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Books (& Articles of Note) Read in 2019
updated: 2019-12-28
- Subjects
- Computers:
- Lori B. Andrews 2012 _I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: "Social" Networks and the Death of Privacy_ (220 pages; 323.0285; Main+NE)
- Jim Dwyer 2014 _More Awesome Than Money: 4 Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from FB_ (360 pages; 384.38; Main)
other computer books
- Economics
- Ravi Batra/Raveendra N. Batra 2015 _End UnEmployment Now: How to Eliminate Joblessness, Debt, and Poverty Despite Congress_ (239 pages; 3.4MB; 331.1377; Main)
- Jared Bernstein 2008 _Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed?_ (and other un-solved economic mysteries)_ (330.973 Ber; Main)
- George J. Borjas 2016 _We Wanted Workers: UnRaveling the Immigration Narrative_ (238 pages; 331.0973 Bor; Main)
- Henry William Brands 1999 _Masters of Enterprise: From John Jacob Astor and J.P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Opra Winfrey_ (340 pages; 338.092; NE)
- Steven Brill 2018 _TailSpin: The People and Forces behind USA's 50-Year Fall and Those Fighting to Reverse It_ (400 pages; 55.6MB; 306.0973 Bri; NE+E)
- William Brittain-Catlin 2005 _OffShore: The Dark Side of the Global Economy_ (272 pages; 330.97292 Bri; Main)
- Bryan Douglas Caplan 2007 _The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies_ (276 pages; 320.6 Cap; Main)
- Bryan Douglas Caplan 2018 _The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money_ (395 pages; 371.010973 Cap; NE)
- Oren Cass 2018 _The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the ReNewal of Work in the USA_ (220 pages; 1.8MB; 331.10973 Cas; Main; strong start, poor 2nd half)
- Susan P. Crawford 2012 _Captive Audience: The Telecomm Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age_ (360 pages; 384.0973 Cra; Main)
- Steven Greenhouse 2008 _The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker_ (365 pages; 1.1MB; 331.0973 Gre; Main; NY Slimes)
- Sarah Kessler 2018 _Gigged: The End of the [REAL] Job and the Future of Work_ (289 pages; 1.1MB; 331.0973 Kes; Main)
- Michelle Malkin 2019 _Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding USA's Destruction?_ (400 pages; 5.1MB; 325.73 Mal; Main)
- Don Peck 2011 _Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do about It_ (223 pages; 3.3MB; 330.973 Pec; Main)
- Kim Phillips-Fein 2010 _Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's [and Economists' and Actuaries'] Crusade against the [Hoover+FDR+Truman+LBJ+Obummer] Raw Deal: [Another Illiberal Leftist/Collectivist Smear-Job]_ (360 pages; 320.520973; Main)
- Steven R. Weisman 2002 _The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson: How the Income Tax Transformed America_ (390 pages; 336.242)
- David Wessell 2012 _Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget_ (290 pages; 7.8MB)
see separate page of econ books jgo has read
Science:
Marilyn Chase 2003, 2004 _The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco_ (276 pages; 362.1 CHA; Main)
Andy Clark 2016 _Surfing UnCertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind_ (401 pages; 128.2; Main)
Robert P. Crease & Alfred Scharff Goldhaber 2014 _The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love UnCertainty_ (332 pages; 530.12 CRE; Main)
Daniel Michael Davis 2014 _The Compatiblity Gene: How Our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves_ (231 pages; 616.042; Main)
