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Books recommended by Bret Victor

Bret Victor recommends 30 books, among them Understanding Comics, About Face and Beautiful Evidence.

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Industry

30 books

Understanding Comics

Scott Mccloud

Arts & entertainment

About Face

David H. Hackworth

Biography & memoir

Beautiful Evidence

Edward R. Tufte

Arts & entertainment

Being There

Dave Furman

Spirituality & religion

Designing for People

Henry Dreyfuss

Design

Envisioning Information

Edward R. Tufte

Arts & entertainment

Hacker's Delight

Henry S. Warren Jr.

Technology

Logic and Design

Krome Barratt

Design

Making Comics

Scott McCloud

Arts & entertainment

Mathematics

A. D. Aleksandrov

Philosophy

Meggs' History of Graphic Design

Philip B. Meggs & Alston W. Purvis

Design

New Horizons in Geometry

Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian & Tom M. Apostol

Science & nature

Reinventing Comics

Scott McCloud

Arts & entertainment

Rules of Play

Katie Salen Tekinbaş & Eric Zimmerman

Design

Simulation and Its Discontents

Sherry Turkle

Technology

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Harold Abelson

Technology

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

Richard Hamming

Philosophy

The Clock of the Long Now

Stewart Brand

Philosophy

The Domestication of the Savage Mind

Jack Goody

History

The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

James J. Gibson

Arts & entertainment

The Elements of Graphing Data

William S. Cleveland

Design

The Humane Interface

Jef Raskin

Design

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Alan Cooper

Design

The Little Schemer

Daniel P. Friedman & Matthias Felleisen

Technology

The Nature of Mathematical Modeling

Neil Gershenfeld

Science & nature

The Origin of Consciousness

Julian Jaynes

Philosophy

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte

Design

Visual Explanations

Edward R. Tufte

Arts & entertainment

What the Dormouse Said

John Markoff

Technology

Where Mathematics Comes From

George Lakoff & Rafael Núñez

Psychology