Brett Victor's bookshelf
Bret Victor's bookshelf



  The Internate



On January 5, 2016 Bret Victor tweeted a picture of his bookshelf. I’ve catalogued all of the books, by topic, below. They cover a wide variety of subjects, and I think they’re really interesting if you are a fan of Bret’s work.

Comics


  Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
  Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud
  Making Comics by Scott McCloud
  Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative by Will Eisner (published by W. W. Norton & Company)
  Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative by Will Eisner (published by Poorhouse Press)
  Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative by Will Eisner
  Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner
  DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics by Mark Chiarello and Todd Klein
  Faster Than a Speeding Bullet by Stephen Weiner
  How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way by Stan Lee and John Buscema
  The Visual Language of Comics by Neil Cohn
  Perspective! for Comic Book Artists by David Chelsea
  The Comics of Chris Ware by David M. Ball and Martha B. Kuhlman
  Chris Ware by Daniel Raeburn
  Krazy Kat by George Herriman and Patrick McDonnell and Peter Maresca


Animation


  The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas
  How to Make Animated Films by Tony White
  Grammar of the Film Language by Daniel Arijon
  3D Art Essentials by Ami Chopine
  3D Animation Essentials by Andy Beane


Game design


  Chris Crawford on Game Design by Chris Crawford
  Racing the Beam by Nick Montfort
  How to Do Things with Videogames by Ian Bogost
  Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga
  Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster


Type


  The Non-Designer’s Type Book by Robin Williams
  The Splendor of Islamic Calligraphy by Abdelkebir Khatibi and Mohammed Sijelmassi
  The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
  Type by Simon Loxley
  Calligraphy by Arthur Baker


Interface design


  About Face by Alan Cooper and Robert Reimann
  The Art of Interactive Design by Chris Crawford
  Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
  The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design by Brenda Laurel
  The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin


Industrial design


  Human Engineering Guide for Equipment Designers by Wesley Woodson and Donald W. Conover
  Designing for People by Henry Dreyfuss
  Cradle to Cradle by Michael Braungart and William McDonough
  The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
  Small Things Considered by Henry Petroski


Visual design


  Understanding Color by Linda Holtzschue
  Interaction of Color by Josef Albers and Nicholas F. Weber
  The Nature and Art of Workmanship by David Pye
  Logic and Design by Krome Barratt
  A History of Graphic Design by Philip B. Meggs
  Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell and Kritina Holden
  The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams
  The Nature and Aesthetics of Design by David Pye


Visual thinking


  Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
  Visual Thinking by Rudolf Arnheim
  Art and Visual Perception by Rudolf Arnheim
  The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry by Jay Hambidge
  The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception by James J. Gibson
  Laws of Seeing by Wolfgang Metzger and Lothar Spillmann
  On the Rationalization of Sight by William Mills Ivins and Jean Pelerin
  The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam
  Unflattening by Nick Sousanis


Information design


  The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
  Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
  Visual Explanations by Edward R. Tufte
  Beautiful Evidence by Edward R. Tufte
  Graphic Discovery by Howard Wainer
  Show Me the Numbers by Stephen Few
  Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few
  Playfair’s Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary by William Playfair
  The Elements of Graphing Data by William S. Cleveland
  Visualizing Data by William S. Cleveland
  Semiology of Graphics by Jacques Bertin
  Visual Complexity by Manuel Lima
  The Book of Trees by Manuel Lima and Ben Shneiderman
  Information Graphics by Robert L. Harris
  Graph Design for the Eye and Mind by Stephen M. Kosslyn
  The Grammar of Graphics by Leland Wilkinson and D. Wills
  Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton
  On the Map by Simon Garfield
  Exploratory Data Analysis by John W. Tukey
  Cartographic Relief Presentation by Eduard Imhof
  The Collected Works of John W. Tukey. Volume I by John W. Tukey and William S. Cleveland
  The Collected Works of John W. Tukey. Volume IV by John W. Tukey and L.V. Jones
  The Collected Works of John W. Tukey. Volume V by John W. Tukey and William S. Cleveland


Architecture


  Introduction to Architecture by Francis D. K. Ching and James F. Eckler
  A Visual Dictionary of Architecture by Francis D. K. Ching
  How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand
  How to Read Bridges by Edward Denison and Ian Stewart
  Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander
  The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs and Jason Epstein
  A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander and Sara Ishikawa
  The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander


