Matthew Biesecker

Bookshelf

I love reading and learning, and try to do both daily. This is a full list of the books on my personal bookshelf. It ranges from landscape architecture, architecture, and urbanism to history, science, philosophy, sports, and literature. These are the books that have influenced my work, shaped my thinking, or simply captured my interest.

  • Aaron, Hank, and Lonnie Wheeler. I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story. HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. 
  • Adler, Mortimer J., and Charles Van Doren. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading. Rev. ed., Simon & Schuster, 1972. 
  • Agassi, Andre, with J. R. Moehringer. Open: An Autobiography. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 
  • Al, Stefan. Supertall: How the World’s Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022. 
  • Albers, Josef. Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition. Yale Univ. Press, 2013.
  • Alden, Peter, editor. National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic States. Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 
  • Alexander, Christopher. Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Harvard University Press, 1964. 
  • Alexander, Christopher, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. Oxford University Press, 1977. 
  • Alexander, Christopher. The Timeless Way of Building. Oxford University Press, 1979. 
  • Allen, Roland. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. Profile Books, 2023.
  • Amidon, Jane, editor. Grant Jones/Jones & Jones: ILARIS: The Puget Sound Plan. Princeton Architectural Press, 2007.
  • Amidon, Jane, editor. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Allegheny Riverfront Park. Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.
  • Amidon, Jane. Peter Walker and Partners: Nasher Sculpture Center Garden. Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.
  • Appel, Marty. Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss. Bloomsbury USA, 2012. 
  • Araton, Harvey. When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks. Harper, 2011. 
  • Auburn University College of Architecture, Design and Construction. CADC100. Auburn University, 2007.
  • Bachman, Richard. The Long Walk. Signet Books, 1979.
  • Bacon, Edmund N. Design of Cities. Revised ed., Penguin Books, 1974. 
  • Bardt, Christopher. Material and Mind. MIT Press, 2019.
  • Barnard, Edward Sibley. New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area. Columbia University Press, 2002. 
  • Balsley, Thomas. Thomas Balsley: The Urban Landscape. Spacemaker Press, 1997.
  • Bella, Timothy. Barkley: A Biography. Hanover Square Press, 2022. 
  • Benedict, Jeff, and Armen Keteyian. Tiger Woods. Simon & Schuster, 2018. 
  • Berry, Wendell. The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry. Edited by Jason Peters, Counterpoint, 2017. 
  • Birnbaum, Charles A., and Robin Karson Foell, editors. Shaping the American Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Architecture. University of Virginia Press, 2009. 
  • Blanchard, Ken, and Spencer Johnson. The New One Minute Manager. William Morrow, 2015.
  • Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William T. FitzGerald. The Craft of Research. 4th ed., University of Chicago Press, 2016. 
  • Brenner, Neil. New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question. Oxford University Press, 2019.
  • Breslin, Jimmy. Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? Viking Press, 1963. 
  • Brooks, David. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. Random House, 2023. 
  • Brooks, David. The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life. Random House, 2019. 
  • Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. Doubleday, 1998.
  • Bryson, Bill. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir. Broadway Books, 2006.
  • Buddhist Monks. Three Japanese Buddhist Monks. Translated by W. J. de Bary, Penguin Books, 2004. Penguin Great Ideas. 
  • Burkeman, Oliver. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 
  • Burkeman, Oliver. The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking. Faber and Faber, 2012. 
  • Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. Oxford University Press, 1999. 
  • Campanella, Thomas J. Brooklyn: The Once and Future City. Princeton University Press, 2019. 
  • Carnegie, Dale. How to Win Friends and Influence People. Simon & Schuster, 1998. 
  • Caro, Robert A. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
  • Caro, Robert A. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing. Knopf, 2019.
  • Catmull, Ed, with Amy Wallace. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration. Random House, 2014. 
  • Chaplin, Lois Trigg. The Southern Gardener’s Book of Lists: The Best Plants for All Your Needs, Wants, and Whims. Taylor Trade Publishing, 1994.
  • Chernow, Ron. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Random House, 1998. 
  • Chiang, Ted. Exhalation: Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. 
  • Chiang, Ted. Stories of Your Life and Others. Tor Books, 2002. 
  • Ching, Francis D. K. Design Drawing. 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
  • Clear, James. Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones. Avery, 2018.
  • Coen, Shane. Coen+Partners: Contextual Minimalism: Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. Princeton Architectural Press, 2018.
  • Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. HarperCollins, 1996.
  • Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Harper & Row, 1990. 
