9/21/07

More Books

• ❑ Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics and the Creation of the Superhero -Danny Fingeroth
• ❑ Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay -Chabon
• ❑ A Place So Foreign and Eight More (The Super-Man and the Bugout) -Cory Doctorow
• ❑ Concentration - Mouni Sadhu
• ❑ Apartment Therapy: The Eight Step Home Cure -Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
• ❑ The Natural Superiority of Mules -John "Miracle John Mule" Hauer
• ❑ The Non Designer's Design Book -Robin Williams
• ❑ The Complete Books of Charles Fort: The Book of the Damned / Lo! / Wild Talents / New Lands (Paperback) -Charles Fort
• ❑ The Masonic Enigma, "a journey of discovery into the real facts (and mysteries) of Masonry's history and symbols", Hidden Wisdom, The Inner West -Jay Kinney
• ❑ Theosophical Enlightenment -Joscelyn Godwin
• ❑ The Alchemical Mandala -Adam McLean
• ❑ The Emperor of Scent -Chandler Burr
• ❑ Perfume: The Story of a Murder -Patrick Suskind
• ❑ Jitterbug Perfume -Tom Robbins
• ❑ The Elements of Typographic Style -Robert Bringhurst
• ❑ Essential Oils Desk Reference
• ❑ 1001 All Natural Secrets to a Pest-Free Property -Dr. Myles Bader
• ❑ tepper, sheri sci fi author
• ❑ The Myths of Innovation -Scott Berkun
• ❑ The Age of Abundance -Brink Lindsey
• ❑ The Jewel of the Seven Stars -Bram Stoker
• ❑ Movie: The Awakening starring Charlton Heston and Stephanie Zimbalist
• ❑ Movie: Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
• ❑ The Sands of Time (Dr Who Novel), Grave Matter (Dr Who Novel) -Justin Richards
• ❑ The Crystal Bucephalus -Craig Hinton
• ❑ The Secret Source -Adam Parfrey and Maja D'Aoust
• ❑ Glorifying Terrorism -Edited by Farah Mendlesohn
• ❑ The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web -Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag
• ❑ THE WORLD WITHOUT US -By Alan Weisman
• ❑ Kaizen = (Ky'zen) : the key to Japan's competitive success -Imai, Masaaki (FH)
• ❑ Infernal: A Repairman Jack Novel -F. Paul Wilson (there are more, The Tomb is the first)
• ❑ Mothman and Other Curious Encounters -Loren Coleman
• ❑ The Innovator's Dilemma -Clayton M. Christensen

7/27/07

new ones

• ❑ Rule the Web -Mark Frauenfelder (of Boing Boing)
• ❑ It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff -Peter Walsh (the clean sweep guy)
• ❑ The Big Picture -Edward Jay Epstein
• ❑ The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science -Natalie Angier
• ❑ Red Mars trilogy, Pacific Edge, Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below & Sixty Days and Counting -Kim Stanley Robinson
• ❑ The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution -John Brockman
• ❑ The Two Cultures -C.P. Snow
• ❑ A Song of Ice and Fire -George R.R. Martin
• ❑ iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon -Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith
• ❑ Cyberpunk, The Cuckoo's Egg, Good Omens, Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cycle, I Am Legend, Count Zero, Nova
• ❑ Downbelow Station -C.J. Cherryh
• ❑ Art Of Deception -Kevin Mitnick.
• ❑ Ender's Game -Orson Scott Card
• ❑ Dirk Gently books -Douglas Adams
• ❑ On Writting -Steven King (he reads the audio book)
• ❑ Decorating Your First Apartment -Paige Gilchrist
• ❑ First Digs -Yee-Fan Sun
• ❑ Abode a la Mode -Jeanee Ledoux
• ❑ The Forever War, Author's Preferred Edition -haldman?
• ❑ God is Not Great -Christopher Hitchens
• ❑ Book Crush -Nancy Pearl
• ❑ Spook Country - William Gibson
• ❑ Bit Literacy -Mark Hurst
• ❑ Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui -Karaen Kingston 133.3337 K Farm
••••• ^ Not so great. Did not enjoy.

