Guns, Germs and Steel, The Fate of Human Societies Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize winner is particularly interesting in trying to understand the roots of 9/11

The Laws of the Web Bernardo Huberman - how the Web's seemingly chaotic structure actually exhibits well-known (to particle physicists) structure

The Blind Watchmaker Richard Dawkins' brilliant argument for Darwinian Evolution

Rules for Revolutionaries Guy Kawasaki - I've never read it cover-to-cover

Emergence Steven Johnson's wide-ranging look at emergent phenomena in cities, the brain and other complex systems...

Mac OS X, the Complete Reference, Jesse Feiler - gotta have it

The Universe in a Nutshell Stephen Hawking - not as easy as Brief History of Time - I read it once on airplanes, now re-reading with highlighter, notebook and open Web browser

How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman - an 800-page IDG ('Dummies') book about learning to cook.

Firewalls for Dummies Komar, Beekelaar and Wettern - is only 383 pages, so apparently it's easier to hack firewalls than cook

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