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Subject Categories/Key-Words
Computers:
H4.0, E3.0, R2.0: Justin Beegel 2014 _InfoGraphics for Dummies_ (306 pages; ISBN 9781118792384; OCLC 859179940; Wiley; 302.23 Bee; Main+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.4: Daniel Covington 2016 _Analytics: Data Science, Data Analysis, and Predictive Analytics for Business_ (286 pages; 658.47 Cov 5th ED.; Main; too breezy-fluffy; not enough nuts-&-bolts)
Economics
H4.5, E3.5, R4.4: Lou Dobbs 2006 _War on the "Middle Class": How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back_ (276-290 pages; 728KB; ISBN 9780143112525; OCLC 861959225; Viking/Penguin; 305.55 Dob)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.3: Nicholas N. Eberstadt, Ph.D. 2016 _Men without Work: USA's Invisible Crisis_ (200-209 pages; 11.5MB; ISBN 1599474697/ 9781599474694; OCLC 945948392/ 986509931; Templeton; 305.9069409)
H4.2, E3.5, R4.7: Hunter Lewis 2011 _Where Keynes Went Wrong and Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and Busts_ (375-387 pages; 2.9MB; ISBN 1604190442/ 9781604190441; OCLC 898560148; Axios)
H4.0, E2.7, R3.5: Scott Nations 2017 _An History of the United States of America in 5 Crashes: Stock Market MeltDowns That Defined a Nation_ (336 pages; 1.2MB; ISBN 9780062467270; Morrow/HarperCollins; 330.973 Nat)
see separate page of econ books jgo has read
Science:
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Arthur Allen 2007, 2008 _Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest LifeSaver_ (disease; 523 pages; 614.470973 All)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.5: John M. Barry 2004, 2014 _The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History_ (disease; 546 pages; 614.518 Bar; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: Susan Wise Bauer 2015 _The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory_ (256 pages; ISBN 9780393243260; Norton; 509 Bau)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Jeremy Brown 2018 _Influenza: The 100 Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History_ (disease; 614.518 Bro; Main+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.2: Catherine A. Carver 2017 _Immune: How Your Body Defends & Protects You_ (disease; 304 pages; 2.9MB; 616.079 Car; NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.2: Jorge Cham & Daniel Whiteson 2017 _We Have No Idea: A Guide to the UnKnown Universe_ (354 pages; 523.1 Cha; Main+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.8: Michael S. Kinch 2018 _Between Hope and Fear: An History of Vaccines and Human Immunity_ (disease; 334 pages; 17.2MB; 614.47 Kin; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.4: Howard Markel, M.D. 2004, 2009 _When Germs Travel: 6 Major Epidemics That Have Invaded the USA and the Fears They Have UnLeashed_ (disease; 263 pages; 1.8MB; ISBN 0375420959; Pantheon; 614.4973 Mar; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: David M. McMahon 2006, 2013 _Quantum Mechanics DeMystified_ (math; physics; 393-506 pages; ISBN 0071765638/ 9780071765633; OCLC 870421776; McGraw-Hill; 530.12 McM)
H4.5, E3.0, R2.7: Mary Caperton Morton 2017 _Aerial Geology: A High-Altitude Tour of North America's Spectacular Volcanoes, Canyons, Glaciers, Lakes, Craters, and Peaks_ (303 pages; 106.6MB; ISBN 9781604697629; Timber; 557 Mor; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: David Reich & Eugenie Reich 2018 _Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA & the New Science of the Human Past_ (335 pages; 30.7MB; 572.86 Rei; Main+NE)
