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Book: Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy

This was a gift from my friends Amy & Keith Wiley, and it turned out to be a wonderful present. Using evolutionary theory, physics, biology, neurology, psychology, and philosophy, Jourdain explores our ability to appreciate and create music. The writing is clean and quickly-paced and each chapter contains several “I didn’t know that!” moments. Highly recommended.

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Book: Python Cookbook

This Python programming cookbook lives up to the standard set by the excellent Perl Cookbook. In addition, this book is associated with a website where the programming recipes were originally collected from Python users. The website continues to grow and collect new recipes and thus represents a great resource for Python programmers.

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Book: No Ordinary Genius

This illustrated biography of the genius physicist Richard Feynman is an engrossing account of the remarkable man.

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Book: The Complete 35mm Sourcebook

I occasionally like to take photographs and this is a good reference for using 35mm cameras.

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Book: Signal to Noise

An early collaboration by Gaiman and McKean. Excellent.

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Book: Skin Deep

A graphic novel about doomed romance. Very strange and pretty good.