 | I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.92 Sex, power, divorce, and deification in ancient Rome. Pretty cool. I asked my wife to marry me on the Palatine hill because we both loved this book.
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 | Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.09 For when I'm homesick
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy used from: $0.25 Rushdie is a master
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 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.79 Surreal. Japanese Kafka.
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Goes without saying.
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 | Thank You for Smoking: A Novel by Christopher Buckley
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.05 Fun.
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 | Neuromancer by William Gibson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.33 Classic cyberpunk
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 | Doctor Who: The Complete First Series
Buy new: $41.99 / Used from: $34.99 OK, I'm a nerd.
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 | Mindkiller by Spider Robinson
Buy used from: $0.73 Spider is my hero. Like Heinlein, but without all the useless machismo.
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 | The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Douglas Adams for the literary-minded
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 | The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz
Buy new: $75.07 / Used from: $38.95 Great electronics primer.
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 | Radiation Detection and Measurement by Glenn F. Knoll
Buy new: $165.00 / Used from: $87.57 One of my favourite references for things experimental.
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 | The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Commemorative Issue, Three Volume Set by Richard P. Feynman
Buy used from: $84.64 Feynman is great at the exposition - a good reference for when I'm teaching.
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 | Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN 77: The Art of Scientific Computing (v. 1) by William H. Press
Buy used from: $18.93 Oddly, the FORTRAN examples are much easier to understand than the C++ version.
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 | Peer Instruction: A User's Manual by Eric Mazur
Buy new: $36.31 / Used from: $23.99 A great little book to get your head into teaching in a new way.
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