Bookshelf :: A selection of what's on my bookshelf.

Desert Island Books
The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by N. K. Sandars [ Penguin Classics ]
The Bible [ Oxford Classics ]
The Satyricon by Petronius [ Penguin Classics ]
Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe [ Doubleday & Company, Inc. ]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain [ Oxford Classics ]
Against Nature (À Rebours) by Joris-Karl Huysmans [ Penguin Classics ]
Complete Short Fiction of Oscar Wilde [ Penguin Classics ]
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde [ Penguin Classics ]
The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell [ Simon & Schuster ]
Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky [ Pantheon ]
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E. T. Jaynes [ Cambridge University Press ]
Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference by Judea Pearl [ Cambridge University Press ]
George Gerbner: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory by Michael Morgan [ Peter Lang Publishing Inc. ]

Classical

Mesopotamia
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and others translated by Stephanie Dalley [ Oxford Classics ]
The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by N. K. Sandars [ Penguin Classics ]
Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated translated by G. P. Verbrugghe and J. M. Wickersham [ Michigan ]
Egypt
Les contes populaire de l'Égypte ancienne translated by Gaston Maspero [ Amazon ]
An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Literature translated by E. A. Wallace Budge [ Amazon ]
Egyptian Tales: Volume 1: Translated from the Papyri translated by W. M. F. Petrie [ Amazon ]
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum translated by W. M. F. Petrie [ Amazon ]
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day translated by James Wasserman [ Amazon ]
The Hermetica of Hermes Trismegistus [ Tarcher Cornerstone Editions ]
China
The Shu King or Book of Historical Documents translated by James Legge [ Kessinger Legacy Reprints ]
The Analects by Confucius [ Penguin Classics ]
Mencius translated by D. C. Lau [ Penguin Classics ]
India
Kama Sutra [ Penguin Classics ]
Greco-Roman
The Iliad by Homer [ Oxford Classics ]
The Odyssey by Homer [ Oxford Classics ]
The Complete Fables of Aesop [ Penguin Classics ]
The Histories by Herodotus [ Penguin Classics ]
The Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes [ Bantam Classics ]
Timaeus and Critias by Plato [ Penguin Classics ]
Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, and The Republic by Plato [ Dover Thrift Editions ]
The Metaphysics by Aristotle [ Dover Philosophical Classics ]
Politics by Aristotle [ Penguin Classics ]
The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus [ Penguin Classics ]
The Comedies of Terence translated by Betty Rice [ Penguin Classics ]
The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius [ Penguin Classics ]
In Defence of the Republic by Cicero [ Penguin Classics ]
The Poems of Catullus translated by Peter Whigham [ Penguin Classics ]
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca [ Penguin Great Ideas ]
The Satyricon by Petronius [ Penguin Classics ]
The Golden Ass by Apuleius [ Penguin Classics ]
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius [ Penguin Classics ]
Guide to Greece 1: Central Greece by Pausanias [ Penguin Classics ]
Judeo-Christian
The Bible [ Oxford Classics ]
Book of Enoch translated by R. H. Charles [ Dover Occult ]
The Christian Topography of Cosmas, An Egyptian Monk by Cosmas Indicopleustes [ Cambridge University Press ]
The Dialogues of Gregory the Great in their Late Antique Cultural Background by Joan M. Petersen [ Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies ]

Middle Ages
An Encyclopedia of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville translated by Ernest Brehaut [ Ulan Press ]
The Shahnameh by Firdausi [ Wildside Press ]
The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck translated by Peter Jackson [ Hackett Classics ]
Women's Secrets (De Secretis Mulierum) by Pseudo-Albertus [ SUNY Press ]
The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine [ Princeton University Press ]
The Decameron by Boccaccio [ Penguin Classics ]
Medieval Comic Tales edited by Derek Brewer [ D. S. Brewer ]
The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd by Geoffrey Chaucer [ Penguin Classics ]
Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan by Marco Polo [ Penguin Classics ]

Early Modern
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli [ Penguin Classics ]
Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim [ Llewellyn Publishing ]
Praise of Folly by Erasmus [ Penguin Classics ]
Utopia by Thomas More [ Penguin Classics ]
The Essays by Francis Bacon [ Penguin Classics ]
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei [ Cosimo Classics ]
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes [ Dover Thrift Editions ]
Candide or Optimism by Voltaire [ Penguin Classics ]
Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg [ Echo Library ]

