Books by author

Mikkel Aaland Photoshop Elements 2 Solutions *** 2004
Scott Adams Dogbert's Top Secret Management Guide ** 1997
Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren How to Read a Book *** 1996
David Allen Getting Things Done *** 2004
  Ready for Anything *** 2004
Isabel Allende Ines of My Soul: A Novel **** 2007
Kevin J. Anderson Hopscotch ** 2003
Philip Andrews Adobe Photoshop Elements: A Visual Introduction to Digital Imaging *** 2002
David Ascher and Frank Willison Programming Python * 2000
David Ascher (editor) The Python Cookbook None ----
Isaac Asimov I, Robot *** 2002
Kate Atkinson Case Histories: A Novel ** 2006
Margaret Atwood Alias Grace ** 2004
  The Handmaid's Tale **** 1997
J. L. Austin Sense and Sensibilia None 1998
Nathan H. Azrin and Richard M. Foxx Toilet Training in Less Than A Day **** 2005
Darrell Bain Alien Infection ** 2008
Nicholson Baker A Box of Matches **** 2003
  Checkpoint *** 2004
  The Everlasting Story of Nory *** 1998
  The Fermata **** 1996
  The Mezzanine ***** 1996
  Room Temperature **** 1996
  The Size of Thoughts **** 1997
  U and I **** 1999
  Vox **** 1997
Kirsten Bakis Lives of the Monster Dogs *** 2000
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Linked **** 2005
Max Barry Jennifer Government *** 2005
John Battelle The Search *** 2006
Charles Baxter The Feast of Love **** 2002
David M. Beazley Python Essential Reference **** 2000
Kent Beck Extreme Programming Explained *** 2003
  Test Driven Development *** 2003
Arthur Benade Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics **** 1998
Gregory Benford Timescape **** 2008
Jon Bentley Programming Pearls ***** 2001
Paul F. Berliner Thinking in Jazz None ----
Louis de Bernieres Corelli's Mandolin ***** 1997
John Bingham No Need for Speed *** 2006
Bill Birchard and David A. Nichol The One-Minute Meditator *** 2005
Christopher M. Bishop Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition ** 1996
Kenneth H. Blanchard and Spencer Johnson The One Minute Manager *** 2006
John C. Bogle The Little Book of Common Sense Investing **** 2007
Joan Bolker Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day None 1998
Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones ***** 1996
  Labyrinths **** 1998
Alain de Botton On Love *** 2004
T.C. Boyle Water Music *** 2008
Travis Bradberry The Personality Code ** 2008
Marion Zimmer Bradley Mists of Avalon ** 1999
Neil Bradley The XML Companion *** 2001
Eric J. Braude Software Engineering ** 2001
Albert Bregman Auditory Scene Analysis None 1998
Leo Breiman and Jerome Friedman and R. A. Olshen and Charles J. Stone Classification and Regression Trees None 1998
John Brockman The Third Culture **** 1997
Dan Brown Angels & Demons **** 2003
  The Da Vinci Code **** 2003
Bill Bryson I'm a Stranger Here Myself *** 2007
  In a Sunburned Country *** 2001
  A Short History of Nearly Everything **** 2003
  A Walk in the Woods **** 2004
Charles Bukowski Post Office *** 1997
Emma Bull War for the Oaks *** 2005
Anthony Burgess The Wanting Seed *** 1997
Stephen Bury and Neal Stephenson Interface *** 2002
David D. Busch Mastering Digital Photography ** 2006
Octavia E. Butler Fledgling **** 2006
Tony Buzan and Barry Buzan The Mind Map Book ** 2006
A.S. Byatt Possession: A Romance None ----
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason The Rule of Four *** 2004
Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest Google Hacks **** 2003
Italo Calvino Invisible Cities **** 1996
  t zero *** 1996
Albert Camus The Fall **** 1997
  The Plague **** 1998
  The Stranger ***** 1996
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People *** 2003
Jonathan Carroll Bones of the Moon **** 2002
  Glass Soup **** 2005
  Kissing the Beehive **** 2005
  The Land of Laughs ***** 2003
  The Marriage of Sticks **** 2003
  Outside the Dog Museum **** 2005
  Sleeping in Flame **** 2002
  White Apples **** 2003
  The Wooden Sea ** 2003
Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland *** 1996
James P. Carse Finite and Infinite Games ** 2005
Raymond Carver Cathedral *** 1996
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ***** 2001
Michael Chabon (editor) McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales ** 2003
