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x The Catcher in the Rye Rye catcher The Catcher in the Rye Fiction Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, the novel has become a common part of high school and college curricula throughout the English-speaking world; it has also been translated into almost all of...
The catcher in the rye Novel
Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher In The Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
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x Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World Out of Control - Cover Image      
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (ISBN 978-0201483406) is a 1994 book by Kevin Kelly. Major themes in Out of Control are cybernetics, emergence, self-organization, complex systems and chaos theory...
x Asia Grace kelly_asia_grace.gif Asia Grace Coffee table book    
Travel
x Cool Tools cooltools.jpg Cool Tools      
x Bicycle Haiku bicyckehaiku.jpg Bicycle Haiku Poetry    
x New Rules for the New Economy newrules.jpg New rules for the new economy      
New rules for the new economy
New rules for the new economy
x Simulacra and Simulation Simulacra and Simulation Simulacra and simulation Philosophy  
Simulacra and Simulation (Simulacres et Simulation in French) is a philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard that discusses the interaction between reality, symbols and society. Simulacra and Simulation is most known for its discussion of images,...
Non-fiction
x The Gulf War Did Not Take Place gulfwar.jpg The Gulf War Did Not Take Place Sociology  
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, a book by Jean Baudrillard, is a collection of three essays published in Libération and the Guardian between January and March 1991. Contrary to the provocative title, the author does believe that the events and...
The Gulf War did not take place
x The Mirror of Production mirror.gif Mirror of Production Economics  
The Mirror of Production is a 1973 book by Jean Baudrillard. It is a systematic critique of Marxism. Baudrillard's thesis is that Marx’s theory of historical materialism is too rooted in assumptions of political economy to provide a framework for...
Business
Philosophy
x The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work thepattern.jpg The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work    
The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work is a book by W. Daniel Hillis, published in 1998 by Basic Books (ISBN 0-465-02595-1). The book attempts to explain concepts from computer science in layman's terms by metaphor and...
x The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer The Clock of the Long Now (Cover).jpg Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: the ideas behind the world's slowest computer      
The clock of the long now
x The Connection Machine connection.jpg   Non-fiction    
x How Buildings Learn howbuildingslearn.gif How buildings learn Reference  
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built is an illustrated book on the evolution of buildings and how buildings adapt to changing requirements over long periods. It was written by Stewart Brand and published by Viking Press in 1994....
How Buildings Learn
How Buildings Learn
How buildings learn
How buildings learn
x The Big U The Big U Science fiction  
The Big U (1984) is Neal Stephenson's first published novel, a satire of campus life. The story follows the misadventures of a socially inept physics student, a pair of gun-wielding lesbians, a hardcore LARP/war gaming club, and other misfits...
The big U Speculative fiction
The Big Wheel
x Snow Crash Snow Crash Cyberpunk Hiro Protagonist
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it references history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, and philosophy. Stephenson...
Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) Science fiction Y.T.
Snow Crash Postcyberpunk Juanita Marquez
Snow Crash Fiction Da5id Meier
Snow Crash Speculative fiction Dr. Emanuel Lagos
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x The Diamond Age The Diamond Age Science fiction Carl Hollywood
The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is a bildungsroman focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. Some main motifs...
The Diamond Age Cyberpunk Miranda
The Diamond Age Postcyberpunk Dr. X.
The diamond age Fiction Judge Fang
Diamond Age Speculative fiction Lord Alexander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw
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x The Cobweb cobweb.jpg The Cobweb Fiction  
The Cobweb is a 1996 novel written by Neal Stephenson with Frederick George. In early editions it is credited to the pseudonym Stephen Bury. When Clyde Banks, an Iowan Deputy with a newborn baby and a wife in the first Gulf War, starts looking into...
The Cobweb Speculative fiction
The Cobweb
x Cryptonomicon Cryptonomicon Novel Enoch Root
Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson. It concurrently follows the exploits of World War II-era cryptographers affiliated with Bletchley Park in their attempts to crack Axis codes and fight the Nazi submarine fleet,...
Cryptonomicon. Science fiction Goto Dengo
Cryptonomicon Fiction Randall Lawrence Waterhouse
Cryptonomicon Speculative fiction Douglas MacArthur Shaftoe
Criptonomicon III : El codigo Aretusa America Shaftoe
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x The Confusion confusion.jpg The Confusion Historical novel Enoch Root
The Confusion is a novel by Neal Stephenson. It is the second volume in The Baroque Cycle. The Confusion consists of two books, Bonanza and The Juncto which are "con-fused" together, so that one jumps back and forth between them as one reads through...
The confusion Fiction Jack Shaftoe
The Confusion (Baroque Cycle 2) Historical fiction Daniel Waterhouse
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) Speculative fiction Eliza
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)
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x The System of the World The System of the World (The Baroque.jpg The system of the world Science fiction Isaac Newton
The System of the World, a novel by Neal Stephenson, is the third and final volume in The Baroque Cycle. The title alludes to the third volume of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which bears the same name. In 2005, it won...