Writing


  The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
  Language Myths by Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill
  Stein on Writing by Sol Stein
  Maps of the Imagination by Peter Turchi
  The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
  The Art of Description by Mark Doty
  All The Fun’s In How You Say A Thing by Timothy Steele
  The Careful Writer by Theodore M. Bernstein
  Roget’s Thesaurus by Princeton Language Institute
  Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary by Merriam-Webster


Music theory


  Harmonic Experience by W. A. Mathieu
  On the Sensations of Tone by Hermann Helmholtz
  Temperament by Stuart Isacoff
  How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony by Ross W. Duffin
  Choreo-graphics by Ann Hutchinson Guest
  Traces Of Dance by Paul Virilio and Valerie Preston-Dunlop


Persuasion


  Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
  Getting More by Stuart Diamond
  Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
  Why We Buy by Paco Underhill
  Influence by Robert B. Cialdini


Management


  The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
  The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker
  Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister
  The Design of Design by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.


???


  Computer Lib by Theodor H. Nelson
  ???
  The Last Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand
  Whole Earth Epilog by Stewart Brand
  The Next Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand
  The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog by Howard Rheingold
  Whole Earth Software Catalog by Stewart Brand
  What to Do After You Hit Return by People’s Computer Company
  My Computer Likes Me When I Speak in Basic by Robert Albrecht





  Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
  Narrative across Media by Marie-Laure Ryan
  The Bias of Communication by Harold Innis
  The Printing Press as an Agent of Change by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
  Media and Symbols by D. R. Olson


The New Medium


  Hamlet on the Holodeck by Janet H. Murray
  Computers as Theatre by Brenda Laurel
  Computer Lib by Theodor H. Nelson
  Literary Machines by Theodor H. Nelson
  Mirror Worlds by David Gelernter
  ??? Data Management
  Human Interface: Where People and Computers Meet by Richard A. Bolt
  Libraries of the Future by J. C. R. Licklider
  Future Libraries by R. Howard Bloch and Carla Hesse
  Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
  From Memex To Hypertext by James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn
  Artificial Reality 2 by Myron K. Krueger
  Software Takes Command by Lev Manovich
  Augmenting Human Intellect by D. C. Engelbart


Learning


  How Children Fail by John Holt
  How Children Learn by John Holt
  Learning All The Time by John Holt
  The End of Education by Neil Postman
  What’s Math Got to Do with It? by Jo Boaler
  How to Survive in Your Native Land by Jack Herndon
  Mindstorms by Seymour A. Papert
  The Children’s Machine by Seymour Papert
  The Connected Family by Seymour Papert
  Changing Minds by Andrea diSessa
  Getting It Wrong from the Beginning by Kieran Egan
  The Educated Mind by Kieran Egan
  Thought and Language by Lev S. Vygotsky
  Mind in Society by Lev S. Vygotsky
  Toward a Theory of Instruction  by Jerome Bruner
  On Knowing by Jerome Bruner
  Actual Minds, Possible Worlds by Jerome Bruner
  Life in Classrooms by Philip W. Jackson
  What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee
  Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
  A Different Kind of Teacher by John Taylor Gatto
  Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto
  The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto


Embodied thinking


  Where Mathematics Come From by George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez
  Cognition in the Wild by Edwin Hutchins
  The Hand by Frank R. Wilson
  The Hand Owner’s Manual by Roy A. Meals
  I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  Evocative Objects by Sherry Turkle
  The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
  Impro by Keith Johnstone
  Descartes’ Error by Anthony Damasio
  Being There by Andy Clark
  Where the Action Is by Paul Dourish
  Simulation and Its Discontents by Sherry Turkle
  Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford


The mind


  Frames of Mind by Howard Gardner
  Origins of the Modern Mind by Merlin Donald
  Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  The Large, the Small and the Human Mind by Roger Penrose
  The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
  Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
  The Quest for Consciousness by Koch Christof
  In Search of Memory by Eric R. Kandel
  The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
  On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
  Mind Wide Open by Steven Johnson
  The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore





  Understanding Computers and Cognition by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores
  Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  Surfaces and Essences by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander
  Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff
  The Symbolic Species by Terrence W. Deacon
  Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
  The Way We Think by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner
  Origins of Human Communication by Michael Tomasello


Creativity and ideas


  Common as Air by Lewis Hyde
  Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky
  The Gift by Lewis Hyde
  Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
  The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
  Good Work by Howard E. Gardner and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler


Scientific creativity


  How to Solve It by G. Polya
  Induction and Analogy in Mathematics by G. Polya
  Patterns of Plausible Inference by G. Polya
  Mathematical Discovery by G. Polya
  And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared by Genrich Altshuller
  Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard W. Hamming
  Creating Scientific Concepts by Nancy J Nersessian
  The Engelbart Hypothesis by Valerie Landau, Eileen Clegg, and Douglas Engelbart
  What Engineers Know and How They Know It by Walter G. Vincenti


Philosophy of Science


  Falling for Science by Sherry Turkle
  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
  The Road since Structure by Thomas S. Kuhn
  What Is This Thing Called Science? by Alan F. Chalmers
  Scientific Discovery by Patrick W. Langley and Herbert A. Simon
  Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
  The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination by Jacob Bronowski
  Reliable Knowledge by John M. Ziman
  The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert U. Simon
  Science in Action by Bruno Latour
  Laboratory Life by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar


Technology and culture


  What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
  Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
  The Nature of Technology by W. Brian Arthur
  Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
  Technopoly by Neil Postman
  Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins
  Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
  Small Pieces Loosely Joined by David Weinberger
  Remix by Lawrence Lessig
  Code by Lawrence Lessig
  The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig
  Computers and Society by Richard W. Hamming
  The Coming of the Body by Herve Juvin
  Condition of Man by Mumford Lewis
  The Identity of Man by Jacob Bronowski
  Interface Culture by Steven A. Johnson
  Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum
  The Computer Age by Joel Moses Michael L. Dertouzos
  Science and Human Values by Jacob Bronowski
  ???
  From Satori to Silicon Valley by Theodore Roszak
  The Cult of Information by Theodore Roszak
  The Clock Of The Long Now by Stewart Brand
  Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler
  Free Software Free Society by Richard Stallman
  Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
  Science Is Not Enough by Vannevar Bush
  I Seem to Be a Verb by R. Buckminster Fuller
  Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R. Buckminster Fuller
  Utopia or Oblivion by R. Buckminster Fuller
  Synergetics by R. Buckminster Fuller


Ecology


  EcoCities by Richard Register
  The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken
  The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
  Sustainable Energy by David JC MacKay
  Don’t Even Think About It by George Marshall
  Our Choice by Al Gore


Culture


  No Logo by Naomi Klein
  Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
  Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
  The Omega Seed by Paolo Soleri
  Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
  Born to Buy by Juliet B. Schor
  The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
  The Savage Mind by Claude Lévi-Strauss
  The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman
  The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
  Seeing like a State by James C. Scott
  Reassembling the Social by Bruno Latour
  The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell


Cultural history


  A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared M. Diamond
  Collapse by Jared Diamond
  Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
  Thinking in Time by Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May
  Centuries of Change by Ian Mortimer


History of math


  Mathematics and Its History by John Stillwell
  Ways of Thought of Great Mathematicians by H. Meschkowski
  A Concise History of Mathematics by Dirk J. Struik
  Journey through Genius by William Dunham
  A History of Chinese Mathematics by Jean-Claude Martzloff
  King of Infinite Space by Siobhan Roberts
  Chaos by James Gleick
  The Lady Tasting Tea by David Salsburg
  Henri Poincaré by Jeremy Gray
  Henri Poincaré by Ferdinand Verhulst
  Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups by Thomas Hawkins
  The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved by Mario Livio
  Science Awakening by B. L. Van Der Waerden
  Mathematics by Morris Kline


History of numbers and notation


  The Universal History of Numbers by Georges Ifrah
  Zero by Charles Seife
  An Imaginary Tale by Paul J. Nahin
  Gamma by Julian Havil
  Number Words and Number Symbols by Karl Menninger
  Enlightening Symbols by Joseph Mazur
  Numbers by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus et al.
  Before Writing, Volume I by Denise Schmandt-Besserat
  Before Writing, Volume II by Denise Schmandt-Besserat
  The History of Counting by Denise Schmandt-Bessert


