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

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

Design (Page & Web)

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

Fiction

Title Author
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt

Intelligence Community

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

Non-Fiction

Title Author
Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt

Science

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

Science Fiction/Fantasy

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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