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Books (& Articles of Note) Read in 2025
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updated: 2025-06-28
Subject Categories/Key-Words
Computers/Computing:
H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Torie Bosch, Ellen Ullman, Kelly Chudler, Mahsa Alimardani, Elena Botella, Meredith Broussard et al. 2022 _You Are Not Expected to Understand This: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World_ (some dates are late; too racist, sexist, Illiberal Leftist/ Dem/ Red/ Regressive/ Socialist/ Fascist/ Nazi/ Marxist/ Communist/ Bolshevik/ Stalinist/ Maoist/ Collectivist; 202-306 pages; ISBN 9780691208480; OCLC ; PrincetonU; on order 2022-12-13; 005.13 Ull; Main+NE; due 2025-06-29)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.9: James W. Cortada 1993, 2000, 2015, 2016 _Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created 1865-1956_ (400 pages; ISBN 0691630089/ 1400872766/ 9780691630083/ 9781400872763; OCLC 938361222/ 1013955511; PrincetonU; HD 9801 .U542 C671 2000; SE KY C&TC/Cumberland; Thomas U/Thomasville, UF/Hogtown, Jax, Auburn U, UNF/Jax, Pensacola State College, UWF, Hernando/Brooksville, St.Leo U, USF/Tampa, USF/St.Petersburg, Georgia Tech, Emory U, UCF/Orlando, State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota/Bradenton, Eastern Florida State College/Cocoa, Berry College/Mt.Berry, Indian River State College/Ft.Pierce, Palm Beach State College/Lake Worth, FAU/RatsMouth, Nova SEU/Ft.Lauderdale, Broward College/Ft.Lauderdale, FIU/Miami, Barry U/Miami, U of Miami, U of Louisville, Louisville, St.Meinrad, Hanover College, SIU/Carbondale, Vincennes U, CHPL/Cincinnati, Indiana U/Bloomington, Miami U/Oxford, LIBRARIES; ILL request #231956 on 2025-02-26; ready for pickup 2025-03-09; due 2025-03-24 Monday)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts, M.A. 2023 _Technical Writing for Dummies_ (291 pages; ISBN 9781394176755; LOC 2023937438; Wiley; 808.06 Lin; Main; due 2025-03-16)
see other computer books jgo has read
Economics
H4.0, E3.0, R3.9: mmmmm
see separate page of economics books jgo has read
Science, Medical, & Mathematics:
H4.0, E3.0, R3.9: Chris Coughlin, Ph.D., NRP, FP-C, NEMSEC 2023, 2024 _EMT: Emergency Medical Technician Crash Course_ (406 pages; ISBN 9780738612874; OCLC 1410550463; REA/Research & Education; 616.025 Cou; East; hold req 2025-01-06; due 2025-02-02)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Norman Doidge, M.D. 2015 _The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries from the Frontiers of Brain NeuroPlasticity_ (409 pages; ISBN 9780670025503; QP363.3.D66 2015; Viking/Penguin/RandomHouse; 612.8 Doi; Main+NE; due 2025-02-04)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: James Cross Giblin & David Frampton 1995 _When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, SmallPox, AIDS_ (hantavirus; DRSP/antibiotic resistant streptococcus; Middle East Respiratory Syndrome/MERS-CoV; 196-200 pages; ISBN 0060258640; Harper; YA 614.49 Gib; Main; 2025-06-24)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.3: Mark Miodownik 2014 _Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our ManMade World_ (265 pages; ISBN 9780544236042; OCLC ; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 620.11 Mio; Main; due 2025-02-26)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.5: John Elder Robison 2013 _Raising Cubby: A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives_ (Asperger's; 360-365 pages; ISBN 9780307884848; OCLC ; Crown/RandomHouse; libraries; 616.858832 Rob; was Main+NE+E+Jax, now only NE; due 2025-05-29)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: John Elder Robison 2016 _Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening_ (Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening_ (Asperger's, neurophysiology; 290 pages; ISBN 9780812996890; Spiegel & Grau; 616.8588 Rob; Main; due 2025-06-04)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Bryan Sykes 2018, 2019 _Once a Wolf: The Science behind Our Dogs' Astonishing Genetic Evolution_ (265 pages; ISBN 9781631493799; LCCN 2018055788; Liveright/Norton; LCC SF422.5 .S935 2019; 636.7 Syk; Main; due 2025-04-24; ext 2025-05-15)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.8: Charles J. Wheelan 2013 _Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data_ (some of his "intuitive explanations" are not very intuitive or leave out important details; 282 pages; ISBN 9780393071955; Norton; 519.5 Whe; NE; due 2025-07-09)
