- The Facebook Effect: The Insider Story of the Company that is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
- MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams
- How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Mike Berners-Lee
- Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio
- The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe? by Paul Davies
- Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World by Guy Deutscher
- The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
- Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D Seeley
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in various media outlets. If you see one that I haven't covered, please let me know at jdupuis at yorku dot ca or in the comments.
I am picking up a lot of lists from Largehearted Boy.
Earlier entries in this year's list of lists can be found here and the 2009 summary post here.
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Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure. This list is the Holiday Reading list from the Toronto Star Public Policy Forum, picked from individual lists in today's print newspaper.
I wasn't really sure of quite how to start this off. I finally decided to just dive right in with a simple function definition, and then give you a bit of a tour of how Haskell works by showing the different ways of implementing it.
Along with tacky an inescapable Christmas music, December brings lists, as every publication that deals with music at all puts out their own compilation of songs or albums of the year.
Humans readily establish false memories. If you give adults a study list of words like hot, snow, warm, winter, ice, wet, chilly, weather, heat, freeze, shiver, frost, and then test them later, they will "remember" related words like cold that weren't actually on the list.