H4.2, E3.2, R3.0: Matt Ridley 1999, 2010 _Genome: The AutoBiography of a Species in 23 Chapters_ (344 pages; ISBN 978006194979; HarperCollins; 599.935 Rid; NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.4: Sonia Shah 2016 _Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond_ (disease; 280 pages; 3.8MB; ISBN 9780347122881; Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 362.1 Sha; Main+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Lee Smolin, Ph.D. 2007-09-04, 2008, 2018 _The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next_ (392-416 pages; 3.3MB; ISBN 9780618918683/ 9780141018355; OCLC 942592494; Penguin/Houghton Mifflin; 530.14; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.0: Duncan J. Watts 2003 _6 Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age_ (368 pages; 511.5; Main; engineers turned evil)
Ethics/Constitution/Laws/Criminology:
H4.5, E3.5, R4.4: Lou Dobbs 2006 _War on the "Middle Class": How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back_ (276-290 pages; 728KB; ISBN 9780143112525; OCLC 861959225; Viking/Penguin; 305.55 Dob)
H4.5, E3.8, R3.0: Richard Allen Epstein, LL.B. 2003 _Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism_ (311 pages; 340.1 Eps; Main)
H4.0, E2.5, R3.7: Edward Klein 2017 _All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump_ (280 pages; 973.933 Kle; Main)
H4.0, E2.5, R3.5: Jeni Rogers 2019 _200+ Ways to Protect Your Privacy: Simple Ways to Prevent Hacks and Protect Your Privacy On and OffLine (254 pages; 005.8 Rog)
H4.0, E2.7, R4.4: Peter Schweizer 2018 _Secret Empires: How USA Politicians Hide Corruption and Enrich Family and Friends_ (crony socialism; 318 pages; ISBN 9780062569363; Harper; 364.1323 Sch; Main+NE)
Engineering/ Making/ Manufacturing/ Building/ Designing:
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: Richard Rhodes 2011 _Hedy's Folly: The Life and BreakThrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World_ (movies; engineering; 260 pages; 5.6MB)
H3.5, E3.0, R2.5: Donald A. Norman 2004, 2007 _Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) EveryDay Things_ (257 pages; 2.4MB; 155.9 11 Nor; Main)
H3.5, E3.0, R3.7: Simon Winchester 2018 _The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World_ (374 pages; 14.9MB; 620.009 Win; Main+Jax)
History:
H3.5, E2.0, R2.5: Peter Bedrick 2002 _The First Civilizations_ (HistoryoftheWorld; 47 pages; McGraw-Hill/Octopus; J 930 Fir)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.3: Howard G. Buffett 2018 _Our 50-State Border Crisis: How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic across the USA_ (320 pages; ISBN 9780316476614; Hachette; 363.28409 Buf; Main)
H4.0, E2.7, R2.9: Arthur T. Burton 2006, 2008 _Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves_ (346 pages; 3.9MB; 363.282092 Bur; Main)
H4.5, E3.0, R2.6: Eric H. Cline 2014 _1177BCE: The Year [Century] Civilization Collapsed_ (264 pages; 930.156 Cli; Main)
H4.5, E3.0, R3.0: Barry W. Cunliffe/sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, Ph.D. 2008, 2011 _Europe Between the Oceans 9KBCE-1KCE_ (470 pages; 940 Cun; Main+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: John M. Dunn 1999 _The Enlightenment_ (96 pages; J 940.253 Dun; Main+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Maria Goodavage 2015 _Top Dog: The Story of Marine Hero Lucca_ (390 pages; LT 956.7044 Goo)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Carl Hoffman 2001 _Hunting WarBirds: The Obsessive Quest for the Lost AirCraft of World War 2_ (241 pages; 623.746 Hof)