6/27/07

Game to Start

Rhem 2

Game to finish

Shivers

Since last we met...

• ❑ Satan: A Biography -Henry Ansgar Kelly
• ❑ The Origins of Satan -Elaine Pagel
• ❑ The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil -Dr. Paul Carus c 1900
• ❑ The Anthropology of Evil" by David Parkin
• ❑ A History of the Devil -Gerald Messadie Translated by Marc Romano
• ❑ The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke -Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi
• ❑ This is your brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession -Daniel Levitin
• ❑ The Mystery of Ireta -Anne McCaffrey
• ❑ The Lady -Anne McCaffrey
• ❑ Black Horses for the King -Anne McCaffrey
• ❑ On Dragonwings -Anne McCaffrey
• ❑ Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship -George Dyson
• ❑ Old Man's War -John Scalzi
• ❑ The Ghost Brigades -John Scalzi
• ❑ Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability -Steve Krug
• ❑ Bitter Harvest : A Chef's Perspective on the Hidden Danger in the Foods We Eat and What You Can Do About It -Ann Cooper
• ❑ Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen -Anna Lappe, Bryant Terry
• ❑ Why Smart People Do Dumb Things -Dr. Mortimer Feinberg and John J. Tarrant
• ❑ Fog of War -Robert S. McNamara
• ❑ Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage, -Philip Taubman
• ❑ Hacker Crackdown -Bruce Sterling
• ❑ Beyond Fear -Bruce Schneier
• ❑ The Areas of My Expertise -John Hodgman -Funny ads for it too
• ❑ The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders -Keith Olbermann
• ❑ "life as we do not know it" by Peter Ward
• ❑ How Would A Patriot Act? -Glenn Greenwald
• ❑ Timeline -Michael chriten
• ❑ asaro, cat
• ❑ Pattern Recognition -Gibson
• ❑ Jennifer Government -?
• ❑ The Jennifer Morgue -Charlie Stross
• ❑ Outfoxed -Greenwald documentary did "Iraq For Sale" about profiteering contractors in Iraq
• ❑ Land of Oz on Dream Spiral -Hilary Stagg harp music
• ❑ anything by Noam Chomsky
• ❑ Deathlands series by James Axler
• ❑ Heechee Trilogy by Fredrik Pohl
• ❑ The God Delusion -Richard Dawkins also, the Blind Watchmaker and The Ancestor's Tale
❑ Ghost Map -Steven Johnson cholera outbreak in 19th-century London
BY STEVEN JOHNSON
Saturday, September 9, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT
• ❑ a 1. "History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (431 B.C.).
• ❑ a 2. "A Journal of the Plague Year" by Daniel Defoe (1722).
• ❑ a 3. "Rats, Lice and History" by Hans Zinnser (Little, Brown, 1935).
• ❑ a 4. "Plagues and Peoples" by William H. McNeill (Anchor Books, 1976).
• ❑ a 5. "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston (Random House, 1994).
• ❑ Bimbos of the Death Sun, She Walks These Hills, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, The rosewood Casket, Zombies of the Gene Pool -Sharyn McCrumb
• ❑ The Black Dahlia -James Ellroy
• ❑ Brick -movie directed by Rian Johnson noir-ish
• ❑ Why Things Are -Joel Achenbach
• ❑ Tempting Faith -David Kuo
• ❑ The Book of Origins -
• ❑ Sunrise Alley -Catherine Asaro
• ❑ Elvis Cole Books -Robert Cray
• ❑ Big Country's Steeltown music
• ❑ Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America -Mark Ehrman
• ❑ The Echo Maker, AI (Galatea 2.2), The Gold Bug Variations and Plowing the Dark -Richard Powers
• ❑ The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness -Steven Levy
• ❑ Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with Inkjet Printers -Uwe Steinmueller and Juergen Gulbins
• ❑ GIMP 2 for Photographers
Image Editing with Open Source Software -KLAUS GOELKER
• ❑ No Sheep for You: Knit Happy with Cotton, Silk, Linen, Hemp, Bamboo, and Other Delights -Amy R. Singer
