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Computer Lib/Dream Machines

By Theodor H. Nelson

 

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

By Jenny Odell

 

The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura: A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos

By Irmtraud Morgner

 

Dictionary Stories: Short Fictions and Other Findings

By Jez Burrows

 

Gaudy Bauble

By Isabel Waidner

 

Barley Patch

By Gerald Murnane

 

Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts

By Alexander Langlands

 

The Nature and Art of Workmanship

By David Pye

 

The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life

By Priscilla Long

 

Watchmaking

By George Daniels

 

The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty

By Sōetsu Yanagi

 

No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

By Ursula K. Le Guin

 

Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way

By Lao Tzu

 

Structure of the Visual Book

By Keith A. Smith

 

An Anecdoted Topography of Chance

By Daniel Spoerri

 

The Conference of the Birds

By Farid ud-Din Attar

 

I Am A Cat

By Soseki Natsume

 

A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

By Manuel De Landa

 

Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time

By Stephen Jay Gould

 

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

By Rebecca Solnit

 

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

By Isabel Wilkerson

 

Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style

By Virginia Tufte

 

The Elements of Typographic Style

By Robert Bringhurst

 

The Complete Walker IV

By Colin Fletcher and Chip Rawlins

 

The Power of Maps

By Denis Wood

 

In Search of the Virtual Class: Education in an Information Society

By Lalita Rajasingham and John Tiffin

 

The Politics of Education

By Paulo Freire

 

Cronopios and Famas

By Julio Cortázar

 

The House of the Spirits: A Novel

By Isabel Allende

 

Composing A Life

By Mary Catherine Bateson

 

The Golden Notebook: A Novel

By Doris Lessing

 

Notation

By Virginia Gaburo

 

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

By David Foster Wallace

 

Adversarial Design

By Carl DiSalvo

 

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses

By Jesse Schell

 

The Argonauts

By Maggie Nelson

 

Song of Solomon

By Toni Morrison

 

Supple Science: A Robert Kocik Primer

By Robert Kocik

 

Pataphysics: A Useless Guide

By Andrew Hugill

 

On Dialogue: An Essay in Free Thought

By Robert Grudin

 

Language Acquisition Made Practical: Field Methods for Language Learners

By E. Thomas Brewster and Elizabeth S. Brewster

 

Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone

By Eduardo Galeano

 

The Golden Bough

By James George Frazer

 

Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life

By Jane Jacobs

 

Notes on Nursing

By Florence Nightingale

 

March (Trilogy)

By John Lewis and Andrew Aydin

 

Journalism

By Joe Sacco

 

How to Solve It

By George Polya

 

The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes

By Rudy Rucker

 

House of Leaves

By Mark Z. Danielewski

 

Pale Fire

By Vladimir Nabokov

 

Computers as Theater

By Brenda Laurel

 

Evocative Objects: Things We Think With

Edited by Sherry Turkle

 

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

By Lauret Savoy

 

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By Michelle Alexander

 

The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education

By Grace Llewellyn

 

Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community

By Martin Duberman

 

Float

By Anne Carson

 

Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences

By Lawrence Weschler

 

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

By Temple Grandin

 

An American Childhood

By Annie Dillard

 

The Tale of Genji

By Shikibu Murasaki

 

Chinese Rhyme Prose

Translated by Burton Watson

 

Hyperobjects

By Timothy Morton

 

The Arcades Project

By Walter Benjamin

 

Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives

Edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin

 

Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience

By Yi-Fu Tuan

 

The Change Handbook

Edited by Peggy Holman, Tom Devane, and Steven Cady

 

Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation

By Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver

 

Midnight Robber

By Nalo Hopkinson

 

Light: A Novel

By M. John Harrison

 

James Baldwin: Collected Essays

By James Baldwin

 

Known and Strange Things: Essays

By Teju Cole

 

The Storm of Creativity

By Kyna Leski

 

Always Coming Home

By Ursula K. Le Guin

 

The Real World of Technology

By Ursula Franklin

 

Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

By Douglas Hofstadter

 

Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor

By Lynda Barry

 

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

By Peter Bevelin

 

Designing Design

By Kenya Hara

 

Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman

By Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye

 

The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge

By Manuel Lima

 

A Muse and a Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic

By Peter Turchi

 

The Systems View of the World

By Ervin Laszlo

 

Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives

By Susan Howe

 

Diffusion of Innovations

By Everett M. Rogers

 

The Tacit Dimension

By Michael Polanyi

 

After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

By George Steiner

 

Hyperion

By Friedrich Hölderlin

 

The Timeless Way of Building

By Christopher Alexander

 

The Image of the City

By Kevin Lynch

 

Playing at the World

By Jon Peterson

 

Gravity’s Rainbow

By Thomas Pynchon

 

Networkologies: A Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age — A Manifesto

By Christopher Vitale

 

The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International

By Mckenzie Wark

 

Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry

By Marvin Minsky and Seymour A. Papert

 

Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization

By Vaclav Smil

 

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

By Stephen Nachmanovitch

 

An Experiment with Time (Studies in Consciousness)

By J. W. Dunne

 

The I Ching, or, Book of Changes

Translated by Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes

 

Hopscotch: A Novel

By Julio Cortázar

 

Cache: Creating Natural Economies

By Spencer Beebe

 

Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson’s Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night

By Stephen Booth

 

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

By Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman

 

Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities

By Kevin Kelly

 

The Quantum Dice

By L.I Ponomarev

 

On Dialogue

By David Bohm

 

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

By Robert A. Caro

 

Sanatorium Operations Manual

By Pedro Reyes

 

Distant Reading

By Franco Moretti

 

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

By Nick Bostrom

 

The Gormenghast Novels

By Mervyn Peake

 

Critical Path

By R. Buckminster Fuller

 

Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation

By Elaine Gould

 

Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

By Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander

 

The Universal Traveler: A Soft-Systems Guide to: Creativity, Problem-Solving, and the Process of Reaching Goals

By Don Koberg and Jim Bagnall

 

Beyond Culture

By Edward T. Hall

 

The Control of Nature

By John McPhee

 

Paterson

By William Carlos Williams

 

Letters to a Young Scientist

By E. O. Wilson

 

Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education

By Shinichi Suzuki

 

Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature

By Espen J. Aarseth

 

Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life

By Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb

 

The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World

By Trevor Cox

 

Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society

Edited by Evans, Galbraith, and Law

 

Reasons and Persons

By Derek Parfit

 

The Oldest Living Things in the World

By Rachel Sussman

 

A Geology of Media

By Jussi Parikka

 

Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

By Vanna Bonta

 

Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change

By Victor Papanek

 

Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

By David Christian

 

Infinite Jest

By David Foster Wallace

 

Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age

By Alex Wright

 

Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions

Edited by Geoff Manaugh

 

Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time, and Everyday Life

By Henri Lefebvre

 

From the Tree to the Labyrinth: Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation

By Umberto Eco