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  • Eric (Faust) - Terry Pratchett (2023-03-08)
  • wagamama Feed Your Soul (2023-03-05)
  • Why I am a Liberal Democrat - Ed. Duncan Brack (2023-03-04)
  • Open Circuits - Eric Schlaepfer and Windell H. Oskay (2023-01-14)
  • Good - C. P. Taylor (2023-01-07)
  • Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett (2022-11-21)
  • Plays 1 - Tom Stoppard (2022-10-09)
  • Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (modern theatre guides) - John Fleming (2022-09-19)
  • Retro-review: City Come a Walkin' - John Shirley (2022-09-18)
  • Retro-review: Zeitgeist - Bruce Sterling (2022-09-18)
  • Retro-review: Slaughtermatic - Steve Aylett (2022-09-16)
  • Retro-review: Islands in the Net - Bruce Sterling (2022-09-16)
  • Craft Beer for the Geeks - Richard Taylor, James Watt, Martin Dickie (2022-09-14)
  • Retro-review: Cyber-killers - Ed. Ric Alexander (2022-09-13)
  • Retro-review: Distraction - Bruce Sterling (2022-09-12)
  • Retro-review: Noir - K. W. Jeter (2022-09-12)
  • Retro-review: redRobe, reMix - John Courtenay Grimwood (2022-09-11)
  • Measure What Matters - John Doerr (2022-09-09)
  • Retro-review: Spares, Only Forward, One of Us - Michael Marshall Smith (2022-09-08)
  • Retro-review: Factoring Humanity - Robert J Sawyer (2022-09-07)
  • Retro-review: Headcrash - Bruce Bethke (2022-09-07)
  • Retro-review: Synners, Fools, Mind Players, Tea from an Empty Cup - Pat Cadigan (2022-09-07)
  • Retro-review: On - Adam Roberts (2022-09-07)
  • Retro-review: The Revolution Business - Charlie Stross (2022-08-23)
  • Raising Steam - Terry Pratchett (2022-08-21)
  • All My Friends Are Superheroes (2022-07-28)
  • Newnes Mechanical Engineer's Pocket Book - Roger Timings and Tony May (2022-05-30)
  • The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers (2022-05-21)
  • Wings - Terry Pratchett (2022-05-21)
  • MS-DOS Programmer's Reference - Microsoft (2022-05-08)
  • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman (2022-05-04)
  • Hogfather - Terry Pratchett (2022-05-04)
  • Mike and Psmith - P. G. Wodehouse (2022-05-03)
  • Making Money - Terry Pratchett (2022-03-02)
  • Tricky Logic Puzzles for Adults - Steven Clontz (2022-03-01)
  • Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence - Dr Gavin Francis (2022-03-01)
  • See MIPS Run - Dominic Sweetman (2022-01-01)
  • Bad Blood - John Carreyrou (2021-12-24)
  • Showstopper! - G. Pascal Zachary (2021-11-20)
  • Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett (2021-10-14)
  • The Art of Rest - Claudia Hammond (2021-10-14)
  • A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell (2021-10-10)
  • An Introduction to Amateur Radio - I. D. Poole (2021-09-26)
  • Diggers - Terry Pratchett (2021-09-15)
  • Truckers - Terry Pratchett (2021-09-13)
  • Going Postal - Terry Pratchett (2021-09-07)
  • Ra - qntm (2021-09-07)
  • All Systems Red (Murderbot diaries) - Martha Wells (2021-08-26)
  • The Computers That Made Britain - Tim Danton (2021-08-22)
  • The Truth - Terry Pratchett (2021-07-28)
  • Thud! - Terry Pratchett (2021-07-22)
  • On Liberty - John Stuart Mill (2021-07-13)
  • Snuff - Terry Pratchett (2021-07-10)
  • How to be a Liberal - Ian Dunt (2021-07-04)
  • Night Watch - Terry Pratchett (2021-06-23)
  • Why Information Grows - César Hidalgo (2021-06-19)
  • The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie (2021-06-17)
  • The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett (2021-06-07)
  • The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman (2021-05-21)
  • Jingo - Terry Pratchett (2021-05-13)
  • Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett (2021-05-07)
  • Men At Arms - Terry Pratchett (2021-04-28)
  • Pyramids - Terry Pratchett (2021-04-18)
  • The Making of Prince of Persia, Journals 1985-1993 - Jordan Mechner (2021-04-04)
  • A-Z of The Designers Republic - Ian Anderson (2020-12-27)