Modern
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith [ Bantam Classics ]
Complete Fairy Tales of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm [ Routledge ]
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey [ Penguin Classics ]
Essai Philosophique sur les Probabilités by Pierre-Simon Laplace [ Cambridge University Press ]
Hard Times by Charles Dickens [ Penguin Classics ]
Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe [ Doubleday & Company, Inc. ]
L'Auberge Rouge by Honoré de Balzac [ Gallimard Education ]
Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne [ Ulan Press ]
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engles [ Filiquarian ]
An Anthology of poems by William Wordsworth Amazon
Selected Poems of John Clare [ Penguin Classics ]
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire [ Oxford Classics ]
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne [ Canterbury Classics ]
A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne [ Canterbury Classics ]
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce [ Dover Thrift Editions ]
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne [ Canterbury Classics ]
La-bas (Down There) by Joris-Karl Huysmans [ Echo Library ]
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain [ Oxford Classics ]
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain [ Penguin Classics ]
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll [ Penguin Classics ]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain [ Oxford Classics ]
Against Nature (À Rebours) by Joris-Karl Huysmans [ Penguin Classics ]
Imaginary Portraits by Walter Horatio Pater [ Echo Library ]
Complete Short Fiction of Oscar Wilde [ Penguin Classics ]
Moseman's Illustrated Guide for Purchasers of Horse Furnishing Goods [ Smithmark ]
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde [ Penguin Classics ]
The Soul of the Man under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose by Oscar Wilde [ Penguin Classics ]
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll [ Penguin Classics ]
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde [ Penguin Classics ]
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain [ Penguin Classics ]
The Ballad of Reading Goal by Oscar Wilde [ Amazon ]
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne [ Canterbury Classics ]
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells [ Penguin Classics ]
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling [ Penguin Classics ]
Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell [ Routledge ]
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry [ Dover Thrift Editions ]
Science and Hypothesis by Henri Poincaré [ Cosimo Classics ]
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. Evans [ The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ]
Japanese Fairy Tales compiled by Yei Theodora Ozaki Amazon
The Legends of Tono by Kunio Yanagita [ Lexington Books ]
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell [ Dover Publications ]
Wintry Peacock by D. H. Lawrence Amazon
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein [ Dover Publications ]
Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann [ Dover Publications ]
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot [ Penguin Classics ]
The Dreams in the Witch House and other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft [ Penguin Classics ]
ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell [ Routledge ]
The Secret World Government by Major-General, Count Cherep-Spiridovich [ Book Tree ]
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence [ Penguin Classics ]
Statistical Methods for Research Workers by Sir Ronald A. Fisher Amazon
Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn [ Dover Publications ]
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell [ Routledge ]
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande by E. E. Evans-Pritchard [ Oxford University Press ]
Theory of Probability by Sir Harold Jefferies [ Oxford University Press ]
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemmingway Amazon
L'Étranger by Albert Camus [ Gallimard ]
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus [ Vintage ]
Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [ Harcourt, Inc. ]

