Recent Reading

February 2012

Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher

January 2012

The Wealth of Knowledge by Thomas A. Stewart

Barbara Kruger by Alexander Alberro, etc.

The Upside of Down by Thomas Homer-Dixon

Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky

December 2011

Fixing the Game by Roger L. Martin

The War for Korea, 1950-1951 by Allan R. Millett

This is Uncool by Garry Mulholland

A Murder of Quality by John Le Carré

November 2011

Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership by Joseph Jaworski

Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco

Greenback Planet by H. W. Brands

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

Improve Your Project Management by Phil Baguley

Material Change by Eve Blossom

October 2011

God and Gold by Walter Russell Mead

On the Edge of the New Century by Eric Hobsbawm

Dead Funny by Rudolph Herzog

Breaking the Fear Barrier by Tom Rieger

Collected Poems by George Seferis

Record Collecting for Girls by Courtney E. Smith

The Conscience of the Eye by Richard Sennett

What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

September 2011

The History of Mathematics: Numbers by John Tabak

The Gutenberg Elegies by Sven Birkerts

Retromania by Simon Reynolds

Aerotropolis by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay

August 2011

Too Much to Know by Ann M. Blair

СССР: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed by Frédéric Chaubin

The Myth of the Electronic Library by William F. Birdsall

Future Science edited by Max Brockman

The Untied States of America by Juan Enriquez

Good Strategy / Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt

Off the Books by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Annals of the Former World by John McPhee

July 2011

Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand

Hearts of the City by Herbert Muschamp

Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky

Danube by Claudio Magris

June 2011

Among the Thugs by Bill Buford

The Numerati by Stephen Baker

The MLS Project by Boyd Keith Swigger

The Unaffordable Nation by Jeffrey D. Jones

May 2011

Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

The Long Tail by Chris Anderson

I Am the Market by Luca Rastello

The Next Decade by George Friedman

The Stillborn God by Mark Lilla

Owning It All by William Kittredge

In Defense of History by Richard J. Evans

April 2011

Liebling at The New Yorker edited by James Barbour and Fred Warner

From Bible Belt to Sun Belt by Darren Dochuk

March 2011

Amexica: War Along the Borderline by Ed Vulliamy

The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille

Street Player by Danny Seraphine

The Portland Edge edited by Connie P. Ozawa

Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama

Facts Are Subversive by Timothy Garton Ash

Earth (The Book) by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

February 2011

The Flâneur by Edmund White

Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite by Paul Arden

France/Norway by John Maxtone-Graham

The Wicked Wine of Democracy by Joseph S. Miller

The Meadowlands by Robert Sullivan

The Endless City edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic

January 2011

Googled by Ken Auletta

Newsonomics by Ken Doctor

Poison Penmanship by Jessica Mitford

Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950 by Robert M. Fogelson

When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out by David J. Lynch

The Imperial Cruise by James Bradley

The First Moderns by William R. Everdell

Power and Plenty by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke

Yakuza by David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro

December 2010

Playing Our Game by Edward S. Steinfeld

A Brief History of the Future by Jacques Attali

The Works: Anatomy of a City by Kate Ascher

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton

True Enough by Farhad Manjoo

Totally Wired by Simon Reynolds

The Soccer Book by David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton

November 2010

The Mαth Βook by Clifford A. Pickover

The Big Short by Michael Lewis

Postmodernism by Christopher Butler

Sun in a Bottle by Charles Seife

Postmodernism for Beginners by Jim Powell

Socialism by Michael Newman

The Future History of the Arctic by Charles Emmerson

Interstate 69 by Matt Dellinger

The Routes of Man by Ted Conover

The Orange Revolution by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton

October 2010

The World in 2050 by Laurence C. Smith

K Blows Top by Peter Carlson

Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness by Reinhard Kleist

Infotopia by Cass R. Sunstein

This Book Is Overdue! by Marilyn Johnson

Essays of E. B. White by E. B. White

I.O.U. by John Lanchester

A Gift to My Children by Jim Rogers

Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

The Landscape of History by John Lewis Gaddis

The Logic of Failure by Dietrich Dörner

September 2010

Bounce by Matthew Syed

Germania by Simon Winder

Small is the New Big by Seth Godin

August 2010

Journey into Islam by Akbar Ahmed

The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner

Cartographies of Time by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton

The Millionaire in the Mirror by Gene Bedell

Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger

Journey into America by Akbar Ahmed

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen

The Utility of Force by Rupert Smith

The Dead Beat by Marilyn Johnson

July 2010

The Little Book of Main Street Money by Jonathan Clements

Super Structures by Mark Denny

The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto by Bernard DeVoto

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes by Daniel L. Everett

Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski

The Public Burning by Robert Coover

June 2010

A Political Fable by Robert Coover

May 2010

The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons

War & Peace & War by Peter Turchin

Searching for Whitopia by Rich Benjamin

Naked Airport by Alastair Gordon

Physics for Future Presidents by Richard A. Muller

Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton

Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy by William Oddie

April 2010

Historical Sketch of the Library Association of Portland, 1864-1964 by Katherine E. Anderson

After the Reich by Giles Macdonogh

March 2010

Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky

Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

The Creation and Destruction of Value by Harold James

Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham

Renewing Professional Librarianship by Bill Crowley

The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

February 2010

The Sion Revelation by Lynn Pickett and Clive Prince

Target: America by James P. Duffy

The Dip by Seth Godin

The Marketplace of Ideas by Louis Menand

Ants at Work by Deborah Gordon

Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson

January 2010

India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha

The Original Curse by Sean Deveney

The Vikings by Robert Ferguson

1688: The First Modern Revolution by Steve Pincus

 

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