  • Curl, James Stevens, and Susan Wilson. The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 5th ed., Penguin Books, 2006. 
  • Dalio, Ray. Principles: Life and Work. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 
  • Davies, Norman. Europe: A History. Oxford University Press, 1996. 
  • Desvigne, Michel . Landscape Lecture Series. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 8 Mar. 2018, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA. Lecture.
  • Dirr, Michael A. Dirr’s Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Timber Press, 1997.
  • Dunn, Rob. A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species. Basic Books, 2021.
  • Drucker, Peter F. Managing Oneself. Harvard Business Review Press, 2008. Harvard Business Review Classics. 
  • Edwards, Betty. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Rev. ed., Tarcher/Putnam, 1999. 
  • Epictetus. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness. Translated by Sharon Lebell, HarperOne, 1995. 
  • Epictetus. The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments. Edited and translated by Robin Waterfield, University of Chicago Press, 2022. 
  • Epstein, David. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. Riverhead Books, 2019. 
  • Epstein, David. The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance. Current, 2013. 
  • Fabiani Giannetto, Raffaella, editor. Paolo Bürgi Landscape Architect: Discovering the (Swiss) Horizon: Mountain, Lake, and Forest. Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
  • Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. Translated by Ilse Lasch, Beacon Press, 2006. 
  • Ferriss, Timothy. The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman. Crown Archetype, 2010.
  • Finkel, Michael. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit. Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
  • Flint, Anthony. Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 
  • Gallwey, W. Timothy. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance. Random House, 1974.
  • Gang, Jeanne. “Thinking Through Practice and Research.” Harvard Graduate School of Design, 5 Apr. 2018, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA. Lecture. 
  • Gensler, Arthur, and Michael Lindenmayer. Art’s Principles: 50 Years of Hard-Learned Lessons in Building a World-Class Professional Services Firm. Wilson Lafferty, 2015. 
  • Gilfoyle, Timothy J. Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark. University of Chicago Press, 2006. 
  • Godin, Seth. This Is Marketing. Portfolio/Penguin, an Imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.
  • Goldberger, Paul. Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 
  • Goldfarb, Ben. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018.
  • Gombrich, E. H. The Story of Art. 16th ed., Phaidon Press, 1995. 
  • Gordon, Devin. So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets—the Best Worst Team in Sports. HarperCollins, 2021. 
  • Grant, Adam. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. Penguin Books, 2017.
  • Greene, Robert. Mastery. Viking, 2012. 
  • Greene, Robert. The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998. 
  • Greene, Robert. The Laws of Human Nature. Viking, 2018. 
  • Guidara, Will. Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More than They Expect. Penguin Putnam Inc, 2023.
  • Hansen, Mette Lange, and Astrid Zimmermann, editors. Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture. Thames & Hudson, 2009.
  • Halprin, Lawrence. Cities. Revised ed., MIT Press, 1973. 
  • Haney, Hank, with Mark Vancil. The Big Miss: My Years Teaching the Game of Golf to Tiger Woods. Crown Archetype, 2012. 
  • Hargreaves Associates. Landscape Alchemy: The Work of Hargreaves Associates. Contributions by George Hargreaves, Anita Berrizbeitia, Julia Czerniak, and Liz Campbell Kelly, ORO Editions, 2009.
  • Harari, Yuval Noah. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Spiegel & Grau, 2018. 
  • Harari, Yuval Noah. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Harper, 2017. 
  • Harari, Yuval Noah. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. Harper, 2024. 
  • Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Harper, 2015. 
  • Harari, Yuval Noah, David Vandermeulen, and Daniel Casanave. Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind. HarperCollins, 2020.
  • Harari, Yuval Noah, David Vandermeulen, and Daniel Casanave. Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization. Harper Perennial, 2021.
  • Harlan, Jon, director. Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes. Warner Bros., 2008. 
  • Hawken, Paul, editor. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. Penguin Books, 2017.
  • Hayden, Dolores. Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000. Pantheon Books, 2003. 
  • Hellmund, Paul Cawood, and Daniel Somers Smith, editors. Designing Greenways: Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People. 2nd ed., Island Press, 2006.
  • Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition. Edited by Seán Hemingway, foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Scribner, 2009.
  • Hemingway, Ernest. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition. Scribner, 1987. 
  • Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. 1st Scribner trade paperback ed., Scribner, 2003. 
  • Herring, Chris. Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks. Atria Books, 2022. 
  • Higdon, Hal. Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide. 3rd ed., Rodale, 2005. 
  • Hodges, Andrew. Alan Turing: The Enigma. Princeton University Press, 2014. 
