Monday, July 6, 2020

List of books in my library

This post is a list of books I currently own. There are 171 books organized into 14 subjects.

1. Art (15)
2. Chemistry (2)
3. Computer science (2)
4. Economics (40)
5. General science (6)
6. Inventions (5)
7. Mathematics (1)
8. Music (4)
9. Neuroscience (1)
10. Novels (3)
11. Philosophy (67)
12. Physics (17)
13. Politics (2)
14. Psychology (6)

1. Art (15)


Air - Laforet
Artists: Their Lives and Works - DK
Basquiat (comic) - Parisi
Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation - Munsell, Tate
Escher on Escher - Exploring the Infinite
Fashion - DK
History of Art - Janson
History of Modern Art - Arnason
Leonardo Da Vinci - Isaacson
Leonardo's Notebooks - Suh
Key Moments in Art - Cheshire
Man-Made Wonders - DK
Modern Art - Dempsey
Oxford Dictionary of Art, The - Chilvers, Osborne, Farr
Vincent by Himself - Bernard

2. Chemistry (2)


Cartoon Guide to Chemistry, The - Gonick, Criddle
Molecules - Gray

3. Computer science (2)


Computer Book, The - Garfinkle, Grunspan
Steve Jobs (cartoon) - Quinn, Tayal

4. Economics (40)


4.1 Classics (2)

Economic History, Vol. 1, Ashley
Wealth of Nations, The - Smith

4.2 Critique of modern economics (7)

Economics - Chang
Economics and its Discontents - Malko
Economics Rules - Rodrik
Econocracy, The - Earl, Moran, Ward-Perkins
Methodology of Economics, The - Blaug
Nature and State of Modern Economics, The - Lawson
On the Use and Misuse of Theories and Models in Mainstream Economics - Syll

4.3 Econometrics (4)

Mastering Metrics - Angrist, Pischke
Mostly Harmless Econometrics - Angrist, Pischke
On the Accuracy of Economic Observations - Morgenstern
Undercover Economist - Harford

4.4 Finance (10)

Against the Gods - Bernstein
Bank Management & Financial Services - Rose, Hudgins
Big Short, The - Lewis
Black Swan, The - Taleb
Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets - Mishkin
Fate of the States - Whitney
Financial Markets & Institutions - Mishkin, Eakins
International Financial Management - Madura
Investments - Hirschey, Nofsinger
This Time is Different - Reinhart, Rogoff

4.5 History of economic thought (5)

Economix: How Our Economy Works - Goodwin, Burr
Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations - Warsh
History of Economic Thought, The - (compilation of essays)
History of Economics - Galbraith
Worldly Philosophers, The - Heilbroner

4.6 Macroeconomics (2)

Macroeconomics - Abel, Bernanke, Croushore
Map and the Territory, The - Greenspan

4.7 Microeconomics (1)

Microeconomics - Besanko, Braeutigam

4.8 Miscellaneous economics (9)

Balance - Hubbard, Kane
Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Piketty
Current Economic Issues - Dollars & Sense
Economics Book, The - DK
Evidence-Based Policy - Cartwright, Hardie
How Markets Fail - John Cassidy
Next 100 Years, The - Friedman
Stiglitz Report, The - Stiglitz
Superforecasting - Tetlock, Gardner

5. General Science (6)


1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Science -Trefil
Beginnings of Western Science, The - Lindberg
Quantum Leaps - Balchin
Science Book, The - DK
Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs - Parsons
Trends in Science: Physics - Cooper

6. Inventions (5)


How Things Work Today - Wright, Patel
Industries of the Future, The - Ross
Inventing the Future - Srnicek, Williams
New Way Things Work, The - Macaulay
Story of Thomas Alva Edison, The - Cousins

7. Mathematics (1)


Math Book, The - DK

8. Music (4)


Composers - Fandex
Introduction to the Musical Brain - Campbell
Philosophies of Music History - Allen
This is Your Brain on Music - Levitin