  • Beowulf - Maria Dahvana Headley (2020-11-21)
  • The Foundation License Manual for Radio Amateurs - Alan Betts, G0HIQ (2020-07-19)
  • Agency - William Gibson (2020-07-11)
  • Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt (2020-05-31)
  • The Lean Startup - Eric Ries (2020-04-11)
  • The Case Study Handbook - William Elliot (2020-02-08)
  • Birds: The Art of Ornithology (2020-01-03)
  • Radical Candor - Kim Scott (2020-01-03)
  • Essential Ornithology - Graham Scott (2019-10-06)
  • Fingers in the Sparkle Jar - Chris Packham (2019-09-08)
  • Learn to Sail in a Weekend - John Driscoll (2019-08-17)
  • The Dip - Seth Godin (2019-08-16)
  • What They Teach You At Harvard Business School - Philip Delves Broughton (2019-08-16)
  • Dinghy Techniques - Jeremy Evans (RYA) (2019-06-13)
  • Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle (2019-06-10)
  • Start Sailing - RYA (2019-06-08)
  • How Music Works - David Byrne (2019-06-02)
  • Think Box - Johnny Ball (2019-03-13)
  • Birds of Washington - Stan Tekiela (2019-02-02)
  • The Strength Training Anatomy Workout - Delavier and Gundill (2019-01-19)
  • Indie Games: The Complete Introduction to Indie Gaming by Mike Diver (2018-12-28)
  • A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout (2018-12-15)
  • Discover Birds - Ian Wallace (2018-08-08)
  • Numerical Recipes in C - Press et al (2018-08-08)
  • Men Explain Things to Me - Rebecca Solnit (2018-08-08)
  • Level Up! - Scott Rogers (2018-07-03)
  • To Mock a Mockingbird - Raymond Smullyan (2018-06-24)
  • The Millennium Problems - Keith Devlin (2018-05-13)
  • Why Buildings Stand Up - Mario Salvadori (2018-05-13)
  • The Credibility Code - Cara Hale Alter (2018-03-14)
  • Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates (2018-03-14)
  • Collins gem: Birds (2018-02-18)
  • Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence - Derald Wing Sue (2017-12-23)
  • What's that Bird? - Rob Hume (2017-11-25)
  • Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT - T. F. Peterson (2017-11-12)
  • The Third Man and the Fallen Idol - Graham Greene (2017-11-12)
  • Emma - Jane Austen (2017-06-26)
  • Real World Haskell - Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen and Don Stewart (2017-06-06)
  • Cocaine Nights - J. G. Ballard (2017-05-28)
  • The Seven-Day Weekend: A Better Way to Work in the 21st Century - Ricardo Semler (2017-05-27)
  • What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Marshall Goldsmith (2017-04-29)
  • Naked Lunch - William Burroughs (2017-03-02)
  • Turn the Ship Around! - L. David Marquet (2017-02-08)
  • Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella H. Meadows (2017-02-08)
  • Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline - Charlie Brooker (2017-02-07)
  • Debugging Teams - Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman (2016-12-23)
  • Ancillary Mercy - Ann Leckie (2016-12-08)
  • The Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul - Douglas Adams (2016-12-08)
  • High-Output Management - Andy Grove (2016-12-08)
  • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams (2016-12-08)
  • Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson (2016-11-12)
  • The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande (2016-11-02)
  • Complex Analysis - Eberhard Freitag and Rolf Busam (2016-09-10)
  • The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World (2016-06-11)
  • Solitaire - Kelley Eskridge (2016-06-11)
  • Neptune's Brood - Charles Stross (2016-06-11)
  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini (2016-04-16)
  • A History of Britain 3: 1776-2000 - Simon Schama (2016-02-21)
  • Spacetime Physics - Taylor and Wheeler (2016-01-17)
  • Playing to the Gallery - Grayson Perry (2016-01-17)
  • Crucial Conversations - Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler (2016-01-12)
  • Speccy Nation - Dan Whitehead (2016-01-01)
  • Introducing Relativity - Bruce Bassett and Ralph Edney (2015-12-16)