• ❑ Glass Houses -Laura J Mixon (a cyberpunk classic)
• ❑ The Drowned World -J.G. Ballard
• ❑ Heavy Weather -Bruce Sterling
• ❑ Science in the Capital -Kim Stanley Robinson (trilogy)
• ❑ Hotter Than Hell -Mark Tushingham
• ❑ John Campbell, the editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine during its heyday in the late-'30s through the '40s, once said that science fiction allowed people to practice in a no-practice area. These days, climate change is making that no-practice area more of a reality.
• ❑ Timescape -Gregory Benford
• ❑ The Trouble With Physics -Lee Smolin
• ❑ 101 Killer Apps for Your Palm Handheld. -Rick Broida
• ❑ Remembering the Kanji I: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters Vol. 1 4th Edition -James W. Heisig
• ❑ 11/1/06
• ❑ Why Do Men Have Nipples? -Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg
• ❑ Creature From The Black Lagoon: Time's Black Lagoon -Paul Di Filippo
• ❑ 11/13/06
• ❑ Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon -Daniel C. Dennett
• ❑ Anonymous Rex FH, Casual Rex FH, Hot and Sweaty Rex FH, Matchstick Men FH, Cassandra French's Finishing School For Boys FH, -Eric Garcia
• ❑ Faith and Politics -John Danforth
• ❑ PipeDream (an early Mac game from Lucas Film Inc
• ❑ The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness -Steven Levy
• ❑ Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution -Steven Levy
• ❑ Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor, -Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (same author wrote Freakonomics
• ❑ Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age -Steven Levy
• ❑ Clean House -Alison Haynes
• ❑ beyond infinity -Greg Benford
• ❑ The Night of the Triffids (a sequl to Day of the Triffids
• ❑ Sun of Suns -Karl Schroeder
• ❑ Worldchanging -Alex Steffen
• ❑ Paradigms Lost -
• ❑ Chaos: Making a New Science
• ❑ Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius
• ❑ Who's Afraid of Shrodinger's Cat? -
• ❑ Won for All: How the Drosophila Genome Was Sequenced -
• ❑ Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
• ❑ Silver on the Tree, The Grey King, Greenwitch, The Dark is Rising, Over the Sea, Under Stone -Susan Cooper The Dark is Rising fantasy series
• ❑ Inside the Machine: an Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architechture
• ❑ Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back -Norah Vincent
• ❑ Rachael Ray Express Lane Meals
• ❑ Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
• ❑ Real Fast Food -Nigel Slater
• ❑ Google Analytics -Mary E. Tyler & Jerri Ledford
• ❑ On Food and Cooking by McGee
• ❑ Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks -Rickford Grant
• ❑ Nature Girl -Carl Hiaasen
• ❑ New Winter Cask Ale -Beer I had at Shields on 12/9/06 Verry tasty! -Update: John found a beer called Winter Boubon Cask Ale bottled by/for A.Bush that tastes like it is the one!
• ❑ The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap -Stu Maschwitz
• ❑ SuperFoods RX: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life -Steven Pratt, MD
• ❑ Death Note: The Last Name (aka: Desu nôto) (Japanese move based on graphic novels)
• ❑ American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America Chris Hedges
• ❑ A Theory of Fun for Game Design -Ralph Koster, Will Wright
• ❑ Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art -Scott McCloud
• ❑ The War of Art -Steven Pressfield
• ❑ Schott's Almanac & Schott's Original Miscellany -both by Ben Schott
• ❑ Thea Kozak books by Kate Flora
• ❑ Thinking Physics -Lewis C. Epstein
• ❑ WordsThat Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear -Frank Luntz
