Patrick McCray Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Patrick McCray is a historian and writer. History prof @ UC-Santa Barbara Last book β‘ *Making Art Work* (https://t.co/uhOpTMncyA) Next book...soon π€ Orophile π΅ π£ π

Stoner
John Williams
Such a brilliant and devastating book.
Paperback, 2006
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Future Shock
Alvin Toffler
Don't say "post-industrialism"...say "super-industrialism" 1969 comments from Random House to Alvin Toffler in advance of publishing Future Shock https://t.co/EGEwNr0P0a
Paperback, Mass Market, 1984
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
...Millerβs Chip War is a story that centers on production, not consumption, while presenting an account of how chips became a strategically vital resource whose importance is overlooked at our peril.
Hardcover, 2022
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Land of Oz
L. Frank 1856-1919 Baum
I am especially pleased with this sentence: "This quirkiness continued inside with an array of artwork (over 500 images in toto), with some of it borrowed from illustrations done by John R. Neill the Land of Oz series, books Nelson was quite fond of as a child." https://t.co/7cnoyve76U
Hardcover, 2016
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies
Darren Wershler
New addition: "The Lab Book" by @loriemerson, @alienated and @juspar, posing with Darth Tater and Drinky Bird in my office. https://t.co/o7zWqGjEg0
Paperback, 2022
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post Cold War Imagination
Jenny Andersson
@lmesseri @McCray Don't know who this "mccray" is but I'd suggest @jpietruska's "Looking Forward" and Jenny Andersson's "The Future of the World" as well as my own book (and the Dec. 2012 AHR) DM me if you want more as I have literally 100s of things re: this
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Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
D. J. Waldie
@ykomska DJ Waldie's "Holy Land" https://t.co/h85UMwdLjK
Paperback, 2005
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life
James Deetz
@WilliamDeringer @LundyBraun James Deetz's classic book "In Small Things Forgotten" and the whole subfield of material culture studies.
Paperback, 1996
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
Niall Ferguson
*Niall Ferguson reviewing a book by Henry Kissinger about artificial intelligence* https://t.co/gpqQCwXsre
Paperback, 2016
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
John Muir - The Mountains of California: "The mountains are calling and I must go."
John Muir
@MilesBlumhardt βthe mountains are calling and I must goβ (John Muir)
Paperback, 2015
$12.24$6.12 + Free shipping50% off your first book