  • Knitting for Dummies - Allen, Bar and Okey (2015-12-06)
  • The Peripheral - William Gibson (2015-11-21)
  • Underground - David Macaulay (2015-10-30)
  • The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - Sydney Padua (2015-10-30)
  • The Art of Error Correcting Coding - Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza (2015-10-24)
  • Gamesmansheip - Stephen Potter (2015-10-11)
  • Among Others - Jo Walton (2015-10-11)
  • Programmers at Work - Susan Lammers (2015-09-26)
  • Armada - Ernest Cline (2015-09-26)
  • Lady of Mazes - Karl Schroeder (2015-08-30)
  • The Rhesus Chart - Charles Stross (2015-08-30)
  • The Annotated Alice - Lewis Carroll (2015-08-21)
  • Constellation Games - Leonard Richardson (2015-08-09)
  • The Quants - Scott Patterson (2015-08-08)
  • Bend, Not Break - Ping Fu (2015-07-21)
  • Flash Boys - Michael Lewis (2015-06-19)
  • Perdido Street Station - China Miéville (2015-06-06)
  • How Google Works - Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg (2015-05-05)
  • Googled - Ken Auletta (2015-04-28)
  • Company - Max Barry (2015-04-09)
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard (2015-03-18)
  • The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien (2015-03-12)
  • TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 Second Edition, Chapters 1-10 - Fall and Stevens (2015-03-01)
  • More Programming Pearls - Jon Bentley (2015-01-18)
  • Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie (2014-12-28)
  • Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges (2014-12-25)
  • What If? - Randall Munroe (2014-12-13)
  • Classic Shell Scripting - Arnold Robbins and Nelson H. F. Beebe (2014-12-09)
  • Thoughts on Design - Paul Rand (2014-11-13)
  • The Art of Political Manipulation - William H. Riker (2014-11-12)
  • Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (2014-11-09)
  • Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - John D. Clark (2014-11-09)
  • A History of Britain 2: 1603-1776 - Simon Schama (2014-10-03)
  • The Gulag Archipelago (Part 2) - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2014-10-02)
  • Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie (2014-08-31)
  • How to be Topp - G. Willans and R. Searle (2014-08-28)
  • Second Person - Harrigan and Wardrip-Fruin (editors) (2014-08-28)
  • The Art and Science of Negotiation - Howard Raiffa (2014-08-04)
  • Arcadia - Tom Stoppard (2014-07-21)
  • The Java Tutorial 4th ed - Zakhour, Hommel, Royal, Rabinovish, Risser and Hoeber (2014-07-09)
  • The Practice of Programming - Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike (2014-07-04)
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (2014-06-12)
  • The Gulag Archipelago (Part 1) - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2014-06-12)
  • A Theory of Fun for Game Design - Raph Koster (2014-06-01)
  • Patterns for Fault Tolerant Software - Robert S. Hanmer (2014-05-03)
  • Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael C. Feathers (2014-04-13)
  • Macroeconomics, 4th ed. - Olivier Blanchard (part 2) (2014-03-30)
  • Git Internals - Scott Chacon (2014-03-13)
  • Pro Git - Scott Chacon (2014-03-12)
  • The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2 - Knuth (2014-03-01)
  • C# 4.0 Pocket Reference - Joseph and Ben Albahari (2014-02-03)
  • Programming Erlang - Joe Armstrong (2013-12-07)
  • The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1 - Knuth (2013-12-07)
  • What Matters in Jane Austen? - John Mullan (2013-11-22)
  • Derivatives - Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (2013-11-19)
  • Cyclone IV Device Handbook - Altera (2013-11-09)
  • Securities - Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (2013-10-15)
  • Amiga Hardware Reference Manual - CBM Inc. (2013-09-28)
  • Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman (2013-09-23)
  • Game On - Edited by Lucien King (2013-09-08)
