The Design of Everyday Things. Probably the quintessential book on design, the basic premise is that if you can't figure out how a thing works, it's not your fault. Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down. About the engineering of various things, mostly buildings. Highly recommend. The Elements of Computer Systems (better known as NAND to Tetris). Describes a computer from the bottom up. A History of the Arab Peoples The Quran The Bible Space and Time in General Relativity by David Mermin Feynman QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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