Contemporary
United Nations Charter Amazon
The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell [ Simon & Schuster ]
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury [ Simon & Schuster ]
Theology and Sanity by F. J. Sheed [ ??? ]
Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell [ Routledge ]
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway ???
Junky by William S. Burrought [ Penguin Classics ]
Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus [ Vintage ]
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell Amazon
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [ Penguin Classics ]
Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov [ Penguin Classics ]
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess [ W. W. Norton & Company ]
Statistics: An Intuitive Approach by George H. Weinberg and John Abraham Schumaker [ Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc. ]
New Patterns in Genetics and Development by C. H. Waddington [ Columbia University Press ]
Temporal Organization in Cells; A Dynamic Theory of Cellular Control Processes by Brian C. Goodwin [ Ulan Press ]
The New Penguin Classics Atlas of Ancient History by Colin McEvedy [ Penguin Classics ]
Perrault's Fairy Tales translated by A. E. Johnson [ Dover Children's Classics ]
How to Draw What You See by Rudy de Reyna [ Watson-Guptill ]
The Foundations of Statistics by Leonard J. Savage [ Dover Publications ]
The Emergence of Probability by Ian Hacking [ Cambridge University Press ]
Connections by James Burke [ Simon & Schuster ]
Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World by Barbara Sproul [ HarperOne ]
Probability and Statistical Inference. Volume 1: Probability by J. G. Kalbfleisch [ Springer-Verlag ]
Probability and Statistical Inference. Volume 2: Statistical Inference by J. G. Kalbfleisch [ Springer-Verlag ]
Giotto: Complete Works by Luciano Bellosi [ Riverside Book Company ]
The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 by Stephen M. Stigler [ Belknap Press ]
The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves by Joseph H. Silverman [ Springer ]
Japanese Tales edited and translated by Royall Tyler [ Pantheon ]
Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky [ Pantheon ]
An Encyclopedia of Chairs by Simon Yeates [ Wellfleet Press ]
Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene by Natalie Angier [ Houghton Mifflin ]
Statistical Methods, Eighth Edition by George Snedecor and William Cochran [ Iowa State University Press ]
Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science edited by Phillip Bricker and R. I. G. Hughes [ MIT Press ]
Graphical Models in Applied Multivariate Statistics by Joe Whittaker [ Wiley ]
Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte [ Graphics Pr ]
The Great Conversation: Volume I: Pre-Socratics through Descartes by Norman Melchert [ Oxford University Press ]
Quantum Mechanics and Experience by David Z. Albert [ Harvard University Press ]
The Uruk World System by Guillermo Algaze [ University of Chicago Press ]
Physics and Probability: Essays in Honor of Edwin T. Jaynes edited by W. T. Grandy Jr. and P. W. Milonni [ Cambridge University Press ]
Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution by Stuart Kauffman [ Oxford University Press ]
Calligraphy by Michael Gullick [ Studio Edns. ]
A History of Japan by R. H. P. Mason and J. G. Caiger [ Tuttle Publishing ]
Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics : An Applied Introduction (Second Edition) by Ralph P. Grimaldi [ Addison-Wesley ]
The Logic Book by Merrie Bergmann, James Moor, and Jack Nelson [ McGraw-Hill ]
Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods by Stephen M. Stigler [ Harvard University Press ]
Abstract Algebra by John B. Fraleigh [ Addison-Wesley ]
The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals edited by Douglas Palmer [ Marshall Editions ]
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski [ Pantheon ]
Mathematical Statistics: Basic Ideas and Selected Topics, Vol I (2nd Edition) by Peter J. Bickel and Kjell A. Doksum [ Prentice Hall ]
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose [ Yale University Press ]
The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman [ Touchstone ]
Curve Ball by Jim Albert and Jay Bennett [ Copernicus ]
A First Course in Probability (Sixth Edition) by Sheldon Ross [ Prentice Hall ]
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte [ Graphics Pr ]
An Introduction to English Poetry by James Fenton [ Farrar ]
Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy by Nick Bostrom [ Routledge ]
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett [ Penguin ]
Daniel Dennett: Reconciling Science and Our Self-Conception by Matthew Elton [ Polity ]
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E. T. Jaynes [ Cambridge University Press ]
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by David C. Mackay [ Cambridge University Press ]
Bayesian Data Analysis (Second Edition) by Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, and Donald B. Rubin [ Chapman & Hall ]
Mind: A Brief Introduction by John R. Searle [ Oxford University Press ]
Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky [ Holt Paperbacks ]
