What's New from Vision 21
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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