  • Holiday, Ryan. Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave. Portfolio, 2021.
  • Holiday, Ryan. Ego Is the Enemy. Portfolio, 2016.
  • Holiday, Ryan. Stillness Is the Key. Portfolio, 2019.
  • Holiday, Ryan. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph. Portfolio, 2014.
  • Hopper, Leonard J., editor. Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards. John Wiley & Sons, 2009. 
  • Housel, Morgan. The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life. Portfolio, 2025.
  • Howard, Hugh. Architects of the American Landscape. Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
  • Ingels, Bjarke. Hot to Cold: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation. Taschen, 2015.
  • Ingels, Bjarke. Yes Is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution. BIG, 2009.
  • Isaacson, Walter. Einstein: His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007. 
  • Isaacson, Walter. Elon Musk. Simon & Schuster, 2023. 
  • Isaacson, Walter. Leonardo da Vinci. Simon & Schuster, 2017.
  • Isaacson, Walter. Steve Jobs. Simon & Schuster, 2011. 
  • Isaacson, Walter. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Simon & Schuster, 2021. 
  • Isaacson, Walter. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. Simon & Schuster, 2014. 
  • Jackson, J. B. A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time. Yale University Press, 1994. 
  • Jackson, J. B. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. Yale University Press, 1984. 
  • Jackson, J. B. Landscapes: Selected Writings of J. B. Jackson. Edited by Ervin Zube, University of Massachusetts Press, 1970. 
  • Jackson, J. B. The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics. University of Massachusetts Press, 1980. 
  • Jacobs, Allan B. Great Streets. MIT Press, 1993. 
  • Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House, 1961. 
  • Jellicoe, Geoffrey, and Susan Jellicoe. The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day. 2nd ed., Thames & Hudson, 1987. 
  • Johnson, Denis. Train Dreams. 1st ed., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. 
  • Jones, Will. Architects’ Sketchbooks. Thames & Hudson, 2011. 
  • Junger, Sebastian. Freedom. Simon & Schuster, 2021.
  • Junger, Sebastian. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea. W. W. Norton, 1997.
  • Junger, Sebastian. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging. Twelve, 2016.
  • Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. 
  • Kasprisin, Ronald J., and James C. Pettinari. Visual Thinking for Architects and Designers. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985.
  • Kehlmann, Daniel. The Director: A Novel. Translated by Ross Benjamin, Summit Books, 2025. 
  • Keller, Gary, and Jay Papasan. The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. Bard Press, 2013. 
  • Kelly, Kevin. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future. Penguin Books, 2017.
  • Kemmis, Daniel. Community and the Politics of Place. University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. 
  • Kentner, Jason, editor. Stoss Landscape Urbanism. Princeton Architectural Press, 2013.
  • Kentner, Jason, editor. Tom Leader Studio: Three Projects. Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.
  • King, Stephen. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. Scribner, 2000. 
  • Kleon, Austin. Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad. Workman Publishing, 2019.
  • Kleon, Austin. Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered. Workman Publishing, 2014.
  • Kleon, Austin. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. Workman Publishing, 2012.
  • Knight, Phil. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike. Scribner, 2016. 
  • Kolker, Robert Phillip, and Nathan Abrams. Kubrick: An Odyssey. Pegasus Books, 2025.
  • Kostof, Spiro, and Greg Castillo. The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History. Bulfinch Press, 1992.
  • Kostof, Spiro. The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History. Bulfinch Press, 1991.
  • Kolbert, Elizabeth. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. Bloomsbury, 2006.
  • Knikker, Jan. How to Win Work: The Architect’s Guide to Business Development and Marketing. Frame Publishers, 2010. 
  • Koolhaas, Rem. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. Monacelli Press, 1994. 
  • Krabbé, Tim. The Rider. Translated by Sam Garrett, Bloomsbury, 2002.
  • Krakauer, Jon. Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk. Vintage, 2019. 
  • Krakauer, Jon. Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains. Anchor Books, 1990. 
  • Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. Villard, 1996. 
  • Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster. Villard, 1997. 
  • Krakauer, Jon. Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way. Doubleday, 2011. 
  • Lamster, Mark. The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century. Little, Brown and Company, 2018. 
  • LandDesign. LandDesign: Creating Places That Matter. LandDesign, 2018.
  • Landin, Bo, and Sterling Van Wagenen, directors. Learning from Light: The Vision of I. M. Pei. Cold River Productions, 2009.
  • Landscape Record. Vol. 2, no. 4, Apr. 2017, “SWA @ 60.”