see separate page of other science books jgo has read
Ethics/ Constitution/ Criminology/ History/ Law:
H4.0, E3.0, R2.8: Glenn Beck, Joshua Charles, Kevin Balfe, Wynton Hall, David Harsanyi & Peter Schweizer 2011 _The Original Argument: The [Power-Mad] Federalists' Case for the Constitution Adapted for the 21st Century_ (AmRev; 1787-1808; postAmRev; the attempt to modernize & simplify makes it more dificult to read than the originals; 430 pages; ISBN 9781451650617; OCLC ; Mercury/Threshold/Simon&Schuster; 342.73029; Main+NEast; due 2025-03-26)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: Alan M. Dershowitz, J.D. 2003, 2007 _The Case for Israel_ (264 pages; 1.2MB; ISBN 047146502-X; Wiley; 956.94 Der; Main+NE+Jax+FtBraden; hold req 2025-02-28; due 2025-03-26; ext 2025-04-16)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.4: Victor Davis Hanson, Ph.D. 2021-10-05 _The Dying Citizen: How Regressive Elitists, Tribalists, & Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of the USA_ (370-419-448 pages; 1.5MB; ISBN 9781541647534; OCLC 1237347266; Basic; due out between 2021-08-01 & 2021-10-05; 323.6973 Han; Main+Woodville; due 2025-06-04)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Jeanine Pirro 2018 _Liars, Leakers, and Leftists: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy_ (Trump, despite imperfections, is the best USA president of the last 100-140 years; 274 pages; 2.1MB; ISBN ; OCLC ; publisher; libraries; 973.933 Pir; NE+East; due 2025-02-03)
see other Ethics/ Constitution/ Criminology/ History/ Law books jgo has read
Engineering/ Making/ Manufacturing/ Building/ Designing:
H4.0, E3.0, R4.3: Mark Miodownik 2014 _Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our ManMade World_ (265 pages; ISBN 9780544236042; OCLC ; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 620.11 Mio; Main; due 2025-02-26)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.1: James Pethokoukis 2023 _The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised_/_The Classical Liberal Futurist: How to Create the SF World We Were Promised_ (disappointing; 327 pages; ISBN 9781546005544; OCLC 1370003376; Center Street; libraries; on order 2023-09-10; 330.973 Pet; NE+East; requires hold req; due 2025-05-29)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Henry Petroski 1999, 2000, 2010 _The Book on the BookShelf_ (270 pages; 3MB; ISBN 9780375406492/ 9780965004558; OCLC 40856918/ 45174359; Borzoi/ Knopf/ RandomHouse/ Vintage; libraries; 022.4 Pet; Main+BLPerry; due 2025-05-19)
History:
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: Karin Bojs & Fiona Graham 2015, 2017 _My European Family: The First 54K Years_ (400 pages; ISBN 9781472941473/ 9781472941466; Bloomsbury; 929.34 Boj; Main; due 2025-04-24; could use a little better edit)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: Caius Julius Caesar & Carolyn Hammond 2008 _The Gallic War_/_7 Commentaries on the Gallic War_ (58BCE-50BCE; 240-260 pages; 936.402; Main; due 2025-04-24; needs a better edit: e.g. missing words; occasional apparently mis-translated words)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.4: Victoria Clark 2003 _The Far-Farers: A Journey from Viking Iceland to Crusader Jerusalem_ (c. 1099; 459 pages; ISBN 0802714226; OCLC ; Walker/ MacMillan; 909.1 Cla; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: Chris Kyle, William Doyle & Jim de Felice 2012, 2014-05-27 _American Gun: An History of the USA in 10 FireArms_ (280-386 pages; ISBN 9780062253682; OCLC ; Morrow/Harper; libraries; 623.442973 Kyl; Main; due 2025-02-03)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Simon Sebag Montefiore 2011 _Jerusalem: The Biography_ (768 pages; ISBN ; OCLC ; publisher; libraries; 956.94 Seb; Main+NE; should begin earlier, include more archaeology, describing disputed interpretations, etc.; needs a better edit: e.g. missing words; occasional apparently mis-translated words; needs more citations/end-notes, e.g.specific to individual quoted phrases, not a cluster of citations for several things clumped together)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Gene Thorp & Kate Thorp 2020 _Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in the USA_ (1812-1877CE; 300-467 pages; 970.0049 Ore; NE; due 2025-02-26)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: Richard Rhodes 1986, 1988, 2012 _The Making of the of Atomic Bomb_ (838 pages; ISBN 9781451677614; OCLC 764385315; Simon&Schuster; on order 2022-07-24 Rho; Main+NE; due 2025-01-28; extended 2025-02-18)
