A book that takes us behind the scenes of how and why words and sentences work, in precise detail. It’s meant to serve as inspiration and example for writers, presenting…

The Elements of Typographic Style is a landmark text of typography. “Far more than a style guide”, it’s also a “brief history…encyclopedia…[and] richly informative tour” of this fascinating field. Bringhurst…

This is a collection of frameworks and analytical tools for game design. I love the ”lens” device, the implication of various perspectives and approaches for understanding and creating games. Schell…

I loved Grudin’s Time and the Art of Living; this one seems similarly up my alley, a collection of deep thinking about a rich and complex topic. This book “is…

A classic book about problem solving, How to Solve It seems an excellent metacognitive tool, or collection of tools, for how to frame problems, tease them apart, and search for…

Pale Fire is a “cornucopia of deceptive pleasures”; a “centaur work, half poem, half prose…one of the great works of art of this century”. It’s highly experimental; metafictive. It’s a…

Black Mountain is a history of one of the most fascinating learning institutions, pedagogical experiments, and creative communities of all time: Black Mountain College. BMC existed for fewer than 25…

Hyperobjects, the idea-entities: those phenomena like climate change, black holes, biospheres, or capitalism, that are just too big for humans to truly grasp. Hyperobjects, the book: a compelling and weird…

In Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience, Tuan, a renowned geographer, considers “the ways in which people feel and think about space”, in a book filled with humanistic questions…

“With burning passion and jabbing, epigrammatic acuity, Baldwin fearlessly articulates issues of race, democracy, and American identity.” James Baldwin is an indisputably vital voice in American letters — and one…