RECOMMENDED BOOKS
SOME BOOKS THAT I'VE READ RECENTLY OR LONG AGO OR I'M STILL READING AND THAT I REALLY RECOMMEND
TROUBLESOME YOUNG MEN (The rebels who brought Churchill to power and helped to save England. A very scary and beautifully written account of how close to defeat and oblivion Neville Chamberlain’s government brought England in the late 1930s) by Lynne Olson - published in 2007 by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York.
CITIZENS OF LONDON: The Americans who stood with Britain in its darkest, finest hour. As Tom Brokaw said "A great read about the small band of Americans and their courageous role in helping Britain through the darkness of early World War II" By Lynne Olson - published in 2010 by Random House, New York.
109 EAST PALACE: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant (A personalised and fascinating history of the Manhattan Project) - published by Simon & Schuster
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguro. One of the most beautifully written books I have ever read. A brilliant and moving account of the lives of the servants of a rich, upper class British family during the 1930s and 40s. Some of the more unforgettable characters I have experienced in literature. Published in 1990 by Vintage Books/Random House, New York.
THE DONKEYS (A chilling and enraging description of World War I) by Alan Clark - published by Pimlico Press, London
INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT (A highly-readable primer to the physics and maths behind space flight by one of the scientists who predicted most of the related innovations and invented some of them) by Arthur C. Clarke - published in 1985 by Berklely Books, New York
GOD is not GREAT (How Religion Poisons Everything) by Christopher Hitchens - published by Twelve Hachette Book Group USA
CAPITALISM'S ACHILLES HEEL (Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System - a scary look at how the global money system works today and how much international criminal activity cripples it) by Raymond W. Baker - published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
THE BLOODY SHIRT (Terror after Appomattox - if you were ever nervous about travelling through the Deep South, this won't make you feel safer) by Stephen Budiansky - published by Viking/The Penguin Group
1776 by David McCullough (How the most powerful Army and Navy in the world was defeated and humiliated by a rag-tag bunch of ill-trained rebels)- published by Simon and Schuster
CHRONICLES - VOLUME I by Bob Dylan (An evocative and knowlegeable journey through the 60's and later by one who was there and who helped form an era. Fascinating and one of the best volume of "personal writings that I've read)- published by Simon and Schuster
CLAPTON - The Autobiography (A scary and personal look into the private life and the artistic growth of one of the icons of modern rock and blues music) - published by Broadway Books, New York
THE FLY IN THE CATHEDRAL - How a group of Cambridge Scientists won the race to split the atom by Brian Cathcart - published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING – All you always wanted to know about science but were afraid to ask. By Bill Bryson – published by Broadway Book, New York
FLYBOYS - A gripping and disturbing account of eight American airmen who went down over the Pacific in World War II and the events that inexorably led up to that conflict. By James Bradley - published in 2003 by Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, New York
ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card. This is a "hard" science fiction novel about a world far in the future where our Earth is threatened by destruction by a very alien civilization. But this is no ordinary SF tale. Written originally for the "young adult" market, it has become a cult favourite among the SF cognoscenti. I have been reading science fiction for over 50 years and this is one of the best.
BLOOD AND THUNDER - An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides. A fascinating true saga centered aroung Kit Carson and chronicling the bloody history of the American southwest. Published in 2006 by Random House, New York.
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - by Stieg Larson. This wildly popular trilogy about a swedish investigative journalist and the strange, fascinating young woman he encounters while following a decades old crime story is more than worth all the hype. "Tattoo" is the first of the Trilogy, "the Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked Over The Hornets' Nest" are the second and third. If you start this literary adventure, start with the first book and read them in order. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York in 2008.
THE HELP - by Kathryn Stockett. A searing novel about the black "help", mostly women, employed by the white families in a fictional town in Mississippi in the turbulent 1960s. For a no-holds barred picture of the "helps' " lives and their treatment by the ruling race, this devastating novel is a must read.
TROUBLESOME YOUNG MEN (The rebels who brought Churchill to power and helped to save England. A very scary and beautifully written account of how close to defeat and oblivion Neville Chamberlain’s government brought England in the late 1930s) by Lynne Olson - published in 2007 by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York.
CITIZENS OF LONDON: The Americans who stood with Britain in its darkest, finest hour. As Tom Brokaw said "A great read about the small band of Americans and their courageous role in helping Britain through the darkness of early World War II" By Lynne Olson - published in 2010 by Random House, New York.
109 EAST PALACE: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant (A personalised and fascinating history of the Manhattan Project) - published by Simon & Schuster
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguro. One of the most beautifully written books I have ever read. A brilliant and moving account of the lives of the servants of a rich, upper class British family during the 1930s and 40s. Some of the more unforgettable characters I have experienced in literature. Published in 1990 by Vintage Books/Random House, New York.
