05 November 2007

Purchases


Over the weekend, I picked up quite a few volumes at Borders:

  • The City in History - Lewis Mumford

  • 1814: The Campaign for France - F. G. Hourtoulle

  • Flesh and Machines: How Robots will change us - Rodney A. Brooks

  • The City Reader - Edited byRichard T. LeGates and Frederic Scott

  • Send a Gunboat: The Victorian Navy and Supremacy at Sea 1854-1904 - Antony Preston and John Major

  • Japanese Fortified Temples and Monasteries AD 710-1602 - Stephen Turnbull and Peter Dennis

  • Blackwater: The Rise of the World's most powerful Mercenary Army - Jeremy Scahill

  • Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond - Robert D. Kaplan

  • The Best American Science Writing 2007 (Best American Science Writing) - Gina Kolata and Jesse Cohen

  • The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2005 (Best American) - Jonathan Weiner and Tim Folger

  • The Best of Technology Writing 2007 (Best of Technology Writing) - Steven Levy


4 comments:

Rachelle said...

Hey, what happened to my list of books you were supposed to get?

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

Books!

You read?

Unknown said...

A book edited by Steven Levy! Excellent!

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

Steven Pinker, Oliver Sacks and others have edited some of the science volumes.