  • How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk - Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish (2013-08-27)
  • UK Financial Regulation - Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (2013-08-26)
  • The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi (2013-07-27)
  • Macroeconomics, 4th ed. - Olivier Blanchard (part 1) (2013-06-27)
  • Twisty Little Passages - Nick Montfort (2013-06-14)
  • Cooking for Geeks - Jeff Potter (2013-05-19)
  • King City - Brandon Graham (2013-05-19)
  • The Space Shuttle Operator's Manual - Kerry Mark Joels, Gregory P. Kennedy, David Larkin (2013-04-20)
  • Graphics Gems - Edited by Andrew S. Glassner (2013-04-17)
  • Powers of Persuasion - Winston Fletcher (2013-04-10)
  • Getting to Yes: Negotiating an Agreement Without Giving In - Roger Fisher and William Ury (2013-03-31)
  • Information is Beautiful - David McCandless (2013-03-30)
  • Some Remarks - Neal Stephenson (2013-03-11)
  • Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (2013-03-03)
  • Nudge - Thaler and Sunstein (2013-02-25)
  • The Children of the Sky - Vernor Vinge (2013-02-11)
  • Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins (2013-02-03)
  • Reasons My Kid Is Crying - Greg Pembroke (2013-01-19)
  • The Evolution of Useful Things - Henry Petroski (2013-01-19)
  • Ansel Adams In Color - edited by Harry M. Callahan (2013-01-18)
  • Redshirts - John Scalzi (2013-01-04)
  • The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose (part 2) (2012-12-31)
  • The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (2012-12-09)
  • The Spectrum ULA - Chris Smith (2012-11-03)
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman (2012-10-27)
  • Java Concurrency in Practice - Brian Goetz et al (2012-10-16)
  • The Cat Expert - Rebecca Watson (2012-10-12)
  • Effective Java - Joshua Bloch (2012-09-23)
  • The Mathematics of Poker - Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman (2012-08-31)
  • Embassytown - China Mieville (2012-08-19)
  • The Godfather - Mario Puzo (2012-07-10)
  • The Trade of Queens - Charles Stross (2012-07-01)
  • Distrust That Particular Flavor - William Gibson (2012-06-08)
  • Spin State - Chris Moriarty (2012-06-08)
  • One-upmanship - Stephen Potter (2012-06-01)
  • The Peter Principle - Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull (2012-05-10)
  • 21 Dirty Tricks at Work - Mike Phipps and Colin Gautrey (2012-05-10)
  • Quantitative Trading - Ernest P. Chan (2012-04-25)
  • The Decision Book - Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschaeppeler (2012-04-25)
  • The Princess Bride - William Goldman (2012-04-05)
  • Market Microstructure Theory - Maureen O'Hara (2012-03-31)
  • Beautiful Evidence - Edward Tufte (2012-03-27)
  • The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose (part 1) (2012-02-27)
  • Peopleware - Tony DeMarco and Timothy Lister (2012-02-12)
  • Every Hand Revealed - Gus Hansen (2012-02-02)
  • In Search of Stupidity - Merrill R. Chapman (2012-01-26)
  • AntiPatterns - Brown, Malveau, McCormick and Mowbray (2012-01-19)
  • Private Eye: The First 50 Years - Adam MacQueen (2012-01-16)
  • Essential .NET Volume 1 - Don Box with Chris Sells (2012-01-15)
  • Knights of the Rainbow Table - Cory Doctorow (2012-01-08)
  • Dave Gorman vs. The Rest of the World - Dave Gorman (2011-12-31)
  • The Systems Bible - John Gall (2011-12-29)
  • Defeat into Victory - Field Marshall Viscount Slim (2011-12-10)
  • Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine (2011-11-13)
  • Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell (2011-10-20)
  • Ready Player One - Ernest Cline (2011-10-20)
  • Action This Day - Michael Smith and Ralph Erskine (Ed.s) (2011-10-02)
  • JavaScript: The Good Parts - Douglas Crockford (2011-09-26)
  • Rule 34 - Charles Stross (2011-09-08)
  • 253 - Geoff Ryman (2011-09-08)
  • Batteries Not Included - Seth McEvoy (2011-08-24)
  • How Not to F*** Them Up - Oliver James (2011-08-24)
