Brian's Favorite Books
Here are some of my favorite books. Click on the title to order from Amazon Books. I will be adding reviews soon.
- Computer Industry
- Design (Page & Web)
- Fiction
- Intelligence Community
- Non-Fiction
- Science
- Science Fiction/Fantasy
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date | Robert X. Cringley |
| The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage | Clifford Stoll |
| Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, The First Personal Computer | Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander |
| Going Public: MIPS Computer and the Entrepreneurial Dream | Michael S. Malone |
| Hacker Crackdown, The | Bruce Sterling |
| Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution | Steven Levy |
| West of Eden: The End of Innoncense at Apple Computer | Frank Rose |
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Dynamics in Document Design: Creating Texts for Readers | Karen A. Schriver |
| Information Architects | Richard Saul Wurman |
| Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond | Jakob Nielsen |
| The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design & Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice | Robin Williams |
| The Non-Designer's Web Book: An Easy Guide to Creating, Designing, and Posting Your Own Web Site | Robin Williams |
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt |
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community | Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman |
| The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency | James Bamford |
| The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia-Past, Present, and Future | Yevgenia Albats |
| The U.S. Intelligence Community | Jeffrey T. Richelson |
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt |
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic | Bart Kosko |
| Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension | Michio Kaku |
| Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space | Carl Sagan |
| The Physics of Star Trek | Lawrence M. Krause |
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Dune | Frank Herbert |
| Heavy Weather | Bruce Sterling |
| The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson |
| Ringworld | Larry Niven |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson |
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