Books & Articles Read in 2011
updated: 2017-06-21
- Subjects
- Computers:
- Macintosh:
- Apple...
- Other Computer:
- Rogers Cadenhead 1999 _Teach Yourself Java 2 in 24 Hours_ (400 pages)
- Richard Monson-Haefel 2000 _Enterprise Java Beans_ (446 pages)
- Michael Lopp 2010 _Being Geek_ (303 pages)
- Andrew W. Tanenbaum & Albert S. Woodhull 2006 _Operating Systems Design and Implementation_ (1030 pages; 005.43)
- Wei-Meng Lee 2010 _Beginning iPad Application Development_ (544 pages; TK; 5103.4885; L44)
- Wei-Meng Lee 2010 _Beginnng iOS 4 Application Development_ (617 pages; QA76.8; I862; L44)
- Vandad Nahavandipoor 2011 _iOS 4 Programming CookBook_ (594 pages; QA76.76; O63; N34; 2011)
- James A. Brannan & Blake Ward 2011 _iOS SDK Programming: A Beginner's Guide_ (483 pages; QA76.76; O63; B727)
- Chris Stevens 2011 _Designing for the iPad: Building Applications that Sell_ (328 pages; QA76.8; I863; S74; 2011)
- Joe Conway & Aaron Hillegass 2010 _iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide_ (381 pages; 004.16)
- Maher Ali 2010 _Advanced iOS 4 Programming: Developing Mobile Applications for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch_ (669 pages; QA76.8; I64; A448; 2010)
- Patrick Alessi 2011 _Professional iPhone and iPad DataBase Application Programming_ (353 pages; 005.265)
- Mark Lutz & David Ascher 2004 _Learning Python_ (575 pages)
- other computer books
- Economics
- Jim Powell 2003 _FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression_ (310 pages; 330.973)
- Thomas Sowell 2010 _Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays_
- John Stossel 2004 _Give Me a Break_ (286 pages; 302.2345
- Victor Davis Hanson 2003 _Mexifornia: A State of Becoming_ (150 pages; 305.868)
- Thomas Sowell 2010 _The Housing Boom & Bust_ (170 pages; 332.7)
- Lou Dobbs 2004 _Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Over-Seas_ (196 pages; 327.73)
- History:
- Duncan Bruce 1996, 1998 _The Mark of the Scots_ (335 pages; 941.1)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero & Michael Grant 1989 _Selected Political Speeches_ (320 pages; 875.01)
- Robert Conquest 2005 _The Dragons of Expectation: Reality and Delusion in the Course of History_ (235 pages; 306.09)
- David N. Durant 1981 _Ralegh's Lost Colony: The Story of the First English Settlement in America_ (177 pages; 975.6175)
- William Henry Egle 1886 _Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German_ (741 pages)
- Brian M. Fagan 1987 _The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America_ (275 pages; 970.011)
- John T. Foster & Sarah Whitmer 1999 _Beechers, Stowes and Yankee Strangers: The Transformation of Florida_ (975.9)
- Jonah Goldberg _Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning_ (440 pages; 320.533)
- Victor Davis Hanson 1999 _The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How 3 Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny_ (450 pages; 355.009)
- David Horowitz 2004 _Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left_ (275 pages; 320.53)
- Robert Kagan 2009 _The Return of History and the End of Dreams_ (104 pages; 327.1)
- Billy Kennedy 2001 _How the Scots-Irish Shaped a Nation_ (173 pages; 973.049163)
- Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger 1999, 2000 _The Year 1K: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World_
- Maire O'Brien & Conor Cruise O'Brien 1972 _A Concise History of Ireland_ (177 pages; 941.5)
- Edward Pessen 1986 _The Log Cabin Myth: The Social Backgrounds of the Presidents_ (192 pages; 305)
- William L. Shirer 1941 _Berlin Diary_ (605 pages; 940.534)
- Willard Cleon Skousen 1981, 2006, 2009 _The 5K Year Leap_ (315 pages; 342.7302)