see other Ethics/ Constitution/ Criminology/ History/ Law books jgo has read
Career
H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: mmmm
see career books
Screen-plays/ Movie-Making/ Writing
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: Joe Giampalmi Ed.D. 2023 _College Research Papers for Dummies_ (365 pages; ISBN 9781394191109; Wiley; 808.06637 Gia; Main+NE; due 2025-04-16)
see writing/ movie-making books
Religion
H4.0, E3.0, R3.9: Sephen L. Carter 2000 _God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics_ (200 pages; ISBN 0465008860; Basic/Perseus; 322.1 Car; Main; due 2025-03-16)
see other Religion books jgo has read
Fiction
H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: James Abel 2015 _White Plague_ (plague #1; 324 pages; Penguin/ Berkley/ RandomHouse)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Kelley Armstrong 2024 _Disturbing the Dead_ (Rip Through Time #3; 337 pages; Minotaur/St.Martin's; Main+Woodville)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: Kelley Armstrong 2023 _A Castle in the Air_ (Stitch in Time #4; 295 pages; Main+NE; due 2025-06-12)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: R.S. Belcher 2018 _King of the Road_ (Brotherhood of the Wheel #2; 382 pages; TOR; F Bel; Main+Woodville)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: Alex Berenson 2013 _The Night Ranger_ (JohnWells #7; Putnam/ Penguin/ RandomHouse/ Gale Cengage; LT F Ber; East)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Parker Bilal/Jamal Mahjoub 2024 _The Golden Scales_ (397 pages; Bloomsbury)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5: Sin Blache & Helen MacDonald 2023 _Prophet_ (468 pages; F Bla; Main+Jax)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Larry Bond & Jim de Felice 2005 _First Team: Angels of Wrath_ (First Team #2; Forge/Doherty; 400 pages; F Bon; Main+Jax)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Dale Brown 2004 _Plan of Attack_ (Patrick McLanahan #12; Morrow/Harper; Main; due 2025-02-03)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Dale Brown 2007 _Strike Force_ (Patrick McLanahan #13; ISBN 9780061173103; Morrow/Harper; Main+Jax+NE+BLPerry)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Dale Brown 2009 _Rogue Forces_ (Patrick McLanahan #15; ISBN 9780061560873; Morrow/Harper; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: Dale Brown 2010 _Executive Intent_ (Patrick McLanahan #16; 371 pages; ISBN 9780061560859; Morrow/Harper; Outreach)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: Dale Brown 2012 _Tiger's Claw_ (Patrick McLanahan #18; 400 pages; Morrow/Harper; F Bro)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.3: Richard Doetsch 2010 _The 13th Hour_ (time travel; Nick Quinn; 535 pages; Atria/Simon&Schuster; LT F Doe; OutReach)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.3: Lee Goldberg 2023 _Calico_ (time travel; detective Beth McDade; 308 pages; ISBN 9781448310135; Severn; F Gol; Main+Jax)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.2: Mark Greaney 2022 _Armored_ (Joshua Duffy #1; bodyguard; 702 pages; Penguin/ Berkley/ RandomHouse; on order 2022-07-17; Main+East+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.3: Lisa Grunwald 2019 _Time After Time_ (tear jerker ghost story; 401 pages; F Gru; Main+East+NE; due 2025-06-04)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Kate Messner & Kelley McMorris 2015 _Rescue on the Oregon Trail_ (Ranger #1)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Lynn Morris 2011 _The Stars for a Light_ (Cheney Duvall, M.D. #1; 313 pages; F Mor; Jax+NE+East)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: Boyd Morrison & Beth Morrison 2023 _The Lawless Land_ (Lawless #1; 470 pages; Bloomsbury; F Mor; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: Boyd Morrison & Beth Morrison 2023 _The Last True Templar_ (Lawless #2; 440 pages; F Mor; Main+East)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: Elizabeth Peters/Ellis Peters/Edith Mary Pargeter/Barbara Mertz 1988, 1993 _The Deeds of the Disturber_ (AmeliaPeabody #5; 498 pages; Atheneum/G.K. Hall)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.0: Max Porter 2019 _Lanny_ (213 pages; F Por; Main; due 2025-02-04)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Erica Spindler 2008, 2009 _Breakneck_ (584 pages; Windsor/Paragon/St.Martin's/Little, Brown/Thorndike; F