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Some of the Science and Technology Books
Ordered FY 1998/99

Predicting the future: from Jules Verne to Bill Gates
John Malone
003.2

Artificial worlds: computers, complexity, and the riddle of life
Richard Morris
004

The inmates are running the asylum
Alan Cooper
004.019

The Feynman processor: quantum entanglement and the computing revolution
Gerald J. Milburn
004.1

High performance computing
Kevin Dowd
004.11

The invisible computer: why good products can fail, the personal computer is so complex, and information appliances are the solution
Donald Norman
004.16

Palmpilot resourse kit
Glenn Brown
004.165

The little iMac book
Robin Williams
004.165

Optimizing bandwidth
Michele Petrovsky
004.62

The practice of programming
Brian W. Kernighan
005.1

Cleanroom software engineering: technology and process
Stacy J. Prowell
005.1

The philosphical programmer: reflections on the moth in the machine
Daniel Kohanski
005.101

Software engineering project management
Richard H. Thayer
005.1068

Core Java 1.2: volume 1, fundamentals
Cay Horstmann
005.133

Learning Python
Mark Lutz
005.133

Hands-on KornShell 93 programming
Barry Rosenberg
005.133

Writing software documation: a task-oriented approach
Thomas Barker
005.15

IBM PC assembly language and programming
Peter Abel
005.265

Bug proofing Visual Basic: a guide to error handling and prevention
Rod Stephens
005.268

Philip and Alex's guide to Web publishing
Philip Greenspun
005.276

Novell's groupwise 5 user's guide
Shawn B. Rogers
005.369

UNIX complete
Peter Dyson
005.432

The mother of all Windows 98 books
Woody Leonard
005.4469

Bulletproofing Windows 98: solving the most common problems before they happen
Glenn Weadock
005.4469

Compilers: principles, techniques, and tools
Alfred O. Aho
005.453

The Linux Internet server
Kevin Reichard
005.7137

XML black book
Will Kelly
005.72

The age of spiritual machines: when computers exceed human intelligence
Ray Kurzweil
006.3

Artificial intelligence: a new synthesis
Nils J. Nilsson
006.3

The importance of being fuzzy and other insights from the border between math and computers
Arturo Sangalli
006.3

An introduction to neural networks
Kevin Gurney
006.32

Talking nets: an oral history of neural networks
James A. Anderson
006.3209

FreeHand graphics studio 7: authorized
006.6869

Adobe Pagemill 3 fx and design
Daniel Gray
006.6869

3D creature workshop
Bill Fleming
006.693

What remains to be discovered: mapping the secrets of the universe, the origins of life, and the future of the human race
John Maddox
500

The science of Star Wars: an astrophysist's independent examination of space travel, aliens, planets, and robots as portrayed in Star Wars films and books
Jeanne Cavelos
500.5

Unweaving the rainbow: science, delusion, and the appetite for wonder
Richard Dawkins
501

Leonardo's mountain of clams and the diet of worms: essays on natural history
Stephen Jay Gould
508

Salt tide: cycles and currents of life along the coast
Curtis J. Badger
508.7551

Galapagos: islands born of fire
Tuni DeRoy
508.8665

Why do buses come in threes?: the hidden mathematics of everyday life
Robert Eastaway
510

Numbers and geometry
John Stillwell
510

What is mathematics, really?
Reuban Hersh
510.1

My brain is open: the mathematical journeys of Paul Erdos
Bruce Schechter
510.92

Who is Fourier?: a mathematical adventure
515.2433

Randomness
Deborah J. Bennett
519.2

Advanced skywatching: the backyard astronomer's guide to starhopping and exploring the universe
520

Nightwatch: a practical guide to viewing the universe
Terence Dickinson
520

The case of the missing neutrinos: and other curious phenomena of the universe
John Gribbin
520

Seeing and believing: how the telescope opened our eyes and minds to the heavens
Richard Panek
522.209

Hubble vision: further adventures with the Hubble Space Telescope
Carolyn Peterson
522.2919

Cosmic bullets: high energy particles in astrophysics
Roger Clay
523.0197

Ripples on a cosmic sea: the search for gravitational waves
David G. Blair
523.1

Atlas of the universe
Patrick Moore
523.1

Worlds without end: the exploration of planets known and unknown
John S. Lewis
523.4

Meteorites and their parent planets
Harry McSween
523.51

Mapping time: the calendar and its history
E.G. Richards
529.3

The Bible according to Einstein: a scientific complement to the Holy Bible for the third millennium
530

The Tao of physics: an exploration of the parallels between physics and Eastern mysticism
Fritjof Capra
530.01

The quest for unity: the adventure of physics
Etienne Klein
530.09

Peace and war: reminiscences of a life in the frontiers of science
Robert Serber
530.092

Geons, black holes, and quantum foam: a life in physics
John Archibald Wheeler
530.092

The search for superstrings, symmetry, and the theory of everything
John Gribbin
530.142