Richard Dawkins 1986 _The Blind WatchMaker_ (325 pages; 575; Main)
David Deutsch 1998 _The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes -- and Its Implications_ (366 pages)
Karl Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool 2016 _Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise_ (330 pages; 5MB; 153.9 Eri; Main+NE)
John Medina 2014 _Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School_ (288 pages; 612.82 Med; Jax+NE)
Gary Smith 2014, 2015 _Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics_ (326 pages; 2.8MB; 519.5; Main+NE)
Chris Stringer 2013 _Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth_ (336 pages; 599.938; Main+E)
James T. Webb, Edward R. Amend, Nadia E. Webb, Jean Goerss, Paul Beljan, F. Richard Olenchak & Ronald E. Fox 2006 _MisDiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, BiPolar, OCD, Asperger's, Depression, and Other "DisOrders"_ (255 pages; 618.9289075 Mis; Main+NE)
Ethics/Constitution/Laws/Criminology:
Lori B. Andrews 2012 _I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: "Social" Networks and the Death of Privacy_ (220 pages; 323.0285 And; Main+NE)
Dan Bongino, D.C. McAllister & Matt Palumbo 2018 _SpyGate: The Attempted Sabotage of President Donald J. Trump by Dems/Reds/Leftists/Regressives, RINOs, & Neo-Cons_ (315 pages; 11.2MB; 973.932; Main)
Thomas G. West 1997, 2000 _Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, "Class", and Justice in the Origins of America_ (219 pages; 1.8MB; 973.5 WES; Main)
Engineering/ Making/ Manufacturing/ Building/ Designing:
Richard A. d'Aveni 2018 _The Pan-Industrial Revolution: How New Manufacturing Titans Will TransForm the World_ (300 pages; 338.064; Main)
Henry Petroski 1992, 1993 _The Evolution of Useful Things: How EveryDay Artifacts -- From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers -- Came To Be as They Are_ (304 pages; 1.8MB; 609 PET; NE+Jax)
Charlotte Rivers 2014 _Little Book of Book Making: Timeless Techniques and Fresh Ideas for Beautiful HandMade Books_ (189 pages; 686 RIV)
History:
Anne Applebaum 2017 _Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine_ (461 pages; 92.2MB; 947.70842; NE)
John M. Barry 1997 _Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America_ (524 pages; 977.03; Main+E)
Richard Brookhiser 2014 _Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln_ (347 pages; 2.9MB; biography Lincoln; NE)
David Hackett Fischer 2005 _Liberty and Freedom_ (851 pages; 323.44 Fis; Main)
Daniel J. Flynn 2004 _Why the Left Hates the USA_ (264 pages; 306.0983; Main)
Brenda Fowler 2000 _Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier_ (313 pages; 937 Fow; NE; hard)
Michael Vincent Hayden 2016 _Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror_ (448 pages; 327.1273 Hay; Main+Jax)
Arthur Herman 2012 _Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War 2_ (413 pages; 940.531; Main)
Erik Larson 2000 _Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History_ (Galveston 1900; 976.4139; large; Main+NE)
Edith Sheffer 2018 _Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna_ (317 pages; 618.9285; NE)
Andrew Vietze 2018 _White Pine: USA History and the Tree That Made a Nation_ (186 pages; 634.980974 VIE; Main+Woodville)
Chris J. Wickham 2009, 2010 _The Inheritance of Rome: An History of Europe from 400 to 1000_/_The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000_ (650 pages; 8MB; 940.1; Main)
see separate pages
Career
