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stoutfellow) wrote2015-03-17 08:01 am
stoutfellow) wrote2015-03-17 08:01 am
Booking Ahead
I hadn't bought any books in several months, so yesterday I put in an order at Amazon. The haul:
Dead-tree: Vyvyan Evans, The Language Myth (a response to Chomskyan orthodoxy in linguistics); Henry Petroski, To Engineer Is Human (subtitled "The Role of Failure in Successful Design"); Edward Tufte's classic The Visual Display of Quantitative Information; and on the fiction side Jim Butcher's Skin Game and Bill Willingham's Arabian Nights (and Days), the next volume in the Fables series.
Electronic: Walter Jon Williams, The Sundering (sequel to The Praxis) and John Lumpkin, The Desert of Stars (sequel to Through Struggle the Stars)
I also picked up a couple of greatest-hits albums, by Billy Joe Royal (mainly for "Down in the Boondocks") and the Seekers (mainly for "I'll Never Find Another You").
Delivery of the non-electric items is scheduled for the end of this week.
Dead-tree: Vyvyan Evans, The Language Myth (a response to Chomskyan orthodoxy in linguistics); Henry Petroski, To Engineer Is Human (subtitled "The Role of Failure in Successful Design"); Edward Tufte's classic The Visual Display of Quantitative Information; and on the fiction side Jim Butcher's Skin Game and Bill Willingham's Arabian Nights (and Days), the next volume in the Fables series.
Electronic: Walter Jon Williams, The Sundering (sequel to The Praxis) and John Lumpkin, The Desert of Stars (sequel to Through Struggle the Stars)
I also picked up a couple of greatest-hits albums, by Billy Joe Royal (mainly for "Down in the Boondocks") and the Seekers (mainly for "I'll Never Find Another You").
Delivery of the non-electric items is scheduled for the end of this week.