Books I read in 1998

ARCHAEOLOGY & LANGUAGE: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins,
by Colin Renfrew.

VAMPS AND TRAMPS: New Essays
by Camille Paglia.

THE VISION OF THE ANNOINTED: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy,
by Thomas Sowell.

THE DESCENT OF THE CHILD: Human Evolution from a New Perspective,
by Elaine Morgan

DIGERATI: Encounters with the Cyber Elite,
by John Brockman

GROOMING, GOSSIP, AND THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE,
by Robin Dunbar

JOB: A Comedy of Justice,
by Robert A. Heinlein

THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History,
by Howard Bloom.

CREATING COOL HTML 3.2 WEB PAGES,
by Dave Taylor. A MacWorld book.

BEFORE THE BEGINNING: Our Universe and Others,
by Martin Rees

BEYOND ENGINEERING: How Society Shapes Technology,
by Robert Pool

WHY THINGS BITE BACK: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences,
by Edward Tenner

CONSILIENCE: The Unity of Knowledge,
by Edward O. Wilson.

A REASONABLE WORLD, a science fiction novel,
by Damon Knight

WHY DO BIRDS, A Comic Novel of the Destruction of the Human Race,
by Damon Knight

THE OBSERVERS, a novel
by Damon Knight

SECRETS OF THE WORLD'S BEST-SELLING WRITER: The Storytelling Techniques of Erle Stanley Gardner,
by Francis & Roberta Fugate

MAROONED IN REALTIME, a science fiction novel,
by Vernor Vinge

HOW BRAINS THINK: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now,
by William H. Calvin

HOW I FOUND FREEDOM IN AN UNFREE WORLD,
by Harry Browne

THE ORIGIN OF HUMANKIND,
by Richard Leakey

ARE WE UNIQUE? A Scientist Expores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind,
by James Trefil

HOW THE MIND WORKS,
by Steven Pinker

A FIRE UPON THE DEEP, an SF novel
by Vernor Vinge

AT THE WATER'S EDGE: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life, by Carl Zimmer

MAN'S SEARCH FOR HIMSELF,
by Rollo May

THE HEART OF THE ORDER: baseball essays,
by Thomas Boswell

MIND MATTERS: Exploring the World of Artificial Intelligence,
by James P. Hogan

THE MEANING OF IT ALL: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist,
by Richard Feynman

THE LARGE, THE SMALL, AND THE HUMAN MIND,
by Roger Penrose

MACHINE BEAUTY: Elegance and the Heart of Technology,
by David Gelernter

THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE: The Evolution And Future Of The Human Animal, by Jared Diamond

THE DEEP BLUE GOODBYE, a Travis McGee novel,
By John D. MacDonald

THE TURQUOISE LAMENT, a Travis McGee novel,
By John D. MacDonald

THE FOREVER WAR, a science fiction novel,
By Joe Haldeman

THE WISDOM OF THE BONES: In Search of Human Origins,
by Alan Walker and Pat Shipman

NIGHTMARE IN PINK, a Travis McGee novel,
by John D. MacDonald

THE LONG LAVENDER LOOK, a Travis McGee novel,
by John D. MacDonald

THE ALPHABET VERSUS THE GODDESS: The Conflict Between Word and Image, by Leonard Shlain

GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL: The Fates of Human Societies,
by Jared Diamond

THE FABRIC OF REALITY: A Leading Scientist Interweaves Evolution, Theoretical Physics, and Computer Science to Offer a New Understanding of Reality,
by David Deutsch.

ROBOT: Mere Machine To Transcendent Mind,
by Hans Moravec