- Half Century Club 1947-10-07 _Half Century Club of Urbana IL_
- see separate pages
- Career
- none this year
- see career books
- Screen-plays
- none this year
- Religion
- Hayim HaLevy Donin 1980, 2001 _To Pray As a Jew_
- Thomas Cahill 1998 _The Gifts of the Jews_ (275 pages; 909.04924)
- Fiction
- Brad Thor 2008 _The Last Patriot_
- Vince Flynn 2002 _Separation of Power_ (Mitch Rapp #5)
- Vince Flynn _Executive Power_ (Mitch Rapp #6)
- David Brin 1987 _The UpLift War_
- Ursula Kroeber LeGuin 1966 _Planet of Exile_
- Roger Zelazny 1969 _Isle of the Dead_
- Emily Devenport 1997 _The Kronos Condition_
- Ursula Kroeber LeGuin 1967 _City of Illusions_
- Ursula Kroeber LeGuin 1964, 1966 _Rocannon's World_
- Vince Flynn 1999 _Transfer of Power_ (Mitch Rapp #3)
- Vince Flynn 2008 _Extreme Measures_ (Mitch Rapp #11)
- Vince Flynn 2007 _Protect & Defend_ (Mitch Rapp #10)
- Gordon R. Dickson 1988, 1989 _The Chantry Guild_
- Octavia E. Butler 1984 _Clay's Ark_
- Jim Butcher 2002 _Summer Knight_
- Jim Butcher 2003 _Death Masks_
- Jim Butcher 2005 _Dead Beat_
- Jim Butcher 2006 _Proven Guilty_
- Jim Butcher 2007, 2008 _White Night_
- Jim Butcher 2010 _Changes_
- Jack Vance (John Holbrook Vance) 1976 _The Best of Jack Vance_
- Teresa Edgerton 1993 _The Castle of the Silver Wheel_
- Robert J. Sawyer 1995 _The Terminal Experiment_
- Robert B. Parker 1973 _The Godwulf Manuscript_
- Robert B. Parker 1981 _Early Autumn_
- Robert B. Parker 1975, 1992 _Mortal Stakes_
- Robert B. Parker 1976, 1977 _Promised Land_
- L. Sprague de Camp 1970 _The Reluctant Shaman & Other Fantastic Tales_
- Vince Flynn 1997 _Term Limits_ (403 pages)
- Vince Flynn 2010 _American Assassin_ (Mitch Rapp #1; 435 pages)
- Christopher Anvil 1957, 2007 _The Trouble with Humans_
- Brian Jacques 1992, 1993, 1994 _Salamandastron_
- James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge _The Dangerous Days of Daniel X_
- Robert A. Heinlein 1939 _For Us, the Living_ (263 pages)
- Kathy Reichs 1997 _Deja Dead_ (411 pages)
- Matthew J. Costello 1990 _Time of the Fox_
- Stephen Hunter 1989 _The Day Before Midnight_
- W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear 2010 _Coming of the Storm_ (480 pages)
- other fiction
- Other
- Malcolm Gladwell 2005 _Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking_ (265 pages)
- David Hume _A Treatise of Human Nature_ (678 pages)
- Jeff Hawkins & Sandra Blakeslee 2004 _On Intelligence_ (245 pages)
- Richard A. Epstein 2004 _Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism_ (263/296 pages; 340.1)
- Steven Weinberg 1992, 1993, 1994 _Dreams of a Final Theory_ (321 pages)
- Stanley I. Greenspan & Beryl Lieff Benderly 1997 _The Growth of the Mind and the Endangered Origins of Intelligence_ (345 pages; 153)
- _Basic Wiring: Pro Tips and Simple Steps_ (117 pages; 621.319)
- Robert Hayward _The Brick Book_ (186 pages; 693.21)
- H.P. Richter, W. Creighton Schwan & Frederic P. Hartwell 2008 _Wiring Simplified: Based on the 2008 National Electrical Code_ (230 pages; 621.3192)
- Temple Grandin & Sean Barron 2005 _The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships_ (380 pages; 303.32)
- Ron Paul 2011 _Liberty Defined_ (328 pages; 320.011)
- Jed Babbin 2007 _In the Words of Our Enemies_ (250 pages; 327.73)
- Phillip J. Decker & T. Newell Decker 1990 _Renovating Brick Houses_ (242 pages; 643.7)
- Shannen Rossmiller & Sue Carswell 2011 _The Unexpected Patriot_ (240 pages; 363.325)
- Michael A. Cremo, Richard L. Thompson & Stephen Bernath 1993, 1998 _Forbidden Archeology_ (860 pages; 573.2)
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