9. Neuroscience (1)


Neuronal Man - Changeux

10. Novels (3)


Anna Karenin - Tolstoy
Faust: Part 1 - Goethe

11. Philosophy (67)


11.1 Consciousness (4)

Conscious Mind, The - Chalmers
Consciousness - Koch
Consciousness Explained - Dennett
Other Minds - Godfrey-Smith

11.2 Epistemology (14)

A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Hume
Basic Writings of Kant - Kant
Discourse on Method - Descartes
Introducing Kant (comic) - Kul-Want, Klimowski
Man Who Saw the Future , The- Eiseley
Meditations on First Philosophy - Descartes
Novum Organum - Bacon
On Certainty - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Organon - Aristotle
Philosophy of Science - (compilation of essays)
Three Dialogues - George Berkeley
Trouble With Reality, The - Gladstone
Truth - Blackburn

11.3 Ethics (13)

A Kierkegaard Anthology - Kierkegaard
Anti-Christ, The - Nietzsche
Birth of Tragedy, The - Nietzsche
Case of Wagner, The - Nietzsche
Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche
Gay Science, The - Nietzsche
Gravity & Grace - Weil
Nietzsche for Beginners (comic)- Gane, Chan
Myth of Sisyphus & Other, The  Essays - Camus
On the Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols - Nietzsche
Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill

11.4 History of philosophy (6)

Beginning with the Pre-Socratics - Ring
Great Philosophers, The - Law
Heretics! - Nadler, Nadler
History of Western Philosophy, The - Russell
Philosophy Book, The - DK
Story of Philosophy, The - Durant

11.5 Language (11)

Blue Book, The - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Brown Book, The - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Derrida - Norris
Introducing Semiotics (comic) - Cobley, Jansz
Introducing Wittgenstein (comic) - Heaton, Groves
Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences - Macat Analysis
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations - Macat Analysis
Philosophical Investigations - Wittgenstein
Structuralism and Poststructuralism for Beginners - Palmer
Theory of Meaning - (various essays)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein

11.6 Metaphysics (2)

Holographic Universe, The - Talbot
Mind and Cosmos - Nagel

11.7 Phenomenology (5)

At the Existentialist Cafe - Bakewell
Basic Writings - Heidegger
Heidegger for Beginners (comic) - Lemay, Pitts
Phenomenology - (compilation of essays)
Phenomenology & Existentialism - Grossmann

11.8 Miscellaneous philosophy (12)

Comparative Philosophy - Bahm
Godel, Escher, Bach - Hofstadter
Introducing Postmodernism (comic) - Appignanesi, Garratt
Little Book of Philosophy, The - Comte-Sponville
Magical Teaching - Smith
Making of a Philosopher, The - McGinn
New Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Grooten, Steenbergen
Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Honderich
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Philosophy - Craig
Philosophy 101 - Kleinman
Plato and a Platypus walk into a Bar - Cathcart, Klein
Republic, The - Plato

12. Physics (17)


Cartoon Guide to Physics, The - Gonick, Huffman
Cosmology - Odenwald
Einstein - Isaacson
Einstein's Universe - Nigel Calder
Elegant Universe, The - Greene
Elements, The - Gray
Light - Arcand, Watzke
Matter Myth, The - Davies, Gribbin
New Cosmos, The - Eicher
Physics Book, The - Pickover
Physics - Aristotle
Physics - Bolemon
Relativity Visualized - Epstein
Quantum Physics in Minutes - Lavender
Quarks - Fritzsch
Six Easy Pieces - Feynman
Universe in a Nutshell, The - Hawking

13. Politics (2)


On the Social Contract - Rousseau
Our Revolution - Sanders

14. Psychology (6)


An Architecture of the Mind - Markey-Towler
How the Mind Works - Pinker
Man and his Symbols - Jung
Mind Map Book, The - Buzan
Range - Epstein
What Jung Really Said - Bennet