Energy and Civilization

Vaclav Smil

Energy Transitions

Vaclav Smil

Growth

Vaclav Smil

Grand Transitions

Vaclav Smil

Harvesting the Biosphere

Vaclav Smil

Feeding the World

Vaclav Smil

Prime Movers of Globalization

Vaclav Smil

Creating the Twentieth Century

Vaclav Smil

Transforming the Twentieth Century

Vaclav Smil

The Drawdown

Paul Hawken

Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality

Pope Francis

Whole Earth Discipline

Stewart Brand

A Case for Climate Engineering

David Keith

Designing an Internet

David D. Clark

Weaving the Web

Tim Berners-Lee

Tools for Thought

Howard Rheingold

Evolutionary Design by Computers

Peter J. Bentley, Ed.

Creative Evolutionary Systems

Peter J. Bentley, Ed.

Working in Public

Nadia Eghbal

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

Richard W. Hamming

The Humane Interface

Jef Raskin

Designing Interactions

Bill Moggeridge

Everyware

Adam Greenfield

Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood

Various

Thinking in Systems

Donella Meadows

Complexity: A Guided Tour

Melanie Mitchell

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned

Stanley, Lehman

The Origins of Wealth

Eric Beinhocker

Signals and Boundaries

John Henry Holland

Evolution in Four Dimensions

Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb

Systems Generating Systems

Christopher Alexander

Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Norbert Wiener

Systemantics

John Gall

Growth

Vaclav Smil

The Collapse of Complex Societies

Joseph Tainter

How Complex Systems Fail

Richard I. Cook, MD

Normal Accidents

Charles Perrow

Seeing Like a State

James C. Scott

The Moment of Complexity

Mark C. Taylor

The Collapse of Complex Societies

Joseph Tainter

How Complex Systems Fail

Richard I. Cook, MD

Normal Accidents

Charles Perrow

Global Catastrophic Risks

Nick Bostrum

Global Catastrophies and Trends

Vaclav Smil

Superintelligence

Nick Bostrum

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton Christensen

The Innovator's Solution

Clayton Christensen

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

Carlota Perez

The Entrepreneurial State

Mariana Mazzucato

The DARPA Model

Bonvillian, van Atta, Windham, Ed.

Scenario Planning

Mats Lindgren, Hans Bandhold

Strategic Reframing

Rafael Ramírez, Angela Wilkinson

Learning from the Future

Liam Fahey, Robert Randall

The Art of the Long View

Peter Schwartz

Business Model Generation

Alexander Osterwalder,‎ Yves Pigneur

Lean UX

Jeff Gothelf, Shosh Seiden

Running Lean

Ash Murya

A Secular Age

Charles Taylor

Seeing Like a State

James C. Scott

The Origins of Political Order

Francis Fukuyama

Political Order and Political Decay

Francis Fukuyama

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Max Weber

Extrastatecraft

Keller Easterling

The Mystery of Capital

Hernando de Soto Polar

The World of Yesterday

Stefan Zweig

Energy and Civilization

Vaclav Smil

Grand Transitions

Vaclav Smil

Prime Movers of Globalization

Vaclav Smil

Creating the Twentieth Century

Vaclav Smil

Transforming the Twentieth Century

Vaclav Smil

A Secular Age

Charles Taylor

Finite and Infinite Games

James Carse

The Religious Case Against Belief

James Carse

Pensees

Blaise Pascal

Tools for Conviviality

Ivan Illich

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt

The Periodic Table

Primo Levi

Survival in Auschwitz

Primo Levi

The Sunflower

Simon Wiesenthal

The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Mahatma Gandhi

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

The Courage to Be

Paul Tillich

On the Shortness of Life

Seneca

The Enchiridion

Epictetus

To Have or to Be

Erich Fromm

Escape from Freedom

Erich Fromm

Identity and Violence

Amartya Sen

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander

Systems Generating Systems

Christopher Alexander

Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Christopher Alexander

Rules of Play

Salen, Zimmerman

The Art of Game Design

Jesse Schell

Thing from the Future

Situation Lab

Understanding Comics

Scott McCloud

Design Cybernetics

Thomas Fischer, Christiane Herr, Ed.

Universal Principles of Design

William Lidwell

Universal Methods of Design

Bella Martin, Bruce Hanington

Designing Interactions

Bill Moggeridge

Designing and Engineering Time

Steven Seow Ph.D.

Designing with the Mind in Mind

Jeff Johnson

Graphic Design: The New Basics

Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Cole Phillips

The Vignelli Cannon

Massimo Vignelli

IDEO Method Cards

IDEO

Making and Breaking the Grid

Timothy Samara

Interaction of Color

Josef Albers

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid

Oliver Byrne

The Elements of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst

The Medium is the Massage

Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore

The Field Study Handbook

Jan Chipchase

Design with the Other 90%: Cities

Cynthia E. Smith

Design Like You Give a Damn

Kate Stohr,‎ Cameron Sinclair

Design Revolution

Emily Pilloton

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander

Architecture: Form, Space, and Order

Francis D. K. Ching

Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice

Bailey, Mike

Conditional Design

Anthony di Mari

Operative Design

Anthony di Mari, Nora Yoo

Parametric Design for Architecture

Jabi, Wassim

Real Time Rendering

Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines

Siteless

François Blanciak

Digital Fabrications

Lisa Iwamoto

Design Drawing

Francis D. K. Ching

Aurora

Kim Stanley Robinson

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

A Canticle for Lebowitz

Walter M. Miller Jr.

Hard to Be a God

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Rainbows End

Vernor Vinge

Roadside Picnic

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

The Peripheral

William Gibson

Beowulf

Seamus Heaney

The Odyssey

Emily Wilson

Collected Works

Denise Levertov

Silence

Shusaku Endo

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Leaves of Grass (and other works)

Walt Whitman

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

Koyaanisqatsi

Godfrey Reggio

Grapefruit

Yoko Ono

Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Walter Isaacson

Three Worlds Gone Mad

Robert Young Pelton

Robotics Primer

Maja J. Mataric, PhD

Concrete Mathematics

Graham, Knuth, Patashnik

Flow Based Programming

J. Paul Morrison

Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice

Bailey, Mike

Game Programming Patterns

Robert Nystrom

Real Time Rendering

Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines

The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Sussman, Abelson

How to Design Programs

Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi

Procedural Generation in Game Design

Tanya X. Short

Machinery's Handbook

Oberg, Erik & Jones, Franklin D.

Making It

Chris Lefteri

Pocket Ref

Thomas J. Glover

An Introduction to Cybernetics

W. Ross Ashby

Radical Markets

Eric Posner, Glen Weyl

Mindstorms

Seymour Papert

The Stack

Bejamin Bratton

A Thousand Plateaus

Deleuze, Guattari

Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow, Yaoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

Our Posthuman Future

Francis Fukuyama

The Society of Mind

Marvin Minsky

The Hardware Startup

Renee DiResta

Art as Experience

John Dewey

Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation

Jencks, Charles, Silver, Nathan

The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn

Deep History

Andrew Shryock, Daniel Smail