Books & Articles Read in 2010
updated: 2017-06-21
- Subjects
- Computers
- Macintosh
- Apple 2009-10-19 _Xcode Build System Guide_
- Apple 2009-10-19 _Xcode Build Setting Reference_
- Apple 2009-05-16 _Undo Architecture_
- Apple 2005-12-06 _Search Kit Concepts/Programming Guide_
- Apple 2007-06-04 _Attributed Strings Programming Guide_
- Apple 2010-01-20 _Key-Value Coding Programming Guide_
- Apple 2008-02-08 _Model Object Implementation Guide_
- Apple 2009-08-14 _Key-Value Observing_
- Apple 2007-04-06 _Value Transformer Programming Guide_
- Charles Leiserson & Erik Demaine 2005 Fall (updated 2009 September), MIT SMA5503/6.046J "Introduction to Algorithms" video class lectures and notes
- lecture 15 "Dynamic Programming, Longest Common SubSequence"
- lecture 16 "Greedy Algorithms, Minimum Spanning Trees"
- lecture 17 "Shortest Paths part 1: Properties, Dijkstra's Algorithm, Breadth-first Search"
- lecture 18 "Shortest Paths part 2: Bellman-Ford, Linear Programming, Difference Constraints"
- lecture 19 "Shortest Paths part 3: All-pairs Shortest Paths, Matrix Multiplication, Floyd-Warshall, Johnson"
- lecture 22 Advanced Topics part 1: parallel processing analysis
- lecture 23 Advanced Topics part 2
- lecture 24 Advanced Topics part 3
- lecture 25 Advanced Topics part 4 with discussion of follow-on classes
- Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson & Ronald L. Rivest 2000 _Introduction to Algorithms_ (985 pages)
- Anany Levitin 2003 _Introduction to the Design & Analysis of Algorithms_
- Adam Drozdek 2005 _Data Structures and Algorithms in C++_
- Robert Sedgewick 2002 _Algorithms in C_ parts1-4
- Robert Sedgewick 2002 _Algorithms in C++_ part5
- Jon L. Bentley 1986, 1999 _Programming Pearls_
- Charles Richter 1999 _Designing Flexible Object-Oriented Systems with UML_ (380 pages; 005.117)
- U of VA CS332 Algorithms
- lecture 12 "Skip Lists, Hash Tables"
- William Pugh _Skip Lists: A Probabilistic Alternative to Balanced Trees" (pdf)
- lecture 13 "Augmenting Data Structures"
- lecture 14 "Augmenting Data Structures: Interval Trees"
- lecture 15 "Review for Mid-Term"
- lecture 16 "Mid-Term Post-Mortem; Intro to Graph Algorithms"
- lecture 17 "Graph Algorithms"
- lecture 18 "Topological Sort, Minimum Spanning Tree part 1, Shortest Paths"
- lecture 19 "Minimum Spanning Tree part 2, Shortest Paths"
- lecture 20 "Dijkstra's Algorithm part 2, Disjoint-Set Union, Return to MST (Kruskal), Amortized Analysis part 1"
- lecture 21 "Amortized Analysis part 2, Longest Common Subsequence, Dynamic Programming part 1"
- lecture 22 "Dynamic Programming part 2, Greedy Algorithms part 1"
- lecture 23 "Greedy Algorithms part 2"
- lecture 24 "NP Completeness part 1"
- lecture 25 "NP Completeness part 2"
- lecture 26 "NP Complete"
- Economics
- Todd H. Goodsell _The Continued Need for H-1B Reform_
- Thomas Sowell 1999 _Conquests and Cultures_
- Thomas Sowell 2000 _Basic Economics_
- Amity Shlaes 1999 _The Greedy Hand_
- Amity Shlaes 2007 _The Forgotten Man_
- Wayne J. Howe 1986 November _MLR_ "Temporary help workers: who they are, what jobs they hold"
- Thomas Sowell 2008 _Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One_
- Ron Hira, Ph.D., P.E. & Anil Hira 2005 _Out-Sourcing America_
- Thomas Sowell 2008 _Economic Facts and Fallacies_
- Daniel S. Greenberg 2001 _Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion_
- Thomas Sowell 2009 _Intellectuals & Society_
- Thomas E. Woods 2009 _Melt-Down_
- Gary North 2006-01-24 _Lew Rockwell_ "The PhD Glut Revisited"
- Ron Hira, Ph.D., P.E. 2010-02-17 _Bridge to Immigration or Cheap Temporary Labor?: The H-1B & L-1 Visa Are Both (pdf)
- Patricia M. Getz & Mark Ulmer 1990 April _MLR_ "Diffusion indices: an economic barometer"
- Paul Hadlock, Daniel Hecker & Joseph Gannon 1991 July _MLR_ "High technology employment: another view"
- Howard N. Fullerton 1991 November _MLR_ "Labor force projections: the baby boom moves on"
- Alan Fechter 1993 February _MLR_ "Shortage of college graduates? More evidence is needed"
- Michael G. Finn & Joe G. Baker 1993 February _MLR_ "Future jobs in natural science and engineering: shortage or surplus?"
