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Wednesday, 2005-06-01

Reading list

Reading

Queue

  • Mark Jason Dominus, Higher Order Perl
  • Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void

To be returned

  • Christer Hellmark, Typografisk Handbok
  • Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister, Peopleware 2nd ed. (loan from Tobbe)
  • Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams

Wishlist

  • Iain Banks, The Steep Approach to Garbadale
  • Iain M. Banks, Transition
  • Matthew Carr, Unknown Soldiers: How terrorism transformed the modern world (in the US as Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism.)
  • Jeffrey A. Engel, Cold War at 30,000 Feet
  • Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil
  • Frances FitzGerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
  • Graham Hancock, The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige and Corruption of the International Aid Business
  • Harry Harrison, The Deathworld: Omnibus (recommended by Chris Davies)
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Emperor
  • Philip Kitcher, Living with Darwin
  • William Langewiesche, American Ground
  • William Langewiesche, The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
  • Steven LeBlanc, Constant Battles: Why We Fight
  • David Liss, A Conspiracy of Paper
  • John MacPhee, Uncommon Carriers
  • Michael Maren, The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity
  • Paul McAuley, Eternal Light
  • Paul McAuley, The Quiet War
  • Paul McAuley, Gardens of the Sun
  • Ewen Montagu, The Man who never was
  • Ted Morgan, Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America (reviewed in NYRB, vol. LI, no. 2)
  • Jeffrey T. Richelson, Spying on the Bomb
  • Ola Ringdahl, Kapstaden till Nordkap på 333 dagar
  • N.A.M. Rodger, The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815
  • N.A.M. Rodger, The Wooden World
  • David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
  • Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort
  • Dan Simmons, The Terror
  • Neal Stephenson & J. Frederick George, Interface
  • Arkadij Vaksberg, Skjut de galna hundarna!
  • Tom Wilker, Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy
  • Evan Wright, Generation Kill
  • John C. Wright, The Golden Age