Alan Cooper (designer)

Works:

Recommendations:

• Going with the Grain: Making Chairs in the 21st Century

• Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

• The Martian

• Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

• The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

• Winter of the World

• Foolproof Wood Finishing: For Those Who Love to Build and Hate to Finish

• The New Traditional Woodworker: From Tool Set to Skill Set to Mind Set

• Life by Keith Richards

• Cutting for Stone

• Beyond Band of Brothers

• No Less than Victory

• Hybrid Woodworking: Blending Power & Hand Tools for Quick, Quality Furniture

• Chickenhawk

• Thinking in Systems: A Primer

• Creativity, Inc. - Summary by FourMinuteBooks

• Anathem

• Invisible Cities

• The Finishing School: Earning the Navy SEAL Trident

• The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

• Skeleton Coast

• Another River, Another Town: A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat — 1945

• Cows Save the Planet

• Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese

• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t

• The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II

• Chickenhawk Back In the World: Life After Vietnam

• Against the Smart City

• Service Design: From Insight to Implementation

• Double Cross

• Chairmaking and Design

• Fire Department Pumping Apparatus, 7th Edition

• Catch-22

• Customers Included: How to Transform Products, Companies, and the World — With a Single Step

• The Quiet American

• Stand on Zanzibar

• Calvin Cobb: Radio Woodworker!

• The Verse by the Side of the Road

• Inside Seal Team Six: My Life and Missions with America’s Elite Warriors

• The Frugal Woodturner: Make and Modify all the Tools and Equipment You Need,

• Helen of Troy

• Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays & Profiles

• On Call in Hell

• Cloudsplitter

• Box Making

• Shanghai Girls

• The Drowned Cities

• Moonshine!: Recipes, Tall Tales, Drinking Songs, Historical Stuff, Knee-Slappers, How to Make It, How to Drink It, Pleasin’ the Law, Recoverin’ the Next Day

• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

• The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating

• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the The Oxford English Dictionary

• Redshirts

• The Year Without Pants

• Sutton

• Eyes on Target: Inside Stories from the Brotherhood of the U. S. Navy SEALs

• The Englishman’s Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I

• For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming + James Bond

• Measure Twice, Cut Once: Lessons from a Master Carpenter

• Sight Unseen

• Dataclysm: Who We Are When We Think No One’s Looking

• The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

• Adventures in Experience Design: Activities for Beginners

• Why We Make Things, and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman

• Mission to Paris

• Midnight in Europe

• Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City

• Amsterdam

• Dissident Gardens