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose [ Vintage ]
The Idler Book of Crap Holidays edited by Dan Kieran [ Idler Books ]
The Agile Rabbit Book of Historical and Curious Maps by Pepin van Roojen [ Pepin Press ]
Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan [ Penguin ]
Creative Writing: A Guide and Glossary to Fictional Writing by Colin Bulman [ Polity ]
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop [ Springer ]
The Regulatory Genome: Gene Regulatory Networks in Development and Evolution by Eric Davidson [ Elsevier ]
Principles of Statistical Inference by D. R. Cox [ Cambridge University Press ]
Genomes 3 by T. A. Brown [ Garland Science ]
Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs the could Reverse Human Aging in our Lifetime by Aubrey de Grey [ St. Martin's Griffin ]
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman [ Picador ]
Statistics by David Freedman, Robert Pisani, and Roger Purves [ W. W. Norton & Company ]
The Kingdom of Infinite Space by Raymond Tallis [ Yale University Press ]
Emergence edited by Mark A. Bedau and Paul Humphreys [ A Bradford Book ]
Big Brain by Gary Lynch and Richard Granger [ Palgrave Macmillan ]
Cave Art by Jean Clottes [ Phaidon Press Inc. ]
The Penguin Classics Book of Classical Myths by Jenny March [ Penguin Classics ]
Medieval Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide by Sharon M. Kaye [ Oneworld Publications ]
Computational Modeling of Gene Regulatory Networks by Hamid Bolouri [ Imperial College Press ]
Analysis of Biological Networks edited by Björn H. Junker and Falk Schreiber [ Wiley-Interscience ]
Analysis of Microarray Data: A Network-Based Approach edited by Matthias Dehmer and Frank Emmert-Streib [ Wiley-Blackwell ]
The Nature of Technology: What it is and how it Evolves by W. Brian Arthur [ Free Press ]
Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques by Daphne Koller and Nir Freidman [ The MIT Press ]
Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference by Judea Pearl [ Cambridge University Press ]
The Processes of Life: An Introduction to Molecular Biology by Lawrence Hunter [ The MIT Press ]
Analysis of Complex Networks: From Biology to Linguistics edited by Matthias Dehmer and Frank Emmert-Streib [ Wiley-Blackwell ]
An Introduction to Narratology by Monica Fludernik [ Routledge ]
ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis by Hadley Wickham [ Springer ]
Information is Beautiful by David McCandless [ Collins ]
Cancer Systems Biology edited by Edwin Wang [ Chapman & Hall ]
Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything we do, from your E-mail to Bloody Crusades by Albert-László Barabási [ Plume ]
The Handbook of Psychic Cold Reading by Dantalion Jones [ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ]
True Light: A, superior, take, unto, the, premier, haloing, of, tenuation. Readily, available, True Light, provides, resource, into, time's, motifed, and, vestuved, authenticate, revelation. by Lark Voorhies [ iUniverse ]
Large-Scale Inference: Empirical Bayes Methods for Estimation, Testing, and Prediction by Bradley Efron [ Cambridge University Press ]
Statistical Bioinformatics: For Biomedical and Life Science Researchers edited by Jae K. Lee [ Wiley-Blackwell ]
Networks: An Introduction by Mark Newman [ Oxford University Press ]
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures by Dona M. Wong [ W. W. Norton & Company ]
Fisher, Neyman, and the Creation of Classical Statistics by Erich L. Lehmann [ Springer ]
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber [ Melville House Publishing ]
Applied Statistics for Network Biology: Methods in Systems Biology edited by Matthias Dehmer, Frank Emmert-Streib, Armin Graber, and Armindo Salvador [ Wiley-Blackwell ]
Principles of Applied Statistics by D. R. Cox and Christl A. Donnelly [ Cambridge University Press ]
The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the Administrative University and Why it Matters by Benjamin Ginsberg [ Oxford University Press ]
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick [ Gallery Books ]
George Gerbner: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory by Michael Morgan [ Peter Lang Publishing Inc. ]
Modern Money Theory by L. Randall Wray [ Palgrave Macmillan ]
Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy by Paul Horwich [ Oxford University Press ]
Models of Science Dynamics edited by Andreas Scharnhorst, Katy Böner, and Peter van den Besselaar [ Springer ]
Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective by Kevin P. Murphy [ The MIT Press ]
Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott Aaronson [ Cambridge University Press ]
The Functional Art: An introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization by Alberto Cairo [ New Riders ]
The Biology of Cancer by Robert Weinberg [ Garland Science ]
The Evolution of Plants by K. J. Willis and J. C. McElwain [ Oxford University Press ]
The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge by Manuel Lima [ Princeton Architectural Press ]
Basic Facts about the United Nations by United Nations [ United Nations ]
Molecular Biology of the Cell by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, and Peter Walter [ Garland Science ]

