Books
Five stars
- On Writing Well, 25th Anniversary: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (On Writing Well)
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials)
- In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies (Collins Business Essentials)
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management
- The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
- Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Penguin Classics)
- Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
- The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System (Unix and Open Systems Series.)
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
- The C++ Programming Language
- Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world’s top shooters (Voices That Matter)
- The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life
- Hard Rain (John Rain Thrillers (Paperback))
- Rain Storm (John Rain Thrillers (Paperback))
- Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra
- The Design of Everyday Things
- Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies
- Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices (Microsoft))
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
- Portfolios of Ansel Adams
- Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
- Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
- Atget
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change Series)
- The Elements of Typographic Style
- Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
- If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
- Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics
- The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
- Putin’s Russia
- The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
Four stars
- The Effective Executive Revised
- Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
- The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course In Finance for Non-Financial Managers
- Atomised
- Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
- Solaris Internals: Core Kernel Architecture
- The C Programming Language
- UNIX Network Programming
- Operating Systems: Design And Implementation
- The UNIX Programming Environment
- The Tao of Pooh
- Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
- Faust: Part 1 (Faust)
- Faust: Part 2 (Faust)
- Kingdom of Fear
- The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language
- The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies)
- Programming Pearls (ACM Press S.)
- Advanced Programming in the UNIX(R) Environment
- The Protocols
- Languages and Machines: An Introduction to the Theory of Computer Science
- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
- The Art of Prolog, Second Edition: Advanced Programming Techniques (Logic Programming)
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
- Test Driven Development: By Example (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
- Jennifer Government
- Zen in the Art of Archery
- The Anatomy of Buzz: How to Create Word of Mouth Marketing
- The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
- Rational Points on Elliptic Curves (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
- Knowledge and the Wealth Of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery
- Globalization and Its Discontents
- Microeconomics: Theory and Applications, Eleventh Edition
- The Shangri-La Diet
- Rain Fall (John Rain Thrillers (Paperback))
- Killing Rain
- The Book of Bunny Suicides
- Return of the Bunny Suicides
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
- Photography Past Forward: Aperture at 50
- Complex Analysis
- The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers (O’Reilly Digital Studio)
- The Millionaire Next Door
- Cocoa Programming
- The Art of Looking Sideways
- The Millionaire Mind
- Unleashing the Ideavirus
- On Writing
- Creating Customer Evangelists: How Loyal Customers Become a Volunteer Sales Force
- Tulsa
- Rainbows End
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait: The Art of Celebrity and Editorial Photography
- The Camera
- The Negative
- The Photographer’s Eye
- The Will to Lead: Running a Business With a Network of Leaders
- Edward Weston: Portraits
- Henri Cartier-Bresson (Masters of Photography Series)
- Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
- Nigella Express: 130 Recipes for Good Food, Fast
- Pthreads Programming: A POSIX Standard for Better Multiprocessing (O’Reilly Nutshell)
- Linux Device Drivers (Nutshell Handbook)
- The Monk and the Riddle : The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
- Professional Model Portfolios: A Step-by-Step Guide for Photographers
- Corrective Lighting, Posing & Retouching for Digital Portrait Photographers
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
- Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management
- Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes
- All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
- The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable
- The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
- Best Business Practices for Photographers
- On Being a Photographer: A Practical Guide
- Starting Something: An Entrepreneur’s Tale of Control, Confrontation & Corporate Culture
Unrated
Typically, books I’ve bought but yet to read.
- The Federalist Papers (Penguin Classics)
- Types and Programming Languages
- Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists (Foundations of Computing)
- The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play
- Discrete-Event Simulation
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
- Atlas Shrugged
- McKinsey’s Marvin Bower: Vision, Leadership, and the Creation of Management Consulting
- Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
- Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks
- Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
- Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict
- The Shock of the New
- Welcome to Oz: A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop (VOICES)
- Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
- To Have or to Be?
- Handbook of Applied Cryptography
- The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
- Envisioning Information
- The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization
- Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism
