Unnecessary Stuff

Board Games (~$20-$50)

Purchase from: Game Fest, AreYouGame, or Funagain Games

• Caylus
• Tigris & Euphrates
• El Grande
• Through the Desert
• Crokinole
• Maharaja: Palace Building in India
• Age of Steam
• Ticket to Ride
• La Citta
• Lost Cities
• Primordial Soup
• The Thing

Electronics

Books ($5-50)

Purchase from: preferably a local bookstore, or Powell's, Barnes & Noble or Amazon

In the Absence of the Sacred

Jerry Mander

Stand on Zanzibar

John Brunner

The Sheep Look Up

John Brunner

The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next

Lee Smolin

Clean Energy Common Sense: An American Call to Action on Global Climate Change

Frances Beinecke

Money Culture

Michael Lewis

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

Den of Thieves

James B. Stewart 

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Roger Lowenstein

Secret Power

Nicky Hagar

The Emporer's New Mind

Roger Penrose

Fortunate Son (3rd edition) 

J.H. Hatfield

 Schott's Original Miscellany

Ben Schott

 The Greatest Sedition Is Silence: Four Years in America

William Rivers Pitt

The Hope Valley Hubcap King

Sean Murphy

How the Mind Works

Steven Pinker

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker

The Price of Loyalty

Ron Suskind

The One Percent Doctrine

Ron Suskind

American Dynasty

Kevin Phillips

Digital Copyright

Jessica Litman

Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity

Michael Perelman

Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity

Siva Vaidhyanathan

The Puzzle of Fascism: Could fascism arise in America or could it already be a Fascist State?

Eric D. Williams

Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror

Michael Scheuer

Illuminatus Trilogy

Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson

Doomsday Book (ISBN 0553351672)

Connie Willis

Trust Us, We're Experts

Rampton, Stauber

Rule by Secrecy

Jim Marrs

The Mouse That Roared

Henry Giroux

Slack: Getting past burnout, busywork and the myth of total efficiency

Tom DeMarco

Bamboozled At the Revolution: How Big Media Lost Billions in the Battle for the Internet

John Motavalli

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

Gore Vidal

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Greg Palast

Stupid White Men

Michael Moore

The New Barbarian Manifesto: How to Survive the Information Age (ISBN: 0749431512)

Ian O. Angell

The Revolt of the Elites : And the Betrayal of Democracy (ISBN: 0393313719)

Christopher Lasch

The Acceleration of Just About Everything

James Gleick

Genius and Chaos

James Gleick

Divorce Your Car

Katie Alvord

High Tech Heretic

Clifford Stoll

The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media

Norman Solomon

Consuming Desires

Edited by Roger Rosenblatt

An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (Complex Adaptive Systems Series)

Melanie Michell, Melanie Mitchell

The Population Bomb

Paul Erlich

Letters at 3 AM: Reports on Endarkenment

Michael Ventura

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Alan Cooper

Earth Odyssey

Mark Hertsgaard

Medical Nemesis

Ivan Illich

The Excuse Factory

Walter Olsen

Compassion Fatigue

Susan D. Moeller

I sing the Body electric

Fred Moody

The Mind of God (ISBN 0-671-79718-2)

Paul Davies

Ghosts of Everest (ISBN 978-0898868500)

Jochen Hemmleb, Larry A. Johnson, Eric R. Simonson, William E. Nothdurft

Drive to Win: The Essential Guide to Race Driving

Carroll Smith

Going Faster! Mastering the Art of Race Driving

Carl Lopez

The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq

 Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber

Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

Chalmers Johnson

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

Chalmers Johnson

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Naomi Klein

No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs 

Naomi Klein

Cemetery Nights

Stephen Dobyns

Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

Brian Walker, David Salt, Walter Reid

The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization

Thomas Homer-Dixon

The Collapse of Complex Societies

Joseph Tainter

Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

Bill McKibben

The End of Nature

Bill McKibben

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change

Elizabeth Kolbert

Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management

Bryan G. Norton

Waterland

Graham Swift

Decoding the Heavens

Jo Marchant

The Trousers of Reality - Volume 1: Working Life

Barry Evans

Coders at Work

Peter Seibel

Programming Collective Intelligence

Toby Segaran

Bad Science - Quacks, Hacks and Big Pharma Flacks

Ben Goldacre

Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

Anneli Rufus

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Tim Wu

The Now Habit

Neil Fiore

Getting Things Done

David Allen

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2nd Edition)

Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

Art of Computer Programming (multi-volume set)

Donald Knuth

Unix Power Tools (3rd edition)

Shelley Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim O’Reilly, Mike Loukides

Introduction to Algorithms (3rd edition)

Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

The Trouble with Being Born

E.M. Cioran

A Short History of Decay

E.M. Cioran

The Xenogenesis Trilogy (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago)

Octavia Butler

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

Lawrence Lessig

Karl Marx: A Life

Francis Wheen

The Stack and Tilt Swing

Michael Bennett, Andy Plummer

Inferno

Max Hastings

• Any and all of the The Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)
• Anything by Chuck Palahniuk (except: Fight Club)
• Anything by Fritjof Capra
• Anything by Vernor Vinge
• Anything by Malcolm Gladwell

Gizmos

Blades

Purchase from: bladecenter.com, swordcenter.com, knifecenter.com