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x The Catcher in the Rye   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, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage confusion, angst, alienation, and rebellion. It has been translated into almost...
The Catcher in the Rye (IN ENGLISH & KOREAN) (63) Novel
Catcher in the Rye First-person narrative
The catcher in the rye Bildungsroman
Catcher in the Rye (Barron's Book Notes)
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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 rise of neo-biological civilization    
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (ISBN 978-0201483406) is a 1994 book by Kevin Kelly. (The book was also published as Out of control : the rise of neo-biological civilization.) Major themes in Out...
x Asia Grace   Asia Grace Coffee table book    
Travel
x Cool Tools   Cool Tools      
x Bicycle Haiku   Bicycle Haiku Poetry    
x New Rules for the New Economy   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 Philosophy  
Simulacra and Simulation (Simulacres et Simulation in French) is a philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard seeking to interrogate the relationship among reality, symbols, and society. Simulacra and Simulation is most known for its discussion of...
Simulacra and simulation Non-fiction
x The Gulf War Did Not Take Place   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 short essays published in the French newspaper Libération and British paper The Guardian between January and March 1991. Contrary to the title, the author believes...
The Gulf War did not take place
The Gulf War did not take place
x The Mirror of Production   Mirror of Production Economics  
The Mirror of Production (French: Le Miroir de la 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 and values of...
Business
Philosophy
x The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work   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
Clock of the Long Now
x How Buildings Learn 505SienaPalPubblico 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. In...
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 chronicles the disillusionment of a number of young intellectuals as they encounter the realities of the higher education establishment parodied in the...
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 covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics, and philosophy....
Snow Crash 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 to some extent a science fiction bildungsroman, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects...
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   The Cobweb Fiction  
The Cobweb is a 1996 novel written by Neal Stephenson with J. Frederick George, a pseudonym for Stephenson's uncle, historian George Jewsbury. It was originally published under the collective pseudonym "Stephen Bury", as was their earlier novel...
The Cobweb Speculative fiction
The Cobweb Science Fiction
x Cryptonomicon   Cryptonomicon Novel Enoch Root
Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson. The novel follows the exploits of two groups of people in two different time periods, presented in alternating chapters. The first group is World War II-era Allied codebreakers and...
Criptonomicon III : El codigo Aretusa Fiction Goto Dengo
Criptonomicon II : El codigo Pontifex Randall Lawrence Waterhouse
Criptonomicon I Douglas MacArthur Shaftoe
Cryptonomicon. America Shaftoe
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x The Confusion   The Confusion Historical novel Enoch Root
The Confusion is a novel by Neal Stephenson. It is the second volume in The Baroque Cycle and consists of two sections or books, Bonanza and The Juncto. In 2005, The Confusion won the Locus Award, together with The System of the World, also by...
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 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. The System of...
System of the World Historical novel Daniel Waterhouse
The System of the World (Baroque Cycle 3) Fiction Jack Shaftoe
The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) Speculative fiction Enoch Root
The System of the World (Baroque Cycle, Number 3) Suspense 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
Die Diktatur des schönen Scheins
x Dubliners The title page of the first edition in 1914 of Dubliners Dubliners Short story The Boy
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written...
Dubliners Fiction Father Flynn
Dubliners Old Cotter
Dubliners An Encounter
Dubliners Mahony
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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 Stephen Dedalus
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialised in the magazine The Egoist from 1914 to 1915, and published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, New York. The first English edition...
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 Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker
Finnegans Wake is a work of comic fiction by Irish author James Joyce, significant for its experimental style and resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen...
Finnegans wake Shaun
Finnegans wake Issy
Finnegans wake Anna Livia Plurabelle
Finnegans wake Shem
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x Ulysses Joyce's Ulysses Ulysses Fiction Buck Mulligan
Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of...
Ulysses Novel Stephen Dedalus
Ulysses Molly Bloom
Ulysses Leopold Bloom
Ulysses
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x Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic   Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic Autobiography  
Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic is a book by Paul Fussell.
Doing Battle
x The Cartoon History of the United States   The cartoon history of the United States      
The cartoon history of the United States
x Mammal Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species   Bird tracks & sign : a guide to North American species      
x The Trouser Press Record Guide          
x 38 Basic Joseki          
x Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941-1945   Between silk and cyanide : a codemaker's war, 1941-1945 Autobiography  
Between Silk and Cyanide is the title of a book by former Special Operations Executive (SOE) cryptographer Leo Marks, describing his work during the Second World War. More fully, its title is Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945. It...
x The Rise of Endymion   The rise of Endymion      
x Tog on Interface   Tog on interface      
Tog on software design
x The Culture of Cities   The culture of cities      
The culture of cities.
