Geek nonfiction

[bigshotprof]

Give me some titles of general interest, nonfiction books that would appeal to folks on this site. Books like Cuckoo's Egg and Soul of a new machine.

Thanks

[gta_bmx]

Forbidden Lego -- manual on how to build creative Lego projects.

Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics by Stan Gibilisco -- published by McGraw-Hill. This is a great book; it starts out by explaining clearly and simply the physics behind electricity and finishes at robotics and integrated circuits and such. And in between it covers everything like Ohm's Law, AC, DC, circuits, diodes, voltage regulators, multi-meters, etc.. It's a textbook with tests/quizzes and can be kept as a reference manual. You probably are asking for books more along the lines of like the history of the development of the internet, or something about ENIAC, etc.. But I love this book and thought I'd throw it in.

iWoz is awesome. I highly recommend it, even to a non-Apple user.

[hcolyn]

I loved Masters of Doom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_doom) - check it out, especially if you are a video game fan.

[owlboy]

American Nerd: A Story of My People

Kirby: King of Comics

Ten Cent Plague (which for some stupid reason was shoved in with the trade paperbacks in my Barnes and Nobles)

[heyseuss]

(book title here) by Bill Bryson

[guytheninja]

Give me some titles of general interest, nonfiction books that would appeal to folks on this site. Books like Cuckoo's Egg and Soul of a new machine.

Thanks

I'm currently reading:

A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

I have a boat-load of books I am going to read this year (hopefully).

Common Sense by Thomas Paine
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
The Republic by Plato
Discourse on Metaphysics by Leibniz --> this is a part of the public domain
The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics by C. S. Lewis
and

Naturalistic Philosophies of Experience by D. C. Mathur --> I have no idea whats going to be in this book

And as for fiction, I'm also currently reading

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Doubleday Publishing