Art
Giotto: Complete Works by Luciano Bellosi [ Riverside Book Company ]
Calligraphy by Michael Gullick [ Studio Edns. ]
Cave Art by Jean Clottes [ Phaidon Press Inc. ]

Mythology and Folklore
Les contes populaire de l'Égypte ancienne translated by Gaston Maspero [ Amazon ]
Egyptian Tales: Volume 1: Translated from the Papyri translated by W. M. F. Petrie [ Amazon ]
The Complete Fables of Aesop [ Penguin Classics ]
The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine [ Princeton University Press ]
Medieval Comic Tales edited by Derek Brewer [ D. S. Brewer ]
Complete Fairy Tales of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm [ Routledge ]
Japanese Fairy Tales compiled by Yei Theodora Ozaki Amazon
The Legends of Tono by Kunio Yanagita [ Lexington Books ]
Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn [ Dover Publications ]
Perrault's Fairy Tales translated by A. E. Johnson [ Dover Children's Classics ]
Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World by Barbara Sproul [ HarperOne ]
Japanese Tales edited and translated by Royall Tyler [ Pantheon ]
The Penguin Classics Book of Classical Myths by Jenny March [ Penguin Classics ]

Literature
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and others translated by Stephanie Dalley [ Oxford Classics ]
The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by N. K. Sandars [ Penguin Classics ]
Les contes populaire de l'Égypte ancienne translated by Gaston Maspero [ Amazon ]
An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Literature translated by E. A. Wallace Budge [ Amazon ]
Egyptian Tales: Volume 1: Translated from the Papyri translated by W. M. F. Petrie [ Amazon ]
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum translated by W. M. F. Petrie [ Amazon ]
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day translated by James Wasserman [ Amazon ]
The Iliad by Homer [ Oxford Classics ]
The Odyssey by Homer [ Oxford Classics ]
The Bible [ Oxford Classics ]
The Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes [ Bantam Classics ]
Book of Enoch translated by R. H. Charles [ Dover Occult ]
The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus [ Penguin Classics ]
The Comedies of Terence translated by Betty Rice [ Penguin Classics ]
In Defence of the Republic by Cicero [ Penguin Classics ]
The Poems of Catullus translated by Peter Whigham [ Penguin Classics ]
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca [ Penguin Great Ideas ]
The Satyricon by Petronius [ Penguin Classics ]
The Golden Ass by Apuleius [ Penguin Classics ]
Kama Sutra [ Penguin Classics ]
The Dialogues of Gregory the Great in their Late Antique Cultural Background by Joan M. Petersen [ Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies ]
The Shahnameh by Firdausi [ Wildside Press ]
The Decameron by Boccaccio [ Penguin Classics ]
The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd by Geoffrey Chaucer [ Penguin Classics ]
The Essays by Francis Bacon [ Penguin Classics ]
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey [ Penguin Classics ]
Hard Times by Charles Dickens [ Penguin Classics ]
Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe [ Doubleday & Company, Inc. ]
L'Auberge Rouge by Honoré de Balzac [ Gallimard Education ]
Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne [ Ulan Press ]
An Anthology of poems by William Wordsworth Amazon
Selected Poems of John Clare [ Penguin Classics ]
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire [ Oxford Classics ]
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne [ Canterbury Classics ]
A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne [ Canterbury Classics ]
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce [ Dover Thrift Editions ]
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne [ Canterbury Classics ]
La-bas (Down There) by Joris-Karl Huysmans [ Echo Library ]
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain [ Oxford Classics ]
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain [ Penguin Classics ]
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll [ Penguin Classics ]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain [ Oxford Classics ]
Against Nature (À Rebours) by Joris-Karl Huysmans [ Penguin Classics ]
Imaginary Portraits by Walter Horatio Pater [ Echo Library ]
Complete Short Fiction of Oscar Wilde [ Penguin Classics ]
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde [ Penguin Classics ]
The Soul of the Man under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose by Oscar Wilde [ Penguin Classics ]
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll [ Penguin Classics ]
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde [ Penguin Classics ]
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain [ Penguin Classics ]
The Ballad of Reading Goal by Oscar Wilde [ Amazon ]
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne [ Canterbury Classics ]
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells [ Penguin Classics ]
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling [ Penguin Classics ]
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry [ Dover Thrift Editions ]
Wintry Peacock by D. H. Lawrence Amazon
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot [ Penguin Classics ]
The Dreams in the Witch House and other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft [ Penguin Classics ]
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence [ Penguin Classics ]
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell [ Routledge ]
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemmingway Amazon
L'Étranger by Albert Camus [ Gallimard ]
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus [ Vintage ]
Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [ Harcourt, Inc. ]
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury [ Simon & Schuster ]
Theology and Sanity by F. J. Sheed [ ??? ]
Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell [ Routledge ]
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway ???
Junky by William S. Burrought [ Penguin Classics ]
Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus [ Vintage ]
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell Amazon
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [ Penguin Classics ]
Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov [ Penguin Classics ]
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess [ W. W. Norton & Company ]
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski [ Pantheon ]