H4.0, E3.5, R0.8: Jill Lepore 2018 _These Truths: An History of the USA_ (932 pages; 115.5MB; ISBN 9780393635249; Norton; 973 Lep; Main+NE; natural rights, slavery, slavery, slavery, slavery, Jim Crow, illiberal leftist regressivism)
H4.0, E3.5, R2.9: David G. McCullough 2017 _The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For_ (347 pages; ISBN 9781432841959; Thorndike/Gale/Cengage; 973 McC; Main+NE)
H4.5, E3.5, R2.8: Patrick K. O'Donnell 2016 _Washington's Immortals: The UnTold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution_ (400 pages; 973.332 ODO; Main+Jax)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: Sarah H. Parcak 2019 _Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes [Our Knowledge of] Our Past_ (277 pages; 42MB; 930.1 Par)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Larry Schweikart, Ph.D. & Michael Patrick Allen 2004, 2014 _A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to USA's Age of Entitlement_ (1K pages; 2.3MB; ISBN 9781595231154; Sentinel; 973 Sch)
Career
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5: Kevin Walter Johnson, Jane Kise & Karen Eilers 2018 _Find Your Fit: UnLock God's Unique Design for Your Talents, Spiritual Gifts, and Personality_ (234 pages; 248.83 Joh; Main)
Screen-plays/Movie-Making/Writing
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Kim Newman 2014 _Quatermass and the Pit_ (112 pages; Palgrave MacMillan; 791.4372 New)
Religion
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Alfred J. Kolatch 1987 _The Concise Family Seder_/_Haggadah, English & Hebrew_ (296.437 Hag; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.0: Shoni Labowitz 1996 _Miraculous Living: A Guided Journey in Kabbalah through 10 Gates of the Tree of Life_ (334 pages; ISBN 0684814447; Simon&Schuster; 296.7 Lab; Jax)
Fiction
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: Margery Allingham 1929, 1978 _The Crime at Black Dudley_ (388 pages; LT F All; Main)
H4.0, E2.9, R2.9: Gillian Anderson & Jeff Rovin 2014 _A Vision of Fire_ (292 pages; F And; FtBraden+Jax+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Poul Anderson 1965, 2004 _Agent of the Terran Empire: The Continuing Adventures of Dominic Flandry_ (198 pages; F And)
H3.5, E2.9, R3.2: Keri Arthur 2016 _City of Light_ (outcast #1; 343 pages)
H3.0, E3.0, R3.1: David Baldacci 2017 _The Fix_ (AmosDecker #3; 644 pages; LT F Bal; Main)
H3.0, E2.5, R3.9: Frans Gunnar Bengtsson 1954, 1966 _The Long Ships_ (historical fiction; 575 pages)
H4.0, E2.5, R2.9: Matthew Betley 2017 _Oath of Honor_ (Logan West #2; 627 pages; LT F Bet; Jax)
H4.0, E2.5, R3.2: Matthew Betley 2018 _Field of Valor_ (Logan West #3; 388 pages)
H3.0, E2.5, R2.7: Elizabeth Bonesteel 2016 _Remnants of Trust_ (CentralCorps #2; 518 pages)
H3.0, E2.2, R3.1: Elizabeth Bonesteel 2016 _Breach of Containment_ (CentralCorps #3; 555 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.1: Jack Campbell 2011 _Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnought_ (LostFleet #1; 355 pages)
H4.0, E3.7, R3.5: Jack Campbell 2012 _Invincible_ (LostFleet #2; 386 pages)
H4.0, E3.7, R3.7: Jack Campbell 2013 _Guardian_ (LostFleet #3; 401 pages)
H4.0, E3.7, R4.2: Jack Campbell 2014 _Steadfast_ (LostFleet #4; 386 pages)
H4.0, E3.7, R4.2: Jack Campbell 2015 _Leviathan_ (LostFleet #5; 323 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Ally Carter 2018 _Not If I Save You First_ (293 pages)
H4.2, E3.5, R3.3: Tom Clancy & Steve Pieczenik 1999 _State of Siege_ (OpCenter #6; 447 pages)
H4.2, E3.5, R2.8: Tom Clancy & Steve Pieczenik & Dick Couch & George Galdorisi 2014 _Out of the Ashes_ (OpCenter #22?; 384 pages)
