What's
New from Vision 21
Some of the Science and
Technology Books
Ordered FY 1997/98
Studies show:
a popular guide to understanding scientific studies
John H. Fennick
001.422
At the threshold:
UFOs, science, and the new age
Charles F. Emmons
001.942
Would-be worlds:
how simulation is changing the frontiers of space
John L. Casti
003.3
How nature works:
the science of self-organized criticality
Per Bak
003.7
Emergence: from
chaos to order
John H. Holland
003.85
Machine beauty:
elegance and the heart of technology
David Gelernter
004.01
Abstracting
craft: the practiced digital hand
Malcolm McCullough
004.019
Computer desktop
encyclopedia
Alan Freedman
R 004.03
Does Jane compute?:
preserving our daughters' place in the cyber revolution
Roberta Furger
004.0834
Beyond calculation:
the next fifty years of computing
Peter J. Denning
004.0905
Out of their
minds: the lives and discoveries of 15 great computer scientists
Dennis Elliot Shasha
004.0922
How computers
work
Ron White
004.16
IRQ, DMA, and
I/O: resolving and preventing PC system conflicts
Jim Aspinwall
004.165
The indispensable
PC hardware book: your hardware questions answered
Hans-Peter Messmer
004.165
Peter Norton's
inside the PC
Peter Norton
004.165
Computer architecture:
concepts and evolution
Gerrit A. Blaauw
004.22
Computer organization
and design: the hardware/software interface
John L. Hennessy
004.22
CD-ROM professional's
CD-recordable handbook: the complete guide to practical desktop
CD
Dana J. Parker
004.565
Computer networks
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
004.6
Microprocessor
and microcontroller fundamentals: the 8085 and 8051 hardware
and software
William Kleitz
004.616
Naked in cyberspace:
how to find personal information online
Carole A. Lane
004.67
Software visualization:
programming as a multimedia experience
005.1001
Inroads to software
quality: "how to" guide and toolkit
Alka Jarvis
005.1068
Software project
survival guide
Steve McConnell
005.1068
Close to the
machine: technophilia and its discontents
Ellen Ullman
005.1092
Clouds to code
Jesse Liberty
005.133
Managing 00:
surviving the year 2000 computing crisis
Peter De Jager
005.16
Operating system
concepts
Abraham Silberschatz
005.43
UNIX power tools
Jerry Peek
005.432
Principles of
transaction processing
Philip A. Bernstein
005.434
Deploying Windows
NT 4 in the enterprise
James Plas
005.4469
Inside the Java
virtual machine
Bill Venners
005.6
HTML 4 bible
Bryan Pfaffenberger
005.72
Database design
for mere mortals: a hands-on guide to relational database design
Michael J. Hernandez
005.756
Cold fusion
web database construction kit
Ben Forta
005.758
Maximum security:
a hacker's guide to protecting your Internet site and network
005.8
Protect your
privacy on the Internet
Bryan Pfaffenberger
005.8
Smart cards:
a guide to building and managing smart card applications
Henry Dreifus
006.
Mind matters:
exploring the world of artificial intelligence
James P. Hogan
006.301
3d graphics:
tips, tricks, and techniques
David J. Kalwick
006.6
Multimedia and
the virtual reality engineering
Richard Brice
006.7
The science
class you wish you had --: the seven greatest scientific discoveries
in history and the people who made them
David Eliot Brody
500.
Meaning of it
all: thoughts of a citizen scientist
Richard Phillips Feynman
500.
Preparing scientific
illustrations: a guide to better posters, presentations, and
publications
M.H. Briscoe
502.2
Spirits of the
jaguar: the natural history and ancient civilizations of the
Caribbean and Central America
Paul Reddish
508.0972
Wildest Africa
Paul Tingay
508.6
Bay Area wild:
a celebration of the natural heritage of the San Francisco Bay
Area
Galen A. Rowell
508.7946
Strange brains
and genius: the secret lives of eccentric scientists and madmen
Clifford A. Pickover
509.2
Great feuds
in science: ten of the liveliest disputes ever
Hal Hellman
509.22
The magical
maze: seeing the world through mathematical eyes
Ian Stewart
510.
The universe
and the teacup: the mathematics of truth and beauty
K.C. Cole
510.
Fermet's enigma:
the quest to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem
Simon Singh
512.74
Numbers: the
universal language
Denis Guedj
513.2
Topological
spaces: from distance to neighborhood
Gerald Buskes
514.322
The joy of pi
David Blatner
516.22
The jungles
of randomness: a mathematical safari
Ivars Peterson
519.2
Gems of Hubble
Jacqueline Mitton
520.