Spi)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Tom Sweterlitsch 2018 _The Gone World_ (time-travel, 388 pages; F Swe; Main+East; due 2025-02-04)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.8: Robert Treskillard 2013 _Merlin's Blade_ (432 pages; ISBN 9780310735076; PB; YA F Tre; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: David Weber 2002 _Excalibur Alternative_ (313 pages; Simon&Schuster)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: David Weber & Jacob Holo 2019 _The Gordian Protocol_ (time travel?; 500 pages; F Web)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.2: Connie Willis 2010 _All Clear_ (DoomsDay/Oxford Time Travel #2 or #4; 641-656 pages; Spectra/ Ballantine/ RandomHouse; F Wil)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.2: Connie Willis 2010 _I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land_ (#1017; 86 pages; SubTerranean; F Wil)
see earlier read fiction
Other
H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Morra Aarons-Mele 2023 _The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower_ (too much pop-psych+B-school fluff; not enough neuro-physiology; 232-251 pages; ISBN 9781647822538; OCLC ; Harvard; libraries; 658.4092 Aar; Main+NE; due 2025-06-24)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: Susannah Charleson 2013 _The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "UnAdoptables" Taught Me about Service, Hope, and Healing_ (260-491 pages; ISBN 9780547734934; OCLC 823380625; Houghton Miflin Harcourt; Leon, NW Florida State College/Niceville, College of Central lorida/Ocala, Jax, Nassau, St.Johns/St.Augustine; LT 636.7 Cha ; Main; due 2025-04-10)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: Victor Davis Hanson, Ph.D. & John Heath 1998, 2001, 2011 _Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom_ (285 pages; ISBN 1459617584/ 9781459617582/ 1893554260/ 9781893554269/ 9780684844523; OCLC 960186131/ 37862737; Free Press/ ReadHowYouWant; LIBRARIES: FSCJax, Felonious State U, R.A.Gray, FAMU, Dougherty/Albany, Santa Fe/HogTown, UF/HogTown, Jax, Auburn, LvMI/Auburn, St.Johns River State College/Palatka, UNF/Jax, UWF/Pensacola, Hernando/Brooksville, Flagler College/St.Augustine, Pasco-Hernando State College/New Port Richey, USF/Tampa, Florida College/Temple Terrace, Hillsborough College/Tampa, Eckerd College/St.Petersburg, Orange/Orlando, Emory, UCF/Orlando, New College of Florida/Sarasota, Sarasota, Brevard/Cocoa, South Florida State College/Avon Park, Florida Tech/Melbourne, U of Alabama/Huntsville, Ave Maria U, FAU/RatsMouth, Nova SEU/Ft.Lauderdale, FIU/Miami, U of Miami, UNCCH, Hanover College, SIU/Carbondale, CHPL/Cincinnati, U of Cincinnati, Miami U/Oxford; ILL request #229500 initiated 2024-12-20; due 2025-02-23)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: David Horowitz & Jacob Laksin 2009 _One-Party ClassRoom: How Radical Leftist Professors at America's Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy_ (330-336 pages; ISBN 9780307452559; OCLC 232980253; Crown Forum/ RandomHouse; UF/HogTown, UNF/Jax, Hillsborough/Tampa, Emory U, UCF/Orlando, Lee/Lehigh Acres, FAU/Rats Mouth, FIU/Miami, U of Miami, UNCCH, U of Louisville, Louisville, Vincennes U, U of Cincinnati, Xavier U/Cincinnati, Indiana U/Bloomington, Miami U/Oxford, Columbus Metro, Ohio State U, UIUC; 378.73 Hor; Main; due 2025-01-28; extended 2025-02-18)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5: Judith N. Levin 2009 _Anxiety and Panic Attacks_ (neuro; teen; 48 pages; ISBN 9781404217973; Rosen; 973.7092 Lev; Main; due 2025-04-16)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.5: John Elder Robison 2013 _Raising Cubby: A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives_ (Asperger's; 360-365 pages; ISBN 9780307884848; OCLC ; Crown/RandomHouse; libraries; 616.858832 Rob; was Main+NE+E+Jax, now only NE; due 2025-05-29)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: John Elder Robison 2016 _Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening_ (Asperger's; 290 pages; ISBN 9780812996890; Spiegel & Grau; 616.8588 Rob; Main; due 2025-06-04)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: Beth Ostrosky Stern & Kristina Grish 2010 _Oh My Dog: How to Choose, Train, Groom, Nurture, Feed, and Care for Your New Best Friend_ (was hoping for more about training; 486 pages; ISBN 9781439160299; 636.7 Ste; Main; due 2025-04-24; ext 2025-05-15)
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