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Amazon Wish List | Books Finished
acquired December 2009
- The Greatest Science Stories Never Told: 100 tales of invention and discovery to astonish, bewilder, and stupefy by Rick Beyer
- The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore W. Gray
- The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World by Zack Lynch
- The Crucible of Consciousness: An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain by Zoltan Torey
- Think Smart: A Neuroscientist' s Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance by Richard Restak
- The Bit and the Pendulum
- NASA Apollo 11 Owners' Workshop Manual: 1969 (including Saturn V, CM-107, SM-107, LM-5) (NASA Mission Reports) by Christopher Riley
- Servicing the Hubble Space Telescope: Shuttle Atlantis - 2009 by Dennis R. Jenkins
- Earth From Space: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum by Andrew K. Johnston
acquired December 2008
- Mars 3-D
- Astronomica ($30 from Costco, weighs about 18 pounds)
- Late Show Fun Facts
- ...more...
acquired March 2008
- The Big U (Neal Stephenson) (from Monte)
- The Book of General Ignorance (from Bakers)
- Psychology of Computer Programming, Silver Anniversary Edition (Weinberg) (from Bakers)
acquired January 2008
- The Body Has a Mind of its Own
- Jin Sato's Lego Mindstorms: The Master's Technique
acquired December 2007
- Avoid Boring People (James D. Watson)
- Nonplussed!
- The Stuff of Thought (Steven Pinker)
- What is Your Dangerous Idea?
- That's Not in My Science Book
- Living With Parkinson's Disease
- Ig Nobel Prizes
- Gardener's Whys & Wherefores
- Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements
- What We Believe But Cannot Prove
- Anti Gravity
To Buy
- 12:01pm (Richard Lupoff, short story) [ask Future Fantasy ?? says Stacy's guy]
Begun But Not Finished Yet
- A Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge)
- Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
- The Humane Interface (Jef Raskin)
- Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and other Adventures in Applied Mathematics (Robert B. Banks)
- How To Fix Damn Near Everything
- Grammatical Man
- Impossibility
- Parent in Control
- Journey to the Centers of the Mind
- The Quark and the Jaguar
- GENIUS: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
- Effective C++
Have Them, But Haven't Read Them
- Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the promise of Democracy (Andro Linklater)
- Oxford Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units (Donald Fenna)
- The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (from the Bakers)
- Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics (Robert B. Banks) (from the Bakers)
- Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega--The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe (John D. Barrow)
- Moving Mars (Greg Bear)
- Earth (David Brin)
- Songs of Earth & Power (Greg Bear)
- Shopgirl (Steve Martin)
- The Minority Report (Philip K. Dick)
- ST:TNG: "I, Q" (John de Lancie and Peter David)
- Physics for Game Developers (Luke/James)
- Thinking Physics, 3rd edition : Understandable Practical Reality (Luke/James)
- Galileo & The Dolphins
- Best SF of the Year, 1980
- Inside Risks (Peter G Neumann)
- Reality Rules I
- Mike Resnick: _Book of Man_
- Writing Solid Code
- Personal Finance for Dummies
- Kinds of Minds
- Being Digital
- Up the Infinite Corridor
- Computer Power and Human Reason (Weisenbaum)
- Blue Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- The Evolution of Useful Things
- The Cartoon Guide to Genetics
- Cradle (Arthur C Clarke)
- Lord of the Rings series (Tolkien) (everything after The Hobbit)
- The Society of Mind (Minsky?)
- The Architecture Machine (Negroponte)
- The Connection Machine
- Mona Lisa Overdrive (Gibson, VEB)
- The Mythical Man Month
- Decline and Fall of the American Programmer
- Into the Out Of
- Out of the Everywhere (Asimov)
- The Cartoon History of the Universe
- The Cartoon History of the United States
- Isaac Asimov, the Complete Stories vol 1 (Asimov, VEB)
- The Pelican Brief (VEB)
- The Mind's Sky (VEB)
- The Man/Kzin Wars (Niven)
- The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design
- The Day the Universe Changed (Burke)
- Technologies of Freedom: On Free Speech in an Electonic Age (Sola Pool, 1983)
- Shockwave Rider (John Brunner)
- True Names (Vernor Vinge)
- Engines of Creation (Eric Drexler)
- Burning Chrome (William Gibson)
- James Bond: Win, Lose, or Die (John Gardner)
- Kilobyte (Piers Anthony, out when?)
Recommended to me
- Peter McInerney recommends:
- Blood Music (Greg Bear)
- Fairyland (Paul J. McCarthy)
- jimluther@mac.com has 3 books that are sequels to Foundation (by Greg Bear et al)
Authors
- Gregory Benford (ref Media Lab)
- James Hogan (ref Media Lab)
- John Campbell (ref Media Lab)
- Marshall McLuhan
- Michael Crichton
- Neal Stephenson
- Larry Niven
- Pournelle
- Pohl
- Dyson
- Piers Anthony (for example, Macroscope)
- Roger Schank (of The Cognitive Computer, 1984)