H3.7, E2.8, R3.3: Genevieve Cogman 2018 _The Mortal Word_ (InVisible Library #5; 433 pages; F Cog; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.3: Genevieve Cogman 2020 _The Secret Chapter_ (InVisible Library #6; 334 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.3: Robin Cook 1992 _Blindsight_ (Jack Stapleton & Laura Montgomery #1; 429 pages)
H4.0, E2.7, R2.7: Catherine Coulter & J.T. Ellison 2013 _The Final Cut_ (Brit in FBI #1; LT F Cou; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Sebastien de Castell 2016 _Saint's Blood_ (GreatCoats #3; 574 pages)
H4.0. E2.5, R3.0: Tim Downs 2003 _Shoofly Pie_ (BugMan #1; 378 pages)
H4.0. E3.5, R3.5: David Drake 2019 _The Storm_ (Arthurian #2; 274 pages)
H3.7, E2.8, R2.7: Greg Egan 2012 _The Eternal Flame_ (Orthogonal #2; 390 pages; 4MB)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.2: Dave Eggers 2016 _Heroes of the Frontier_ (546 pages; 1.5MB)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.6: Kenneth William Goddard 2001 _Outer Perimeter_ (Cellars #2; 427 pages; NE+Woodville)
H3.7, E3.0, R2.8: Daniel Godfrey 2018 _The Synapse Sequence_ (379 pages)
H3.7, E3.1, R3.2: Daniel Godfrey 2016-06-21 _New Pompeii_ (New Pompeii #1; 352-462 pages; ISBN 9781783298112; Titan; Main+Jax; paper)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.0: Walt Gragg 2017 _The Red Line_ (514 pages; 3.2MB)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Elly Griffiths 2010 _The Crossing Places_ (Ruth Galloway #1; 303 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Elly Griffiths 2010 _The Janus Stone_ (Ruth Galloway #2; 327 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.3: Chuck Grossart 2017 _The Argus Deceit_ (308 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.6: Lisa Harris 2015 _Vendetta_ (NikkiBoyd #1; 288 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5: Elizabeth Haydon 2000 _Rhapsody: Child of Blood_ (SymphonyOfAges #1; 670 pages; 2.8MB)
H3.3, E2.2, R3.8: Dorothy Belle Hughes 2012 _The Expendable Man_ (245 pages; 654KB)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Peter James 2018 _Absolute Proof_ (554 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Daphne Kalmar 2018 _A Stitch in Time_ (167 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Andrew Klavan 2014 _MindWar_ (Mindwar #1; 319 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Robert Masello 2015 _The Einstein Prophecy_ (450 pages; 2MB; LT F Mas)
H3.0, E3.0, R3.3: Cormac McCarthy 2007 _The Road_ (242 pages; 875KB)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Rob McCarthy 2016, 2018 _The Hollow Men_ (Harry Kent #1; 352 pages; F McC; Main+Jax)
H4.0, E2.7, R3.7: Scott McEwen & Thomas Koloniar 2014 _Target America_ (Sniper Elite #2; 351 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: Richard K. Morgan 2002, 2003, 2017 _Altered Carbon_ (Takeshi Kovacs #1; 540 pages; 3MB)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Alan Morris 1996 _By Honor Bound_ (GuardiansOfTheNorth #1; 545 pages; LT F Mor)
H4.0, E2.7, R3.7: Ian Mortimer 2018 _The OutCasts of Time_ (383 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.3: Felix J. Palma 2018 _The Map of Time_ (609 pages; tedious)
H4.5, E3.5, R3.0: Frederik Pohl & Frank Kelly Freas 1990 _The GateWay Trip: Tales & Vignettes of the Heechee_ (241 pages; F Poh)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: John Ringo 2002 _When the Devil Dances_ (LegacyOfTheAldenata #3; 498 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: Nancy N. Rue 2010 _The Reluctant Prophet_ (Reluctant Prophet #1; 490 pages; F Rue)