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see career books
Screen-plays/Movie-Making
Christopher Cerf & Henry Beard 2015 _Spin-Glish: The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language_ (347 pages; 6.2MB; 818.5407; Main+E)
see movie-making books
- Religion
- Mark Batterson 2010, 2011 _The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears_ (226 pages; 248.32 Bat; Main)
- Reuven Firestone/Reuven Feuerstein 2008 _Who Are the Real Chosen People?: The Meaning of Chosenness in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam_ (156 pages; 202.2 FIR; Main)
- Abraham Joshua Heschel, Morris M. Faierstein & David Wolf Silverman 1996 _Prophetic Inspiration After the Prophets: Maimonides and Other Medieval Authorities_ (157 pages; 296.311; Main)
- Alan Morinis 2002 _Climbing Jacob's Ladder: One Man's Journey to ReDiscover a Jewish Spiritual Tradition_ (mussar; 225 pages; 296.8 Mor; hard)
- Adam Nicolson 2003 _God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible_ (260 pages; 220.5203 NIC; hard)
- Joseph Telushkin 2003 _The 10 Commandments of Character: Essential Advice for Living an Honorable, Ethical, Honest Life_ (317 pages; 296.36 TEL; Main)
see earlier pages
Fiction
Jerry Ahern & Sharon Ahern 2010 _Written In Time_ (644 pages; paper)
Josiah Bancroft 2018 _Arm of the Sphinx_ (Babel #2; 435 pages; Main+E)
Lois Battle 2006 _War Brides_ (693 pages; hard)
Raymond Benson/David Michaels 2006 _Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: CheckMate_ (SC #3; 402 pages; paper)
Lisa Tawn Bergren 2007 _The Begotten_ (Gifted #1; 367 pages)
Steve Berry 2016 _The 14th Colony_ (450 pages; 1.8MB; hard)
Matthew Betley 2016 _OverWatch_ (580 pages; large; NE+Jax)
Leslie Charteris/Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin 1970, 2014 _The Saint in Pursuit_ (#45; 192 pages; Main)
Max Brand/Frederick Faust 1958, 1987 _Destry Rides Again_ (412 pages; large)
Jessica Brody 2013 _UnRemembered_ (UnRemembered #1; 307 pages; YA)
Jessica Brody 2014 _UnForgotten_ (UnRemembered #2; 399 pages)
Max Brooks & Caanan White 2014 _The Harlem HellFighters_ (260 pages; 109.9MB)
Taylor Brown 2018 _Gods of Howl Mountain_ (294 pages; hard)
Davis Bunn 2012 _Rare Earth_ (363 pages; qpb)
Davis Bunn 2013 _Strait of Hormuz_ (332 pages; qpb)
Julius Gaius Caesar & Olivia E. Coolidge 1991 _Caesar's Gallic War_ (historical fiction; 245 pages)
Jack Campbell 2012 _The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight_ (LostStars #1; 390 pages)
Mike Chen 2019 _Here and Now and Then_ (326 pages)
Paul Christopher 2005 _Michaelangelo's NoteBook_ (358 pages; paper)
Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter 2003 _Time's Eye_ (Time Odyssey #1; 337 pages; 855KB; Main+NE)
Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter 2005 _SunStorm_ (Time Odyssey #2; 360 pages; 812KB; Main+NE)
Chris Cleave 2016 _Everyone Brave Is Forgiven_ (663 pages; large)
William S. Cohen 2011 _Blink of an Eye_ (Falcone #1; 365 pages; hard; Main+NE)
William S. Cohen 2015 _Collision_ (Falcone #2; large; Jax)
Wilkie Collins 1859, 1860, 1861, 1990, 2005, 2009 _The Woman in White_ (671 pages; hard)
Michael Crichton/Jeffrey Hudson 1968, 1969 _A Case of Need_ (319 pages; paper; FtBraden+Main)
Eric Flint & Charles E. Gannon 2014, 2015 _1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies_ (#18?; 868 pages; paper; Main+Ne)
William R. Forstchen 2009, 2011 _1 Second After_ (John Matherson #1; 350 pages; 4.1MB; hard)
