- Take a single book from Amazon as a root.
- Take the recommended books for that book.
- Repeat until you have reached a distance of 20 from the original book.
- Add up the number of recommendations for each book.
- Calculate the BookRank from the Distance, Recommendations and SalesRank
- Display the 250 books with the highest BookRank.
What does it mean to be "findable" in this day and age?
The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing by Adam Greenfield
When was the last time you laughed out loud reading a business book?. You can read it for free.
Pat Jordan looks both at and beyond usability, considering how products can appeal to use holistically, leading to products that are a joy to own.
Visualise that.
Blog this
Ethnography refers to the qualitative description of human social phenomena, based on months or years of fieldwork. (Wikipedia)
A Romance of Many Dimensions. Read it for free.
Chris Crawford wrote the definitive book, but what are the other distinctive game design books?
Blueprints for the We
This collection of classic and ground-breaking papers explores the issues involved in information visualization--thought versus perception, mental process versus graphic representation.
How did that project get to be 5 years late?
How can you create a better future, if you don't understand how we got here?
A very curious character.
Read Chapter Three, or find out more about the Chief of Confusion.
Governments and the general public are spending a fortune on computers, but the real potential of the new technology has remained largely unrealized.
The mighty Jakob heads this list that spans subjects ranging from Design to Dreamweaver to XML.
He is lowering the curtain on the historical scene of an Earth-bound humanity universally frustrated.
The opening work in Christopher Alexander's seminal trilogy on architecture.
Is it really Rounders by another name? (Go Tampa, Go Tampa)
Jason's favourite film of all time.
Soldier: Well, he never had a war before. Every full-grown Emperor needs one war to make him famous. Why, that’s history.
Paul: Yeah, Generals too. They need war.
Soldier: And manufacturers. They get rich.
The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air.
Wait just one minute.
Or is it?
Who knew grammar could be so much fun?
"True, there were hunger marches and protestations to City Hall and Washington, but the millions experienced a private kind of shame when the pink slip came. No matter that others suffered the same fate, the inner voice whispered, 'I’m a failure.'"
Politics through satire.
"National Geographic" Greatest Photographs
These black revolutionaries take on the racism of the bosses, as well as the racism of the union beauracracy, in a daring and valliant attempt to bring about real social change.
Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living history-speeches, letters, poems, songs-left by the people who make history happen, but who usually are underrepresented or misrepresented in history books.
Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
In the Lenin Barracks in Barcelona, the day before I joined the militia, I saw an Italian militiaman standing in front of the officers' table.
The Conquest of the Middle East. The book opens with a deftly juxtaposed account of Fisk's two interviews with Osama bin Laden.
Jared Diamond Collapse examines why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart using geographic and environmental reasons.
The New Kids Have Arrived
Complete, definitive study of the controversial French prophet
Lets have a bit of balance.
Dan Brown reveals all
How many secret lives did Jesus have?
Conspiracy theories and cover ups litter this list.
Classic adventure and much, much more.
This title made is acceptable for adults to read Graphic Novels in public.