• ❑ Mathematicians in Love -Rudy Rucker
• ❑ The Sight -movie directed by Paul S. Anderson -the one who did AvP
• ❑ Crystal Method's "Trip Like I Do"
• ❑ Unstrange Minds; Remapping the World of Autism, George Washington University anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker
• ❑ Ubuntu Hacks -by Jonathan Oxer, Kyle Rankin, and Bill Childers is a cookbook written for a more advanced audience
• ❑ Official Ubuntu Book -Benjamin Mako Hill, Jono Bacon, Corey Burger, Jonathan Jesse and Ivan Krstic
• ❑ Design of Everyday Things and Emotional Design) -Donald Norman
• ❑ Idea Mapping: How to Access Your Hidden Brain Power, Learn Faster, Remember More, and Achieve Success in Business_ by Jamie Nast
• ❑ Pan’s Labyrinth -Movie
• ❑ Split Rails Corners -Lucy Levenworth Wilder Morris (life in pioneer Minnasota)
• ❑ The Elegant Universe -Brian Greene
• ❑ Imagining the Tenth Dimension -Rob Bryanton
• ❑ Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats and Why We Believe Them -John Mueller
• ❑ Break Through Rapid Reading
• ❑ Simulacra and Simulation -Jean Baudrillard
• ❑ The Apple Way -Jeffrey Cruikshank
• ❑ The Book of Saladin -Tariq Ali
• ❑ Things will never be the same -Howard Waldrop
• ❑ On Writing Well -William Zinsser
• ❑ Mysterious America -Loren Coleman
• ❑ Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tips to Turbocharge Your Day -Gina Trapani
• ❑ Made to Stick -Chip & Dan Heath
• ❑ The Art and Science of Digital Compositing -Ron Brinkmann
• ❑ music Dream Spiral -Hilary Stagg
• ❑ The Computer: An Illustrated History -Mark Frauenfelder
• ❑ Survival of the Sickest -Sharon Moalem
• ❑ Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years -Dennis T. Avery and S. Fred Singer
• ❑ Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming -Patrick J. Michaels
• ❑ Death by Black Hole -Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• ❑ Where Have All the Leaders Gone? -Lee Iacocca
• ❑ Deep Economy and The End of Nature 2 books by -Bill McKibben
• ❑ Second Chance -Zbigniew Brzezinski
• ❑ The Wild Trees -richard Preston same guy did "the hot zone"
• ❑ Don't just do something, sit there : a mindfulness retreat with Sylvia Boorstein
• ❑ Wherever you go, there you are -John Hampel
• ❑ Peace is every step : the path of mindfulness in everyday life -Thich Nhat Hanh ; edited by Arnold Kotler
• ❑ Mark Lynas's Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
• ❑ Stumbling on Happiness -Daniel Gilbert
• ❑ author -Ted Chiang
• ❑ Portable Childhoods -Ellen Klages
• ❑ Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder -David Weinberger (cluetrain manifesto coauthor)
• ❑ Jane Jacobs's Death and Life of the Great American Cities
• ❑ Christopher Hitchens God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
• ❑ book out from O'Reilly called Mind Hacks
• ❑ Museum of Lost Wonder: DIY papercraft cabinet of wonders -Jeff Hoke
• ❑ William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express 23 engima
• ❑ The Free Lunch -Spider Robinson also God is and Iron and Other Stories, The Star Dancers, Deathkiller, User Friendly, Starseed, The Callahan Chronicals, The Callahan Touch, Callahan's Legacy, Lifehouse, By Any Other Name, Starmind, Callahan's Key, Telempath, Time Travelers Strictly Cash, Callahan's Lady, Callahan's Secret, Lady Slings the Booze, Callahan's Con, Off the Wall at Callahan's, The Crazy Years, Night of Power, Very Bad Deaths, Variable Star
• ❑ Mac OS X Internals -Amit Singh
• ❑ Why We Buy by Paco Underhill (read with your consumer eyes wide open)
• ❑ Clean House, Clean Planet -Karen Logan
• ❑ The Naturally Clean Home -Karyn Siegel-Maier