  • Lansing, Alfred. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage. Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1998. 
  • Leavy, Jane. The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created. Harper, 2018. 
  • Le Corbusier. Towards a New Architecture. Translated by Frederick Etchells, Architectural Press, 1964.
  • Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There. Oxford UP, 1949.
  • Lesser, Wendy. You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. 
  • Libeskind, Daniel. Breaking Ground: Adventures in Life and Architecture. Riverhead Books, 2004. 
  • Low, Setha M. Why Public Space Matters. Oxford University Press, 2023.
  • Lewis, Roger H., Jr. Washington: A History of Our National Capital. Basic Books, 2015. 
  • Lynch, Kevin, and Gary Hack. Site Planning. 3rd ed., MIT Press, 1984.
  • Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City. MIT Press, 1960.
  • MacAskill, William. What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View. Basic Books, 2022. 
  • Macfarlane, Robert. Underland: A Deep Time Journey. W. W. Norton, 2019.
  • Mansfield, Peter, and Nicolas Pelham. A History of the Middle East. 4th ed., Penguin Books, 2013. 
  • Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Translated by Gregory Hays, Modern Library, 2002. 
  • Martha Schwartz Partners. Martha Schwartz Partners: Landscape Art and Urbanism. Edition Axel Menges, 2018.
  • McCarthy, Cormac. No Country for Old Men. Vintage International, 2007.
  • McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 
  • McCullough, David. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Simon & Schuster, 1972. 
  • Maeda, John. Maeda@media. Universe, 2000.
  • McKeown, Greg. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Crown Business, 2014. 
  • McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove. Simon and Schuster, 1985.
  • Meinig, D. W., editor. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays. Oxford University Press, 1979. 
  • Moeller, G. Martin, Jr., with Francis D. Lethbridge and Boris Feldblyum. AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C. 5th ed., Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. 
  • Montgomery, Charles. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
  • Moor, Robert. In Trees: A History of Wood and Civilization. W. W. Norton & Company, 2025. 
  • Moor, Robert. On Trails: An Exploration. Simon & Schuster, 2016.
  • Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich. Why I Am So Wise. Translated by Reg Hollingdale, Penguin Books, 2004. Penguin Great Ideas. 
  • New York City Department of Design and Construction. We Build This City: NYC’s Design + Construction Excellence Program. ORO Editions, 2013. 
  • O’Connor, Thomas H. The Hub: Boston Past and Present. Northeastern University Press, 2001. 
  • Olin, Laurie. Essays on Landscape. Library of American Landscape History, 2021.
  • Olin, Laurie. Keynote Lecture, ACSA National 2012. Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture National Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 23–26 June 2012. 
  • Oppenheimer, Andrea, and Timothy Hursley. Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency. Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
  • Orwell, George. Why I Write. Penguin Books, 2004. Penguin Great Ideas. 
  • Oudolf, Piet, and Noel Kingsbury. Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space. Timber Press, 2005.
  • Parent, Joseph. Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game. Doubleday, 2002. 
  • Pearlman, Jeff. Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. 
  • Pearlman, Jeff. Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. Avery, 2014. 
  • Pearlman, Jeff. The Bad Guys Won! A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo-Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team to Ever Put on a New York Uniform—and Maybe the Best. HarperCollins, 2004. 
  • Pearlman, Jeff. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson. Mariner Books, 2022. 
  • Pearlman, Jeff. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. 
  • Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. 
  • Posnanski, Joe. The Baseball 100. Avid Reader Press, 2021. 
  • Posnanski, Joe. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments. Dutton, 2023. 
  • Posnanski, Joe. Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments. Dutton, 2024. 
  • Powell, William S. North Carolina Through Four Centuries. University of North Carolina Press, 1989. 
  • Powers, Richard. The Overstory. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. 
  • Rath, Tom. StrengthsFinder 2.0. Gallup Press, 2007.
  • Reed, Douglas, and Gary Hilderbrand. Visible | Invisible: Landscape Works of Reed Hilderbrand. Edited by Eric Kramer, Metropolis Books, 2013.
  • Reed, Peter. Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape. Museum of Modern Art, 2005.
  • Rein, Richard. American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte’s Unfinished Work Shaped the City. Island Press, 2025.
  • Reinholdt, Eric W. Architect + Entrepreneur: A Field Guide to Building, Branding, and Marketing Your Startup Design Business. Vol. 1, Design Workshop Press, 2015. 
