Books Read in 2010

This was a good year for getting a lot of reading done, including a number of fairly lengthy books, thanks to going back to school full-time for the fall of 2009 and spring of 2010.

Books read in 2010:

•  David Aaronovitch, Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
• Daniel Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, Revised and Expanded Edition
• James Bamford, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
• Mark B. Brown, Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation
•  Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
• Werner Callebaut, Taking the Naturalistic Turn, or, How Real Philosophy of Science is Done
• Nicholas Carr, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
• I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, Isaac Newton, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
• Harry Collins and Robert Evans, Rethinking Expertise
• Michael J. Crowe, Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein
• Heather E. Douglas, Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal
• Peter Fenton, Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist
• Charles Freeman, The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason
• Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World
• Richards J. Heuer, Jr., Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (also on the CIA's website as HTML or PDF)
• Sheila Jasanoff, Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States
• Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution (re-read)
• Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern
• Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
• James Menn, Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet
• Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
• John Allen Paulos, Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up 
• Massimo Pigliucci, Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk 
• Paul Provenza and Dan Dion, Satiristas!: Comedians, Contrarians, Raconteurs & Vulgarians
• Dave Pratt, Behind the Mic: 30 Years in Radio
• Benjamin Radford, Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries
• Chris Rodda, Liars for Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History, Vol. I
• Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• David Schmidtz, Elements of Justice
• Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
• David Shenk, The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong
• Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
• Adrian J. Slywotski, The Upside:  The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats Into Growth Breakthroughs
• Neal Stephenson, Anathem
• Cass Sunstein, Why Societies Need Dissent
• Margaret Thaler Singer, Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace (revised and updated edition)
• Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
  
• Vernor Vinge, The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
• Richard S. Westfall, The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics
• Michal Zalewski, Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks
• John H. Zammito, A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-Positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour

(Previously: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)