  • Leadership: Plain and Simple - Steve Radcliffe (2011-07-31)
  • A Void - Georges Perec (2011-07-21)
  • How to Lead - Jo Owen (2011-07-21)
  • Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely (2011-07-09)
  • The Speed of Dark - Elizabeth Moon (2011-07-09)
  • A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives - Cordelia Fine (2011-07-09)
  • The Prize: The epic quest for oil, money and power - Daniel Yergin (2011-06-16)
  • Getting Things Done - David Allen (2011-06-03)
  • My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic (2011-06-03)
  • The Best of 2600 - Emmanuel Goldstein (2011-05-24)
  • Differential Forms and Connections - R. W. R Darling (2011-04-24)
  • Do you think what you think you think? - Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom (2011-04-22)
  • Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? - P.C.W. Davies and J. Brown (2011-03-27)
  • Organising Genius - Warren G. Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman (2011-03-20)
  • The McKinsey Way - Ethan M. Rasiel (2011-03-12)
  • The City and the City - China Mieville (2011-03-12)
  • Chess - Stefan Zweig (2011-03-02)
  • Galois Theory - Ian Stewart (2011-02-22)
  • Büro Destruct (2011-02-11)
  • Harrington on Hold 'em, Volume 1 - Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie (2011-01-06)
  • Linear Algebra - Serge Lang (2011-01-06)
  • Tournament Poker - David Sklansky (2010-12-27)
  • All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye - Christopher Brookmyre (2010-12-22)
  • My 50 most memorable hands - Doyle Brunson (2010-12-18)
  • Online Ace - Scott Fischman (2010-12-14)
  • Zero History - William Gibson (2010-12-14)
  • Caro's Book of Poker Tells - Mike Caro (2010-11-29)
  • The Mitrokhin Archive - The KGB in Europe and the West - Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew (2010-11-27)
  • Texas Hold 'em Poker - Paul Mendelson (2010-11-25)
  • Introduction to Algorithms - Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest (2010-10-13)
  • Lua Programming Gems - Edited by Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Waldemar Ceres and Roberto Ierusalimschy (2010-10-09)
  • Programming in Lua - Roberto Ierusalimschy (2010-09-25)
  • Starting Forth - Leo Brodie (2010-09-15)
  • The Road to Serfdom - F. A. Hayek (2010-09-10)
  • This is Not a Game - Walter Jon Williams (2010-09-03)
  • The Fuller Memorandum - Charles Stross (2010-09-03)
  • If on a Winter's night a traveller - Italo Calvino (2010-08-31)
  • Buy, sell and move house - Which? guide (2010-08-30)
  • Annual Design Review 1989 - Magazine of International Design (2010-08-30)
  • The Power of Full Engagement - Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz (2010-08-09)
  • All the President's Men - Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward (2010-08-01)
  • The Baby Owner's Manual - Louis and Joe Borgenicht (2010-08-01)
  • The Art of Electronics - Horowitz and Hill (1) (2010-07-17)
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig (2010-06-26)
  • Mindstorms - Seymour Papert (2010-06-05)
  • The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell (2010-06-05)
  • Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 1 - Berklekamp, Conway and Guy (2010-05-23)
  • The Devouring Fungus - Tales of the computer age - Karla Jennings (2010-05-11)
  • Diaspora - Greg Egan (2010-05-02)
  • Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (2010-04-27)
  • The Android's Dream - John Scalzi (2010-04-19)
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin (2010-04-18)
  • All you need is kill - Hiroshi Sakurazaka (2010-04-13)
  • The Art of Unix Programming - Eric S. Raymond (2010-04-04)
  • The Soros Lectures - George Soros (2010-03-15)
  • Concurrent Systems - Jean Bacon (2010-03-01)
  • Dynamic Hedging - Nassim Taleb (2010-02-16)
  • Haynes Saturn V Owners' Workshop Manual - David Woods (2010-01-26)
  • Coders at Work - Peter Seibel (2009-12-30)