History
The Shu King or Book of Historical Documents translated by James Legge [ Kessinger Legacy Reprints ]
The Histories by Herodotus [ Penguin Classics ]
Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated translated by G. P. Verbrugghe and J. M. Wickersham [ Michigan ]
The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius [ Penguin Classics ]
The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell [ Simon & Schuster ]
The New Penguin Classics Atlas of Ancient History by Colin McEvedy [ Penguin Classics ]
The Emergence of Probability by Ian Hacking [ Cambridge University Press ]
Connections by James Burke [ Simon & Schuster ]
The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 by Stephen M. Stigler [ Belknap Press ]
Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene by Natalie Angier [ Houghton Mifflin ]
The Uruk World System by Guillermo Algaze [ University of Chicago Press ]
A History of Japan by R. H. P. Mason and J. G. Caiger [ Tuttle Publishing ]
Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods by Stephen M. Stigler [ Harvard University Press ]
The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman [ Touchstone ]
Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan [ Penguin ]
Medieval Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide by Sharon M. Kaye [ Oneworld Publications ]
Fisher, Neyman, and the Creation of Classical Statistics by Erich L. Lehmann [ Springer ]
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick [ Gallery Books ]

Philosophy
The Analects by Confucius [ Penguin Classics ]
Mencius translated by D. C. Lau [ Penguin Classics ]
Timaeus and Critias by Plato [ Penguin Classics ]
Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, and The Republic by Plato [ Dover Thrift Editions ]
The Metaphysics by Aristotle [ Dover Philosophical Classics ]
Politics by Aristotle [ Penguin Classics ]
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius [ Penguin Classics ]
The Hermetica of Hermes Trismegistus [ Tarcher Cornerstone Editions ]
An Encyclopedia of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville translated by Ernest Brehaut [ Ulan Press ]
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli [ Penguin Classics ]
Praise of Folly by Erasmus [ Penguin Classics ]
Utopia by Thomas More [ Penguin Classics ]
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes [ Dover Thrift Editions ]
Candide or Optimism by Voltaire [ Penguin Classics ]
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engles [ Filiquarian ]
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell [ Dover Publications ]
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein [ Dover Publications ]
The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell [ Simon & Schuster ]
Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science edited by Phillip Bricker and R. I. G. Hughes [ MIT Press ]
The Great Conversation: Volume I: Pre-Socratics through Descartes by Norman Melchert [ Oxford University Press ]
Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy by Nick Bostrom [ Routledge ]
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett [ Penguin ]
Daniel Dennett: Reconciling Science and Our Self-Conception by Matthew Elton [ Polity ]
Mind: A Brief Introduction by John R. Searle [ Oxford University Press ]
Medieval Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide by Sharon M. Kaye [ Oneworld Publications ]
Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy by Paul Horwich [ Oxford University Press ]
Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott Aaronson [ Cambridge University Press ]

Logic and Mathematics

Foundations
Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell [ Routledge ]
The Logic Book by Merrie Bergmann, James Moor, and Jack Nelson [ McGraw-Hill ]
Algebra
The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves by Joseph H. Silverman [ Springer ]
Abstract Algebra by John B. Fraleigh [ Addison-Wesley ]
Combinatorics
Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics : An Applied Introduction (Second Edition) by Ralph P. Grimaldi [ Addison-Wesley ]
Theory of Computation
Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott Aaronson [ Cambridge University Press ]

