[FoRK] Annual book poll: What are you reading this holidays?

[Matt Jensen]

These are items in my "Hold" list at the library.  Most should show up  
before New Year's.  ...


SOFTWARE
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Everything is miscellaneous : the power of the new digital disorder /  
Weinberger

Beautiful code / Oram

Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing (Inter-library)  
/ Manning

Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data  
(Inter-library) / Chakrabarti


PARENTING
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Sock and glove : creating charming softy friends from cast-off socks  
and gloves / Kanamori

Parenting with love and logic : teaching children responsibility / Cline

The karate kid	/ DVD
   (My preschooler wants to learn karate. I'm not going to show him  
any combat, just the "A-ha!" moment of the wax-on, wax-off sequence,  
and a few other nonviolent, pro-discipline highlights.)

Looney tunes golden collection. Vol. 1	dvd
Looney tunes golden collection. Vol. 2	dvd
Looney tunes golden collection. Vol. 4	dvd
   (Child-rearing with early Daffy.  I can't stand later Daffy,  
though; he's bitter and mean.)


OTHER
=====

Proust was a neuroscientist / Lehrer

A class apart : prodigies, pressure and passion inside one of  
America's best high schools / Klein
   (About Stuyvesant in NYC)

What is intelligence? : beyond the Flynn effect / Flynn

The big con : the true story of how Washington got hoodwinked and  
hijacked by crackpot economics / Chait

Hand job : a catalog of type /	Perry
   (Terrible name.  About type and graphic design)

Born standing up [a comic's life] /	Steve Martin

Why beautiful people have more daughters : from dating, shopping, and  
praying to going to war and becoming a billionaire : two evolutionary  
psychologists explain why we do what we do / Miller


Matt Jensen
http://mattjensen.com
Seattle