Saturday, January 02, 2016

2016-01-02 Saturday - New Additions to My Personal Library

Some recent additions to my library, include the following, sourced from the Bellevue Public Library's used book shop - and the Mercer Island Thrift Store:

Built to Last, Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
James C. Collings and Jerry I. Porras

Mr China, A Memoir
Tim Clissold

Tulipomania, The Story of the Worl's Most Coveted Flower & The Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
Mike Dash

America's Handyman Book
The Staff of The Family Handyman Magazine

The New Drawing On The Right Side of the Brain
Betty Edwards

Do-It-Yourself House-Building Step-by-Step
Charles D. Neal

An Introduction to Art Techniques
The DK Art School

Drawing The Head & Figure
Jack Hamm

De Cristoforo's Complete Book of Power Tools, Both Stationary and Portable
R. J. Dde Cristoforo

Sunset Ideas for Hot Tubs, Pas & Home Saunas
Editors of the Sunset Books and Sunset Magaine

Tales of the South Pacific
James A. Michener

The Great Divorce
C.S. Lewis

Pour Your Heart Into It, How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup At A Time
Howard Schultz and Dorl James Yang

The Asian Mystique, Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient
Sheridan Prasso

Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia
Vin T. Sparano

Teach Yourself: 101 Key Ideas - Buddhism
Mel Thompson

A Brief History of The Knights Templar
Helen Nicholson

An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth
M. K. Gandhi

The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
Louis Fischer

Physics for Future Presidents, The Sciencce Behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller

A Short History of Islam
S.F. Mahmud

The Everything Store, Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone

21 dog years, a cube dweller's tale
Mike Daisey

How Do They Do That, Wonders of the Monder World Explained
Caroline Sutton

Good Boss, Bad Boss - How to be the Best...Learn From the Worst
Robbert I. Sutton, PhD

Riding the Iron Rooster, By Train Through China
Paul Theroux

Takin' Care of Business, The Big Idea for Small Business
Brian Buffini & Joe Niego

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time,, A Long Short Story
David Einhorn

The Financial Numbers Game, Detecting Creative Account
Charles W. Mulford and Eugene E. Comiskey

Financial Shenanigans, Third Edition
Howard M. Schilit and Jeremy Perler

Understanding DNA and Gene Cloning, A Guide for the Curious, Third Edition
Karl Drlica

Land of the Seven Rivers, A Brief History of India's Geography
Sanjeev Snyal

200% of Nothing, An Eye-Opening Tour Through The Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy
A. K. Dewney

Principle-Centered Leadership
Stephen R. Covey

The San Juan Islands, Third Edition
Marge & Ted Mueller

Middle Puget Sound & Hood Canal
Marge & Ted Mueller

Gunkholing in South Puget Sound, A comprehensive Cruising Guide from Kingston/Edmonds South to Olympia
Jo Bailey and Carl Nyberg

Habors and High Seas, An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian
Dean King with John B. Hattendorf
Maps by William Clipson and Adam Merton Cooper

What Ship is That, A Field Guilde to Boats and Ships
Bob Basnight

Middle Easter Mythology, From the Assyrians to the Hebrews
S.H. Hooke

So, Anyway
John Cleese

The Design of Design, Essays From A Computer Scientist
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

I Remember Nothing, and Other Reflections
Nora Ephron

Sailing Around The World, A Family Retraces Joshua Slocum's Voyage
Guy Bernardin

The Modern Stylists
Donald Hall, Editor

The Future of War, Vol: Thor's Hammer
Reginald Bretnor, Editor

Woe is I Jr., The Younger Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English
Patricia T. O'Conner

Fluent in 3 Months, How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak any Language Anywhere in the World
Benny Lewis

On Language
Noam Chomsky

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