Probability and Statistics

Pre-Jefferies
Essai Philosophique sur les Probabilités by Pierre-Simon Laplace [ Cambridge University Press ]
Statistical Methods for Research Workers by Sir Ronald A. Fisher Amazon
Foundations
Theory of Probability by Sir Harold Jefferies [ Oxford University Press ]
The Foundations of Statistics by Leonard J. Savage [ Dover Publications ]
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E. T. Jaynes [ Cambridge University Press ]
Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference by Judea Pearl [ Cambridge University Press ]
General
Statistics: An Intuitive Approach by George H. Weinberg and John Abraham Schumaker [ Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc. ]
Probability and Statistical Inference. Volume 1: Probability by J. G. Kalbfleisch [ Springer-Verlag ]
Probability and Statistical Inference. Volume 2: Statistical Inference by J. G. Kalbfleisch [ Springer-Verlag ]
Statistical Methods, Eighth Edition by George Snedecor and William Cochran [ Iowa State University Press ]
Graphical Models in Applied Multivariate Statistics by Joe Whittaker [ Wiley ]
Mathematical Statistics: Basic Ideas and Selected Topics, Vol I (2nd Edition) by Peter J. Bickel and Kjell A. Doksum [ Prentice Hall ]
Curve Ball by Jim Albert and Jay Bennett [ Copernicus ]
A First Course in Probability (Sixth Edition) by Sheldon Ross [ Prentice Hall ]
Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy by Nick Bostrom [ Routledge ]
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by David C. Mackay [ Cambridge University Press ]
Bayesian Data Analysis (Second Edition) by Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, and Donald B. Rubin [ Chapman & Hall ]
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop [ Springer ]
Principles of Statistical Inference by D. R. Cox [ Cambridge University Press ]
Statistics by David Freedman, Robert Pisani, and Roger Purves [ W. W. Norton & Company ]
Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques by Daphne Koller and Nir Freidman [ The MIT Press ]
Large-Scale Inference: Empirical Bayes Methods for Estimation, Testing, and Prediction by Bradley Efron [ Cambridge University Press ]
Statistical Bioinformatics: For Biomedical and Life Science Researchers edited by Jae K. Lee [ Wiley-Blackwell ]
Principles of Applied Statistics by D. R. Cox and Christl A. Donnelly [ Cambridge University Press ]
Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective by Kevin P. Murphy [ The MIT Press ]
Data Visualization
Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte [ Graphics Pr ]
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte [ Graphics Pr ]
Information is Beautiful by David McCandless [ Collins ]
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures by Dona M. Wong [ W. W. Norton & Company ]
The Functional Art: An introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization by Alberto Cairo [ New Riders ]
The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge by Manuel Lima [ Princeton Architectural Press ]
History
The Emergence of Probability by Ian Hacking [ Cambridge University Press ]
The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 by Stephen M. Stigler [ Belknap Press ]
Physics and Probability: Essays in Honor of Edwin T. Jaynes edited by W. T. Grandy Jr. and P. W. Milonni [ Cambridge University Press ]
Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods by Stephen M. Stigler [ Harvard University Press ]
Fisher, Neyman, and the Creation of Classical Statistics by Erich L. Lehmann [ Springer ]

Science

Pre-Newtonian
The Christian Topography of Cosmas, An Egyptian Monk by Cosmas Indicopleustes [ Cambridge University Press ]
Women's Secrets (De Secretis Mulierum) by Pseudo-Albertus [ SUNY Press ]
Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim [ Llewellyn Publishing ]
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei [ Cosimo Classics ]
Foundations
Science and Hypothesis by Henri Poincaré [ Cosimo Classics ]
Physics
ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell [ Routledge ]
Quantum Mechanics and Experience by David Z. Albert [ Harvard University Press ]
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose [ Vintage ]
Complex Networks
Emergence edited by Mark A. Bedau and Paul Humphreys [ A Bradford Book ]
Computational Modeling of Gene Regulatory Networks by Hamid Bolouri [ Imperial College Press ]
Analysis of Biological Networks edited by Björn H. Junker and Falk Schreiber [ Wiley-Interscience ]
Analysis of Microarray Data: A Network-Based Approach edited by Matthias Dehmer and Frank Emmert-Streib [ Wiley-Blackwell ]
The Nature of Technology: What it is and how it Evolves by W. Brian Arthur [ Free Press ]
Analysis of Complex Networks: From Biology to Linguistics edited by Matthias Dehmer and Frank Emmert-Streib [ Wiley-Blackwell ]
Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything we do, from your E-mail to Bloody Crusades by Albert-László Barabási [ Plume ]
Applied Statistics for Network Biology: Methods in Systems Biology edited by Matthias Dehmer, Frank Emmert-Streib, Armin Graber, and Armindo Salvador [ Wiley-Blackwell ]
Biology
New Patterns in Genetics and Development by C. H. Waddington [ Columbia University Press ]
Temporal Organization in Cells; A Dynamic Theory of Cellular Control Processes by Brian C. Goodwin [ Ulan Press ]
Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution by Stuart Kauffman [ Oxford University Press ]
The Regulatory Genome: Gene Regulatory Networks in Development and Evolution by Eric Davidson [ Elsevier ]
Genomes 3 by T. A. Brown [ Garland Science ]
Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs the could Reverse Human Aging in our Lifetime by Aubrey de Grey [ St. Martin's Griffin ]
The Processes of Life: An Introduction to Molecular Biology by Lawrence Hunter [ The MIT Press ]
Cancer Systems Biology edited by Edwin Wang [ Chapman & Hall ]
The Biology of Cancer by Robert Weinberg [ Garland Science ]
The Evolution of Plants by K. J. Willis and J. C. McElwain [ Oxford University Press ]
Molecular Biology of the Cell by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, and Peter Walter [ Garland Science ]
Neuroscience
Big Brain by Gary Lynch and Richard Granger [ Palgrave Macmillan ]
Mind
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett [ Penguin ]
Daniel Dennett: Reconciling Science and Our Self-Conception by Matthew Elton [ Polity ]
Mind: A Brief Introduction by John R. Searle [ Oxford University Press ]
The Kingdom of Infinite Space by Raymond Tallis [ Yale University Press ]
Paleontology
The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals edited by Douglas Palmer [ Marshall Editions ]
Archaeology
The Uruk World System by Guillermo Algaze [ University of Chicago Press ]
The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman [ Touchstone ]
Cave Art by Jean Clottes [ Phaidon Press Inc. ]
Economics
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith [ Bantam Classics ]
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber [ Melville House Publishing ]
Modern Money Theory by L. Randall Wray [ Palgrave Macmillan ]
Social Science
Politics by Aristotle [ Penguin Classics ]
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. Evans [ The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ]
Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann [ Dover Publications ]
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande by E. E. Evans-Pritchard [ Oxford University Press ]
Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky [ Pantheon ]
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose [ Yale University Press ]
Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky [ Holt Paperbacks ]
The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the Administrative University and Why it Matters by Benjamin Ginsberg [ Oxford University Press ]
George Gerbner: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory by Michael Morgan [ Peter Lang Publishing Inc. ]
Models of Science Dynamics edited by Andreas Scharnhorst, Katy Böner, and Peter van den Besselaar [ Springer ]
History
Connections by James Burke [ Simon & Schuster ]
Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene by Natalie Angier [ Houghton Mifflin ]
Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science edited by Phillip Bricker and R. I. G. Hughes [ MIT Press ]

