For people who, like me, want to expand their skills to include the ability to advocate for nuclear power rather than simply understand it, I’ve compiled a list of books, grouped into a few loose groups:
First, internet technology:
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General internet technology:
- Mastering Regular Expressions
- HTTP: The Definitive Guide
- Web Analytics: An Hour a Day
- Website Optimization
- Discrete Mathematics and its Applications
- Programming Collective Intelligence
- The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook
- Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content From Presentation
- Flash CS4 for Designers
- MP3: The Definitive Guide
- Essential ActionScript 3.0
- Presentation Zen
- Perl Cookbook
- Intermediate Perl
- Learning Perl
- Programming Perl
- Mastering Perl
- Mastering Algorithms with Perl
- Perl Best Practices
Media and Design:
Java:
JavaScript and VBScript:
PHP:
Perl:
Interdisciplinary/Miscellaneous:
Sociology/Psychology:
Organization and Management:
- Images of Organization
- Managing Human Behavior in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
- Management Mess-Ups
- Here Comes Everybody
Activism:
- Reveille for Radicals
- Rules for Corporate Warriors
- The Death of a Thousand Cuts
- The One-Hour Activist
- The Activist’s Handbook
- Making the News
Guerrilla and Online Advocacy:
Defining/Refining the Message:
- Cracking the Code
- Made to Stick
- Word of Mouth Marketing
- A Scientist’s Guide to Talking with the Media
- How to Lie with Statistics
- Reading the Environment
How we got in the mess we’re in:
Know thy enemy:
- Nuclear Power is Not the Answer
- Silent Spring
More to come in this section, of course…
This page was written by Stewart Peterson on May 19, 2009