  • Reinholdt, Eric W. Architect + Entrepreneur: A How-to Guide for Innovating Practice: Tactics, Strategies, and Case Studies in Passive Income. Vol. 2, Design Workshop Press, 2015. 
  • Robin, Vicki, and Joe Dominguez. Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence. Penguin Books, 2018. 
  • Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Ministry for the Future. Orbit Books, 2020.
  • Rotella, Bob, with Bob Cullen. Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
  • Rotella, Bob, with Bob Cullen. Golf Is a Game of Confidence. Simon & Schuster, 1996.
  • Rotella, Bob. Putting Out of Your Mind. Free Press, 2001. 
  • Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017. 
  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Social Contract. Translated by Christopher Betts, Penguin Books, 2004. Penguin Great Ideas. 
  • Rubin, Rick. The Creative Act: A Way of Being. Penguin Press, 2023. 
  • Russell, Bertrand. A History of Western Philosophy. Simon & Schuster, 1945. 
  • Sahlman, William A. How to Write a Great Business Plan. Harvard Business Review Press, 2008. Harvard Business Review Classics. 
  • Sandberg, Sheryl, and Adam Grant. Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy. Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
  • Sanderson, Eric W. Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City. Abrams, 2009. 
  • Saunders, William S., editor. Daniel Urban Kiley: The Early Gardens. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.
  • Saunders, William S., editor. Richard Haag: Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park. Princeton Architectural Press, 1998.
  • Schulze, Franz. Philip Johnson: Life and Work. Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
  • Schwarzenegger, Arnold, with Bill Dobbins. The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding: The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revised. Simon & Schuster, 1998. 
  • Secrest, Meryle. Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography. Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.  
  • Seneca. Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic: A Selection from the Letters to Lucilius. Translated by Margaret Graver, University of Chicago Press, 2021. 
  • Seneca. On the Shortness of Life. Translated by C. D. N. Costa, Penguin Books, 2004. Penguin Great Ideas. 
  • Shorto, Russell. Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City. Doubleday, 2013.
  • Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America. Doubleday, 2004. 
  • Simitch, Andrea, and Val Warke. The Language of Architecture: 26 Principles Every Architect Should Know. Rockport Publishers, 2014. 
  • Smil, Vaclav. Energy and Civilization: A History. MIT Press, 2017. 
  • Smil, Vaclav. Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made. Oxford University Press, 2021. 
  • Smil, Vaclav. Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities. MIT Press, 2019. 
  • Smil, Vaclav. How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going. Viking, 2022. 
  • Smith, Ken. Ken Smith Landscape Architect: Urban Projects. Edited by Jane Amidon, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.
  • Stefan Al. Supertall: How the World’s Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
  • Stern, Robert A. M., David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove. Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City. Monacelli Press, 2013. 
  • Stilgoe, John R. Landscape and Images. University of Virginia Press, 2005. 
  • Storm, Steven, Kurt Nathan, and Jake Woland. Site Engineering for Landscape Architects. 6th ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2018.
  • Strunk, William, Jr., and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. 4th ed., Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
  • Suleyman, Mustafa, with Michael Bhaskar. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma. Crown, 2023.
  • Sun Tzu. The Art of War. Translated by John Minford, Penguin Books, 2003. Penguin Great Ideas. 
  • Susskind, Jonah. Playbook for the Pyrocene: Design Strategies for Fire-Prone Communities. SWA Group, 2023. 
  • Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice. Weatherhill, 1970. 
  • SWA Group. California Burning: Designing with Fire. SWA Group, 2022. 
  • SWA. Landscape Infrastructure Case Studies. Birkhäuser, 2013.
  • SWA Group. Resilient Cities Project: Miami. SWA Group, 2017. 
  • Swaffield, Simon, editor. Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 
  • Swift, Earl. Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. Dey Street Books, 2018.
  • Tanizaki, Jun’ichirō. In Praise of Shadows. Translated by Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker, Leete’s Island Books, 1977. 
  • The Infrastructure Research Initiative at SWA, editor. Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA. 2nd ed., Birkhäuser, 2013.
  • The Office of James Burnett. OJB Landscape Architecture. The Office of James Burnett, 2016.
  • Thomas, Abraham. Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024.
  • Thoreau, Henry David. Where I Lived and What I Lived For. Penguin Books, 2004. Penguin Great Ideas. 
  • Tolstoy, Leo. The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Vintage Classics, 2009. 
  • Townshend, Charles, editor. The Oxford History of Modern War. 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2005. 
  • Tsatsouline, Pavel. Enter the Kettlebell! Strength Secret of the Soviet Supermen. Dragon Door Publications, 2006. 
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