D.A.’s Library
I’ll post links here to books & articles that I think are awesome. Some have changed my life and blown my mind, while others are just interesting or fun. Please email me at da@dawallach.com if you have suggestions for good things I should check-out! -D.A.
ARTICLES
BOOKS
2012
Pretty Ugly: Visual Rebellion in Design
David Slawson - Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens: Design Principles, Aesthetic Values
Andy Grove - High Output Management
William Safire - Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History
Chris Ware - Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Bruce Hood - The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity
Brian Christian - The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive
Gayatri Spivak - An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
Lewis Mumford - The City in History: Its Origins, Its Tranformations, and Its Prospects
Peter Gallison - Einstein’s Clocks, Poincare’s Maps: Empires of Time
E.O. Wilson - The Social Conquest of Earth
Michael Nielsen - Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
Atul Gawande - The Checklist Manifesto
Archive
E.O. Wilson - Consilience
E.O. Wilson - In Search of Nature
Brian Greene - The Fabric of The Cosmos
Brian Greene - The Hidden Reality
Duncan Watts - Everything Is Obvious, Once You Know The Answer
Jeff Jarvis - What Would Google Do
Amartya Sen - The Idea of Justice
John Rawls - A Theory of Justice
Martha Nussbaum - Animal Rights
Martha Nussbaum - Creating Capabilities
Catharine MacKinnon - Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
V.S. Ramachandran - A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness
Antonio Damasio - Self Comes to Mind
Pauline Hopkins - The Magazine Novels
Paul Pierson & Jacob S. Hacker - Winner-Take-All Politics
Charles Taylor - Sources of The Self
Roberto Unger - The Left Alternative
Anthony Appiah - The Ethics of Identity
Fareed Zakaria - The Post American World
Francis Fukuyama - The End of History and The Last Man
Roger Fisher - Beyond Reason: Using Emotions As You Negotiate
John Kenneth Galbraith - The Economics of Innocent Fraud
Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics
M.I. Finley - Democracy Ancient & Modern
Peter Lynch - One Up On Wall Street
Cornel West - The Cornel West Reader
George Will - Statecraft as Soulcraft