William R. Forstchen 2015 _1 Year After_ (John Matherson #2; 301 pages; 1.6MB; hard)
William R. Forstchen 2017 _The Final Day_ (John Matherson #3; 348 pages; 1.6MB; hard)
Barbara Garson & Lisa Lyons 1966, 1967 _MacBird!: The Complete Text_ (109 pages)
Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen 2009 _To Try Men's Souls_ (George Washington #1; 586 pages)
Kenneth William Goddard 1999, 2000 _First Evidence_ (442 pages; paper)
Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett & Gorg Huff 2018 _1637: The Volga Rules_ (#23??; 353 pages)
Newt Gingrich & Pete Earley 2016 _Treason_ (370 pages; 1.9MB)
Tricia Goyer 2017 _A Secret Courage_ (440 pages)
Joe W. Haldeman 2007 _The Accidental Time Machine_ (278 pages; hard)
Kevin Hearne 2011 _Hounded_ (AtticusOSullivan/IronDruid #1; 304 pages; paper)
Reece Hirsch 2016 _Surveillance_ (Chris Bruen #3; 304 pages; qpb; Main+NE+E)
Ray Hogan 2016 _Steel Angel_ (219 pages)
Robert R. McCammon 2015 _The Border_ (441 pages; hard)
Tom Clancy & Raymond Benson/David Michaels 2008 _Ghost ReCon_ (GhostReCon #1; 368 pages)
Kyle Mills 2003 _Sphere of Influence_ (591 pages; 1.2MB; large)
Robert B. Parker 2006 _Sea Change_ (Stone/Paradise #5; 322 pages; large)
Kathy Reichs 2016 _Speaking in Bones_ (Bones #18; 432 pages; qpb; large)
Bee Ridgway 2013 _The River of No Return_ (748 pages; large)
Joel C. Rosenberg 1991 _Hero_ (259 pages; paper)
Peter Schweizer & Caspar Weinberger 2001 _Chain of Command_ (360 pages; hard)
Graeme C. Simsion 2013 _The Rosie Project_ (356 pages; large)
Wesley Snipes & Ray Norman 2016 _Talon of God_ (346 pages; hard; Main+Jax+BLPerry)
Steven G. Spruill 1978 _The Psychopath Plague_ (180 pages; hard)
Steve M. Stirling 2005 _The Protector's War_ (Change #2; 486 pages)
Steve M. Stirling 2007 _The SunRise Lands_ (Change #4; 453 pages)
Steve M. Stirling 2008 _The Scourge of God_ (Change #5; 450 pages; hard)
Steve M. Stirling 2009 _The Sword of the Lady_ (Change #6; 484 pages; hard)
Jodi Taylor 2014, 2017 _No Time Like the Past_ (ChronicleSt.Marys #5; 319 pages; qpb; NE+Jax)
Jodi Taylor 2015, 2017 _What Could Possibly Go Wrong?_ (ChronicleSt.Marys #6; 345 pages; qpb; Jax)
Jodi Taylor 2016, 2017 _Lies, Damned Lies, and History_ (ChronicleSt.Marys #7; 333 pages; qpb; Jax+Main)
Jodi Taylor 2017 _And the Rest Is History_ (ChronicleSt.Marys #8; 355 pages)
Jodi Taylor 2018 _An Argumentation of Historians_ (ChronicleSt.Marys #10?; 421 pages; qpb)
Steve Thayer 2015 _Ithaca Falls_ (335 pages; E+Jax)
Andy Weir 2017 _Artemis_ (310 pages)
Other
Loren Collins 2012 _BullSpotting: Finding Facts in the Age of MisInformation_ (260 pages; 001.9; Main)
Left-Coast Crazy Mark Goulston 2018 _Talking to "Crazy": How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life_ (259 pages; 2.7MB; 158.2; Main+NE)
Judea Pearl & Dana MacKenzie 2018 _The Book of Why: New Hypotheses about Cause and Effect_ (418 pages; 35.5MB; 501 Pea; Main)
Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen 2015 _Thanks for the FeedBack: The Science and Art of Receiving FeedBack Well even when it is off-base, un-fair, and frankly, you're not in the mood_ (350 pages; 153.68; Main)
Marylou Kelly Streznewski 1999 _Gifted GrownUps: The Mixed Blessings of ExtraOrdinary Potential_ (292 pages; 2.7MB; 153.9 STR; Main+FtBraden)
Tevi Troy 2013 _What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obummer Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House_ (332 pages; 973.099 TRO; Main)
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