Dr Alexis Petrounias

Information Systems Engineer

Europe

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I read a lot and maintain a virtual bookshelf on Goodreads, and I keep in touch with the community through X.

Books on Computation

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
Principles of Program Analysis
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design
Types and Programming Languages
Purely Functional Data Structures
How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle--How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
Programming Pearls
Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
The Algorithm Design Manual
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
PROLOG: Programming for Artificial Intelligence
Information: The New Language of Science
Practical Common LISP
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type

Books on Epistemology

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Envisioning Information
Beautiful Evidence
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Information: The New Language of Science
Tao Te Ching
The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
Metaphors We Live By
Memory Evolutive Systems: Hierarchy, Emergence, Cognition
When Nietzsche Wept
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Books on the Polity

The Constitution of Liberty
Animal Farm
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950
Burmese Days
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The Swordless Samurai: Pemimpin Legendaris Jepang Abad XVI
The Five Stages of Collapse: Laying the Groundwork for Social, Political, and Economic Revolution
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
The Republic
Politics and the English Language
From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
The Prince
The Road to Serfdom
Atlas Shrugged

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