Nick Simson

A curated collection of books I've found enjoyable, instructive, useful, challenging, and more.

They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
Life on the Mississippi
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
Annals of the Former World
Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860
Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890
Gunfighter Nation: Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, the
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (Revised)
The Shape of Content (Revised)
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice
Interaction of Color (-50th Anniversary)
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
What We See When We Read
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
George Grosz: An Autobiography
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Two-Dimensional Man
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to Html, Css, Javascript, and Web Graphics
Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose
Content Strategy for the Web
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
The Dream Life of Astronauts: Stories Sing, Unburied, Sing A Confederacy of Dunces (Anniversary)
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