Dr Alexis Petrounias

Information Systems Engineer

Europe

Personal Information

I read a lot and maintain a virtual bookshelf on Goodreads, and I keep in touch with the community through Twitter. This page contains some of the latest updates from these services.

Computation

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

Practical Common LISP

Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation

Clojure Applied: From Practice to Practitioner

Information: The New Language of Science

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C

Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming

Clojure In Action

Memory Evolutive Systems; Hierarchy, Emergence, Cognition, 4

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

PROLOG: Programming for Artificial Intelligence

On LISP: Advanced Techniques for Common LISP

Graph-Based Knowledge Representation: Computational Foundations of Conceptual Graphs

About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

Programming Clojure

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

Clojure for the Brave and True

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Programming Pearls

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

The End of Error: Unum Computing

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures

Principles of Program Analysis

How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle--How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers

The Joy of Clojure

Types and Programming Languages

Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design

The Algorithm Design Manual

Purely Functional Data Structures

Planning Algorithms

Clojure Programming

Cantor's Paradise

Understanding Analysis

The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction

Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms

Multivariable Calculus: Concepts and Contexts

Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science

Calculus with Analytic Geometry

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics

Mathematics and Its History

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering

Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences

Presentation

About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

Envisioning Information

slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

Beautiful Evidence

The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type

Business

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used

Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter

The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and Bad

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

How to Win Friends and Influence People

The Soul of a New Machine

The Essential Drucker

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

The Elements of Style

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

Epistemology

On Personal Power: Inner Strength and Its Revolutionary Impact

The Aesthetics of Architecture

Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind

Foucault's Pendulum

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Lying

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

A Mathematician's Apology

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Information: The New Language of Science

Stealing Fire from the Gods: The Complete Guide to Story for Writers and Filmmakers

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Mathematics as Metaphor

The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places

Three Roads To Quantum Gravity

Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

When Nietzsche Wept

Science Without Numbers

The Conquest of Happiness

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Visual Explanations

How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays

Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together

The Naked Sun

Being Digital

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot

Tao Te Ching

A Brief History of Time

Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe

Metaphors We Live By

The Polity

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Arms and Influence

Brave New World

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today

Animal Farm

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture

What Is History?

Storm of Steel

Atlas Shrugged

The Prince

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Psychology of Intelligence Analysis

The Constitution of Liberty

From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents

In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington

Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives

The Swordless Samurai: Pemimpin Legendaris Jepang Abad XVI

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

The Five Stages of Collapse: Laying the Groundwork for Social, Political, and Economic Revolution

The Road to Serfdom

Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures

The Republic

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk

Why Nothing Works: The Anthropology of Daily Life

Philip II Of Macedonia: Greater Than Alexander

Collapse of Complex Societies

Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter

1984

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Politics and the English Language

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

The Symposium

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom

Burmese Days

The Art of War

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Contemplation

Askitiki

The Glass Bead Game

10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works

Sidhartha

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Free Will

On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious

Health

Light on Yoga

The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance

Practical Programming for Strength Training

Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training

Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain

Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body

The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40

Maxwell's Paradise

Electricity and Magnetism

Solid State Electronic Devices

Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

Practical Electronics for Inventors

Troubleshooting Analog Circuits

Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory

Maxwell's Equations and the Principles of Electromagnetism

Modern Electrodynamics

Electronic Principles

Introductory Electromagnetics

Introduction to Electrodynamics

Classical Electrodynamics

Electric Machinery

Digital Fundamentals

Microelectronic Circuits

Handbook of Filter Synthesis

The Art of Electronics

Physics, Volume 2

High Speed Signal Propagation: Advanced Black Magic

Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits

Introductory Circuit Analysis

Wave Propagation And Scattering In Random Media

Classical Electrodynamics

Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age

Solid-State Physics

Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Computation Structures

Literary Works

Στα μυστικά του βάλτου

Junky

The BFG

Love in the Time of Cholera

The Difference Engine

Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

The Monk

Paradise Lost

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

Η μεγάλη χίμαιρα

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

Silverthorn

Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Neverwhere

Nausea

In Search of Lost Time

The Stars My Destination

A Fall of Moondust

The Naked Sun

The Complete Stories and Poems

Erewhon

Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

I, Robot

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Little Prince

Flaubert's Parrot

Count Zero

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The Great Gatsby

Snow Crash

Burmese Days

MirrorMask

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Sidhartha

Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death

Crime and Punishment

Macbeth

Beware of Pity

One Hundred Years of Solitude

The Return of the King

Pedro Páramo

Ο ζητιάνος

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

Kafka on the Shore

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

Η φόνισσα

Love's Labour's Lost

To Kill a Mockingbird

Baudolino

The Salmon of Doubt

The Collected Short Stories of Virginia Woolf

Peer Gynt

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

The Bell Jar

The 120 Days of Sodom

Tender Is the Night

Waiting for Godot

Brave New World

Magician: Master

Of Mice and Men

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The Absolute Sandman, Volume Two

The Metamorphosis

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

The Two Towers

Romeo and Juliet

The Island of the Day Before

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Atlas Shrugged

Small World

Thinks . . .

Magician: Apprentice

The Name of the Rose

A Darkness At Sethanon

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Anathem

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

The Fellowship of the Ring

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

The Plague

A Clockwork Orange

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

The Absolute Sandman, Volume Four

Dune

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

American Gods

A Deepness in the Sky

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Absolute Sandman, Volume One

The Grapes of Wrath

Dubliners

The Books of Magic

Foucault's Pendulum

Watchmen

Lolita

The Tempest

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Flowers for Algernon

The Idiot

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Demolished Man

The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

The Castle

The Sun Also Rises

The Glass Bead Game

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

James and the Giant Peach

Neuromancer

The Odyssey

Death of a Salesman

Pride and Prejudice

Walden

On the Road

A Confederacy of Dunces

The Iliad

The Absolute Sandman, Volume Three

The Alchemist

Hamlet

Deaf Sentence

Atonement

Τα ψηλά βουνά

When Nietzsche Wept

Matilda

The Tin Drum

The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

The Bonfire of the Vanities

The Trial

The Stranger

Stardust

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Lord of the Flies

Οι πειρατές της καμινάδας

George's Marvellous Medicine

1984