Design
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A Pattern LanguageChristopher Alexander
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The Art of Game DesignJesse Schell
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Thing from the FutureSituation Lab
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Understanding ComicsScott McCloud
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Universal Methods of DesignMartin, Hanington
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Universal Principles of DesignLidwell, Holden, Butler
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Designing InteractionsBill Moggeridge
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EverywareAdam Greenfield
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Designing and Engineering TimeSteven Seow Ph.D.
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Designing with the Mind in MindJeff Johnson
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Graphic Design: The New BasicsEllen Lupton, Jennifer Cole Phillips
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IDEO Method CardsIDEO
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Making and Breaking the GridTimothy Samara
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Notes on the Synthesis of FormChristopher Alexander
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The First Six Books of the Elements of EuclidOliver Byrne
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The Elements of Typographic StyleRobert Bringhurst
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The Medium is the MassageMarshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
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The Field Study HandbookJan Chipchase
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Design with the Other 90%: CitiesCynthia E. Smith
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Design Like You Give a DamnKate Stohr, Cameron Sinclair
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Design RevolutionEmily Pilloton
Form and space
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A Pattern LanguageChristopher Alexander
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Architecture: Form, Space, and OrderFrancis D. K. Ching
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Graphics Shaders: Theory and PracticeBailey, Mike
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Conditional DesignAnthony di Mari
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Operative DesignAnthony di Mari, Nora Yoo
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Parametric Design for ArchitectureJabi, Wassim
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Real Time RenderingTomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines
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SitelessFrançois Blanciak
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Digital FabricationsLisa Iwamoto
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Design DrawingFrancis D. K. Ching
Software
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Robotics PrimerMaja J. Mataric, PhD
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Concrete MathematicsGraham, Knuth, Patashnik
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Graphics Shaders: Theory and PracticeBailey, Mike
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Real Time RenderingTomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines
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The Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsSussman, Abelson
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Procedural Generation in Game DesignTanya X. Short
Making
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Machinery's HandbookOberg, Erik & Jones, Franklin D.
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Making ItChris Lefteri
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Pocket RefThomas J. Glover
Anthropocene
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A Case for Climate EngineeringDavid Keith
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Energy TransitionsVaclav Smil
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Harvesting the BiosphereVaclav Smil
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Prime Movers of GlobalizationVaclav Smil
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The Business Solution to PovertyPolak Warwick
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The DrawdownPaul Hawken
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Encyclical on Climate Change and InequalityPope Francis
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Feeding the WorldVaclav Smil
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Whole Earth DisciplineStewart Brand
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Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited StatehoodVarious
Strategy
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The Innovator's DilemmaClayton Christensen
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The Innovator's SolutionClayton Christensen
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Technological Revolutions and Financial CapitalCarlota Perez
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The Entrepreneurial StateMariana Mazzucato
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The Art of the Long ViewPeter Schwartz
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Business Model GenerationAlexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur
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Lean UXJeff Gothelf, Shosh Seiden
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Running LeanAsh Murya
Systems
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Signals and BoundariesJohn Henry Holland
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Designing an InternetDavid D. Clark
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The Moment of ComplexityMark C. Taylor
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Evolution in Four DimensionsEva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb
Human systems
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A Secular AgeCharles Taylor
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Seeing Like a StateJames C. Scott
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The Origins of Political OrderFrancis Fukuyama
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Political Order and Political DecayFrancis Fukuyama
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismMax Weber
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ExtrastatecraftKeller Easterling
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Clash of CivilizationsSamuel P. Huntington
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The Mystery of CapitalHernando de Soto Polar
Tail risks
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Global Catastrophic RisksNick Bostrum
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Global Catastrophies and TrendsVaclav Smil
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SuperintelligenceNick Bostrum
Thinking
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Finite and Infinite GamesJames Carse
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The religious case against beliefJames Carse
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PenseesBlaise Pascal
Ethics, meaning
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The Periodic TablePrimo Levi
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Survival in AuschwitzPrimo Levi
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The SunflowerSimon Wiesenthal
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The Gulag ArchipelagoAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Story of My Experiments with TruthMahatma Gandhi
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Man's Search for MeaningViktor Frankl
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The Courage to BePaul Tillich
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On the Shortness of LifeSeneca
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The EnchiridionEpictetus
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To Have or to BeErich Fromm
Imagining better
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AuroraKim Stanley Robinson
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Invisible CitiesItalo Calvino
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A Canticle for LebowitzWalter M. Miller Jr.
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Hard to Be a GodArkady and Boris Strugatsky
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Rainbows EndVernor Vinge
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Roadside PicnicArkady and Boris Strugatsky
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The PeripheralWilliam Gibson
Literature/poetry
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BeowulfSeamus Heaney
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Denise Levertov, Collected WorksDenise Levertov
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SilenceShusaku Endo
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The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoyevsky
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Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
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Leaves of Grass (and other works)Walt Whitman
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GrapefruitYoko Ono
Biography
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Leonardo da VinciWalter Isaacson
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Notebooks of Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci
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Benjamin Franklin: An American LifeWalter Isaacson
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Three Worlds Gone Mad (The Hunter, The Hammer, and Heaven)Robert Young Pelton
Backlog
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An Introduction to CyberneticsW. Ross Ashby
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Radical MarketsEric Posner, Glen Weyl
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The Art of Doing Science and EngineeringRichard W. Hamming
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MindstormsSeymour Papert
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The StackBejamin Bratton
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Digital HumanitariansPatrick Meier
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A Thousand PlateausDeleuze, Guattari
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Deep LearningIan Goodfellow, Yaoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
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Energy and CivilizationVaclav Smil
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Identity and ViolenceAmartya Sen
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Escape from FreedomErich Fromm
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The World of YesterdayStefan Zweig
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Our Posthuman FutureFrancis Fukuyama
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The Society of MindMarvin Minsky
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The Hardware StartupRenee DiResta
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Art as ExperienceJohn Dewey
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Adhocism: The Case for ImprovisationJencks, Charles, Silver, Nathan
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The Dream MachineM. Mitchell Waldrop