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Working to improve the quality and usability of information on the Web with APIs, Microservices, and Digital Transformation
Latest book is "RESTful Web API Patterns and Practices Cookbook."
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Mike Amundsen rated We Were Eight Years in Power: 4 stars
![Ta-Nehisi Coates: We Were Eight Years in Power (Paperback, HAMISH HAMILTON)](/images/covers/b79d7b47-91ef-47fe-9da4-10c11acfddfd.jpeg)
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
In these "urgently relevant essays," the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack …
Mike Amundsen rated Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1): 3 stars
Mike Amundsen rated Theft by finding: 5 stars
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Theft by finding by David Sedaris
Shares the author's favorite diary entries through 2002, providing a look into the mind of a comic genius.
Mike Amundsen rated The Cyberiad: 5 stars
![Stanisław Lem: The Cyberiad (Hardcover, 1974, Seabury Press)](/images/covers/f430e9ec-f2b4-46db-8f09-4532eb2327bd.jpeg)
The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem (A Continuum book)
OMG I can't believe there's no description for this - but then I can because this book defies description. Stanislaw …
Mike Amundsen rated The mathematical theory of communication: 4 stars
Mike Amundsen rated After the Fall: 5 stars
Mike Amundsen rated Finite and infinite games: 5 stars
![James P. Carse: Finite and infinite games (Paperback, 1987, Ballantine Books)](/images/covers/28d44d8d-6e7b-41e4-9440-e357e27af924.jpeg)
Finite and infinite games by James P. Carse
Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life, the games we play in business and politics, in the bedroom …
Mike Amundsen rated Complexity: 5 stars
Mike Amundsen rated Stories of Your Life and Others: 4 stars
![Ted Chiang: Stories of Your Life and Others (Hardcover, 2002, Tor)](/images/covers/bf6f6ed0-b451-4335-a62c-0709f1e5fbb3.jpeg)
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's …
Mike Amundsen rated Things that make us smart: 4 stars
![Donald A. Norman: Things that make us smart (1993, Perseus Books)](/images/covers/afcec3f4-e500-4b9f-940f-328943b831b9.jpeg)
Things that make us smart by Donald A. Norman (William Patrick book)
Mike Amundsen rated The Exiles Trilogy: 3 stars
![Ben Bova: The Exiles Trilogy (Paperback, 1994, Baen)](/images/covers/46a94c31-22a4-461b-b4ef-2ae01739ea0e.jpeg)
The Exiles Trilogy by Ben Bova
Computer engineer Lou Christopher's life falls apart when the World Government decrees that the project he is working on is …