System of the World Historical novel Daniel Waterhouse
The System of the World (Baroque Cycle 3) Suspense fiction Jack Shaftoe
The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) Fiction Enoch Root
The System of the World (Baroque Cycle, Number 3) Speculative fiction Eliza
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x In the Beginning...was the Command Line In the Beginning...was the Command Line    
In the Beginning...was the Command Line is an essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form (November 1999, ISBN 0380815931). The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating...
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
x Dubliners The title page of the first edition in 1914 of Dubliners Dubliners Short story  
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The...
Dubliners Fiction
Dubliners
Dubliners
Dubliners
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x A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Künstlerroman  
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. It depicts the formative years in the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional...
A portrait of the artist as a young man Autobiography
A portrait of the artist as a young man Novel
A portrait of the artist as a young man
A portrait of the artist as a young man
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x Finnegans Wake Finnegans Wake Novel  
Finnegans Wake is a work of comic fiction by Irish author James Joyce, which is recognised for its difficulty for the reader and its experimental style. Joyce's final work, it was written in Paris over a period of 17 years, and published in 1939,...
Finnegans wake
Finnegans wake
Finnegans wake
Finnegans wake
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x Ulysses Joyce's Ulysses Ulysses Fiction Malachi Mulligan
Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. Many consider it one of the most...
Ulysses Novel Stephen Dedalus
Ulysses Modernism Molly Bloom
Ulysses Leopold Bloom
Ulysses
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x Doing Battle fussell960923.gif Doing Battle Autobiography    
Doing battle Biography
x The Cartoon History of the Universe The cartoon history of the universe Non-fiction  
The Cartoon History of the Universe is an ongoing book series about the history of the world. It is written and illustrated by American cartoonist, professor, and mathematician Larry Gonick. The most recent volume, published in 2007, now names the...
Cartoon History of the Universe 2 History
The Cartoon History of the Universe III Reference
The Cartoon History of the Universe Humor
Cartoon History of the Universe 1 (Cartoon History of the Universe)
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x The Cartoon History of the United States US-History.jpg The cartoon history of the United States      
The cartoon history of the United States
x Mammal Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species mammal.jpg        
x The Trouser Press Record Guide trouserpress.jpg        
x 38 Basic Joseki 38basic.jpg        
x Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941-1945   Autobiography  
Between Silk and Cyanide is the title of a book by former SOE cryptographer Leo Marks, describing his work during the Second World War. The title is derived from an incident related in the book, when he is asked why spies in occupied Europe should...
x The Rise of Endymion TheRiseOfEndymion(1stEd).jpg The rise of Endymion      
x Tog on Interface togoninterface.jpg Tog on interface      
x The Culture of Cities theculture.jpg The culture of cities      
The culture of cities.
The culture of cities
x The Wealth and Poverty of Nations 342wealthandpovertyofnations.gif The Wealth and Poverty of Nations Economics  
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (ISBN 0-393-04017-8), published in 1998 (with an epilogue added to the 1999 paperback edition), is a book by David Landes, currently Emeritus Professor of Economics and former Coolidge Professor of History at...
The wealth and poverty of nations
The wealth and poverty of nations
The wealth and poverty of nations
The wealth and poverty of nations
x 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated 316.jpg        
x The Cockroach Hall of Fame   The cockroach hall of fame    
This is out of print, replaced by America's Strangest Museums by the same author.
x The Elephant Vanishes The Elephant Vanishes Short story  
The Elephant Vanishes is a collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The stories were written between 1983 and 1990, and the collection's first English publication was in 1993. Several of the stories originally appeared (often...
The elephant vanishes Fiction
The Elephant Vanishes Speculative fiction
The elephant vanishes.
The elephant vanishes
x Halbritter's Arms through the Ages halbritters.jpg        
x Programming Perl Programming Perl book cover Programming Perl, Third Edition    
Programming Perl, ISBN 0-596-00027-8, best known as the Camel Book among programmers, is a book about writing programs using the Perl programming language. Written by the creator of Perl, Larry Wall, and published by O'Reilly, the book is considered...
Programming Perl
Programming Perl
Programming Perl
x Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Autobiography  
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. The book, released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. Some...
Non-fiction
Biography
x The Feynman Lectures on Physics Cover of the book on quantum mechanics The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Feynman on Fundamentals Science  
The Feynman Lectures on Physics is a 1964 physics textbook by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, based upon the lectures given by Feynman to undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1961–63...
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
The Feynman lectures on physics
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
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x The Fall of Hyperion The Fall of Hyperion Science fiction The Shrike
The Fall of Hyperion is the second science fiction novel by Dan Simmons in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe. It was written in 1990 and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel that same year. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award...
