Jeffrey Kacirk: The Word Museum
Words not in use, that should be.
Larry Gonick: The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
Oddly enough, adding cartoons to calculus doesn't make it much easier.
WILLIAM POUNDSTONE: Prisoner's Dilemma
What the heck is game theory?
Edward R. Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
How to display information properly. This is not subjective.
Non Designer's Design Book
Got a newsletter to produce? Report? Christmas card? Read this first.
Department of Defense: US Army Survival Manual: FM 21-76
Surviving in the wilderness. Tested by loyal US soldiers.
Lester R. Brown: Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth
So what's the next step for the planet?
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report
If you want to know what actually happened on 9/11, here it is. Non-partisan and well written, unless it's leaving stuff out. Which it probably is.
Getting to Yes
Lays out the principles of effective - and honest - negotiation.
Barbara Damrosch: Garden Primer
Even without photos, the best written, most thorough, and most engaging gardening book I've found.
Bill Mollison: Permaculture
The guide to living on this planet. Period.
Robert Bringhurst: The Elements of Typographic Style
Both brilliantly written and totally authoritative.
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Three weeks after the fact, it's time I made this announcement on some kind of public forum. If you read it here first, it meanns you and I don't talk enough, but: Elisabeth and I are engaged!
I asked her to marry me on Saturday, June 23, on the shore of Surprise Pond near Greenwood Lake, NJ. To my relief, she said yes. Three weeks later, I still think this is pretty awesome.
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