Just Visiting
this Planet: Merlin answers more questions about everything
under the sun, moon, and stars
Neil de Grasso Tyson
520.
Night has a
thousand eyes: a naked-eye guide to the sky, its science, and
lore
Arthur Upgren
520.
The invisible
sky: ROSAT and the age of x-ray astronomy
Bernd Aschenbach
522.6863
The dancing
universe: from creation myths to the big bang
Marcelo Gleiser
523.1
After the first
three minutes: the story of our universe
Thanu Padmanabhan
523.1
Cosmic clouds:
birth, death, and recycling in the galaxy
James B. Kaler
523.1135
Before the big
bang: the origins of the universe
Ernest J. Sternglass
523.12
Rocks from space:
meteorites and meteorite hunters
O. Richard Norton
523.51
Comets: creators
and destroyers
David H. Levy
523.6
Introduction
to geodesy: the history and concepts of modern geodesy
James R. Smith
526.1
Time's pendulum:
the quest to capture time -- from sundials to atomic clocks
Jo Ellen Barrett
529.7
The fabric of
reality: the science of parallel universes and its implications
David Deutsch
530.01
The six core
theories of modern physics
Charles Stevens
530.1
Time: a traveler's
guide
Clifford A. Pickover
530.11
Gravity: tilted
perspectives on rocket ships, rollercoasters, earthquakes, and
angel food
Joseph Lanza
531.14
The quark machines:
how Europe fought the particle physics war
Gordon Fraser
539.72
The elusive
neutrino: a subatomic detective story
Nickolas Solomey
539.7215
Image and logic:
a material culture for microphysics
Peter Galison
539.77
The colours
of life: an introduction to the chemistry of porphyrins and
related compounds
Lionel R. Milgrom
547.593
Discover nature
in the rocks: things to know and things to do
Rebecca Lawton
550.
Volcanoes: crucibles
of change
Richard V. Fisher
551.21
Marine geology:
undersea landforms and life forms
Jon Erickson
551.4608
Weathering the
storm: tornadoes, television, and turmoil
Gary A. England
551.5092
Under the whirlwind:
everything you need to know about tornadoes but didn't know
who to ask
Jerrine Verkaik
551.553
Atmosphere,
climate, and change
Thomas E. Graedel
551.6
Understanding
groundwater
W. Jesse Schwalbaumj
553.79
Gemstones of
the world
Walter Schumann
553.8
California geology
Deborah Reid Harden
557.94
Fossils: the
evolution and extinction of species
Niles Eldredge
560.
The mistaken
extinction: dinosaur evolution and the origin of birds
Lowell Dingus
567.9
Encyclopedia
of dinosaurs
Philip Currie
R 567.903
The horned dinosaurs:
a natural history
Peter Dodson
567.915
Taking wing:
archaeopteryx and the evolution of bird flight
Pat Shipman
568.22
This is biology:
the science of the living world
Ernst W. Mayr
570.
Five kingdoms:
an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth
Lynn Margulis
570.12
Life's other
secret: the new mathematics of the living world
Ian Stewart
570.151
Why geese don't
get obese (and we do): how evolution's strategies for survival
affect our everyday lives
Eric P. Widmaier
571.1
Design in nature:
learning from the trees
Claus Mattheck
571.43
Cats' paws and
catapults: mechanical worlds of nature and people
Steven Vogel
571.43
Understanding
DNA and gene cloning: a guide for the curious
Karl Drlica
572.86
Unraveling DNA:
the most important molecule of life
Maxim D. Frank-Kamenetski
572.86
Life: a natural
history of the first four billion years of life on earth
Richard Fortey
576.8
Shapes of time:
the evolution of growth and development
Kenneth J. McNamara
576.8
At the water's
edge: macroevolution and the transformation of life
Carl Zimmer
576.8
Mars: the living
planet
Barry DiGregorio
576.839
Gaia's body:
towards a physiology of earth
Tyler Volk
577.01
Cycles of life:
civilization and the biosphere
Vaclav Smil
577.22
The trees in
my forest
Bernd Heinrich
577.3097
What the river
reveals: understanding and restoring healthy watersheds
Valerie Rapp
577.6409
Life on the
edge: amazing creatures thriving in extreme environments
Michael Gross
578.4
Secrets of the
ocean realm
Michele Hall
578.77
The enchanted
braid: coming to terms with nature on the coral reef
Osha Gray Davidson
578.7789
The evolutionary
biology of plants
Karl J. Niklas
581.38
The red hourglass:
lives of the predators
Gordon Grice
591.53
The earth dwellers:
adventures in the land of ants
Erich Hoyt
595.796
Horned lizards
Jane Manaster
597.95
Snakes: the
evolution of mystery in nature
Harry W. Greene
597.96
The secret lives
of birds
Pierre Gingras
598.