  • Programming Perl (2nd edition) - Wall, Christiansen and Schwartz (2009-12-23)
  • Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientist - Benjamin C. Pierce (2009-12-20)
  • Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett (2009-12-20)
  • Sourcery - Terry Pratchett (2009-12-20)
  • Mort - Terry Pratchett (2009-11-19)
  • Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett (2009-11-19)
  • New Active Birth - Janet Balaskas (2009-11-11)
  • C# Essentials - Ben Albahari, Peter Drayton and Brad Merrill (2009-10-24)
  • Leading Change - John P. Kotter (2009-10-23)
  • A History of Britain 1: 3000BC-AD1603 - Simon Schama (2009-09-17)
  • The Barnbrook Bible - Jonathan Barnbrook (2009-08-17)
  • What Style is it? - John C. Poppeliers and S. Allen Chambers Jr. (2009-08-17)
  • Combinatorial Algorithms - Donald L. Kreher and Douglas R. Stinson (2009-07-29)
  • Quantum Theory For Beginners - J. P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate (2009-07-28)
  • Give Me Time - The Mind Gym (2009-07-28)
  • BP Portrait Award 2009 (2009-07-21)
  • The Painter RAs - Dennis Toff (2009-07-21)
  • The Rough Guide to Babies - Miranda Levy (2009-07-20)
  • The Complete Rock Climber - Malcolm Creasey (2009-06-28)
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey (2009-06-28)
  • The Meaning of Liff - Douglas Adams and John Lloyd (2009-06-28)
  • Marrow - Robert Reed (2009-06-28)
  • The Wiz Biz - Rick Cook (2009-06-07)
  • Time Out Guide - Hong Kong (2009-06-07)
  • Wake Your Mind Up - The MindGym (2009-05-31)
  • The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin (2009-05-21)
  • Make your first million - Martin Webb (2009-05-21)
  • M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry - Doris Schattschneider (2009-04-27)
  • Gamma - Julian Havil (2009-04-23)
  • Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (2009-04-12)
  • The Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth - Kaz Cooke (2009-03-29)
  • Watchmaking - George Daniels (2009-03-25)
  • The Times Su Doku, Book 1 (2009-03-15)
  • Graphic Design for the 21st Century - Charlotte and Peter Fiell (2009-03-15)
  • The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson - Lewis Blackwell (2009-01-06)
  • Living with Books - Alan Powers (2009-01-02)
  • Type and Typography - Baines and Haslam (2009-01-01)
  • Enduring Love - Ian McEwan (2008-12-28)
  • Büro Destruct II (2008-12-20)
  • Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan (2008-12-18)
  • Vignelli: From A to Z - Massimo and Lella Vignelli (2008-12-15)
  • The Merchants' War - Charles Stross (2008-11-30)
  • The Clan Corporate - Charles Stross (2008-11-26)
  • The Great Crash, 1929 - J. K. Galbraith (2008-11-18)
  • I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me - Trevor Paglen (2008-11-17)
  • Vellum - Hal Duncan (2008-11-09)
  • The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell (2008-10-26)
  • Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell (2008-10-24)
  • Economics (Tenth Edition) - Paul A. Samuelson (2008-10-12)
  • Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan - Nicole Rousmaniere and Inspired Shapes - Ori Koyama (2008-10-11)
  • The Quiet American - Graham Greene (2008-09-20)
  • Diary - Chuck Palahniuk (2008-08-25)
  • The Last Colony - John Scalzi (2008-08-25)
  • ML for the Working Programmer - L. C. Paulson (2008-08-09)
  • The Evolution of Cooperation - Robert Axelrod (2008-08-09)
  • The Ghost Brigades - John Scalzi (2008-07-31)
  • Brighton Rock - Graham Greene (2008-07-26)
  • Don'ts for Husbands (2008-07-19)
  • Why Buildings Fall Down - Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori (2008-07-13)
  • The Bloke's Guide to Pregnancy - Jon Smith (2008-07-06)
  • 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School - Matthew Frederick (2008-06-16)
  • Toast - Charles Stross (2008-06-13)
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