1st Person Historical Math


  Euclid’s Elements by Euclid
  The Geometry by René Descartes
  An Introduction to Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead
  Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll
  Mathematical Logic by Stephen Cole Kleene
  An Investigation of the Laws of Thought by George Boole
  A Mathematician’s Apology by G. H. Hardy
  The World of Mathematics Volume 1 by James R. Newman
  The World of Mathematics Volume 2 by James R. Newman
  The World of Mathematics Volume 3 by James R. Newman
  The World of Mathematics Volume 4 by James R. Newman


Math (Misc)


  Mathematics by A. D. Aleksandrov and A. N. Kolmogorov
  Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Geometry by Felix Klein
  Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Arithmetic, Algebra, Analytics by Felix Klein
  Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Steven H. Strogatz
  Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham
  Visual Complex Functions by Elias Wegert
  On Numbers and Games by John H. Conway
  Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays by Elwyn R. Berlekamp and John H. Conway
  Surreal Numbers by Donald E. Knuth
  Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
  DIV, Grad, Curl, and All That by Harry M. Schey
  Measurement by Paul Lockhart
  Pearls of Discrete Mathematics by Martin Erickson
  Indiscrete Thoughts by Gian-Carlo Rota
  Discrete Thoughts by Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz
  ???


Geometric Algebra


  Geometric Algebra for Computer Science by Leo Dorst and Daniel Fontijne
  Geometric Algebra for Physicists by Chris Doran and Anthony Lasenby
  Linear and Geometric Algebra by Alan Macdonald
  Vector and Geometric Calculus by Alan Macdonald
  Clifford Algebra to Geometric Calculus by David Hestenes and Garret Sobczyk


Groups & Symmetry


  Visual Group Theory by Nathan Carter
  The Symmetries of Things by John H. Conway and Heidi Burgiel
  Groups and Their Graphs by Israel Grossman and Wilhelm Magnus
  Regular Polytopes by H. S. M. Coxeter
  Symmetry by Hermann Weyl
  Symmetry by Roy McWeeny


Geometry


  The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid by Oliver Byrne
  ???
  Turtle Geometry by Harold Abelson and Andrea diSessa
  The Geometry of Art and Life by Matila Ghyka
  The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
  New Horizons in Geometry by Tom Apostol and Mamikon Mnatsakanian
  Regular Polytopes by H. S. M. Coxeter


Geometric Construction


  Graphic Statics by Seibert Fairman, Chester Sherman Cutshall
  Engineering Descriptive Geometry by Frank William Bartlett
  Practical Geometry and Engineering Graphics by W. Abbott
  History of Engineering Drawing by P.J. Booker
  The History and Development of Nomography by Dr. H. A. Evesham and Brenda Riddell
  The design of diagrams for engineering formulas and the theory of nomography by Laurence I. Hewes


Probability and Artificial Intelligence


  Theory of Probability by Harold Jeffreys
  Probability Theory by E. T. Jaynes
  Data Analysis by Devinderjit Sivia
  Probabilistic Graphical Models by Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman
  Perceptrons by Marvin Minsky and Seymour A. Papert
  Machine Learning by Tom M. Mitchell
  Heuristics by Judea Pearl


Systems & Modeling


  The Systems Bible by John Gall
  General Principles of Systems Design by Gerald M. Weinberg and Daniela Weinberg
  An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg
  Theory of Modelling and Simulation by Bernard P. Zeigler
  Dynamics of Physical Systems by Robert H. Jr. Cannon
  Introduction to Engineering Design by T.T. Woodson
  The Nature of Mathematical Modeling by Neil Gershenfeld
  Alternate Realities by John L. Casti
  Living Control Systems III by William T. Powers
  Six Degrees by Duncan J. Watts
  Emergence by Steven Johnson
  Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener
  The Human Use Of Human Beings by Norbert Wiener
  Selected Papers of Norbert Wiener by Norbert Wiener


Signal Processing


  Signals and Systems by Alan V. Oppenheim and Alan S. Willsky
  Discrete-Time Signal Processing by Alan V. Oppenheim and Ronald W. Schafer
  Multirate Systems And Filter Banks by P. P. Vaidyanathan