• ❑ Fire in the Valley (about the beginning in Silicon Valley)
• ❑ Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics -J.R.R. Tolkien
• ❑ Beowulf & Grendel: The Truth Behind England's Oldest Legend -John Grigsby
• ❑ Grendel (Beowulf from Grendel's point of view) -John Gardner
• ❑ Rule the Web: How to do anything and Everything on the Internet -- Better, Faster, Easier -Mark Frauenfelder
• ❑ The War of Art -Steven Pressfield
• ❑ On Intelligence -Jeff Hawkins
• ❑ Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload -Mark Hurst
• ❑ Stumbling on Happiness -Daniel Gilbert
• ❑ Accelerando -Charles Stross
• ❑ The Man Who Ate Everything -Jeffery Steingarten
• ❑ Death Comes for the Fat Man -Reginald Hill (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries
• ❑ Midsomer Murders -Caroline Graham
• ❑ Who's Watching You?: The Chilling Truth About The State, Surveillance, and Personal Freedom -The Disinformation Company
• ❑ Who Really Runs the World? The War Between Globalization and Democracy -The Disinformation Company
• ❑ Just A Geek -Wil Wheaton (audio book read by him)
• ❑ Everything is Miscellaneous -David Weinberger
• ❑ Some Sci-Fi authors to check out: Charles Stross (Glasshouse, The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue, Accelerando Stross's Accelerando, BTW, it can be downloaded from the internet for free www.accelerando.org—, Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise blogger); Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies, Thirteen; Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap, Century Rain, Chasm City, The Prefect; Ken MacLeod; The Star Fraction, The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, The Sky Road and The Execution Channel; Peter Hamilton, Pandora's Star, Judas Unchained; John Scalzi, Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony; Neal Asher, Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent, The Skinner, The Voyage of the Sable Keech, Prador Moon; Chris Moriarty, Spin State Spin Control; Peter Watts, Blindsight; David Marusek, Counting Heads; Ted Chiang; China Mieville's - Perdido Street Station, The Scar, The Teyn (from the multi-author "Cities" anthology); Takeshi Kovacs <-char or author?; "Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide." prof. Jonathan Vos Post co-webmaster magicdragon.com; Sean McMullen, Voyage of the Shadowmoon; John C. Wright; Iain Banks, The Algebraist; Wil McCarthy; Karl Schroeder, Lady of Mazes; Robert Charles Wilson, Spin; Kage Baker; Robert J. Sawyer; James Halperin, The First Immortal, The Truth Machine; Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife; Dan Simmons, Hyperion, Ilium, Olympos; Danile Keys, The Long Run; Greg Egan, Diaspora; Richard Paul Russo, Carlucci novellas; Alastair Reynolds, Pushing Ice; Ian McDonald, River of Gods; Adam Roberts, Gradisil, Tobias S. Buckell, Crystal Rain, Raggamuffin; M.T. Anderson, Feed; Elizabeth Bear, Jenny Series; Karen Travis, Wess'Har Series;
• ❑ True Names -Vernor Vinge (also Rainbows End)
• ❑ The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time -Elizabeth Rogers, Thomas M. Kostigen
• ❑ The Overlook -Michael Connelly
• ❑ Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Signs from Heaven -Phaedra M. Weldon
• ❑ Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Blackout -Phaedra M. Weldon (seems to be a series of books in the "Starfleet Corps of Engineers" vein)
• ❑ Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams -Barbara Sher
• ❑ Simplify Your Life and Living the Simple Life -Elaine St. James
• ❑ Your Money or Your Life -Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robins
