBuilding Liberty without Permission_ (270 pages; 320.5; hard)
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