Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood

6 best books like Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood (Kate Simon): Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made, Salt: A World History, The Signature of All Things, Count Zero, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

Author

Jason Schreier

Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier...

Salt: A World History

Author	Mark Kurlansky
ISBN	0142001619

From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World

In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story...

The Signature of All Things

Author	Elizabeth Gilbert
ISBN	0670024856

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed.

In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of...

Count Zero

Author	William Gibson
ISBN	0441013678

The coolest thing about reading Gibson is jacking in to his urbane and hip way of descriptive narration.

William Gibson, as prophet of cyber punk and also as the herald of his later Blue Ant works, returns to The Sprawl for a continuation of the setting he began in his masterwork, Neuromancer.

But...

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Author	Peter C. Brown
ISBN	0674729013

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head....

The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America

Author

Jim Acosta

From CNN’s veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump’s war on truth.

In Mr. Trump’s campaign against what he calls “Fake News,”...