Jack Chalker Downtiming the Night Side *** 2002
  The Identity Matrix ** 1996
Ted Chiang Stories of Your Life...and Others **** 2003
Jennifer Chiaverini The Runaway Quilt ** 2008
Clayton M. Christensen The Innovator's Dilemma *** 2005
Nicholas Christopher The Bestiary **** 2007
  Franklin Flyer ***** 2002
  A Trip to the Stars ***** 2001
  Veronica **** 2001
Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion **** 2003
Thomas Claburn Reflecting Fires *** 2003
Mary Higgins Clark Where Are The Children? * 1995
Arthur C. Clarke 2001 ** 1995
Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel *** 2005
Marshall P. Cline and Greg A. Lomow C++ FAQs *** 1997
Paulo Coelho The Alchemist *** 2008
Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl *** 2002
Martin Cooke Modelling Auditory Processing and Organisation None 1998
Douglas Coupland Microserfs *** 1999
  Miss Wyoming **** 2002
  Polaroids From the Dead ** 1999
Stephen R. Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People **** 2002
Stephen R. Covey and A. Roger Merrill and Rebecca R. Merrill First Things First *** 2002
Michael Crichton The Lost World ** 1996
  Timeline *** 2004
Jorge Cruise 8 Minutes in the Morning ** 2003
Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi Finding Flow ** 2004
Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach **** 2008
  Matilda **** 2008
  The Witches *** 2008
Antonio Damasio Descartes' Error *** 1996
Mark Z. Danielewski House of Leaves *** 2001
Martha Davis and Matthew McKay and Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook None ----
Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker **** 1995
  The Selfish Gene **** 1995
Jeffery Deaver The Blue Nowhere ** 2006
Stephen Dedman Foreign Bodies ** 2000
Joseph H. Delaney In the Face of My Enemy *** 2000
Samuel R. Delany Dhalgren *** 2002
Frederic Delavier Strength Training Anatomy **** 2003
Don DeLillo The Body Artist ** 2002
  End Zone **** 1997
  Great Jones Street ***** 1997
  Libra *** 1997
  The Names *** 1997
  Players **** 1998
  Ratner's Star **** 1997
  Running Dog **** 1997
  Underworld None ----
  White Noise ***** 1997
Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister Peopleware **** 2008
Tom DeMarco Slack *** 2005
Daniel Dennett Brainchildren *** 1998
  Consciousness Explained **** 1996
  The Intentional Stance None 1998
Daniel Dennett (editor) The Mind's I **** 1997
Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep **** 1996
  The Man in the High Castle **** 1996
  The Philip K. Dick Reader *** 2004
  A Scanner Darkly **** 1996
Jim Dodge Stone Junction **** 2000
Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment **** 1997
Richard O. Duda and Peter E. Hart and David G. Stork Pattern Classification **** 1998
David James Duncan The Brothers K **** 1997
Lyn Dupre BUGS in Writing **** 1997
Phillip J. Eby You, Version 2.0 **** 2006
Umberto Eco Baudolino ** 2003
  How To Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays **** 1996
  Misreadings ** 1997
  The Name of the Rose ***** 1995
  Serendipities ** 1999
  Six Walks Through the Fictional Woods *** 1995
  Travels in Hyperreality: Essays ** 1997
Gerald Edelman Bright Air, Brilliant Fire *** 1998
Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius *** 2000
Harlan Ellison Angry Candy **** 1995
Harlan Ellison (editor) Dangerous Visions None ----
Harlan Ellison Deathbird Stories ***** 1995
  The Essential Ellison **** 1996
Harlan Ellison and Isaac Asimov I, Robot, The Illustrated Screenplay **** 1995
Harlan Ellison Mefisto in Onyx *** 1996
Rita Emmett The Procrastinator's Handbook ** 2005
Robert Englemore and Tony Morgan Blackboard Systems ** 1996
Louise Erdrich Love Medicine **** 1997
Robert Erickson Sound Structure in Music **** 1997
Steve Erickson Arc d'X **** 1997
  Rubicon Beach ** 1997
Martin Evening The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book **** 2007
Neville Farmer and XTC XTC: Song Stories *** 1999
Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier Practical Cryptography ** 2003
Timothy Ferriss The 4-Hour Workweek *** 2007
Richard P. Feynman Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! *** 2001
Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair *** 2004
Debra Fine The Fine Art of Small Talk ** 2006
Neil Fiore The Now Habit **** 2005
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby **** 2007
Neville H. Fletcher and Thomas D. Rossing The Physics of Musical Instruments None 1998
Ken Follett World Without End **** 2008
Jay Forman Capture Your Kids in Pictures *** 2006
Bill Fortney Bill Fortney's Great Photography Workshop ** 2007
M. A. Foster The Morphodite ** 2000
Thomas C. Foster How to Read Literature Like a Professor *** 2005
Martin Fowler Refactoring **** 2002
  UML Distilled *** 2002
Jonathan Franzen The Corrections ***** 2001
  How To Be Alone: Essays **** 2004
  Strong Motion **** 1999
  The Twenty-Seventh City *** 2001
Bruce Fraser Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2 ***** 2007
Elisabeth Freeman and Bert Bates and Eric Freeman and Kathy Sierra Head First Design Patterns **** 2007
Michael Freeman Pro Digital Photographer's Handbook **** 2006
Adrianne Frost I Hate Other People's Kids ** 2006
Lee Frost The A-Z of Creative Photography: Over 70 Techniques Explained in Full *** 2007
  The Complete Guide to Night and Low-Light Photography *** 2007
Stephen Fry The Hippopotamus *** 1996
Jostein Gaarder Sophie's World *** 1996
Neil Gaiman American Gods **** 2001
  Anansi Boys *** 2006
  Coraline **** 2002
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Good Omens *** 2002
Neil Gaiman Neverwhere *** 2001
  Sandman: Season of Mists *** 1997
  Stardust **** 2007
Erich Gamma and Richard Helm and Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides Design Patterns ***** 2004
Eric Garcia Anonymous Rex: A Detective Story *** 2005
Howard Gardner The Mind's New Science **** 1998
Alan Garner Conversationally Speaking *** 2003
James J. Gibson The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception *** 1997
  The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems **** 1997
William Gibson All Tomorrow's Parties **** 2003
  Idoru *** 1999
  Pattern Recognition **** 2003
  Spook Country **** 2008
Daniel Gilbert Stumbling on Happiness **** 2007
Robert L. Glass Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering *** 2008
Bob Glover and Shelly-lynn Florence Glover and Jack Shepherd The Runner's Handbook *** 2007
Seth Godin (editor) The Big Moo *** 2005
Seth Godin The Dip *** 2008
Glen David Gold Carter Beats the Devil **** 2002
Lisa Goldstein Dark Cities Underground **** 2004
Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence ** 2008
Al Gore An Inconvenient Truth ***** 2007
James Grace Best Man's Handbook ** 2006
John E. Grayson Python and Tkinter Programming *** 2001
Tim Grey Color Confidence **** 2005
Tom Grill and Mark Scanlon Photographic Composition ** 2004
W. Eric L. Grimson Object Recognition by Computer None 1998
Ken Grimwood Into the Deep *** 2004
  Replay ***** 2004
Lev Grossman Codex **** 2004
Bhante H. Gunaratana Mindfulness in Plain English **** 2006
David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars **** 1997
Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time **** 2004
Joe Haldeman The Accidental Time Machine *** 2008
  Camouflage **** 2008
  The Forever War **** 2008
Stephen Handel Listening **** 1997
Fred Hapgood Up the Infinite Corridor ** 1995
Sam Harris The End of Faith ** 2007
  Letter to a Christian Nation **** 2007
Thomas Harris Hannibal * 1999
M. John Harrison Light *** 2005
Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee On Intelligence **** 2005
Chip Heath and Dan Heath Made to Stick **** 2008
John Hedgecoe The New Manual of Photography **** 2004
Robert A. Heinlein I Will Fear No Evil ** 1996
  Starship Troopers **** 2008
Hermann Helmholtz On the Sensations of Tone *** 1998
Mark Helprin Memoir From Antproof Case ***** 1997
  Refiner's Fire *** 2003
  Winter's Tale *** 1998
Russell Hoban Riddley Walker **** 1997
Peter Hoeg Smilla's Sense of Snow *** 1997
Douglas Hofstadter Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies *** 1995
  Godel, Escher, Bach **** 1996
A. M. Homes The End of Alice *** 1997
Nick Hornby About a Boy **** 1999
  High Fidelity **** 1996
  How To Be Good ** 2001
  The Polysyllabic Spree *** 2005
