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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)
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