Patrick Collison's Book Shelf

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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal 4.55 avg rating — 1,538 ratings
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If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life 4.20 avg rating — 1,434 ratings
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World 4.17 avg rating — 9,239 ratings
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Feynman Lectures On Computation
Feynman Lectures On Computation 4.25 avg rating — 473 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) 4.18 avg rating — 2,092 ratings
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The Mind-Body Problem
The Mind-Body Problem 3.83 avg rating — 1,227 ratings
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Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger 4.41 avg rating — 16,016 ratings
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Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up
by: K.C. Cole
4.23 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man 4.21 avg rating — 699 ratings
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China 4.25 avg rating — 8,718 ratings
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The Paris Review Interviews, 1
The Paris Review Interviews, 1 4.37 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas 4.31 avg rating — 843 ratings
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Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China 4.10 avg rating — 1,577 ratings
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Democracy in America: Abridged with an Introduction
Democracy in America: Abridged with an Introduction 3.76 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern 4.20 avg rating — 3,662 ratings
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa 4.18 avg rating — 5,458 ratings
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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn 4.17 avg rating — 1,419 ratings
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) 4.42 avg rating — 5,328 ratings
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp 4.33 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy 3.99 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Asimov's New Guide To Science
Asimov's New Guide To Science 4.33 avg rating — 857 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 992,192 ratings
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives 4.12 avg rating — 22,828 ratings
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Computer Lib/Dream Machines
Computer Lib/Dream Machines 4.43 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street 3.81 avg rating — 24,342 ratings
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A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History)
A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 36 ratings
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze 4.28 avg rating — 13,673 ratings
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The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley 3.88 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Wind, Sand and Stars
Wind, Sand and Stars 4.12 avg rating — 20,395 ratings
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Quantum Computing Since Democritus 4.15 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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On Intelligence
On Intelligence 4.11 avg rating — 6,920 ratings
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Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,721 ratings
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Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,415,341 ratings
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel 3.99 avg rating — 1,712 ratings
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The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding 4.21 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea 4.26 avg rating — 954 ratings
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Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers 3.96 avg rating — 450 ratings
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The Arabs: A History
The Arabs: A History 4.36 avg rating — 4,388 ratings
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The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 4.15 avg rating — 2,648 ratings
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Plagues and Peoples
Plagues and Peoples 3.87 avg rating — 4,937 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 3.99 avg rating — 75,034 ratings
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The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
by: T.R. Reid
4.27 avg rating — 882 ratings
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Technics and Civilization
Technics and Civilization 4.30 avg rating — 601 ratings
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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics 4.38 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 4.47 avg rating — 4,821 ratings
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The Nature of Mathematical Modeling
The Nature of Mathematical Modeling 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business 4.16 avg rating — 36,110 ratings
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Popper Selections
Popper Selections 4.06 avg rating — 207 ratings
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects 4.10 avg rating — 1,454 ratings
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Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement 3.91 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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The Hunters
The Hunters 4.11 avg rating — 2,444 ratings
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The Journalist and the Murderer
The Journalist and the Murderer 3.80 avg rating — 5,579 ratings
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The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution 4.03 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America 4.25 avg rating — 10,668 ratings
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Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word 4.14 avg rating — 2,064 ratings
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers 4.04 avg rating — 3,947 ratings