THE DONKEYS (A chilling and enraging description of World War I) by Alan Clark - published by Pimlico Press, London
INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT (A highly-readable primer to the physics and maths behind space flight by one of the scientists who predicted most of the related innovations and invented some of them) by Arthur C. Clarke - published in 1985 by Berklely Books, New York
GOD is not GREAT (How Religion Poisons Everything) by Christopher Hitchens - published by Twelve Hachette Book Group USA
CAPITALISM'S ACHILLES HEEL (Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System - a scary look at how the global money system works today and how much international criminal activity cripples it) by Raymond W. Baker - published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
THE BLOODY SHIRT (Terror after Appomattox - if you were ever nervous about travelling through the Deep South, this won't make you feel safer) by Stephen Budiansky - published by Viking/The Penguin Group
1776 by David McCullough (How the most powerful Army and Navy in the world was defeated and humiliated by a rag-tag bunch of ill-trained rebels)- published by Simon and Schuster
CHRONICLES - VOLUME I by Bob Dylan (An evocative and knowlegeable journey through the 60's and later by one who was there and who helped form an era. Fascinating and one of the best volume of "personal writings that I've read)- published by Simon and Schuster
CLAPTON - The Autobiography (A scary and personal look into the private life and the artistic growth of one of the icons of modern rock and blues music) - published by Broadway Books, New York
THE FLY IN THE CATHEDRAL - How a group of Cambridge Scientists won the race to split the atom by Brian Cathcart - published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING – All you always wanted to know about science but were afraid to ask. By Bill Bryson – published by Broadway Book, New York
FLYBOYS - A gripping and disturbing account of eight American airmen who went down over the Pacific in World War II and the events that inexorably led up to that conflict. By James Bradley - published in 2003 by Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, New York
ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card. This is a "hard" science fiction novel about a world far in the future where our Earth is threatened by destruction by a very alien civilization. But this is no ordinary SF tale. Written originally for the "young adult" market, it has become a cult favourite among the SF cognoscenti. I have been reading science fiction for over 50 years and this is one of the best.
BLOOD AND THUNDER - An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides. A fascinating true saga centered aroung Kit Carson and chronicling the bloody history of the American southwest. Published in 2006 by Random House, New York.
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - by Stieg Larson. This wildly popular trilogy about a swedish investigative journalist and the strange, fascinating young woman he encounters while following a decades old crime story is more than worth all the hype. "Tattoo" is the first of the Trilogy, "the Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked Over The Hornets' Nest" are the second and third. If you start this literary adventure, start with the first book and read them in order. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York in 2008.
THE HELP - by Kathryn Stockett. A searing novel about the black "help", mostly women, employed by the white families in a fictional town in Mississippi in the turbulent 1960s. For a no-holds barred picture of the "helps' " lives and their treatment by the ruling race, this devastating novel is a must read.
AND, IF YOU'RE INTO NERDY NOSTALGIA, MY ANCIENT BOOKS ARE STILL IN PRINT, I THINK!
Project Management Made Simple by David King, Yourdon Press/Prentice Hall, Yourdon Computing Series, 1992 (ISBN: 0-13-717729-1)
Creating Effective Software by David King, Yourdon Press/Prentice Hall, Yourdon Computing Series, 1988 (ISBN: 0-13-189242-8)
Current Practices in Software Development by David King, Yourdon Press, 1984 (ISBN: 0-917072-29-4)
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Also, take a look at this book, which I highly recommend:
Project Management Made Simple by David King, Yourdon Press/Prentice Hall, Yourdon Computing Series, 1992 (ISBN: 0-13-717729-1)
Creating Effective Software by David King, Yourdon Press/Prentice Hall, Yourdon Computing Series, 1988 (ISBN: 0-13-189242-8)
Current Practices in Software Development by David King, Yourdon Press, 1984 (ISBN: 0-917072-29-4)
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Also, take a look at this book, which I highly recommend:
The Science of Disorder - Jack Hokikian, Ph. D.
(Understanding the Complexity, Uncertainty, and Pollution in Our World)
This amazing book, written by a close friend of mine, uses physics, especially the Laws of Thermodynamics, to explain why our universe changes over time and where it, and we, are eventually headed. Click here for details
(Understanding the Complexity, Uncertainty, and Pollution in Our World)
This amazing book, written by a close friend of mine, uses physics, especially the Laws of Thermodynamics, to explain why our universe changes over time and where it, and we, are eventually headed. Click here for details
