My Reading List

Books for 2008

Books that are striked out have been read

• A short history of nearly everything
• Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy
• Beyond Good and Evil : Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
• Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL
• Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL: From Novice to Professional - currently reading
• Data structures and algorithms in Java (3rd edition) - Four chapters (chapters 5, 7, 8, 9(maybe), 11). (10 algorithms from ASPN python algorithm category)
• Mono a Developer's Notebook - Instead read: JQuery in Action - Functional Javascript
• Epictetus - The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
• 1632 - found at the baen free library
• 1633 - found at the baen free library
• The Trouble With Being Born
• The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention
• Ten Commandments Twice Removed

Books read in past years

• Dive into python
• Rats, Lice and History
• The Selfish Gene
• The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence - Ray Kurzweil
• In search of Schrödinger's cat : quantum physics and reality
• Unix system administration handbook
• Black holes and baby universes and other essays
• Cricket songs: Japanese haiku
• Dark age ahead
• Straw dogs: thoughts on humans and other animals
• A short history of progress
• The Republic - plato
• Phaedo - plato
• Crito - plato
• The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
• UNIX Unbounded: A Beginning Approach - 4th Edition - Amir Afzal
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter - I only read a few hundred pages
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition - Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz
• NIV Bible - old and new testament
• Penguin Classics Koran
• The God Delusion
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• You Can Teach Yourself Tinwhistle - Mizzy McCaskill
• Dune and Series - Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
• Ender's Game - series - Orson Scott Card
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - series - Douglas Adams
• Time's Eye - Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter
• and many others...

Books to Read

Many of these books are taken from a list of books at the end of a book I read and liked. I no longer remember which book.

