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The Best American Comics 2007 (The Best American Series (TM))
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
Better than 2006
+ Appropriate title
Two things caught my attention scanning through the Best American Comics of 2007. The first was that it was edited by the multitalented Chris Ware and the second was a story by Gilbert Hernandez about a gigantically breasted woman. The later will get my attention every time. I found the 2006 Best ...
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The Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki
Anchor, 2005
Excellent Primer
+ Why don't quantum physicists let a crowd predict the Higgs' particle mass-energy?
+ Never judge a book by its cover!
There's a reason why democracy is the crappiest form of government, except all others (to paraphrase somebody famous).
The theme of this book is that groups of people are smarter than individual people. It's sort of counterintuitive to the American spirit of individualism, but James Surowiecki ...
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Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969
Dan Nadel
"Harry N. Abrams, Inc.", 2006
Readers involved in comic history, evolution and art simply must have
+ Rescued from Obscurity!
+ Comic Art Supreme
+ VERY GOOD COMPILATION OF UNKNOWN ARTISTS
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Galatea 2.2: A Novel
Richard Powers
Picador, 2004
Intricately turned phrases
It's funny, the reviews on the cover make me think that they didn't read the book. It's neither terse nor a thriller, but a poignant semi-autobiographical passage. This book sent me running to the dictionary every two pages, but I didn't mind because each sentence unearthed a penetrating ...
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Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology
Solaris, 2008
Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology assembles original stories by some of the genre's foremost writers. Edited by Nick Gevers, this collection includes brand new stories by Stephen Baxter, Eric Brown, Paul Di Filippo, Hal Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, Jay Lake, Ian R. MacLeod, Michael Moorcock, Robert Reed, Lucius Shepard, Brian Stableford, Jeff VanderMeer and more.
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R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz, & Country
"Harry N. Abrams, Inc.", 2006
Novelty Item Reincarnated As Artistic Tour De Force
+ Usefull
+ IDIOSYNCRATIC BUT COMPELLING COLLECTION
+ Great Deal!
+ Great for the music too...
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SteamPunk Live!: A Retrofuturist Dream
Oliver Lowe
Re/Search Publications, Pollinator Press, 2008
Steampunk is building steam. Its DIY projects are featured on YouTube and Burning Man is alight with steampunk-inspired art. Even the mainstream media is catching on. But what is this whimsical phenomenon, and why has it suddenly seized the zeitgeist? Simply put, steampunk seeks to humanize the modern technological experience by resurrecting overlooked technologies and design elements from ...
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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Chris Anderson
Hyperion, 2006
Scintilating, brilliant. The new age explained
+ The Long Tail - Economics of Abundance
+ The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
+ The Long Book from a Short Article
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Ray Kurzweil
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
upon reading it a second time...
+ Insightful, but not gripping
+ Really makes you wonder
+ Excellent Roadmap of the Potential Future
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The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture
Andrew Keen
Doubleday Business, 2007
First critical Web 2.0 book
Anyone involved in Web 2.0 should find this book useful, in particular two groups: 1)those who own big Web 2.0 companies and 2)those who are dreaming of making millions by setting up a Web 2.0 company.
GOOD: we tend to see only the advantages of the Web 2.0 trend while neglecting the negative ...
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How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Library Edition
Daniel H. Wilson
Blackstone Audiobooks, 2006
Sometimes funny, sometimes scientific but always enjoyable!
This book is written as a field manual to prepare the un-aware public for the approaching scourge of the Robot Revolution! Not as much fun to read as the Zombie Survival Guide, but every bit as important, Humans Unite!
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I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Basic Books, 2007
Why I do not exist, you can too!
Hofstadter isn't for everyone, and the subject of his musings is difficult, but he has a wonderful ability to make deep ideas accessible and he is full of fun. If you took great delight in Godel, Escher, Bach or The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul you will find renewed ...
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Tesla: Man Out of Time
Margaret Cheney
Touchstone, 2001
Electrifying Read!
+ Excellent biography!
+ Good history of Tesla
+ Absolutely mind-boggling
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
Richard Dawkins
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006
If you read one book on evolution...
+ Dissecting "The Selfish Gene"
+ Life is a watch too complex to create
+ Un libro indispensable en nuestra biblioteca.
+ Why take an interest in science?
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Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969
Dan Nadel
"Harry N. Abrams, Inc.", 2006
Readers involved in comic history, evolution and art simply must have
+ Rescued from Obscurity!
+ Comic Art Supreme
+ VERY GOOD COMPILATION OF UNKNOWN ARTISTS
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