Re: Software book recommendations...

John Carter wrote:
> Slowly the bookshops around me have been descending into a morass of
> "Publishers Sale" Coffee Table picture books and "For Idiot Dummies"
> guides.
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> It is now seldom worth browsing them for an inspiring, "must read" and
> world view changing books in software.
>
> Sigh! I have to let go of my "must first hold it in my hands before I
> buy" malaise and venture into the world of online purchasable books.
>
> What recommendations do you folk have?
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Its not software related but it is about design, invention, patents, 
business, project management, and there's even a hint of a love story. 
The author is a co-author of "A Pattern Language".

The Tale of the Scale, An Odyssey of Invention.
Solly Angel
Oxford University Press
2004
ISBN 0-19-515868-7

http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Scale-Odyssey-Invention/dp/0195158687

-- Bill