- William Luker & Donald Lyons 1997 June _MLR_ "Employment shifts in high-technology industries, 1988-1996"
- Rick Melchionno 1999 Spring _MLR_ "The Changing Temporary WorkForce"
- Rachel Krantz 2002 April _MLR_ "Employment in business services: a year of unprecedented decline"
2008-06-13: Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman, John C. Haltiwanger & Ian Rucker: American Enterprise Institute: Adjusted Estimates of Worker Flows and Job Openings in JOLTS (pdf)
2008-06-13: R. Jason Faberman & Eva Natypal: Philadelphia Fed: Quits, Worker Recruitment, and Firm Growth: Theory and Evidence (pdf)
2006 Summer: Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman & John Haltiwanger: U of MD/_Journal of Economic Perspectives_ vol20#3 pp3-26: The Flow Approach to Labor Markets: New Data Sources and Micro-Macro Links (pdf)
2005-06-04: Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman & John Haltiwanger: NBER: The Flow Approach to Labor Markets: New Data Sources, Micro-Macro Links and the Recent Down-Turn (pdf)
- Malcolm Gladwell 2008 _Outliers: The Story of Success_
- Clyde V. Prestowitz 2005 _3G New Capitalists_
- see separate pages
- History
- Edward Ball 1999 _Slaves in the Family_
- Peter Berresford Ellis 1994 _The Druids_ (280 pages)
- Charles Campbell 1860 _History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia_ (773 pages in pdf)
- Noble E. Cunningham 1987 _In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson_
- Jared Diamond 1997 _Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies_ (303.3; 450 pages)
- Joseph J. Ellis 2002 _Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation_
- David Hackett Fischer 1989, 1991 _Albion's Seed_ (973; 900 pages)
- Christopher Gist 1751-1752, 1929, 2000 _The Journal of Christopher Gist, 1750-1751_
- Alfred Jackson Hanna 1946 _A Prince in Their Midst_
- Arthur Herman 2001 _How the Scots Invented the Modern World_
- Richard Channing Moore Page 1893 _Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia_
- J. Lewis Peyton 1882 _History of Augusta county VA_ (421 pages in pdf)
- Bryan Sykes 2006 _Saxons, Vikings & Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain & Ireland_ (599.93)
- see separate pages
- Career
- none this year
- see career books
- Screen-plays
- none this year
- Religion
- James H. Cone 1975 _God of the Oppressed_
- Artscroll _Pirkei Avos_/_Pirqi Abot_
- Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh 1991 _The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception_
- Fiction
- Isaac Asimov _Foundation Trilogy_
- David Brin _Foundation's Triumph_
- Isaac Asimov 1993 _Forward the Foundation_
- Brian Jacques _Redwall_
- Brian Jacques _Mossflower_
- Brian Jacques _Mattimeo_
- Brian Jacques 1991, 2000 _Mariel of Redwall_
- Rex Stout _Gambit_
- Rex Stout _The Mother Hunt_
- Marianne Curley 2000, 2002 _Old Magic_
- Eric van Lustbader _The Ninja_
- Carl Hiaasen _Skin Tight_
- Liz Curtis Higgs _Thorn in My Heart_
- Liz Curtis Higgs _Fair is the Rose_
- Liz Curtis Higgs _Whence Came a Prince_
- Rex Stout 1955, 1981 _3 Witnesses_
- Roger Zelazny _4 for Tomorrow_
- Dorothy L. Sayers _5 Red Herrings_/_Suspicious Characters_
- John Buchan 1915 _The 39 Steps_
- Vince Flynn 2004 _Memorial Day_ (Mitch Rapp #7)
- Vince Flynn 2009 _Pursuit of Honor_ (Mitch Rapp #12)
- Vince Flynn 2006 _Act of Treason_ (Mitch Rapp #9)
- Vince Flynn 2005 _Consent to Kill_ (Mitch Rapp #8)
- Kenneth Robeson 1993 _The Whistling Wraith_
- Neil Gaiman 1999 _StarDust_
- Ted Bell 2008 _Tsar_
- Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois _A.I.s_
- David Brin 1983 _StarTide Rising_
- Diane Duane 1983, 1996 _So You Want To Be a Wizard_
- Walter Scott 1814 _Waverley: 'Tis 50 Years Since_
- Other
- Vine Deloria & Clifford M. Lytle 1983 _American Indians, American Justice_ (246 pages)
- Michael Barone 2005 _Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future_
- Louis J. Foreman & Jill Gilbert Welytok 2009 _The Independent Inventor's HandBook_
- Mark Reed Levin _Liberty & Tyranny_
- Daniel Coyle 2009 _The Talent Code_
- Karl Raimund Popper 1962 _Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge_
- Temple Grandin 2009 _Animals Make Us Human_ 636.0832
- Bernard Goldberg 2002 _Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News_
- James MacGregor Burns 2009 _Packing the Court_
- Andrew P. Napolitano 2010 _Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power and Deception in American History_
- Liz Curtis Higgs 2007 _My Heart's in the Lowlands_
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