Electrostatistics: exploring, controlling, and using static electricity including the Dirod manual
A.D. Moore
537.2

Molecules at an exhitition: portraits of intriguing materials in everyday life
John Emsley
540

Chemistry in the marketplace
Ben Selinger
540

Alchemy: an illustrated A to Z
Diana Fernando
540.112

The essential guide to analytical chemistry
Georg Schwedt
543

The history and use of our Earth's chemical elements: a reference guide
Robert Krebs
546

Inventing polymer science: Staudinger, Carothers, and the emergence of macromolecular science
Yasu Furukawa
547.7

Geology today: understanding our planet
Barbara W. Murck
550

Magnitude 8: earthquakes and life along the San Andreas Fault
Philip L. Fradkin
551.2209

The restless sea: exploring the world beneath the waves
Robert Kunzig
551.46

The book of waves: form and beauty on the ocean
Drew Kampion
551.4702

Fresh water
E. C. Pielou
551.48

Climate process and change
Edward Bryant
551.6

Earth story: the shaping of our world
Simon Lamb
551.7

Geologic trips: San Francisco and the Bay Area
557.9461

Fossils: the evolution and extinction of species
Niles Eldredge
560

Dinosaur impressions: postcards from a paleontologist
Philippe Taquet
567.9

T-Rex to go: build your own from chicken bones
Chris McGowan
567.9129

Introduction to artificial life
Christoph Adami
570.13

Fractals and chaos simplified for the life sciences
Larry S. Liebovitch
570.1514

From genes to cells
571.6

The touchstone of life: molecular information, cell communication, and the foundations of life
Werner R. Loewenstein
571.6

Of flies, mice, and men
Francois Jacob
572.801

The genetic gods: evolution and belief in human affairs
John C. Avise
576

The deep hot biosphere
Thomas Gold
576.83

Night comes to the cretaceous: dinosaur extinction and the transformation of modern geology
James Lawrence Powell
576.84

Life out of bounds: bioinvasion in a borderless world
Chris Bright
577.18

Dark life: martian nanobacteria, rock-eating cave bugs, and other extreme organisms of inner Earth and outer space
Michael Ray Taylor
579

Magical mushrooms, michievous molds
George Hudler
579.5

Mushrooms
Thomas Laessoe
579.6

Plant life in the world's Mediterranean climates: California, Chile, South Africa, Australia, and the Mediterranean Basin
Peter Dallman
581.42

Desert wildflowers of North America
Ronald J. Taylor
582.1375

The life of an oak: an intimate portrait
Glenn Keator
583.46

The Simon and Schuster encyclopedia of animals: a visual who's who of the world's creatures
R 590.3

Civilization and the limpet
Martin Wells
591.77

Africian wildlife: a photographic safari
Stephen Krasemann
591.96

The search for the giant squid
Richard Ellis
594.58

The birder's bug book
Gilbert Waldbauer
595.7178

Butterflies of the world
Valerio Sbordoni
R 595.789

The ants
Bert Holldobler
595.796

Every creeping thing!: true tales of faintly repulsive wildlife
Richard Conniff
596 Totem salmon: life lessons from another species
Freeman House
597.56

Rattler!: a natural history of rattlesnales
Chris Mattison
597.96

A passion for birds: American ornithology after Audubon
Mark V. Barrow
598.0973

Just loons: a wildlife watcher's guide
Alan E. Hutchinson
598.442

A field guide to the mammals of Central America and Southeast Mexico
Fiona A. Reid
599.0972

The bat: wings in the night sky
M. Brock Fenton
599.4

Wolf: spirit of the wild: a celebration of wolves in word and image
599.773

Red fox: the catlike canine
J. David Henry
599.775

Pandas
Heather Angel
599.789

Children of Prometheus: the accelerating pace of human evolution
Christopher Wills
599.938

Women invent: two centuries of discoveries that have shaped our world
Susan Casey
604.82

Patent searching made easy
David Hitchcock
608.7

To light such a candle: chapters in the history of science and technology
Keith J. Laidler
609

American genesis: a century of invention and technological enthusiasm 1870-1970
Thomas Parke Hughes
609.73

The molecules within us: our bodies in health and disease
Charles A. Pasternak
610

Medicine women: the story of early-American women doctors
Cathy Luchetti
610.8209

Medicine's 10 greatest discoveries
Meyer Friedman
610.9

Atlas of anatomy
611.0222

Biological clocks: your owner's manual
Sue Brinkley
612.022

The speech sciences
Raymond D. Kent
612.78

Brain, vision, memory: tales in the history of neuroscience
Charles G. Gross
612.809

Creating mind: how the brain works
John E. Dowling
612.82

Phantoms in the brain: probing the mysteries of the human mind
V. S. Ramachandran
612.8

Of two minds: the revolutionary science of duel-brain psychology
Frederic Schiffer
612.8

The hand: how its use shapes the brain, language, and human culture
Frank R. Wilson
612.97

