Recommended Reading

Biographies

• Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
• As I Walked out one Midsumer Morning by Laurie Lee
• Catch a Fire: The life of Bob Marley by Timothy White
• Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Post-War Rock'N'Roll Revolution by Charles Shaar Murray
• The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
• Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleik
• Hitler: A Study in Tyranny by Alan Bullock
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
• Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
• The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
• The Tartar Khan's Englishman by Gabriel Ronay
• Touching the Void: The Harrowing First Person Account of one Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson

Business

• Translating Strategy into Action. The Balanced Scorecard. by Dr. Robert S. Kaplan, and Dr. David P. Norton. (Review)
• The Innovators's Dilemma. When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. by Clayton M. Christensen.

Chaos, Complexity and Emergence

• At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity by Stuart Kauffman
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
• Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop

Cosmology

• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene

Evolution

• Genome by Matt Ridley
• Investigations by Stuart A. Kauffman
• The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley
• Life After Man: A Zoology of the Future by Dougal Dixon
• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley

Fiction

• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
• Fields of Fire by James H. Webb
• The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
• Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
• Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
• Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

General Science

• The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Editor)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Khun

Globalization

• A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization by John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman

History

• The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
• History of the First World War by Basil Liddell Hart
• Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Max Hastings
• The Printing Press as an Agent of Change by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
• Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor
• Storm from the East: From Ghengis Khan to Khubilai Khan by Robert Marshall

Manuals

• Learning the vi Editor by Linda Lamb

Miscellaneous

• Strategy by Basil Liddell Hart

Reference

• The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems by Florian Coulmas
• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal
• The World's Writing Systems by Peter T. Daniels (Editor), William Bright (Editor)
• Writing Systems of the World: Alphabets, Syllabaries, Pictograms by Nakanishi Akira

Science Fiction

• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• Chapterhouse Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 6) by Frank Herbert
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
• Earth by David Brin
• Foundation by Issac Asimov
• Heart of the Comet by Gregory Benford and David Brin
• I Robot by Issac Asimov
• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
• Startide Rising by David Brin
• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
• The Uplift War by David Brin
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

System Design and Development

• Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition by Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (O'Reilly Linux) by Eric S. Raymond
• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck
• Principles of Software Engineering Management by Tom Gilb
• Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules by Steve McConnell