- Berman, Morris. The Twilight of American
Culture. New York: W. W. Norton,
2000. ISBN 0-393-32169-X.
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- Williams, Jonathan, Joe Cribb,
and Elizabeth Errington, eds. Money: A History. London:
British Museum Press, 1997. ISBN 0-312-21212-7.
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- Schneider, Ben Ross, Jr. Travels in Computerland. Reading,
MA: Addison-Wesley, 1974. ISBN 0-201-06737-4.
- It's been almost thirty years since I first
read this delightful little book, which is now sadly out
of print. It's well worth the effort of tracking down a
used copy. You can generally find one in readable condition
for a reasonable price through the link above or through
abebooks.com.
If you're too young to have experienced the
mainframe computer era, here's an illuminating and entertaining view
of just how difficult it was to accomplish anything back then; for
those of us who endured the iron age of computing, it is a superb
antidote to nostalgia. The insights into organising and managing a
decentralised, multidisciplinary project under budget and deadline
constraints in an era of technological change are as valid today as
they were in the 1970s. The glimpse of the embryonic Internet on
pages 241–242 is a gem.
- Greene, Graham. The Comedians. New York:
Penguin Books, 1965. ISBN 0-14-018494-5.
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- Vertosick, Frank T., Jr. The Genius Within. New York:
Harcourt, 2002. ISBN 0-15-100551-6.
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- Ferro, Marc. Les tabous de l'histoire. Paris:
NiL, 2002. ISBN 2-84111-147-4.
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- Waugh, Auberon. Will This Do? New York: Carroll
& Graf 1991. ISBN 0-7867-0639-2.
- This is about the coolest title for an autobiography I've
yet to encounter.
- Begleiter, Steven H. The Art of Color Infrared
Photography. Buffalo, NY: Amherst Media,
2002. ISBN 1-58428-065-4.
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- Warraq, Ibn [pseud.] ed. What the Koran Really
Says. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books,
2002. ISBN 1-57392-945-X.
- This is a survey and reader of Western Koranic studies of
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A wide variety of mutually
conflicting interpretations are presented and no conclusions are drawn.
The degree of detail may be more than some readers have bargained for:
thirty-five pages (pp. 436–464, 472–479) discuss a single
word. For a scholarly text there are a surprising number
of typographical errors, many of which would have been found by a
spelling checker.
- LaHaye, Tim and Jerry B. Jenkins. Nicolae. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale
House, 1997. ISBN 0-8423-2924-2.
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- Buckley, William F. The Redhunter. Boston: Little,
Brown, 1999. ISBN 0-316-11589-4.
- It's not often one spots an anachronism in one
of WFB's historical novels. On page 330, two characters
imitate “NBC superstar nightly newsers Chet Huntley and David
Brinkley” in a scene set in late 1953. Huntley and Brinkley
did not, in fact, begin their storied NBC broadcasts until
October 29th, 1956.