• Calculus Made Easy
• 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development
• Motion Mountain (Physics)
• Chance and Necessity - Jacques Monod
• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
• Scientific Methodologies in Collision: A history of the study of the Extinction of the Dinosaurs' Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 24 - M. Benton
• In Search of Nature - E.O. Wilson
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
• False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism - John Gray
• Ageing Planet (Population growth projections) - Guardian, 2 August 2001
• The Spirit in the Gene: Humanity's Proud Illusion and the Laws of Nature - Reg Morrison
• Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine - James Lovelock
• The Symbiotic Planet: A new Look at Evolution - Lynn Margulis
• United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Environmental Change in the Independent, 14 November 2000
• Plagues and Peoples - William McNeill
• Viruses, Plagues and History - Michael B.A. Oldstone
• An Essay on the Principle of Population - Thomas Malthus
• Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace
• Biohazard - Ken Alibek (with Stephen Handleman)
• Energy and Equity - Ivan. D. Illich
• Autogeddon - Heathcote Williams
• Sensitive Souls: Senses and Communication in Plants, Animals and Microbes - Brian J. Ford
• Marvellous Microbes - Resurgence No. 206, May/June 2001 - Lyan Margulis and Dorion Sagan
• The Scientific Outlook - Bertrand Russel
• Against Method - Paul Feyerabend
• Farewell to Reason - (Feyerabend ??) London and New York
• We Have Never Been Modern - Bruno Latour - Chapter One
• Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being - Paul Feyerabend
• The End of Time - Julian Barbour
• The Greeks and the Irrational - E.R. Dodds on Socrates
• Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds - Bernd Heinrich
• The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life - Robert Wright
• The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Vol. Two - Robinson Jeffers (ed. Tim Hunt)
• Pensees - Blaise Pascal
• The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth
• Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist
• The Symbiotic Man - Joel de Rosnay
• Gaia - Te Next Big Idea - Mary Midgley
• Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu (Trans D.C.Lau, Penguin Books)
• Joyful Wisdom - F. Nietzsche
• On the Basis Morality - A. Schopenhauer
• Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosphy - Rudiger Safranski
• Parerga and Paralipomena - A. Schopenhauer
• Scepticism - Arne Naess
• Schopenhauer - Patrick Gardiner
• The World as Will and Representation - A. Schopenhauer
• Dionysus: Myth and Cult - Walter F. Otto (Translation Robert B. Palmer)
• Nietzsche in Turin: The End of the Future - Lesley Chamberlain's
• The Madness of Nietzsche - E.F. Podach
• Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography - Rudiger Safranski
• Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy - David Farrel Krell
• Dependent Rational Animals: Why Humans Need the Virtues - Alasdair MacIntyre
• Basic Writings - Martin Heidegger
• Heidegger's Philosophy of Being: A critical Interpretation - Herman Philipse
• The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Though - John D. Caputo
• The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity - Hans Jonas
• Gelassenheit (see his Discourse on Thinking) - Heidegger
• Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil - Rudiger Safranski
• The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader - R. Wolin
• Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism - Karl Lowith
• Heidegger's Hidden Sources: East Asian Influences on His Work - Reinhard May
• The Question Being - M. Sprung
• Philosophical Investigations - Wittgenstein
• The Best of Friends - John Aspinall
• Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy - K.T. Fann
• Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Man and His Philosophy - Fann Collections of essays
• Wittgenstein and His Times - B. MacGuinness
• Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius - Ray Monk
• Contingency, Irony and Solidarity - Richard Rorty
• Madness and Civilisation - Michel Focault
• Scepticism and Animal Faith - George Santayana
• Mauthner's Critique of Language - Gershon Weiler
• Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China - A.C. Graham
• Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings - Burton Watson
• Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Interpretation - Chad Hansen
• Sensitive Souls: Senses and Communication in Animals, Plants and Microbes - Brian J. Ford
• The Symbiotic Planet: A new Look at Evolution - Lynn Margulis
• The Web of Life: A new Synthesis of Mind and Matter - Fritjof Capra
• Autopoesis and Cognition - Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela
• The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections of a Primatologist - Franz de Waal
• Zen in the Art of Archery - Eugen Herrigel
• Art of the Andes from Chavin to Inca - Rebecca Stone Miller
• Prehistoric Art in Europe - N.K. Sandars
• The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination - Anton Ehrenzweig
• The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness down to Size - Tor Norretranders
• Blindsight: A case Study and Implications - L. Weiskrantz
• Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
• Freedom and Belief - Galen Strawson
• Liberty - Isaiah Berlin
• Brain (Time of conscious Intention to Actino into Relation to Onset of Cerebral Activity) - Dennis K. Pearl, etc...
• Behavioural and Brain Sciences - Benjamin Libet
• Consciousness Explained - Daniel Dennet
• The Mystery of Consciousness - John Searle
• The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness - Antonio Damasio
• Descartes's Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain - Damasio
• The World as Will and Representation - Arthur Schopenhauer (Translator E.J.F Payne)
• The Soul of the White Ant - Eugene Marais
• Aphorisms - George Christoph
• The Cap, or the Price of a Life - Roman Frister
• The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West - Hermann Rauschning
• Assignment in Utopia - Eugene Lyons
• The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe - M. Gimbutas
• Kolyma Tales - Varlam Shalamov
• Imperium - Ryszard Kapuscinski
• The Trouble with Being Born - E.M. Cioran
• The Lost Gospel of Q: The Book of Christian Origins - Burton L. Mack
• The Iliad of Homer
• Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age - Richard Rudgley
• Intoxication Minds - Ciaran Regan
• Half Truths and One-and-a-half Truths - Karl Kraus
• Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
• False Dawn: the Delusions of Global Capitalism - John Gray
• The End of Work: the Decline of Global Labour Force and the Dawn of the Post-market Era - Jeremy Rifkin
• Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard
• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge - E.O. Wilson
• Life without Genes: The History and Future of Genomes - Adrian Woolfson
• Platonism and the Spiritual Life - George Santayana
• On Grief and Reason: Essays - Joseph Brodsky
• Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
• The Demon of Progress in the Arts - Wyndham Lewis
• Post-Liberalism: Studies in Political Thought
• Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos - Robert D. Kaplan
• Wayward Servants: The Two worlds of the African Pygmies - Colin M. Turnbull
• The Greek Myths (Sisyphus) - Robert Graves
• Winds of Doctrine and Platonism and the Spiritual Life - George Santayana
• Mastering network security
• HOMER: Iliad, Odyssey
• AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound
• SOPHOCLES: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes
• THUCYDIDES: Peloponnesian War
• EURIPIDES: Hippolytus, Bacchae
• HERODOTUS: Histories
• ARISTOPHANES: Clouds
• PLATO: Meno, Gorgias, Apology, Symposium, Parmenides, Theatetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus
• ARISTOTLE: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals
• EUCLID: Elements
• LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things
• PLUTARCH: Lycurgus, Solon
• NICOMACHUS: Arithmetic
• LAVOISIER: Elements of Chemistry
• HARVEY: Motion of the Heart and Blood
• Essays by: Archimedes, Fahrenheit, Avogadro, Dalton, Cannizzaro, Virchow, Mariotte, Driesch, Gay-Lussac, Spemann, Stears, J.J. Thompson, Mendeleyev, Berthollet, J.L. Proust
• Capital - Marx,
• Crime & Punishment - Dostoeyevsky,
• The Fountainhead - Rand
• The heart of a dog - Bulgakov
• Dubliners - Joyce