Instead of looking for books, these days I try to keep an eye on publishers more. Consistent quality books tends to come out of the same publisher, and it's rea

Instead of looking for books, these days I try to keep an eye on publishers more. Consistent quality books tends to come out of the same publisher, and it's really easy to follow just a few. Also by following publishers you can be more efficiently connected "upstream" to the flows of knowledge. Most of the University Press's are pretty good, I was at Cambridge University Press Bookshop earlier today in the U.K. and it was amazing seeing their whole catalog. Other good presses are: - anything by MIT Press - Princeton and Duke Press - Polity Press if you're interested in sociology