dem_books.md

Making

• "The Nature of Order" by Christopher Alexander
• "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things" by William McDonough

Meditation

• "Wake Up To Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention" by Ken McCleod
• "Mindfulness in Plain English" by Ven. Henepola Gunaratana, (PDF)
• "Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)" by M.K. Gandhi

Software

• "Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software" by Eric Evans -- also, read the last chapters first
• "Working Effectively With Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers
• "Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models" by Martin Fowler

Honorable Mention

• A New Theory of Urban Design
• Tao Te Ching: a Book About the Way and the Power of the Way
• The Timeless Way of Building
• The Zen Koan as a Means of Attaining Enlightenment
• My Experiments with Truth
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• 1Q84 and any other fiction by Haruki Murakami
• Parkinson's Law
• A New Kind of Science