Parrots: a guide
to the parrots of the world
Tony Juniper
R 598.71
A photographic
guide to North American raptors
Brian K. Wheeler
598.9097
Vulture: nature's
ghastly gourmet
Wayne Grady
598.92
Eagles: masters
of the sky: an anthology of writing, photography, and art from
throughout the world
598.942
Neotropical
rainforest mammals: a field guide
Louise H. Emmons
599.1734
Tall blondes:
a book about giraffes
Lynn Sherr
599.638
Polar dance:
born of the north wind
Thomas Magelsen
599.786
Primates: the
amazing world of lemurs, monkeys, and apes
Barbara Sleeper
599.8
Becoming human:
evolution and human uniqueness
Ian Tattersal
599.938
How the new
technology works: a guide to high-tech concepts
Robert J. Cone
600.
Madness in the
making: the triumphant rise and untimely fall of America's show
inventors
David Lindsay
609.731
Doctoring: the
nature of primary care medicine
Eric J. Cassell
610.
Cybermedicine:
how computing empowers doctors and patients for better health
care
Warner V. Slack
610.285
Health and illness:
a cross-culture encyclopedia
David Levinson
R 610.3
Encyclopedia
of human biology
R 612.003
Encyclopedia
of nutritional supplements: the essential guide for improving
your health naturally
Michael T. Murray
612.39
Aging: a natural
history
Robert E. Ricklefs
612.67
Molecules of
emotion: why you feel the way you feel
Candace B. Pert
612.8
The human brain:
a guided tour
Susan A. Greenfield
612.82
Smell: the secret
seducer
Piet Vroon
612.86
Touring California
and Nevada hot springs
Matt C. Bishchoff
613.122
Fodor's healthy
escapes
Bernard Burt
613.122
When you eat
at the refrigerator pull up a chair: 50 ways to be thin, gorgeous,
and happy when you feel anything but
Geneen Roth
613.2019
The healthy
house: how to buy one, how to build one, and how to cure a sick
one
John Bower
613.5
Healthy by design:
building and remodeling solutions for creating healthy homes
David Rousseau
613.5
Walking fast:
techniques and workouts for high-level fitness and performance
Therese Iknoian
613.7176
Power sleep:
the revolutionary program that prepares your mind for peak performance
James B. Maas
613.79
The mad, the
bad, and the innocent: the criminal mind on trial
Barbara Kirwin
614.1092
Mad dogs: the
new rabies plague
Don Finley
614.563
Opium: a history
Martin Booth
615.3233
The green tea
book: China's fountain of youth
Lester Mitscher
615.3236
DK encyclopedia
of healing therapies
Ann Woodham
615.5
Life in the
balance: emergency medicine and the quest to reverse sudden
death
Mickey S. Eisenberg
615.8043
Honey, mud,
maggots, and other medical marvels: the science behind folk
remedies and old wives' tales
Robert Root-Berstein
615.88
The detox book:
how to detoxify your body to improve your health, stop disease,
and reverse aging
Bruce Fife
615.9
Spoiled: the
dangerous truth about a foodchain gone haywire
Nicols Fox
615.954
The gospel of
germs: men, women, and the microbe in American life
Nancy Tomes
616.0109
The new healers:
the promise and problems of molecular medicine in the twenty-first
century
William R. Clark
616.042
Foods that fight
pain: revolutionary new strategies for maximum pain relief
Neal Barnard
616.0472
Pain free: a
revolutionary method for stopping chronic pain
Pete Esgoscue
616.0472
The encyclopedia
of medical tests
Michael B. Brodin
616.075
The tao of immunology:
a revolutionary new understanding of our body's defenses
Marc Lappe
616.079
Drawing blood:
technology and disease identity in twentieth century America
Keith Wailoo
616.152
The life of
the skin
Arthur K. Balin
616.5
The trembling
mountain: a personal account of kuru, cannibals, and mad cow
disease
Robert Klitzman
616.8
Mad cow U.S.A.:
could the nightmare happen here?
