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updated: 2020-12-31
Subject Categories
Computers:
Christine L. Borgman 2014, 2015, 2018 _Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World_ (MIT; 400 pages; 2.6MB; RBdigital mp3; 13h 8m=788m)
Thomas H. Davenport 2014 _Big Data @ Work: Dispelling the Myths, UnCovering the Opportunities, Zooming Past the Creepy Line at the Speed of Light_ (220 pages; 1.6MB; audio) Chad Fowler 2005 _My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job_/_My Job Went to India: and All I Got Was This Lousy Book_ (185-220 pages; ISBN 0976694018/ 9780976694014; OCLC 493851667; Pragmatic BookShelf)
Christian Harder 1998 _Serving Maps on the Internet: Geographic Information on the World Wide Web_ (118 pages)
Laura Lang 2000 _GIS for Health Organizations_ (100 pages)
Roger McNamee 2019 _Zucked: Waking Up to the FB Disaster_ (336 pages; 1.8MB; 302.30285 McN)
Alvaro Scrivano & Sue Downing 2019 _Coding with Python_ (32 pages; 005.133 Scr; junior)
Joseph Steinberg 2019 _CyberSecurity for Dummies_ (330 pages; 5MB)
Economics
Robert Bryce 2014 _Smaller, Faster, Lighter, Denser, Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong_ (tech, engineering, gravimetric power density, economics, science; 390 pages; 9MB; 24 chapters, c.530 minutes; he was doing great until he got to advocating funny-money & worsening over-crowding in chapters 11 & 12)
Peter Cappelli 2014 _Why Good People Can't Get Jobs: The [Mythical?] "Skills Gap" and What Companies [Executives] Can Do About It_ (120 pages; 3.8MB; mp3)
Steve Fraser 2016 _The Limousine Illiberal Leftist: How a Realistic Observation United Non-Leftists and Fractured Leftists' Already-Cracked Minds_ (250 pages; 320.513 Fra)
Scott Galloway 2017 _The 4: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, FB, and Google_ (all immoral to various extents; 300 pages; 11.5MB; 338.761 Gal)
Hilarie T. Gamm 2018 _Billions Lost: The USA Tech Crisis and the Road Map to Change_ (368-370 pages; 15.1MB; ISBN 1985690357/ 9781985690356; OCLC 1048358622; Smashwords/CreateSpace/Barricade)
Louis Hyman 2018 _Temp: How USA Work, USA Business, and the USA Dream Became Temporary_/_Temp: The Real Story of What Happened to Your Salary, Benefits, and Job Security_ (388 pages; 1.5MB; 331.25 Hym; Main)
Simon Johnson & James Kwak 2012 _White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our [Federal Government] Debt, and Why It Matters_ (352 pages; 5.5MB; 336.3 Joh)
Craig Lambert 2015 _Shadow Work: The UnPaid, UnSeen Jobs That Fill Your Day_ (socialistologist; 277 pages; 331 Lam; Main)
Russell D. Roberts 2014, 2015 _How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An UnExpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness_ (261 pages; 766KB; 170; Main; theory of moral sentiments)
Mark Thornton 2018 _The SkyScraper Curse and How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century_ (260 pages; 3.6MB)
see separate page of econ books jgo has read
Science:
Simon Baron-Cohen 2003 _The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Brain_ (230 pages; 155.33 Bar; Main+E)
Stephen Coss 2016 _The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American [USA] Politics_ (disease; smallpox; 320 pages; 616.912 Cos; Main+NE)
David J. Epstein 2019 _Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World_ (339 pages; 2.4MB; 153.9 Eps; Main+NE)
Gordon Fraser 2000 _AntiMatter: The Ultimate Mirror_ (207 pages; 530 Fra; Main)
Jim Murphy 2003 _An American Plague: The True Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793_ (disease; 373 pages; 931KB; J 614.541 Mur; Main+NE+Jax+BLPerry+FtBraden)
