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Book Reviews & Notes
viKid has a nasty habit of reading hundreds of books in parallel. The problem with this approach is that he *never quite finishes anything and writing complete reviews becomes difficult, or very slow at least.
The solution?
The concept of a blog bundled with a rolling release. As this is a wiki, he can just augment reviews as he reads more and more.
viKid currently owns an estimated 2000 books of which he has made in each a varying amount of progress. As you can imagine, commenting and reviewing each of them is probably a lifetime’s work. He shall do his best now to get as far as he can. It is hard to be a Superhero sometimes.
Science
- A Crack in Creation by Jennifer Doudna & Samuel Sternberg
- Design in Nature by Bejan and Zane
- The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander
- Relativity by Wolfgang Rindler
- Einstein’s Theories of Relativity by Stan Gibilisco
- Quantum Reality by Nick Herbert
- Quantum Mechanics for Thinkers by Auletta and Wang
- After Physics by David Z. Albert
- Complexity and the Arrow of Time by Lineweaver, Davies and Ruse
- This is Your Brain on Parasites by Kathleen McAuliffe
- Programming The Universe by Seth Lloyd
- Principles of Power Systems by V.K. Metha and Rohit Metha
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
- What is and what will be by Paul Budnik
- Understanding the Universe by Don Lincoln
- The Vanishing Face of Gaia by James Lovelock
- Gaia by James Lovelock
- The Quantum Universe by Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw
- The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
- Hidden in Plain Sight
Computing and Technology
- Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
- The MINIX Book by Tanebaum & Woodhull
- C in a Nutshell by Peter Prinz & Tony Crawford
- Hackers Handbook by Dr.K
- Digital Principles by Roger L. Tokheim
- Let Over Lambda
- Land of Lisp by Conrad Barski
- Computer Architecture by Nicholas Carter
- Sinatra Up and Running by Harry & House
- The Linux Administration Handbook
- Bootstrap Yourself with Linux-USB stack by Rajram Regupathy
- Programming Linux Hacker Tools Uncovered by Ivan Sklyarov
- A First Course In Network Theory by Estrada and Knight
- Building Machine Learning Systems With Python by Richert & Coelho
- Live Lessons by Wesley Chun
- The CS Detective by Jeremy Kubica
- Expert C Programming by Peter Van Der Linden
- Making Music with Computers by Manaris and Brown
- Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism (Acting with Technology)
Math
- An Introduction to the Language of Category Theory by Steven Roman
- Burn Math Class by Jason Wilkes
- Mathematics For Physics and Physicists
- An Outline Of Set Theory by James M. Henle
- Scale Free Network by Guido Caldarelli
- Graph Theory As I Have Known It by W.T. Tuttle
- Proof by Nagel & Newman
- Journey Through Genius by William Dunham
- e: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor
- An Elementary Introduction to the Theory of Probablility by Gnedenko & Khichin
- Which Number Are Real by Michael Henle
- Summing It Up by Ash & Gross
- A Book of Set Theory by Charles C. Pinter
- Div Grad Curl and All That by M. H. Shey
- Non Linear Dynamics And Chaos by Steven H. Strogatz
- Basic Category Theory by Tom Leinster
Politics, Economics & Business
- Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis
- Am I BeinAdults In The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishmentg Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel by Sam Zell
- Gold by Mathew Hart
- The Economics of Inequality by Thomas Piketty
- The Dictators Learning Curve
- Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo
- Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons by Ward Wilson
- The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals by Alex Kuznetsov
- Commodity Fundamentals by Spurga
- Money Inflation In France by Andrew Dickson White
- Art Thinking by Amy Whitaker
- The Upside of Inequality by Edward Conrad
- The Prize by Daniel Yergin
- Swarmwise by Rick Falkvinge
- A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
- Linchpin by Seth Godin
- Wikileaks by David Leigh & Luke Harding
- The Devils Derivatives by Dunbar
- Extreme Money by Satyajit Das
- Secrets of the Temple by William Greider
- Signals by Pipa Malmgrem
- The Value Web by Chris Skinner
- The Content Trap by Bharat Anand
Wellbeing, Self Help
- Integral Meditation by Ken Wilber
- Stretching Scientifically by Thomas Kurz
- Think Like Da Vinci Michael J. Gelb
- How to Memorize Everything by Singhal and Singhal
Philosophy and Other Thoughs
- Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
- The Invisible Pyramid by Loren Eiseley
- Why the World Does Not Exist by Markus Gabriel
- Louder Than Words
- I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Philosophy Book by DK
- iDisorder by Larry Rosen
- Metamorphosis by Frank Ryan
- The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley
- Think-ing by John Brockman
- You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier
- The Half Life of Facts by Samuel Arbesman
- Towards the Definition of Philosophy by Heidegger
- Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
- Moral Relativism by Steven Lukes
- Introducing Slavoj Zizek - A Graphical Guide
- The Righteous Mind by Jonathon Haidt
- The Philosophy of Physics by Dean Rickles
- The Marvelous Clouds by John Durham Peters
Religious
- A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by Yogi Ramacharaka
- Magik by Dr. Lawrence Meredith
- Krishna by Ramesh Menon
- Sita by Devdutt
- Jaya by Devdutt Pattanaik
- Olympus Devdutt Pattanaik
- The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
History, Archeology & Similar
- Maps of Time
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harare
- An Optimist’s Tour of the Future by Mark Stevenson
- Global Transformtions by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates by Frauke Heard-Bey
- Magna Carta by David Starkey
- The Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell
- Ordinary Men by Robert Browning
- Shigeru Mizuki’s Hitler
- Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Novels and Other Fiction
Miscellaneous
- The Silver Eye by Susan Brind Morrow
- Population Wars by Greg Graffin
- Linked by Alter-Laszlo Barabasi
- A Canticle for Liebowitz
- Safe Area Gorazde
- The Plague of Fantasies
- The Third Plate
- The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
- Play It Again by Alan Rusbridger
- French Vocabulary (Caxton Reference)
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