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos) Fantasy
The fall of Hyperion Fiction
The fall of Hyperion Speculative fiction
The fall of Hyperion.
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x Hyperion hyperion.jpg Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos) Science fiction  
Hyperion is a Titan in Greek mythology. Hyperion may also refer to: In science: In geography: In technology: In literature: In music: In television: In computer games: In popular culture: Organizations: Other:
Hyperion Fiction
Hyperion
Hyperion
Hyperion
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x Endymion endymion.jpg Endymion Science fiction  
Endymion may refer to: Fictional characters: Titled works: Astronomy: Other:
Endymion Fiction
Endymion
Endymion
x Summer of Night Summer of Night Horror  
Summer of Night is a horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1991 by Warner Aspect. Set in Elm Haven, Illinois, in 1960, Summer of Night recounts its five pre-teen protagonists’ discovery that eerie, terrifying events are unfolding...
Summer of Night (Aspect Fantasy) Speculative fiction
Summer of night.
Summer of night
Summer of Night
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x A Winter's Haunting A Winter Haunting Horror  
A Winter Haunting is a 2002 horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons. Dale Stewert, a character from Summer of Night, has ruined his life. A fifty-one year old college professor and writer, he left his spouse for a young co-ed and the co-ed has...
A Winter Haunting Speculative fiction
x Illium ilium.jpg        
x A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki murakami a wild sheep chase 9780375718946 A Wild Sheep Chase Novel  
A Wild Sheep Chase (羊をめぐる冒険 ,Hitsuji o meguru bōken) is a novel published in 1982 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. It is the sequel to Pinball, 1973, and is the third book in Murakami's "Trilogy of the Rat". In A Wild Sheep Chase, Murakami blends...
A Wild Sheep Chase Fiction
A Wild Sheep Chase Fantasy
A Wild Sheep Chase Speculative fiction
A Wild Sheep Chase
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x Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Novel  
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド, Sekai no owari to Hādoboirudo Wandārando) is a 1985 novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. The English translation by Alfred Birnbaum was released in 1991. A strange and...
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world Speculative fiction
The hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
The hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world
x South of the Border, West of the Sun English Edition Cover South of the Border, West of the Sun Novel  
South of the Border, West of the Sun (国境の南、太陽の西 ,Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi) is a short, melancholic novel written by the popular Japanese novelist, Haruki Murakami, in 1992 while he was a visiting scholar at the Princeton University in the...
South of the Border, West of the Sun Fiction
South of the border, west of the sun Speculative fiction
x The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle American Edition Cover The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Novel  
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimaki-dori Kuronikuru) is a novel by Haruki Murakami. The first published translation was by Alfred Birnbaum. The American translation and its British adaptation, dubbed the "only official translations" ...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Fiction
The wind-up bird chronicle Speculative fiction
The wind-up bird chronicle
The wind-up bird chronicle
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x Sputnik Sweetheart Sputnik Sweetheart Novel  
Sputnik Sweetheart (スプートニクの恋人 ,Spūtoniku no koibito) is a novel by Haruki Murakami, published in Japan in 1999. An English translation by Philip Gabriel was published in 2001. The heroine of the novel is an aspiring author named Sumire, who falls in...
Sputnik Sweetheart Fiction
Sputnik Sweetheart Speculative fiction
The sputnik sweetheart
Sputnik Sweetheart
x Kafka on the Shore Kafka on the Shore Novel  
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is a novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami (2002). John Updike described it as a "real page-turner, as well as an insistently metaphysical mind-bender". Since its 2005 English language release (2006...
Kafka on the Shore Fiction
Kafka on the Shore Speculative fiction
Kafka on the Shore
Kafka on the Shore
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x Oxford English Dictionary The Oxford English Dictionary print set      
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), is a comprehensive dictionary of the English language. Two fully-bound print editions of the OED have been published under its current name, in 1928 and 1989; as of...
x Concise Oxford English Dictionary ConciseOxEngDict.gif      
Concise Oxford English Dictionary (until 2002 officially entitled The Concise Oxford Dictionary, and widely known by the abbreviation COD) is probably the best-known of the 'smaller' Oxford dictionaries. It was started as a derivative of the Oxford...
x Shorter Oxford English Dictionary shorter.jpg      
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, often abbreviated to SOED, is a scaled-down version of the Oxford English Dictionary. It comprises two volumes rather than the twenty needed for the full second edition of the OED. The Sixth Edition was...
x The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology oxfordetym.jpg      
The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology is a notable etymological dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press. Also published by OUP:
x New Oxford Dictionary of English NewOED-2001-ed.jpg      
The New Oxford Dictionary of English (often abbreviated to NODE) is a single-volume English language dictionary first published in 1998 by the Oxford University Press. This dictionary is not based on the Oxford English Dictionary and should not be...