H4.0, E3.0, E3.2: Juno Rushdan 2019 _Every Last Breath_ (417 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, E4.2: Ann Swinfen 2014 _The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez_ (Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez #1; 283 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, E4.5: Jodi Taylor 2017, 2018 _The Long and Short of It_ (ChronicleSt.Marys #10?; 400 pages; qpb; F Tay; Jax+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.4: Jodi Taylor 2017, 2018 _Hope for the Best_ (ChronicleSt.Marys #11?; 461 pages; qpb; F Tay; Jax+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.2: Will Thomas 2004, 2005 _Some Danger Involved_ (Barker & Llewelyn #1; 290 pages)
H4.0, E3.5, R3.9: David Weber 2018 _A Rising Thunder_ (Honor Harrington #20?; 458 pages)
H4.0, E3.5, R3.7: Francis Paul Wilson 2018 _The God Gene_ (Ice #2; 363 pages; 5.4MB)
Other
H4.0, E3.0, R2.1: Anne Applebaum 2020 _TwiLight of "Democracy": The Seductive Allure of Authoritarianism_ (215 pages; 1.2MB; 321.9 App; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Gary Bennett 1998 _AiKiDo Techniques & Tactics_ (aikido/balanced-energy/spirit-way; 83-183 pages; ISBN 9780880115988; OCLC 757609081; Human Kinetics; 796.815 Ben; NE; needs more precise descriptions of positions of hands, feet, movements, axis of movement, & videos)
H4.0, E2.2, R2.5: Sam Bennett 2016 _Start Right Where You Are_ (228 pages; 158.1 Ben; Main)
H4.0, E2.9, R2.0: William Burnett/Bill Burnett & Dave J. Evans 2016 _Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life_ (230 pages; ISBN 9781101875322; Borzoi/KNopf/Penguin/RandomHouse; 650.1 Bur; Main)
H3.7, E2.5, R3.8: Tom Fitton 2016 _Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies_ (300 pages; 16.3MB; 973.932 Fit; Main)
H4.0, E2.7, R3.8: Newt Gingrich, Ph.D. 2018 _Trump's USA: The Truth about Our Nation's Great ComeBack_ (341 pages; 2.4MB; ISBN 9781546077060; CenterStreet; 973.0933092 Gin; E+NE)
H4.0, E3.0, R1.7: Jonathan Haidt 2012, 2013 _The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion_ (pop-psych; 410 pages; 5.1MB; 201.615 Hai)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Sharon Heller, Ph.D. 2002, 2003, 2014 _Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do if You Are Sensory Defensive in an OverStimulating World_ (370 pages; 1MB; 155.911 Hel)
H4.2, E3.0, R2.8: William Eugene Hollon 1966, 1968, 1975 _The Great American Desert: Then & Now_ (274 pages; ISBN 9780803258068; OCLC 1070242670; UNebraska/Washington Square/Bison; 917.8 H745; Main; overall very good, but parts bad)
H4.2, E3.0, R1.9: Dave Levitan, not a scientist 2017 _Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, MisRepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science_ (256 pages; 11.2MB; 303.483 Lev; makes the mistakes he complains of others)
H4.0, E2.5, R2.7: Tim Marshall 2018 _The Age of Walls: How Barriers between Nations [Polities] Are Changing Our World_ (280 pages; 22.6MB; 320.905 Mar; Main+E)
H4.0, E3.5, R2.2: Ken Robinson, Ph.D., Lou Aronica & Terry Robinson 2009 _The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes EveryThing_ (260 pages; 153.9 Rob; Main+NE+East)
H4.0, E2.5, R2.7: James Rumford 2001 _Traveling Man: The Journey of ibn Battuta 1325-1354_ (Muhammad ibn Battuta; 40 pages; 4.1MB; 910.92; youth)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Jane Stern 2003, 2007 _Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT_ (228 pages; 593KB)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Donald Trump 2011 _Time to Get Tough_ (216 pages; 330.973 Tru; Main+NE)
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