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jfbA random assortment of free books:
Douglas C. Engelbart, Boosting Our Collective IQ. Short collection of readings from hypertext pioneer. Two copies.
Paul N. Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. I remember really liking the half of it that I read.
Michael Sorkin (ed.), Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space. Shopping malls are bad!
Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. No, they're good!
Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland, Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler. "A satirical and savage indictment of '90s consumerist culture," for what that's worth.
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. Sort of objectivistish.
Harold Bloom, The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation. Literary scholar examines Mormons, Christian Scientists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other religions founded in America.
Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage. A multimedia presentation.
Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built. Lamarckian architecture.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland. Feminist utopian novel from 1915.
Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones. One copy each in Spanish and English.
Dionys Burger, Sphereland. An enjoyable quasi-sequel to Flatland, circa 1960.
Douglas C. Engelbart, Boosting Our Collective IQ. Short collection of readings from hypertext pioneer. Two copies.
Paul N. Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. I remember really liking the half of it that I read.
Michael Sorkin (ed.), Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space. Shopping malls are bad!
Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. No, they're good!
Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland, Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler. "A satirical and savage indictment of '90s consumerist culture," for what that's worth.
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. Sort of objectivistish.
Harold Bloom, The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation. Literary scholar examines Mormons, Christian Scientists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other religions founded in America.
Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage. A multimedia presentation.
Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built. Lamarckian architecture.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland. Feminist utopian novel from 1915.
Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones. One copy each in Spanish and English.
Dionys Burger, Sphereland. An enjoyable quasi-sequel to Flatland, circa 1960.
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Date: 2005-09-12 06:09 pm (UTC)I think I have Ficciones, otherwise I'd want that. (Hopefully I want the book I have.)
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Date: 2005-09-12 06:50 pm (UTC)Huh. I really thought it was a typo, myself.
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Date: 2005-09-12 07:01 pm (UTC)Hm, I wonder what happened to the other American religion books.
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Date: 2005-09-13 02:53 pm (UTC)And How Building Learn.
I really like Edge Cities, particularly the golossary, and particularly the entry for "learning experience." There are people I know with whom we share that as a personal joke.
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Date: 2005-09-13 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-17 03:10 pm (UTC)(Also, I'm a she.)