Information theory


  Elements of Information Theory by Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas
  An Introduction to Analog and Digital Communications by Simon Haykin and Michael Moher
  Introduction to Data Compression by Khalid Sayood
  Information and Randomness by Cristian S. Calude
  Grammatical Man by Jeremy Campbell


Graphics


  3D Computer Graphics by Alan Watt
  3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development by Fletcher Dunn and Ian Parberry
  The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman


Numerical Analysis


  Introduction to Applied Numerical Analysis by Richard W. Hamming
  Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers by R. W. Hamming
  Convex Optimization by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe


Circuit Design


  Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics by Simon Ramo and John R. Whinnery
  Analog Integrated Circuit Design by David Johns and Kenneth Martin
  Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits by Paul R. Gray and Paul J. Hurst
  Analog Circuit Design by Bob Dobkin and John Hamburger
  Digital Integrated Circuits by Jan M Rabaey
  Logic Synthesis by Srinivas Devadas and Abhijit Ghosh
  Introduction to VLSI Systems by Carver Mead and Lynn Conway
  Analog VLSI and Neural Systems by Carver Mead


Architecture of Operating Systems


  Computer Architecture by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson
  The Architecture of Symbolic Computers by Peter M. Kogge
  The Design of the UNIX Operating System by Maurice J. Bach
  Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  Capability-based computer systems by Henry M Levy
  Hard Real-Time Computing Systems by Giorgio C. Buttazzo


History of Science


  The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
  Hidden Histories of Science by Robert B. Eds. Silvers
  The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science by E. A. Burtt
  The Man Who Saw Through Time by Loren C. Eiseley
  A History of Mechanical Inventions by Abbott Payson Usher
  The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick
  Longitude by Dava Sobel
  John Von Neumann by Norman MacRae
  A Force of Nature by Richard Reeves
  Tesla by Margaret Cheney
  The Mystery of Metamorphosis by Frank Ryan
  A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  Genius by James Gleick
  Francis Crick by Matt Ridley
  Warmth Disperses and Time Passes by Von Baeyer, Hans Christian
  Suspended In Language by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis
  A Feeling for the Organism by Evelyn Fox Keller
  The Birth Of The Modern by Paul Johnson
  Great Physicists by William H. Cropper
  The Codex Leicester by Leonardo da Vinci
  ???
  Clocks And Culture by Carlo M. Cipolla
  Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow
  The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
  The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
  Wind Wizard by Siobhan Roberts
  Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon
  Einstein by Walter Isaacson
  Bell Laboratories innovation in telecommunications, 1925-1977 by Roland Mueser
  The Maxwellians by Bruce J. Hunt
  Oliver Heaviside by Paul J. Nahin
  Renaissance Engineers from Brunelleschi to Leonardo da Vinci by Paolo Galluzzi
  Laser by Nick Taylor
  John Dalton and the Atom by F Greenaway
  The Copernican Revolution by Thomas S. Kuhn


First person historical science


  Discourse On Bodies In Water by Thomas Salusbury
  Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass by Galileo Galilei
  Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei
  The Principia by Isaac Newton
  Faraday’s Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday
  Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall
  A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field by James Clerk Maxwell
  The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Vol. I by James Clerk Maxwell
  Modern Views of Electricity by Sir Oliver Lodge
  Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens
  The Collected Works of J. Willard Gibbs Vol. I by J. Willard Gibbs
  The Collected Works of J. Willard Gibbs Vol. II by J. Willard Gibbs
  Calculating Engines by Charles Babbage
  The Value of Science by Henri Poincare
  The Electron by Robert Andrews Millikan
  The Theory of Electrons by H. A. Lorentz
  The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
  Physics and Beyond by Werner Heisenberg
  Relativity by Albert Einstein
  The Evolution of Physics by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld
  Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
  The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
  Feynman Lectures On Computation by Richard P. Feynman
  My Inventions by Nikola Tesla
  The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  The Double Helix by James D. Watson Ph.D.
  A Life Decoded by J. Craig Venter
  What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger
  The Art of the Soluble by P.B. Medawar
  Collected Papers by Claude Elwood Shannon
  Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors by William Shockley


