2009 reading to try to get a handle on Stuff

  • GCHQ, th uncensored story, by Richard Aldrich Amazon Reference
  • What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything by John Brockman , Brian Eno (Introduction) Amazon Reference
  • Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914 by Christine MacLeod Amazon Reference
  • Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens When People Come Together by Clay Shirky Amazon Reference
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by TS Kuhn Amazon Reference
  • Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage Amazon Reference
  • The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani Amazon Reference
  • Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir by David Rieff Amazon Reference
  • The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive by John Graham-Cumming Amazon Reference
  • Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Society and Enlightenment Values by A.C. Grayling Amazon Reference
  • The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Penguin Psychology) by Julian Jaynes Amazon Reference
  • Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman , Elisabeth Freeman , Bert Bates , Kathy Sierra Amazon Reference
  • Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David J.C. MacKay Amazon Reference
  • Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What it Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt Amazon Reference
  • Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution and Epistemology by G Bateson Amazon Reference
  • Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) (Information Science and Statistics) by Christopher M. Bishop Amazon Reference
  • Anathem by Neal Stephenson Amazon Reference
  • Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda by Robert Wallace , H. Keith Melton , Henry Robert Schlesinger Amazon Reference
  • Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch Amazon Reference
  • Memoirs of a Geezer: Music, Life, Mayhem by Jah Wobble Amazon Reference
  • In the City: A Celebration of London Music by Paul Du Noyer Amazon Reference
  • Bill Bruford: The Autobiography: Yes, King Crimson, Earthworks and by Bill Bruford Amazon Reference
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson Amazon Reference
  • A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz Amazon Reference
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance-now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen , Seth Grahame-Smith Amazon Reference
  • The Turing Test by Chris Beckett Amazon Reference
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer , Annie Barrows Amazon Reference