Patrick Collison

A forecast of vast software models that mirror the real world and change society.

The chief engineer on designing, building, testing and flying the lunar module.

Tips and tools for securing Linux, Windows, BSD and Mac servers and networks.

The official guide to the Nmap scanner, from port-scanning basics to pen testing.

Out of print; Graham distributes it free as a PDF

Operating system principles, from processes to file systems, shown in the MINIX code.

Mechanisms for writing parallel and concurrent programs in Haskell.

Practical Lisp programming, from language features to projects like an mp3 server.

Interviews with leading programmers on the forces and traits behind their work.

How to prepare for programming job interviews: languages, patterns and algorithms.

Techniques for designing data structures in functional languages, with examples.

Quantum algorithms, teleportation, cryptography and error correction, from basics.

MIT's introductory computer science text, taught through Lisp and Scheme.

How Kilby and Noyce each invented the integrated circuit in 1958 and 1959.

The technology trends that will reshape daily life over the next thirty years.

Computing as a run of collaborations, from Ada Lovelace and Babbage to Google.

How the internet changed politics and economies in Iran, Estonia, Korea and Senegal.

Every US information industry moved from an open era to control by one firm.

How Licklider and Pentagon-funded engineers built the network behind the internet.

A philosophy student marries a math prodigy and weighs the mind against the body.

A young Nigerian doctor walks Manhattan, thinking over his relationships.

An epic poem retelling Genesis: Satan's revolt and the fall of Adam and Eve.

The murder of a Japanese family in Los Angeles on the brink of World War II.

The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, seen by the engineer running the local aqueduct.

A cartoonist's graphic memoir of two months working in North Korea's capital.

A tech entrepreneur is caught in a global cybercrime war sparked by his online game.

The late 1950s, when the Soviet planned economy seemed briefly to deliver abundance.

Eight science-fiction stories, each working out one premise with rigour.

The Greek epic of Odysseus's ten-year journey home from Troy to Ithaca.

How the Bell Labs team of Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain invented the transistor.

How Knudsen and Kaiser led America's industrial build-up for the Second World War.

How the stirrup and the plough reorganised medieval society and economy

Cicero's speeches defending accused murderers, from Sextus Roscius to King Deiotarus.

An enquiry into nationalism since 1780: its programme, its myths and its reality.

Four centuries of New Yorkers' diaries, from Henry Hudson to Mark Twain and on.

Nixon's political career from Congress to the White House and the strategies he used.

The Pacific Ocean's geology and history, and its role in the modern world.

How shared fictions such as money, nations and gods let humans cooperate at scale.

How Edison's electric light changed American life and marked a new age.

How cities developed, from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece and Rome to today.

How the Copernican revolution unfolded, as a turning point in scientific thought.

How the bomb was built, from the discovery of atomic energy to Hiroshima.

Full-scale biography by a Harvard business historian.

Georges Doriot, who showed that investing in small, risky firms could pay.

Montaigne's life and essays, read as answers to the question of how to live.

Patagonia's founder on running a business against conventional growth logic

A rugby team's plane crashes in the Andes; a survivor treks out after 72 days.

Scholars, diplomats and journalists recall first encounters with Communist China.

A pilot's memoir of a life spent flying, and the places and people along the way.

More scary and often funny true stories from Royal Air Force crews and friends.

A computer pioneer's autobiography: his life in computing and fight for civilisation.

Inside Lockheed's secret projects unit, from the U-2 to the stealth fighter.

A Jewish boy survives the war and Soviet rule in Hungary and escapes to America.

How an unelected official amassed power and used it to rebuild New York.

Computer tournaments of the prisoner's dilemma show why tit-for-tat wins.

The foundations and methods of modern particle physics, through the Standard Model.

An introduction to quantum field theory for beginners and self-learners.

Quantum field theory for students who have finished a course in quantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics, its formalism and practice, through nearly 700 worked problems.

Quantum theory applied to atoms, molecules, solids, nuclei and particles.

Why glass is clear and paperclips bend: the science of everyday materials.

An argument that consciousness is not algorithmic and rests on quantum mechanics.

Reality through four strands: many-worlds physics, computation, evolution, Popper.

The knowledge survivors would need to rebuild technological society after a collapse.

Language as a human instinct, and what science knows of grammar and learning.

Science moves through long stretches of normal work broken by paradigm shifts.

253 patterns for building, from the layout of towns down to a window seat.

Buildings as processes that change after they are built, and how to design for it.

The process of design: how to invent things with new physical order and form.

The idea of ugliness through history, as shown in art, literature and architecture.

Photographs that visualise data, from Wi-Fi fields to many moments in one image.

Architects' manifestos and programs, 1903 to 1963, that shaped modern architecture.

Incerto volume 4

Knowledge grows by bold guesses that we then try to refute, not by proof.

Essays on every kind of subject that, above all, examine human nature honestly.

The forces that have shaped technology since prehistory and now shape modern people.

Bacon's utopia of organised research; science as an institution

Ways to end humanity's conflicts with nature, with other people and within the self.

Life is not short; people waste most of it, and how to use it well.

Examples showing what the logical-analytic method in philosophy can and cannot do.

Plato brought into today's debates on religion, morality, politics and science.

Thirty selections from Popper's writings, chosen to show the range of his ideas.

What justice is, answered by building an ideal city in dialogue.

An attack on Western beliefs, from Plato to Marxism, about humanity's place.

Knowledge can grow without limit through good explanations that are hard to vary.

The mind-body problem from Descartes to today, and a case for neutral monism.

Ocean flying for small-plane pilots: navigation, weather, equipment and regulations.

Study outlines and FAA questions for passing the private pilot knowledge test.

How to ride a motorcycle well on city streets and country roads and handle hazards.

How to choose, brew and enjoy artisan coffee at home, with 40 recipes.

How television turned public discourse from argument into entertainment.