MadLab has a book budget, and we want your help in deciding what we should stock – please leave your recommendations and suggestions in the comments!
While we could think about the flavour-of-the-month twitter guides, we’re more interested in classic and more rounded tomes; our initial thoughts include
- Edward Tufte’s visualisation books
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- McLuhan – Understanding Media et al.
- Design of Everyday Things
- Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Horowitz’s Art of Electronics
- McGee On Food & Cooking
- Rothko’s The Artist’s Reality: Philosophy of Art
- The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey
- Logicomix
If there are publications you’re interested in or think the community would benefit from, feel free to suggest them too! Here’s a few we think are interesting – what’s your thoughts?
- 2600 magazine
- Wired
- Make Magazine
- Creative Review
- MUTE/MetaMUTE
- Icon
- Blueprint
- Emigré
- Nature
- New Scientist
- McSweeny’s
Jon Bentley’s “Programming Pearls”
Richard G. Lyons”Understanding Digital Signal Processing”
Maybe all 3.x volumes of “The Art of Computer Programming” by you-know-who
Some hard copies of catalogues like RS, Farnell, McMaster-Carr.
Good call on Horowitz; I’m totally queer for that book.
For a Practical Avant-Garde by Dushko Petrovich
OuLiPo Compendium by Harry Matthews et al
The Penguin Book of the Beats – Kerouac et al
An intimate history of humanity – Theodore Zeldin
Straw Dogs – John Gray
The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature (Paperback)by Pierre Bourdieu
One way street and other writings – Walter Benjamin
Hackers by Steven Levy
Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
Conjunctions Magazine
The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction by Peter Freese and Charles B. Harris
Everyware by Adam Greenfield: http://www.studies-observations.com/everyware/
Emergence by Steve Johnson (Manchester is in it!): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684868768/stevenberlinj-20
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander (bit old now and maybe out of date but worth a read and changed my thinking about a few things): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimination_of_Television
The Portable Frank by Jim Woodring: http://bit.ly/2WJdFo
Zero – The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife: http://www.users.cloud9.net/~cgseife/zero.html
The Story of Commodore: A company on the edge by Brian Bagnall (Apple revisionists beware!): http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0973864907/ref=ox_ya_oh_product
A Computer Called LEO by Georgina Ferry: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Called-LEO-Worlds-Office/dp/tags-on-product/1841151866
The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher: http://www.design-bookshelf.com/Design/sideways.html
The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Dictionary-Ambrose-Bierce/dp/0195126270
Think that’ll do for starters.
Some great ideas here guys.
CreativeConcern suggested some Tom Paine (Rights of Man, Common Sense).
Good call on the Benjamin, Adrian.
ooh -
For subscriptions, can you add
Broadcast
Private Eye
& The Economist
Please, ta!
The rather excellent Mr. Guy Hilton also supplied this list: http://is.gd/5bM9L
The entire Workshop Practice series. No doubt.
Adhesives, sheet metal work, casting, lathes, motors, brazing, welding, the lot.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Workshop-Practice-Series-1-25/lm/R1DE7XKEI9KTQ9