Lee Smolin 2008 _3 Roads to Quantum Gravity_ (250 pages; 3.9MB)
Timothy Charles Winegard 2019 _The Mosquito: A Human History of our Deadliest Predator_ (disease; 485 pages; 595.772 Win; Main+NE+Jax)
Ethics/Constitution/Laws/Criminology:
Mark Reed Levin 2019 _Unfreedom of the Press_ (258 pages; released 2019 May 21; 070.4493 Lev; Main+E+NE+Jax)
John Locke & C.B. MacPherson 1690, 1980 _2nd Treatise on Government_ (124 pages)
Forrest McDonald 1965, 1979 _E Pluribus Unum_ (270 pages; 973.333 McD)
Joseph Telushkin 2000 _The Book of Jewish Values: A Day-by-Day Guide to Ethical Living_ (544 pages; 296.36 Tel; Main+NE)
Engineering/ Making/ Manufacturing/ Building/ Designing:
Christian Becksvoort 1998 _The Shaker Legacy: Perspectives on an Enduring Furniture Style_ (233 pages; 749.213 Bec; NE)
Robert Bryce 2014 _Smaller, Faster, Lighter, Denser, Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong_ (tech, engineering, gravimetric power density; 390 pages; 9MB; 24 chapters, c.530 minutes; RBdigital; audio; 80%; he was doing great until he got to funny-money & worsening over-crowding in chapters 11 & 12)
Jim Cooper 2000 _Log Homes Made Easy: Contracting & Building Your Own Log Home_ (270 pages; 690.837 Coo) Paul Ingrassia 2012 _Engines of Change: An History of the USA Dream in 15 Cars_ (395 pages; 629.222 Ing; NE)
Norman Morrison Isham 1967, 2007 _Early USA Houses with a Glossary of Colonial Architectural Terms_ (121 pages; 25.6MB)
Margot Lee Shetterly 2016 _Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the UnTold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race_ (346-360 pages; ISBN 9780062363596; OCLC 973510941; HarperCollins/William Morrow; 510.9252 LEE; Main+NE+Jax+BLPerry+Woodville; NASA/LangleyRC)
Bill Yenne 1997, 2000 _Woodies: Classic Cars: A National Treasure_ (171 pages; 629.222 Yen; Main+Jax)
History:
Colin Gordon Calloway & Jeffrey L. Ward 2018 _The Indian World of George Washington_ (500 pages; 323.1197; E)
PM sir Winston Spencer Churchill 1948, 1985 _The Second World War: v1 The Gathering Storm_ (940.53 & on desk; 700 pages)
Stephen Coss 2016 _The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American [USA] Politics_ (disease; smallpox; 320 pages; 616.912 Cos; Main+NE)
Nell Dickerson & Shelby Foote 2011 _Gone: A HeartBreaking Story of the Civil War: A Photographic Plea for Preservation_/_Pillar of Fire_ (118 pages; 728.0976 Foo; Main)
Amy Ruth Kelly 1950, 1978, 1991 _Eleanor of Aquitaine and the 4 Kings_ (390 pages)
Joseph Plumb Martin 1996 _A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy_ (90 pages)
Adrienne Mayor, Marc Aronson & Chris Muller 2014, 2015 _The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science_ (48 pages; J; 675BCE Scythia; Roy Chapman Andrews; Protoceratops)
Richard Miles 2012 _Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization_ (450 pages)
David Morgan 1986, 2007, 2008 _The Mongols_ (272 pages; 4.6MB; 950.2 + on-the-shelf)
Marc Morris 2017 _Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain_ (262 pages; 728.810942 Mor; Main)
Jim Murphy 2003 _An American Plague: The True Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793_ (disease; 373 pages; 931KB; J 614.541 Mur; Main+NE+Jax+BLPerry+FtBraden)
John Julius Norwich 2015 _Sicily: An Island at the CrossRoads of History_ (362 pages; 945.8 Nor)
Chris Pellant & Roger Phillips 1990 _Rocks, Minerals & Fossils of the World_ (175 pages; 552 Pel; Main)
Barnet Schechter 2010 _George Washington's USA: A Biography through His Maps_ (290 pages; Over-Size; 973.4)
Jonathan Schneer 2010 _The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict_ (400 pages; 5MB; 956.04)
Margot Lee Shetterly 2016 _Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the UnTold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race_ (346-360 pages; ISBN 9780062363596; OCLC 973510941; HarperCollins/William Morrow; 510.9252 LEE; Main+NE+Jax+BLPerry+Woodville; NASA/LangleyRC)
Timothy Charles Winegard 2019 _The Mosquito: A Human History of our Deadliest Predator_ (disease; 485 pages; 595.772 Win; Main+NE+Jax)
Career
David Isay & Maya Millett 2016 _Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work_ (260 pages; 920.073 Isa)
Screen-plays/Movie-Making/Writing
Lynne Truss 2003, 2004 _Eats, Shoots, & Leaves_ (208 pages; 428.2 Tru; Main)
Religion
Jonathan Kirsch 2004, 2005 _God against the Gods: The History of the War between MonoTheism and PolyTheism_ (320 pages; 291.14 Kir; Main)
Fiction
R.L. Akers 2016 _Prometheus Rising_ (Gryphens parallel; 475 pages)
Margery Allingham 1927, 2016 _The White Cottage Mystery_ (161 pages; LT F All; Main)
Raymond Arroyo 2016 _Will Wilder #1: The Relic of Perilous Falls_ (330 pages; 14.6MB; J F Arr)
Neal L. Asher 2016 _War Factory_ (Transformation #2; 454 pages)
Tim Baker 2016 _Fever City_ (385 pages)
David Baldacci 2015 _Memory Man_ (664 pages; LT F Bal)
David Baldacci 2016 _The Last Mile_ (644 pages; LT F Bal)
Ted Bell 2006 _Hawke_ (AlexHawke #1; 784)
Jessica Brody 2015 _UnChanged_ (UnRemembered #3; 417 page)
Jack Campbell 2013 _Perilous Shield_ (LostStars #2; 406 pages)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1908, 2009 _The Man Who Was Thursday_ (120 pages)
Tom Clancy & Marc Cameron 2018 _Oath of Office_ (656 pages)
Tom Clancy & David Michaels 2008, 2011 _Ghost ReCon: Combat Ops_ (337 pages; GhostReCon #2)
Tom Clancy & Steve Pieczenik 1996 _Games of State_ (OpCenter #3; 661 pages)
Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter 2007, 2008 _FirstBorn_ (Time Odyssey #3; 364 pages; 870KB)
Genevieve Cogman 2016, 2017 _The Masked City_ (InVisible Library #2; LT F Cog; E)
Genevieve Cogman 2016, 2017 _The Burning Page_ (InVisible Library #3; 536 pages; LT F Cog; E)
Genevieve Cogman 2016, 2017 _The Lost Plot_ (InVisible Library #4; 367 pages; F Cog; Main)
Robert Crais 2011 _Stalking the Angel_ (Elvis Cole #2; 260 pages; 3.4MB)
Michael Crichton 2009 _Pirate Latitudes_ (320 pages; 1.4MB)
Robert Crais 2011 _The Monkey's RainCoat_ (Elvis Cole #1; 220 pages; 3.4MB; pb F Cra; Main)
Sebastien de Castell 2014 _Traitor's Blade_ (GreatCoats #1; 590 pages)
Sebastien de Castell 2014, 2015 _Knight's Shadow_ (GreatCoats #2; 580 pages)
Kirk Douglas 1994 _Last Tango in Brooklyn_ (340 pages)
S.K. Dunstall 2015 _LinesMan_ (LinesMan #1; 372 pages)
S.K. Dunstall 2016 _Alliance_ (LinesMan #2; 389 pages)
S.K. Dunstall 2016 _Confluence_ (LinesMan #3; 387 pages)
Greg Egan 2011 _ClockWork Rocket_ (Orthogonal #1; 328 pages; 2.9MB)
Dave Eggers 2013 _The Circle_ (626 pages; 2.1MB; LT F Egg; NE)
Jack Finney 1986, 1995, 2014 _Time and Again_ (398 pages; 17.2MB)
Eric Flint & Iver P. Cooper 2019 _1636: The China Venture_ (#27; 448 pages; 991KB)
Kathleen George, Lila Shaara, Terrance Hayes, Stewart O'Nan, Nancy Martin, Paul Lee et al. 2011 _Pittsburgh Noir_
Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire 2013 _Parasite_ (Parasitology #1; 504 pages; 1.1MB; F Gra; Jax)
Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire 2014 _Symbiont_ (Parasitology #2; 518 pages; 1.5MB)
Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire 2015 _Chimera_ (Parasitology #3; 488 pages; 1.8MB)
Clive Staples Lewis 1950-1956, 2001 _The Chronicles of Narnia_ (767 pages)
Robert Masello 2011 _The Medusa Amulet_ (244 pages; 3.9MB)
Robert Masello 2013 _The Romanov Cross_ (495 pages; 4.2MB)
Paul McCusker 2008 _Ripple Effect_ (Time Thriller #1; 212 pages)
Scott McEwen & Thomas Koloniar 2013 _Sniper Elite: One-Way Trip_ (Sniper Elite #1; 386 pages)
Dexter Clarence Palmer 2008, 2015, 2016 _Version Control_ (495 pages)
Robert B. Parker 2007 _High Profile_ (Stone/Paradise #6; 307 pages)
Kamran Pasha 2010 _Shadow of the Swords_ (424 pages)
Julia Verne St. John 2016 _The Transference Engine_ (314 pages)
Harry Turtledove 2019 _Alpha and Omega_ (480 pages; Main+NE+Jax+E+FtBraden)
Francis Paul Wilson 2016 _Panacea_ (Ice #1; 380 pages)
Gwendolyn Womack 2019 _The Time Collector_ (354 pages; Wom; E)
Herman Wouk 1971 _Winds of War_ (1047 pages)
Other
Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Steve Burguiere, Dan Andros, Brian Sack, Alan Bura, Pat Gray, David Harsanyi, Carol Lynne, Carl Williott, Claire Calzonetti, Evan Cutler, Joseph Kerry, Kelly Thompson, R.J. Pestritto, Tyler Grimm, Darran Foster, John Bobey, Paul Starke & Paul E. Nunn 2009 _Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government_ (325 pages; 973.932; Main+NE+Jax)
Matt Burriesci 2015 _Dead White Guys_ (249 pages; 813.6 Bur; Main; great books)
Eric Eggers 2018 _Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election_ (232 pages; 324.660973; NE)
A.C. Grayling 2017 _"Democracy" and Its Crisis: Prompted by Brexit and Election of Trump on a Reduced Immigration, Boosted Employment, Boosted Economy Platform_ (225 pages; 321.8 Gra; Main)
Yuval Noah Harari 2015 _Sapiens: A Brief History of HumanKind_ (443 pages; 909 Har; Main+NE+E+Jax)
Goldie Hawn & Wendy Holden 2011 _10 Mindful Minutes: Giving Our Children and OurSelves the "Social" and "Emotional Skills" to Reduce Stress and Anxiety for Healthier, Happier Lives_ (218 pages; 158.1 Haw; Jax)
James Hillman 1999 _The Force of Character & the Lasting Life_ (337 pages; LT 155.67 Hil; Jax)
Walter Kirn 2009 _Lost in the Meritocracy: The UnderEducation of an OverAchiever_ (211 pages; 813.54 Kir)
Tina Konstant 2016 _Teach Yourself Speed Reading in a Week_/_Speed Reading in a Week_ (112 pages; 428.43 Kon; Main)
Judith Larson 1971 _A Guide to Rapid Reading_ (200 pages; 428.43 Lar)
David Limbaugh 2019 _Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Illiberal Leftists/ Dems/ Reds/ Regressives/ Socialists/ Fascists/ Marxists/ Communists/ Collectivists Must Not Win_ (482 pages; 324.2736 Lim)
Paul Nehlen 2017 _Wage the Battle: Putting America First in the Fight to Stop Globalist Politicians and Secure the Borders_/_Wage the Battle: Putting USA First in the Fight to Stop Globalist Politicians & Business Executives & Investors, and Secure the Borders & Ports_ (155-200 pages; 531KB; ISBN 1944229779/ 1944229787/ 9781944229771/ 9781944229788; OCLC 987282912)
Kwasi Sarkodie-Mensah 2002 _Helping the Difficult Library Patron: New Approaches to Examining & Resolving a Long-Standing & OnGoing Problem_ (303 pages; 025.5 HEL)
Andrew Schloss 2011 _HomeMade Soda_ (318 pages; 641.875 Sch; Main)
Dale J. Stephens 2013 _Hacking Your Education: Ditch the Lectures, Save Tens of Thousands, and Learn More Than Your Peers Ever Will_ (200 pages; 454KB; 371.3943; Main)
Florence Williams 2017 _The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative_ (260 pages; 17.4MB; 155.9 Wil; E)
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