Sheldon Rampton
616.83
Kleptomania:
the compulsion to steal -- what can be done
Marcus J. Goldman
616.8584>
Carcinogens
and anticarcinogens in the human diet: a comparison of naturally
occuring and synthetic substances
616.994
Bodies in protest:
environmental illness and the struggle over medical knowledge
Steve Kroll-Smiyh
616.98
Complete guide
to sports injuries: how to treat -- fractures, bruises, sprains,
strains, dislocations, head injuries
H. Winter Griffith
617.1027
The eye book:
a complete guide to eye disorders and health
Gary H. Cassel
617.7
The sacred heart:
an atlas of the body seen through invasive surgery
Max Aquillera-Hellweg
617.9102
Medicine's deadly
dust: a surgeon's wake-up call to society
Richard F. Edlich
617.9178
Sisters on a
journey: portraits of American midwives
Penfield Chester
618.2023
Ghosts from
the nursery: tracing the roots of violence
Robin Karr-Morse
618.9289
Contract engineering:
start and build a new career
Amanda G. Watlington
620.0023
Made to measure:
new materials for the 21st century
Philip Ball
620.11
Materials selection
for engineering design
Mahmoud M. Farag
620.11
The substance
of civilization: materials and human history from the stone
age to the age of silicon
Stephen L. Sass
620.1109
How to live
without electricity -- and like it
Anita Evangeliston
621.042
Landmarks in
mechanical engineering
621.0973
Schrodinger's
machines: the quantum technology reshaping everyday life
Gerald J. Milburn
621.3
Homemade lightning:
creative experiments in electricity
R.A. Ford
621.313
Laser engineering
Kelin J. Kuhn
621.366
The blue laser
diode: GaN based light emitters and lasers
Shuji Nakamura
621.366
An introduction
to satellite image interpretation
Eric D. Conway
621.3678
Principles of
microwave technology
Stephen C. Harsany
621.3813
Wire, cable
and fiber optics for video and audio engineers
Stephen H. Lampen
621.3823
Standard handbook
of machine design
Joseph E. Shingley
R 621.815
Artificial intelligence
and mobile robots: case studies of successful robot systems
621.892
Airborne laser:
bullets of light
Robert W. Duffner
623.446
When horses
walked on water: horse-powered ferries in nineteenth-century
America
Kevin James Crisman
623.8234
Handbook of
glass in construction
Joseph S. Armstock
624.1838
Earth ponds
sourcebook: the pond owner's manual and resource guide
Tim Matson
627.14
Environmental
engineers' handbook
R 628.
Korolev: how
one man masterminded the Soviet drive to beat America to the
moon
James Harford
629.4092
Soft logic:
a guide to using a PC as a programmable logic controller
Robert S. Carrow
629.89
Robots, androids,
and animatrons: twelve incredible projects you can build
John Iovine
629.892
Leadership aikido:
Six business practices to turn around your life
John O'Neil
650.1
How to be the
person successful companies fight to keep: the insider's guide
to being number one in the workplace
Connie Podesta
650.1
When smart people
work for dumb bosses: how to survive in a crazy and dysfunctional
workplace
William Lundin
650.13
Job seekers
guide to Silicon Valley recruiters
Christopher Hunt
650.1409
Encyclopedia
of cryptology
David E. Newton
R 652.803
Cybercorp: the
new business revolution
James Martin
658.0028
Rewiring the
corporate brain: using the new science to rethink how we structure
and lead organizations
Danah Zohar
658.4063
Fire in the
computer room, what now?: disaster recovery: preparing for business
survival
Gregor Neaga
658.477
Guerrilla marketing
with technology: unleashing the full potentional of your small
business
Jay Conrad Levinson
658.81
Green marketing:
opportunity for innovation
Jacquelyn A. Ottoman
658.802
Perry's chemical
engineer's handbook
R 660.
The book of
tequila: a complete guide
Bob Emmons
663.5
Smithells metals
reference book
R 669.0212
Handbook of
pulping and papermaking
Christopher J. Biermann
676.
Fabric reference
Mary Humphries
677.
GATF encyclopedia
of graphic communications
Richard M. Romano
R 686.203
Why buildings
fall down: how structures fail
Matthys Levy
690.211
The passive
solar house: using solar design to heat and cool your home
James Kachadorian
690.837
Passive solar
design and construction handbook
690.837
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