Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2004
Attention conservation notice: I have no taste.
- David Braybrooke and Charles
E. Lindblom, A
Strategy of Decision: Policy Evaluation as a Social Process
- How the social organization of policy evaluation ("disjointed
incrementalism") serves its intellectual function, by being adapted to the
actual abilities and situations of human beings, in ways that standard decision
theory is not. Or: piecemeal social
engineering as collective
cognition. §
- Caitlín
R. Kiernan, Threshold:
A Novel of Deep Time
- Southern Gothic Lovecraftian horror, with Beowulf
and trilobites.
- Buzz Bissinger, A
Prayer for the City
- The improbable story of Ed Rendell's first term as the mayor of
Philadelphia. Per Slacktivist's
recommendation.
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur
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