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Bret Victor's Five-Star List

Members: 5 participating members
NePlusUltra, terminus, rgb, cej1027, MaximKamalov

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1

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong {original edition}

by James W. Loewen

672 members

10 reviews

4

3 Members: rgb, cej1027, NePlusUltra

2

The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

5,287 members

66 reviews

4

2 Members: NePlusUltra, MaximKamalov

3

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

by William McDonough

1,919 members

32 reviews

4

2 Members: rgb, NePlusUltra

4

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

13,391 members

128 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: terminus, NePlusUltra

5

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

by John Taylor Gatto

1,551 members

27 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, NePlusUltra

6

Visual Complex Analysis

by Tristan Needham

298 members

½ 4.4

2 Members: terminus, NePlusUltra

7

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn

7,908 members

87 reviews

4

2 Members: terminus, NePlusUltra

8

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond

24,472 members

365 reviews

4.1

2 Members: terminus, NePlusUltra

9

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

by Edward R. Tufte

5,019 members

56 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: NePlusUltra

10

Envisioning Information

by Edward R. Tufte

3,939 members

22 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: NePlusUltra

11

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

by Edward R. Tufte

3,121 members

15 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: NePlusUltra

12

Beautiful Evidence

by Edward R. Tufte

1,703 members

11 reviews

4.2

Member: NePlusUltra

13

A History of Graphic Design

by Philip B. Meggs

682 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: NePlusUltra

14

The Elements of Graphing Data

by William S. Cleveland

163 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: NePlusUltra

15

Logic & Design in Art, Science, and Mathematics

by Krome Barratt

72 members

1 review

3.8

Member: NePlusUltra

16

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

by Scott McCloud

5,033 members

96 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: NePlusUltra

17

Reinventing Comics

by Scott McCloud

1,154 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: NePlusUltra

18

Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels

by Scott McCloud

1,462 members

18 reviews

4.2

Member: NePlusUltra

19

Designing for People

by Henry Dreyfuss

125 members

1 review

3.9

Member: NePlusUltra

20

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

979 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: NePlusUltra

21

About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design

366 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: NePlusUltra

22

The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

528 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: NePlusUltra

23

Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals

425 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: NePlusUltra

24

A Theory of Fun for Game Design

537 members

12 reviews

4

Member: NePlusUltra

25

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

by Harold Abelson

1,655 members

18 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: NePlusUltra

26

The Little Schemer

by Daniel P. Friedman

665 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: NePlusUltra

27

Hacker's Delight

by Henry S. Warren

497 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: NePlusUltra

28

The Design and Evolution of C++

by Bjarne Stroustrup

314 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: NePlusUltra

29

Lambda the Ultimate

by Guy Lewis Steele

1 member

Member: NePlusUltra

30

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering

by Steven H. Strogatz

419 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: NePlusUltra

31

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

by Richard W. Hamming

238 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: NePlusUltra

32

And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving

by Genrikh Altshuller

70 members

1 review

½ 4.7

Member: NePlusUltra

33

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

by Seymour Papert

532 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: NePlusUltra

34

How Children Fail

800 members

12 reviews

4.2

Member: NePlusUltra

35

How to Survive in Your Native Land

by James Herndon

100 members

4.1

Member: NePlusUltra

36

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

by Neil Postman

1,832 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: NePlusUltra

37

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

by Neil Postman

5,287 members

74 reviews

4.1

Member: NePlusUltra

38

A People's History of the United States

14,499 members

151 reviews

4.2

Member: NePlusUltra

39

The Careful Writer

by Theodore M. Bernstein

478 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: NePlusUltra

40

The Mother Tongue

7,603 members

153 reviews

3.8

Member: NePlusUltra

41

Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression

by W. A. Mathieu

94 members

½ 4.5

Member: NePlusUltra

42

The World's Greatest Fakebook

by Alfred Publishing

1 member

Member: NePlusUltra

43

18,770 members

482 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: NePlusUltra

44

Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind

by Hayao Miyazaki

113 members

1 review

½ 4.7

Member: NePlusUltra

45

Fables, Vol. 01: Legends in Exile

by Bill Willingham

4,513 members

159 reviews

4

Member: NePlusUltra

46

388 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NePlusUltra

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March 2014
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