  Songbook **** 2005
Ellis Horowitz and Sartaj Sahni Fundamentals of Data Structures None 2001
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner *** 2006
  A Thousand Splendid Suns **** 2008
Barry Hughart Bridge of Birds *** 2005
Aldous Huxley Brave New World ***** 1995
  Huxley and God *** 1995
Glenn Ickler Murder By Coffee ** 2007
Immaculee Ilibagiza Left to Tell ** 2007
John Irving A Prayer For Owen Meany **** 1997
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go *** 2005
Kaoru Iwamoto Go For Beginners *** 2002
Gregg D. Jacobs Say Goodnight to Insomnia ***** 2004
David Jennings Net, Blogs and Rock 'n' Roll *** 2007
Denis Johnson Fiskadoro **** 1997
  Jesus' Son **** 1997
  Resuscitation of a Hanged Man **** 1999
Steven Johnson Emergence **** 2007
Morgan D. Jones The Thinker's Toolkit *** 2006
William Jones Keeping Found Things Found * 2008
Graham Joyce Requiem **** 2003
James Joyce Dubliners *** 1996
  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man **** 1995
Jon Kabat-Zinn Full Catastrophe Living **** 2005
Franz Kafka The Trial **** 1998
Scott Kelby The Digital Photography Book **** 2007
  The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers **** 2004
  The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers **** 2007
  The Photoshop Elements 3 Book for Digital Photographers **** 2004
Kevin Kelly Cool Tools *** 2004
Nick Kelsh How to Photograph Your Life *** 2006
Carolyn Kephart Wysard None 2000
Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike The Practice of Programming *** 2005
John Kerry and John Edwards Our Plan for America **** 2004
Janice Kim Learn to Play Go **** 2002
  The Way of the Moving Horse **** 2002
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible None ----
  Prodigal Summer **** 2008
Arthur Koestler The Act of Creation **** 1997
Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart *** 2006
Julieanne Kost Window Seat *** 2006
Elizabeth Kostova The Historian *** 2005
Peter Krogh The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers **** 2006
Steve Krug Don't Make Me Think *** 2008
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being *** 1996
Allen Kurzweil A Case of Curiosities **** 2004
  The Grand Complication **** 2004
Ray Kurzweil The Singularity Is Near **** 2006
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Metaphors We Live By None 1996
George Lakoff Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things None 1998
Ellen J. Langer Mindfulness **** 2006
Hugh Laurie The Gun Seller *** 2007
Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness ** 2004
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird **** 2007
Dennis Lehane Mystic River *** 2004
  Shutter Island *** 2004
Jonathan Lethem As She Climbed Across the Table *** 2002
  Motherless Brooklyn **** 2003
Daniel J. Levitin This Is Your Brain on Music **** 2006
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Freakonomics **** 2007
Michael Lewis Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game **** 2005
Alan Lightman The Diagnosis ** 2001
  Einstein's Dreams **** 1998
  Good Benito **** 1997
Stanley Lippman C++ Primer **** 1996
H.P. Lovecraft Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre ** 1996
Richard Lynch The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2 *** 2004
James B. Maas Power Sleep ** 2002
David MacAulay Building the Book Cathedral **** 2000
Steve Maguire Writing Solid Code *** 2002
Malaclypse the Younger Principia Discordia ** 2000
Selena Maranjian and David Gardner Motley Fool Money Guide **** 2002
Dan Margulis Photoshop LAB Color *** 2007
Jeff Mariotte The Slab ** 2004
Abby Marks-Beale and The Princeton Language Institute 10 Days to Faster Reading *** 2008
David Markson Reader's Block **** 1997
David Marr Vision **** 1995
Yann Martel Life of Pi *** 2004
Alex Martelli Python in a Nutshell None ----
George R.R. Martin A Clash of Kings **** 2006
  A Feast for Crows **** 2006
  A Game of Thrones **** 2006
  A Storm of Swords **** 2006
Robert C. Martin Agile Software Development None ----
Cormac McCarthy The Road *** 2007
Scott McCloud Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art **** 2002
Steve McConnell Code Complete **** 2001