The culture of cities
The culture of cities
The culture of cities
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x The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor   The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor Non-fiction  
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   3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated      
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 (Zō no shōmetsu) 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...
The elephant vanishes Fiction
The Elephant Vanishes Speculative fiction
The elephant vanishes.
The elephant vanishes
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x Halbritter's Arms through the Ages          
x Programming Perl   Programming Perl, Third Edition    
Programming Perl, best known as the Camel Book among programmers, is a book (ISBN 978-0-596-00492-7) and ebook (ISBN 978-1-4493-9890-3) about writing programs using the Perl programming language, revised as several editions (1991-2009) to reflect...
Programming Perl
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...
"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character Non-fiction
Biography
x The Feynman Lectures on Physics Cover of Volume 1 of the Feynman Lectures on Physics, 2005 Definitive Edition 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...
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 novel in the Hyperion Cantos, a science fiction series by American author Dan Simmons. The novel, written in 1990, won both the 1991 British Science Fiction and Locus Awards. It was also nominated for the Hugo...
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 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. It was nominated for a British Fantasy Award in 1992. Set in Elm Haven, Illinois, in 1960, Summer of Night recounts its five pre-teen protagonists’...
Summer of Night (Aspect Fantasy) Speculative fiction
Summer of night.
Summer of night
Summer of Night
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x A Winter Haunting   A Winter Haunting Horror  
A Winter Haunting is a 2002 horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons. It was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy novel in 2003. Dale Stewart, a character from Summer of Night, has ruined his life. A fifty-one year old college professor...
A Winter Haunting Speculative fiction
x Illium          
x A Wild Sheep Chase   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 hādo-boirudo 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   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   The wind-up bird chronicle Novel Toru Okada
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 Kumiko Okada
The wind-up bird chronicle Speculative fiction Noboru Wataya
The wind-up bird chronicle May Kasahara
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Panther) Lieutenant Mamiya
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x Sputnik Sweetheart   Sputnik Sweetheart Novel  
Sputnik Sweetheart (スプートニクの恋人, Supūtoniku no koibito) is a novel by Haruki Murakami, published in Japan, by Kodansha, in 1999. An English translation by Philip Gabriel was published in 2001. The plot features three main characters: Sumire, Miu, and ...
Sputnik Sweetheart Fiction
Sputnik Sweetheart Speculative fiction
The sputnik sweetheart
Sputnik Sweetheart
x Kafka on the Shore   Kafka on the Shore Novel Oshima
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Mathias Ver Elst 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 Satoru Nakata
Kafka on the Shore Speculative fiction Hoshino
Kafka on the Shore Miss Saeki
Kafka on the Shore Kafka Tamura
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x Oxford English Dictionary   The Oxford English Dictionary Non-fiction  
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), published by the Oxford University Press, is the self-styled premier dictionary of the English language. Work began on the dictionary in 1857 but it was not until 1884 that it started to be published in unbound...
Reference
x Concise Oxford English Dictionary     Dictionary  
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (officially titled The Concise Oxford Dictionary until 2002, and widely abbreviated COD) is probably the best-known of the 'smaller' Oxford dictionaries. The latest edition of the Concise Oxford English...
x Shorter Oxford English Dictionary     Dictionary  
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, often abbreviated to SOED, is a scaled-down version of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). 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        
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     Dictionary  
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...
x Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English English-French     Dictionary  
The Oxford-Hachette French–English/English–French Dictionary is one of the most comprehensive and recent bilingual French–English/English–French dictionaries. It was the first such dictionary to be written using a computerized corpus and it contains...
x George Bernard Shaw: His Plays   George Bernard Shaw; his plays    
George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905) is H. L. Mencken's interpretation of G. Bernard Shaw's plays, in which Mencken overwhelmingly embraced the man who was, at that time, his favourite playwright. According to Mencken: "Through Shaw, I found my...
x A Book of Prefaces   A Book of Prefaces    
A Book of Prefaces is H. L. Mencken's 1917 collection of essays criticizing American culture, authors, and movements. Mencken described the work as "[My] most important book in its effects upon my professional career." In fact, the book was...
A Book of Prefaces (Bcli-Ps American Literature Series)
A Book of Prefaces
A Book of Prefaces
A book of prefaces
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x In Defense of Women   In defense of women    
In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while others brand it as reactionary. While Mencken did not champion women's rights, he described women as wiser in...
In defense of women
In defense of women
In Defense of Women
In defense of women
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