• ❑ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People -Stephen Covey
• ❑ The Art of Happiness -Dalai Lama
• ❑ Manufacturing Consent -Noam Chomsky
• ❑ Shibumi, Tao Te Ching, The Bhagavad Gita, atrick O’Brian became a passion later in life.
Mark Helprin is a writer I return to often.
• ❑ Distraction by Bruce Sterling
• ❑ Driven to Distraction by Dr. Edward Hallowell
• ❑ The Book of Five Rings by Musashi
• ❑ “How to Win Friends & Influence People” by Dale Carnegie
• ❑ The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari -Robin Sharma
• ❑ Megaliving also -Sharma
• ❑ The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
• ❑ And Then There Were None -Eric Frank Russell
• ❑ Abhorsen series -Garth Nix
• ❑“Now, Discover Your Strengths” -Marcus Buckingham
• ❑“Fierce Conversations” Susan Scott
• ❑Harry Potter
• ❑“Howard’s End” EM Forrester
• ❑“A Prayer for Owen Meany” John Irving
• ❑ The Crack in the Cosmic Egg
• ❑The Power of Now
• ❑Seat of the Soul
• ❑Tao Te Ching
• ❑Flow
• ❑Getting Things Done
• ❑The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
• ❑The Complete Poems of William Blake
• ❑The Varieties of Religious Experience
• ❑The Now Habit
• ❑The Essential David Bohm
• ❑The Holographic Universe
• ❑If you want to write -Brenda Ueland
• ❑ Peoples History of the United States -Howard Zinn
• ❑ Neuromancer -William Gibson
• ❑Stand on Zannzibar - John Brunner
• ❑The Diamond Age -Neal Stephenson
• ❑The Autobiography of Malcom X -Alex Haley
• ❑ “Nothing Left Over: A Plain and Simple Life” -Toinette Lippe
• ❑ Greenwillow -B.J. Chute
• ❑ Traveling Mercies -Anne Lamott
• ❑ Brave New World -Aldous Huxley
• ❑ Diet for a Small Planet -Frances Moore Lappe
• ❑ The Historian -Elizabeth Kostova
• ❑ The History of Woman Suffrage -Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, et al
• ❑ The Feminist Mystique -Betty Friedan
• ❑ How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt and Live Prosperously -Jerrold Mundis.
• ❑ The Spirituality of Imperfection.
• ❑ Behaving as if the God in All Life Matters -Machaelle Small Wright
• ❑ The Kin of Atta are Waiting for you -Dorothy Bryant
• ❑ The Shiva Trilogy -Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
• ❑ The American Book of the Dead -EJ Gold
• ❑ The Chosen -?
• ❑ Snowblind
• ❑ Kink, Strange Angels - Kathe Koja
• ❑ Borrowed Time - Paul Monette
• ❑ How to Want What You Have -Timothy Ray Miller
• ❑ A Year to Live -Stephen Levine
• ❑ Razor’s Edge
• ❑ Siddhartha
• ❑ Endgame -Derrick Jensen
• ❑ Politics of Experience -RD Lang
• ❑ Masculine Domination -Pierre Bourdeau (sp?)
• ❑ Women Who Run With The Wolves -Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• ❑ Language Older Than Words -Derrick Jensen
• ❑ Last of the Just by André Schwarz-Bart
• ❑ Buddhism Without Beliefs -Stephen Batchelor
• ❑ A Gift From the Sea - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• ❑ Martin Eden by Jack London
• ❑ Voluntary Simplicity -Duane Elgin
• ❑ Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• ❑ If the Buddha Got Stuck -Charlotte Kasl
• ❑ Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
• ❑ The Four Agreements -Don Miguel Ruiz
• ❑ The Secret
• ❑ Sweeping Changes -Gary Thorp
• ❑ Inspiration, Getting In The Gap, both - Dr. Wayne Dyer
• ❑ The Right To Write -Julia Cameron
• ❑ I second Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
• ❑ Unweaving the Rainbow -Richard Dawkins
• ❑ I Ching
• ❑ The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying -Sogyal Rinpoche
• ❑ Joan of Arc -Mark Twain
• ❑ Man and His Symbols -Carl Jung
• ❑ Spring Snow -Yukio Mishima
• ❑ To the Stars -George Takei (audio book is done by him)
• ❑ -Al Frankin
• ❑ The Company (50 hour audio book)