Sean McGrath XML Processing with Python ** 2001
David Mertz Text Processing in Python *** 2003
Eric Meyer CSS: The Definitive Guide **** 2008
Stephenie Meyer The Host *** 2008
China Mieville Iron Council **** 2004
  King Rat *** 2004
  Perdido Street Station **** 2002
  The Scar ***** 2003
Ken Milburn Digital Photography Expert Techniques ** 2006
Laura Miller (editor) The Salon.com Reader's Guide To Contemporary Fiction **** 2000
Richard Miller Snail ** 2002
A.A. Milne The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh **** 2006
Marvin Minsky The Society of Mind **** 1996
  (reread) **** 1996
David Mitchell Cloud Atlas: A Novel **** 2005
John T Molloy How to Work the Competition Into the Ground & Have Fun Doing It ** 2005
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Watchmen **** 2001
Christopher Moore Bloodsucking Fiends **** 2007
  Practical Demonkeeping *** 2007
  You Suck: A Love Story *** 2007
Lorrie Moore Anagrams ***** 1997
  Birds of America **** 2000
  Like Life **** 1996
  Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? **** 1997
Wendy Moore The Knife Man *** 2007
Richard K. Morgan Altered Carbon ***** 2004
  Broken Angels **** 2005
  Market Forces **** 2005
  Woken Furies **** 2006
Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood **** 2003
  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle **** 2001
Vladimir Nabokov Despair *** 1996
  Lolita **** 1996
Nicholas Negroponte Being Digital ** 1995
Liz Neporent and Suzanne Schlosberg Weight Training for Dummies ***** 2003
Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler's Wife ***** 2005
Jeff Noon Vurt *** 2001
Donald A. Norman The Design of Everyday Things **** 2002
Robert C. O'Brien Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh **** 2006
Shelly O'Hara The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying and Selling a Home None 1998
Alan V. Oppenheim and Ronald W. Schafer Discrete-Time Signal Processing *** 1997
George Orwell 1984 ***** 1995
Daniel N. Osherson and Michael Stob and Scott Weinstein Systems That Learn None 1998
Freeman Patterson Photography for the Joy of It *** 2004
Judea Pearl Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems **** 1998
Matthew Pearl The Dante Club *** 2003
Arturo Perez-Reverte The Club Dumas **** 2004
  The Fencing Master **** 2005
  The Flanders Panel **** 2004
  The Seville Communion *** 2005
Bryan Peterson Learning to See Creatively **** 2006
  Understanding Digital Photography ** 2006
  Understanding Exposure *** 2006
Thomas W. Phelan 1-2-3 Magic *** 2004
Bill Phillips Body for Life **** 2004
Rosalind Picard Affective Computing None 1998
J. O. Pickles Introduction to the Physiology of Hearing *** 1996
John R. Pierce The Science of Musical Sound None 1998
Steven Pinker How the Mind Works **** 1997
  The Language Instinct **** 1995
Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance *** 2005
Reinier Plomp Aspects of Tone Sensation None 1998
Frederick Pohl Gateway *** 1995
Eliot Porter and James Gleick Nature's Chaos *** 2004
Michael E. Porter Competitive Strategy None ----
Michael Posner (editor) Foundations of Cognitive Science None 1998
Richard Powers Gain **** 1999
  Galatea 2.2 **** 1996
  The Gold Bug Variations ***** 1996
  Operation Wandering Soul ***** 1997
  Plowing the Dark ***** 2000
  Prisoner's Dilemma ***** 1997
  Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance **** 1998
Tim Powers The Anubis Gates *** 2001
  Declare *** 2002
  The Drawing of the Dark ** 2001
  Earthquake Weather *** 1999
  Expiration Date **** 1999
  Last Call **** 1999
  On Stranger Tides *** 2006
  Strange Itineraries **** 2006
  Three Days to Never **** 2006
Terry Pratchett The Color of Magic *** 2003
Steven Pressfield The War of Art *** 2007
E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News **** 1997
Philip Pullman The Amber Spyglass *** 2002
  The Golden Compass **** 2002
  The Subtle Knife **** 2002
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 **** 1997
  Gravity's Rainbow ***** 1996
  Slow Learner: Early Stories **** 1997
  V. **** 1997
  Vineland *** 1996
Doug Radcliffe and Michael Rymaszewski Age of Empires III: Sybex Official Strategies and Secrets *** 2005