Humanities
An Introduction to English Poetry by James Fenton [ Farrar ]
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman [ Picador ]
An Introduction to Narratology by Monica Fludernik [ Routledge ]

Occult
The Golden Ass by Apuleius [ Penguin Classics ]
The Hermetica of Hermes Trismegistus [ Tarcher Cornerstone Editions ]
Women's Secrets (De Secretis Mulierum) by Pseudo-Albertus [ SUNY Press ]
Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim [ Llewellyn Publishing ]
Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg [ Echo Library ]

Travel
Guide to Greece 1: Central Greece by Pausanias [ Penguin Classics ]
The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck translated by Peter Jackson [ Hackett Classics ]
Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan by Marco Polo [ Penguin Classics ]
The Idler Book of Crap Holidays edited by Dan Kieran [ Idler Books ]

Curiosities
The Christian Topography of Cosmas, An Egyptian Monk by Cosmas Indicopleustes [ Cambridge University Press ]
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey [ Penguin Classics ]
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce [ Dover Thrift Editions ]
Moseman's Illustrated Guide for Purchasers of Horse Furnishing Goods [ Smithmark ]
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. Evans [ The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ]
The Secret World Government by Major-General, Count Cherep-Spiridovich [ Book Tree ]
An Encyclopedia of Chairs by Simon Yeates [ Wellfleet Press ]
The Idler Book of Crap Holidays edited by Dan Kieran [ Idler Books ]
The Handbook of Psychic Cold Reading by Dantalion Jones [ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ]
True Light: A, superior, take, unto, the, premier, haloing, of, tenuation. Readily, available, True Light, provides, resource, into, time's, motifed, and, vestuved, authenticate, revelation. by Lark Voorhies [ iUniverse ]

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An Encyclopedia of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville translated by Ernest Brehaut [ Ulan Press ]
United Nations Charter Amazon
How to Draw What You See by Rudy de Reyna [ Watson-Guptill ]
An Encyclopedia of Chairs by Simon Yeates [ Wellfleet Press ]
The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals edited by Douglas Palmer [ Marshall Editions ]
The Agile Rabbit Book of Historical and Curious Maps by Pepin van Roojen [ Pepin Press ]
Creative Writing: A Guide and Glossary to Fictional Writing by Colin Bulman [ Polity ]
ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis by Hadley Wickham [ Springer ]
Basic Facts about the United Nations by United Nations [ United Nations ]