Book

Also known as

Add other possible names for this topic

"Book" represents the abstract notion of a particular book, rather than a particular edition. It is on this level that articles or discussion about a book should generally occur (e.g., the article about Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is on the... more

Link to page

Results: 1 – 30 of 24,501
Filter results
Use results
Add new Book

Add columns to the view
Add another type with the property you want to view.
more column options
Sort: Newest Oldest


close name	close image	close Also typed with	close Editions	close Genre	close article
previous page \| next page
The Catcher in the Rye		Written Work	The Catcher in the Rye	Fiction	The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J. D. Salinger. First published in the United States in 1951, the novel has been a frequently challenged book in its home country for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and teenage angst. ...
The Catcher in the Rye		Written Work	The Catcher in the Rye	Novel
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World		Written Work			Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (ISBN 978-0201483406) is a 1994 book by Kevin Kelly. Major themes in Out of Control are cybernetics, emergence, self-organization, complex systems and chaos theory...
Asia Grace		Written Work
Cool Tools		Written Work
Bicycle Haiku		Written Work
New Rules for the New Economy		Written Work
Simulacra and Simulation		Written Work		Philosophy	Simulacra and Simulation (Simulacres et Simulation in French) is a philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard that discusses the interaction between reality, symbols and society. Simulacra and Simulation is most known for its discussion of images,...
Simulacra and Simulation		Written Work		Non-fiction
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place		Written Work			The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, a book by Jean Baudrillard, is a translation of three essays published in Libération between January and March 1991. Contrary to the provocative title, the author does believe that the events and violence of the Gulf...
The Mirror of Production		Written Work			The Mirror of Production is a 1973 book by Jean Baudrillard. It is a systematic critique of Marxism. Baudrillard's thesis is that Marx’s theory of historical materialism is too rooted in assumptions of political economy to provide a framework for...
The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work		Written Work	The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work		The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work is a book by W. Daniel Hillis, published in 1998 by Basic Books (ISBN 0-465-02595-1). The book attempts to explain concepts from computer science in layman's terms by metaphor and...
The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer		Written Work	Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: the ideas behind the world's slowest computer
The Connection Machine		Dissertation
		Musical Group
		Written Work
		Musical Artist
		Broadcast Artist
How Buildings Learn		Written Work			How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built is an illustrated book on the evolution of buildings and how buildings adapt to changing requirements over long periods. It was written by Stewart Brand and published by Viking Press in 1994. ...
The Big U		Written Work	The Big U	Science fiction	The Big U (1984) is Neal Stephenson's first published novel, a satire of campus life. The story follows the misadventures of a socially inept physics student, a pair of gun-wielding lesbians, a hardcore LARP/war gaming club, and other misfits...
Snow Crash		Work of Fiction	Snow Crash	Science fiction	Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. It follows in the footsteps of cyberpunk novels by such authors as William Gibson and Rudy Rucker but differs from its predecessors in that it includes much satire and black humor. Like...
Snow Crash		Written Work	Snow Crash	Cyberpunk
The Diamond Age		Award-Winning Work	The Diamond Age	Science fiction	The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is a bildungsroman focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. Some main themes...
		Award-Nominated Work	The Diamond Age	Cyberpunk
		Written Work	The Diamond Age	Cyberpunk
The Cobweb		Written Work			The Cobweb is a 1996 novel written by Neal Stephenson with Frederick George. In early editions it is credited to the pseudonym Stephen Bury. When Clyde Banks, an Iowa Deputy with a newborn baby and a wife in the first Gulf War, starts looking into...
Cryptonomicon		Written Work	Cryptonomicon	Novel	Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by Neal Stephenson. It concurrently follows the exploits of World War II-era cryptographer affiliated with Bletchley Park in their attempts to crack Axis codes and fight the Nazi submarine fleet, alongside the story of...
Cryptonomicon		Award-Winning Work	Cryptonomicon	Novel
The Confusion		Work of Fiction	The Confusion		The Confusion is a novel by Neal Stephenson. It is the second volume in The Baroque Cycle. The Confusion consists of two books, Bonanza and The Juncto which are "con-fused" together, so that one jumps back and forth between them as one reads...
		Written Work
		Award-Winning Work
The System of the World		Work of Fiction		Science fiction	The System of the World, a novel by Neal Stephenson, forms the third volume in The Baroque Cycle. The title alludes to the third volume of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which bears the same name. In 2005, it won the...
		Written Work
		Award-Winning Work
In the Beginning...was the Command Line		Written Work			In the Beginning...was the Command Line is a lengthy essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form (November 1999, ISBN 0380815931). The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary...
Dubliners		Written Work	Dubliners	Short story	Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life living in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century....
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man		Fictional Universe	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Künstlerroman	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. It depicts the formative years in the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional...
		Written Work		Autobiography
		Written Work		Novel
Finnegans Wake		Written Work	Finnegans Wake	Novel	Finnegans Wake is a fictional work by James Joyce, published in 1939. Joyce began working on the book shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses, and by 1924 installments of the work began to appear in serialized form. The first published parts...
Ulysses		Fictional Universe	Ulysses	Fiction	Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. It is considered one of the most...
		Written Work		Novel
		Written Work		Modernism
Doing Battle		Written Work
The Cartoon History of the Universe		Written Work		Non-fiction	The Cartoon History of the Universe is an ongoing book series about the history of the world. It is written and illustrated by American cartoonist, professor, and mathematician Larry Gonick. The most recent volume, published in 2007, now names the...
The Cartoon History of the Universe		Written Work		History
The Cartoon History of the United States		Written Work
Mammal Tracks & Sign		Written Work
The Trouser Press Record Guide		Written Work