Ask HN: Coffee Table Books I'm getting my first apartment out of school and I'm looking for some coffee table books. Ideally, they'd be heavy on the visuals and light on depth. Bonus points if the subject is computer science. Any ideas? |
Ask HN: Coffee Table Books I'm getting my first apartment out of school and I'm looking for some coffee table books. Ideally, they'd be heavy on the visuals and light on depth. Bonus points if the subject is computer science. Any ideas? |
Congratulations on your first apartment.
1. An illustrated book of bad arguments
2. Maus by Art Spiegelman
3. Amano: The Complete Prints of Yoshitaka Amano
4. Chinese Calligraphy: 50 Characters to Inspire Peace and Calm
5. My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles by Gardner
6. The Illustrated Story of Art: The Great Art Movements and the Paintings that Inspired them
7. The Design of Everyday Things
https://www.amazon.com/Thing-Explainer-Complicated-Stuff-Sim...
In terms of CS, being that it is tough to be an easy read / occasional skim, I would be looking for a book of EE & computing components (e.g. a page per component such as the 555 timer could be interesting)