One of a handful of physics books that fell into my lap as a kid and made me fall in love with science.

It’s the bible of Unix sys admin, hands-down.

Sartorial mathematics. What more could you ask for?

So many pretty photos of pretty things…

The book that got electromagnetism into my brain after all others failed.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that this book helped change the way I think about practically everything.

The most compelling argument for good typography is this book itself. Don’t read it. Just hold it, touch the paper and bathe in the beautifully balanced pages.

A fantastically accesible swoop through the big questions of philosophy.

An absolutely charming little gem of a book. Despite the title, it’s nothing to do about learning Japanese. Rather, it’s a slice of life, point-of-view analysis of one American woman’s experience of living in Japan with her family for a year, with an easily-accesible anthropological bent.

Awe-inspiring hard sci-fi, along with a good enough Cold War plot to make this naive hippy liberal feel all righteous.