Books waiting to be read

Books piled up

Fiction/Literature

• Seeing Lily, by Brian Hubbell.
• The Castle, by Franz Kafka.
• Faust, Vol. 2, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Luke (Translator).
• Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace.

Poetry

• Song of Myself: And Other Poems, by Walt Whitman, selected and introduced by Robert Hass.

General Non-Fiction

• Strategies for the Green Economy, by Joel Makower.
• Burmese Days, by George Orwell.
• Portable Nietzsche, by Friedrich Nietzsche.
• The Mystery of Capital, by Hernando De Soto.
• The Digital Person, by Daniel J. Solove.
• All Things Censored, by Mumia Abu-Jamal.
• Invisible Heroes, by Belleruth Naparstek.
• Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It, by John Seymour.
• When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self Reliance & Planetary Survival, by Matthew Stein.
• Living Silence: Burma under Military Rule, by Christina Fink.
• Kamikaze Diaries, by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.
• The Complete Anti-Federalist, by Herbert J. Storing.
• Letters and Papers from Prison, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
• The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
• The Tinkerer’s Accomplice, by J. Scott Turner.
• The Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans, by Plutarch.
• Divine Wind, by Kerry Emanuel.
• The Complete Kama Sutra, translated by Alain Daniélou.
• The Economics of Climate Change, by Nicholas Stern.
• The Backyard Beekeeper, by Kim Flottum and Weeks Ringle.
• Red, White, and Brew, by Brian Yaeger.
• For the Common Good, by Herman Daly and John Cobb.
• Radical Evolution, by Joel Garreau.
• The Horse Boy: A Memoir of Healing, by Rupert Isaacson.
• Overthrow, by Stephen Kinzer.
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes.

Science/Technical

• Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings, by Duane M. Rumbaugh, David A. Washburn
• Skew-Tolerant Circuit Design, by David Harris.
• Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, by Sherry Turkle.
• Philosophical Investigations, by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
• Zen-Brain Reflections, by James H. Austin.
• Our Inner Ape: Power, Sex, Violence, Kindness, and the Evolution of Human Nature, by Frans de Waal.
• Supporting Grade 5-8 Students in Constructing Explanations in Science: The Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning Framework for Talk and Writing, by Katherine L. McNeill.

Building

• Healthy House Building for the New Millennium: A Design and Construction Guide, by Jown Bower.
• Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls, by Nigel Dunnett, Noel Kingsbury.
• Mysteries of Lost Empires, by Marshall Jon Fisher.

Gardening

• Common Riparian Plants of California: A Field Guide for the Layman, by Phyllis M. Faber, Robert F. Holland.
• Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, by Toby Hemenway, John Todd.
• Golden Gate Gardening, by Pam Peirce, Pam Dardick.
• Complete Book of Edible Landscaping, by Rosalind Creasy.
• The Nursery Manual, by Liberty H. Bailey.
• Manual of Gardening, by Liberty H. Bailey.
• The Outlook to Nature, by Liberty H. Bailey.
• Rodale Book of Composting, by Deborah L. Martin.
• Botany for Gardeners, by Brian Capon.
• California Landscape Garden: Ecology, Culture, and Design, by Mark Francis, Andreas Reimann.
• Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrution, by Paul Pitchford.
• Seed to Seed, by Suzanne Ashworth, Kent Whealy.
• Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, by Wendell Berry.
• Western Fruit, Berries and Nuts: How to Select, Grow and Enjoy, by Robert L. Stebbins, Lance Walheim.
• Introduction to Permaculture, by Bill Mollison, Reny M. Slay. Seeds of Change
• Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, by Bill Mollison. Seeds of Change
• Permaculture Two, by Bill Mollison. Seeds of Change
• New Roots for Agriculture, by Wes Jackson.
• Wild Lilies, Irises, and Grasses: Gardening with California Monocots, by Nora Harlow.
• The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control, by Barbara Ellis.
• Living Fences, by Ogden Tanner.
• California’s Wild Gardens: A Guide to Favorite Botanical Sites, by Phyllis Faber.
• The Gardener’s Table, by Richard Merrill & Joe Ortiz.
• One Straw Revolution, by Fukuoka.
• The Soil And Health, by Albert Howard.

Woodworking

• Your First Workshop, by Aimé Fraser.
• The Complete Guide to Sharpening, by Leonard Lee.
• Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use, by Toshio Odate.
• Understanding Wood, by R. Bruce Hoadley.

Textbook reading queue

• Power Electronics: Converters, Applications, and Design, by Ned Mohan.
• Fundamentals of Power Electronics, by Robert W. Erickson.
• International Economics, by Paul R. Krugman and Maurice Obstfeld.
• Partial Differential Equations, by Walter A. Strauss.
• Introduction to Partial Differential Equations and Hilbert Space, by Karl E. Gustafson.
• The Colossal Book of Mathematics, by Martin Gardener.
• A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing, by Stephane G. Mallat.
• Abstract Algebra, by David Dummit.
• Introduction to Hilbert Spaces With Applications, by Lokenath Debnath, Piotr Mikusinski.
• Classics on Fractals, edited by  .
• Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes, by Aldo Da Rosa.
• Ecological Economics, by Joshua Farley, Herman E. Daly.
• Shapes, Space, and Symmetry, by Alan Holden.
• Regular Polytopes, by H. S. M. Coxeter.

Planning to buy

Fiction

• The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss.

General Non-Fiction

• Bright Earth, by Philip Ball.
• The Self-Made Tapestry, by Philip Ball.
• Ecological Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman.
• The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF, by Paul Blustein.
• Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain, by Antonio Damasio.
• On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins.
• A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, by Stacy Schiff.
• Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson.
• Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff.
• Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil, by Tom Mueller.

Technical

• None at this time

Textbooks

• Physical Geology, by Charles C. Plummer.

Building

• None at this time

Woodworking

• None at this time