Power aging: staying young at any age
Gayle Olinekova
613.0438

The world's best-kept diet secrets: lose weight quickly, safely, and permanently
Diane Irons
613.25

7 steps to a smoke-free life
Edwin B. Fisher
613.85

The healing magic of cannabis
Beverly A. Potter
615.7827

Introduction to human disease
Leonard V. Crowley
616.07

Dying to live: how our bodies fight disease
Marion D. Kendall
616.079

Brain lock: free yourself from obessive-compulsive behavior
Jaffrey Schwartz
616.8522

Environmentally induced disorders sourcebook: basic information about disease and syndromes linked to exposure to pollutants and other substances in outdoor and indoor environments; such as lead, abestos, formaldehyde, mercury, emmissions, noise, and more
616.98

Can bacteria cause cancer?
David J. Hess
616.994

Melanoma: prevention, detection, and treatment
Catherine M. Poole
616.9947

Captain of death: the story of tuberculosis
Thomas M. Daniel
616.995

Wired for sound: a journey into hearing
Beverly Biderman
617.89

Success secrets from Silicon Valley: how to make your teams more effective (no matter what business you're in)
Geoffrey James
620.0068

Crossing the chasm: marketing and selling high-tech products to mainstream customers
Geoffrey A. Moore
620.0068

Fibrous materials
Kristan Kumer Chawla
620.11

McGraw-Hill's handbook of electrical construction calculations
621.3

Edison: a life of invention
Paul Israel
621.3092

Electrical power: motors, controls, generators, transformers
Joe Kaiser
621.3104

Antique radio restoration guide
David Johnson
621.3841

MacWorld Mac upgrade and repair bible
Todd Stauffer
621.3916

An introduction to thermal-fluid engineering: the engine and the atmosphere
Z. Warhaft
621.402

Handbook of heat transfer
R 621.4022

Practical introduction to pumping techno;ogy: a basic guide to pumps, from specifications to installation and operation
Uno Wahren
621.69

Titanic adventure: one woman's true life voyage down to the legendary ocean liner
Jennifer Carter
622.1909

Handbook of structural engineering
R 624.1

Environmental hydrogeology
628.168

Rocket boys: a memoir
Homer H. Hickam
629.1092

Amelia Earhart's daughters: the wild and glorious story of American women aviators from World War II to the dawn of the space age
Leslie Haynsworth
629.1309

Roadster: how (and especially why) a mechanical novice built a sports car from a kit
Chris Goodrich
629.2221

Beetlemania: the story of the car that captured the hearts of millions
Kate McLeod
629.2222

Charging ahead
Joe Sherman
629.2293

This new ocean: the story of the space age
William Burrows
629.4

Apollo: an eyewitness account by astronaut/explorer/artist/moonwalker Alan Bean
Alan Bean
629.454

The race: the uncensored story of how America beat Russia to the moon
James L. Schefter
629.454

Handbook of microcontrollers
Michael Predko
629.8954

Keeping your job while your bosses are losing theirs
Marylou Hughes
650.14

The new Machiavelli: the art of politics in business
Lord McAlpine
658

HyperWars: eleven strategies for survival and profit in the era of online business
Bruce Judson
658.0546

Project management for the 21st century
Bennet P. Lientz
658.404

Quality control
Dale H. Besterfield
658.562

Marketing your invention
Thomas E. Mosley
658.8

Outrageous!: unforgettable service -- guilt -free selling
T. Scott Gross
658.812

Alternative fuels guidebook: properties, storage, dispensing, and vehicle facility modifications
Richard L. Bechtold
662.6

Fundamentals of ceramics
Michael Barsoum
666

Glass: from the first mirror to fiber optics, the story of the substance that changed the world
William S. Ellis
666.1

Perfumes, splashes, and colognes: discovering and crafting your personal fragrances
Nancy M. Booth
668.54

The abacus
Jesse Dilson
681.14

A history of computing technology
Michael R. Williams
681.145

The art of fine tools
Sandor Nagyszalanezy
684.0802

Classic wood finishing
George Frank
684.1043

Making bentwood trellises, arbors, gates, and fences
Jim Long
684.18

The nature of the book: print and knowledge in the making
Adrian Johns
686.2094

Great production by design
Constance J. Sidles
686.22

Real world scanning and half tones: the definitive guide to scanning and halftones from the desktop
David Blatner
686.2254

Looking good in print
Roger C. Parker
686.2254

Build it right: what to look for in your new home
Myron E. Ferguson
690.837

The solar home: how to design and build a house you heat with the sun
Mark Freeman
690.837

The visual handbook of building and remodeling: the only guide to choosing the right materials and systems for every part of your home
Charlie Wing
690.837

Rustic retreats: a build-it-yourself guide
David R. Stiles
690.872

Home tree home: principles of treehouse construction and other tall tales
Peter Nelson
690.89

Stone skelton: structural engineering of masonry architecture
Jacques Heyman
693.1

Noise control manual for residential buildings
David A. Harris
693.834


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