History of computers


  The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
  History of Semiconductor Engineering by Bo Lojek
  Revolution in Miniature by Ernest Braun and Stuart MacDonald
  Engines of Logic by Martin Davis
  Microcosm by George Gilder
  Dealers of Lightning by Michael A. Hiltzik
  The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
  What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff
  Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner
  The Information by James Gleick
  Hackers by Steven Levy
  Revolution in The Valley by Andy Hertzfeld
  Insanely Great by Steven Levy
  Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson
  A Few Good Men From Univac by David E. Lundstrom
  The Man Who Invented the Computer by Jane Smiley
  Possiplex by Ted Nelson
  Geeks Bearing Gifts by Ted Nelson
  The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder
  Tools for Thought by Howard Rheingold
  Bootstrapping by Thierry Bardini
  History of Computing in the Twentieth Century by Nicholas Metropolis
  The UNIX Hater’s Handbook by Simson L. Garfinkel and Daniel Weise
  Memory Machines by Belinda Barnet
  A History of Personal Workstations by Adele Goldberg
  History of Programming Languages by Richard L. Wexelblat
  History of Programming Languages, Volume 2 by Thomas J. Bergin and Richard G. Gibson
  The Closed World by Paul N. Edwards
  From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner
  The Chip by T.R. Reid


Programming languages


  APL by Raymond Polivka and Sandra Pakin
  The Design and Evolution of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup
  The Annotated C++ Reference Manual by Margaret A. Ellis and Bjarne Stroustrup
  The Joy of Clojure by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser
  Eiffel by Bertrand Meyer
  Programming Erlang by Joe Armstrong
  FORTH by W. P. Salman, O. Tisserand and B. Toulout
  Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie
  Introduction to Fortran by S.C. Plumb
  The Little Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen
  The Seasoned Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen
  The Reasoned Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman and William E. Byrd
  The Little MLer by Matthias Felleisen and Daniel P. Friedman
  Programming in Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy
  Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language by William W. Wadge
  Clause and Effect by William Clocksin
  Sketchpad by Ivan Edward Sutherland (thanks to Paul McJones for finding this)
  Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment by Adele Goldberg
  Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice by Glen Krasner
  Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation by Adele Goldberg and David Robson
  The TeXbook by Donald E. Knuth
  TeX: The Program by Donald E. Knuth
  Metafont: The Program by Donald E. Knuth
  Viewpoint: Toward a computer for Visual Thinkers by Scott Kim
  Visual Grammars for Visual Languages by Fred Lakin


Programming


  How to Design Programs by Matthias Felleisen and Robert Bruce Findler
  Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
  The Art of the Metaobject Protocol by Gregor Kiczales and Jim des Rivieres
  Elements of Programming by Alexander A. Stepanov and Paul McJones
  Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi
  Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
  Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin C. Pierce
  Essentials of Programming Languages by Daniel P. Friedman and Mitchell Wand
  Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation by Steven Muchnick
  Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen and Charles E. Leiserson
  Hacker’s Delight by Henry S. Warren
  Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley
  Coders at Work by Peter Seibel
  Computation by Marvin Lee Minsky
  Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki
  The Space and Motion of Communicating Agents by Robin Milner
  Superdistribution by Brad J. Cox
  A Small Matter of Programming by Bonnie A. Nardi
  Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists by Benjamin C. Pierce


Physics


  The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I by Richard P. Feynman
  The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II by Richard P. Feynman
  The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III by Richard P. Feynman
  Six Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman
  New Foundations for Classical Mechanics by David Hestenes
  Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom
  A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem by Richard D. Mattuck and Physics
  The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen W. Hawking
  The Illustrated “A Brief History of Time” and “The Universe in a Nutshell” by Stephen W. Hawking
  Relativity Visualized by Lewis Carroll Epstein
  Collective Electrodynamics by Carver A. Mead
  The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann
  The Science of Radio by Paul J. Nahin
  Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg
  The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet by Freeman J. Dyson
  From Being to Becoming by Ilya Prigogine


Biology


  On Growth and Form by D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
  The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
  Genome by Matt Ridley
  The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  Biopunk by Marcus Wohlsen
  Monkeyluv by Robert M. Sapolsky
  Biocosm by James N. Gardner
  Human Universals by Donald Brown
  The Stuff of Life by Mark Schultz and Zander Cannon
  The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins



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