4/9/07

books again

• ❑ PipeDream (an early but VERY cool Mac game from Lucas Film Inc
• ❑ The Night of the Triffids (a sequl to Day of the Triffids
• ❑ Sun of Suns -Karl Schroeder
• ❑ Worldchanging -Alex Steffen
• ❑ Paradigms Lost -
• ❑ Chaos: Making a New Science
• ❑ Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius
• ❑ Who's Afraid of Shrodinger's Cat? -
• ❑ Won for All: How the Drosophila Genome Was Sequenced -
• ❑ Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
• ❑ Silver on the Tree, The Grey King, Greenwitch, The Dark is Rising, Over the Sea, Under Stone -Susan Cooper The Dark is Rising fantasy series
• ❑ Inside the Machine: an Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architechture
• ❑ Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back -Norah Vincent
• ❑ Rachael Ray Express Lane Meals
• ❑ Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
• ❑ Real Fast Food -Nigel Slater
• ❑ Google Analytics -Mary E. Tyler & Jerri Ledford
• ❑ On Food and Cooking by McGee
• ❑ Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks -Rickford Grant
• ❑ Nature Girl -Carl Hiaasen
• ❑ New Winter Cask Ale -Beer I had at Shields on 12/9/06 Verry tasty! -Update: John found a beer called Winter Boubon Cask Ale bottled by/for A.Bush that tastes like it is the one!
• ❑ The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap -Stu Maschwitz
• ❑ SuperFoods RX: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life -Steven Pratt, MD
• ❑ Death Note: The Last Name (aka: Desu nôto) (Japanese move based on graphic novels)
• ❑ American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America Chris Hedges
• ❑ A Theory of Fun for Game Design -Ralph Koster, Will Wright
• ❑ Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art -Scott McCloud
• ❑ The War of Art -Steven Pressfield
• ❑ Schott's Almanac & Schott's Original Miscellany -both by Ben Schott
• ❑ Thea Kozak books by Kate Flora
• ❑ Thinking Physics -Lewis C. Epstein
• ❑ WordsThat Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear -Frank Luntz
• ❑ Mathematicians in Love -Rudy Rucker
• ❑ Alice Coltrane, RIP: 1937-2007 "Journey In Satchidananda", double LP REFLECTIONS ON CREATION AND SPACE, PTAH, THE EL-DAOUD, World Galaxy for heavenly strings and "Blue Nile" -music
• ❑ The Sight -movie directed by Paul S. Anderson -the one who did AvP
• ❑ Wild Blue Yonder, Automatons and Interkosmos, Puzzlehead -movies • ❑ Crystal Method's "Trip Like I Do"
• ❑ Unstrange Minds; Remapping the World of Autism, George Washington University anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker
• ❑ Ubuntu Hacks -by Jonathan Oxer, Kyle Rankin, and Bill Childers • ❑ Official Ubuntu Book -Benjamin Mako Hill, Jono Bacon, Corey Burger, Jonathan Jesse and Ivan Krstic
• ❑ Design of Everyday Things and Emotional Design) -Donald Norman
• ❑ Idea Mapping: How to Access Your Hidden Brain Power, Learn Faster, Remember More, and Achieve Success in Business_ by Jamie Nast
• ❑ Pan’s Labyrinth -Movie
• ❑ Split Rails Corners -Lucy Levenworth Wilder Morris (life in pioneer Minnasota)
• ❑ The Elegant Universe -Brian Greene
• ❑ Imagining the Tenth Dimension -Rob Bryanton
• ❑ Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats and Why We Believe Them -John Mueller
• ❑ Break Through Rapid Reading
• ❑ Simulacra and Simulation -Jean Baudrillard
• ❑ The Apple Way -Jeffrey Cruikshank
• ❑ The Book of Saladin -Tariq Ali
• ❑ Things will never be the same -Howard Waldrop
• ❑ On Writing Well -William Zinsser
• ❑ Mysterious America -Loren Coleman
• ❑ Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tips to Turbocharge Your Day -Gina Trapani
• ❑ Made to Stick -Chip & Dan Heath
• ❑ The Art and Science of Digital Compositing -Ron Brinkmann
• ❑ music Dream Spiral -Hilary Stagg
• ❑ The Computer: An Illustrated History -Mark Frauenfelder
• ❑ Survival of the Sickest -Sharon Moalem
• ❑ Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years -Dennis T. Avery and S. Fred Singer
• ❑ Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming -Patrick J. Michaels
• ❑ Death by Black Hole -Neil DeGrasse Tyson