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About My Library

strictly non-fiction, especially physics, philosophy, politics, economics, high finance, mind, evolutionary psychology/society, management science, and cooking. For books in Chinese, visit http://book.douban.com/people/48671477/collect

About Me

An academic in software engineering

Location

Sydney, Australia

Currently Reading

Introduction to the Philosophy of Law: Readings and Cases by Jefferson White

The Problems of Jurisprudence by Richard A. Posner

DOSTOEVSKY, KIERKEGAARD, NIETZSCHE, AND KAFKA. by William Hubben.

Ender's Shadow (Ender, Book 5) by Orson Scott Card

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street by Justin Fox

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson

Modernist cuisine : the art and science of cooking by Nathan Myhrvold

What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) by Walter G. Vincenti

All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi

Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner

Readings in the Philosophy of Law by John Arthur

Mathematical Discovery: v. 1 by George Polya

The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians by Cynthia C. Kelly

Knowledge And Decisions by Thomas Sowell

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor

The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime by Adrian Raine

Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin

Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett

Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser

Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State by Cass R. Sunstein

Favorite Authors

Jacques Barzun, Alain de Botton, Pascal Boyer, Jared Diamond, Niall Ferguson, Douglas Hofstadter, Jonah Lehrer, Steven Pinker, Karl Popper, Herbert A. Simon, Thomas Sowell

Local Favorites

Bookstores: Angus & Robertson - Chatswood, Books Kinokuniya - Sydney, Borders - Chatswood, Borders - Sydney - Skygarden, Dymocks - George St

Libraries: Bowen Library - Maroubra (Randwick City Library Service), City of Sydney Library - Customs House Library, Lane Cove Library, Stanton Library (North Sydney Council Library), State Library of New South Wales, University of New South Wales Library, West Chatswood Library (Willoughby City Library), Willoughby City Library (Chatswood Library)

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