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"If I have been able to see farther, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. " - Issac Newton

This a list of books that I have found interesting, that I either now own or found memorable. As the quote above states you need the knowledge of others to build your own from. A lot of these books are the source of that and have a lot to do with what you see on the rest of this website. I have read about 95% of them within the past five years. The ones listed in italics are ones that I do not personal own. They are ones that I remember enjoying and I would buy or at least read again.

Some of these can be considered as sources and for reference to their related topics covered on this site.

I also have tried a remedy to fix a few books and my main shop notebook. All of them had gotten musty from sitting in the basement of a house I lived in quite a few years ago.

Musty Book Remedy


  Applied Technology and Science

8Million Bottles - Josef Shklovsky - Norton
Atmosphere: Petersen's Field Guide - Schaefer & Day - Houghton/Mifflin
Cosmos - Carl Sagan - Ballantine
Einsteins Refrigerator - Steve Silverman - Hallmark/McMeal
Faster - James Gleick - Pantheon
Feynman Lectures on Computation - Richard Feynman - Westview
Feynman's Rainbow - Leonard Mlodinow - Warner Books
Genius - James Gleick - Pantheon
Inventions, Research and Writings of Nikola Tesla - Nikola Tesla - Barnes&Nobles
Invisible Century,The - Panek - Viking
Longitude - Dava Sovel - Walker
Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes - Simon & Schuster
Maxwellians, The - Bruce J. Hunt - Cornell University Press
Meaning of it All, The - Richard Feynman - Addison Wesley
QED - Richard Feynman - Princeton
Six Easy Pieces - Richard Feynman - Basic
Six NOT So Easy Pieces - Richard Feynman - Basic
Size of Thoughts,The - Nicholson Baker - Vintage
"Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!" - Richard Feynman - New Sciences
Sources of Invention, The - Jewkes, Sawers & Stillerman - Norton
Tao of Physics,The - Fritjof Capra - Flamingo
Tesla - Margaret Cheney - Barnes&Nobles
To Engineer is Human - Henry Petroski - Vintage
Theories of Everything - John D.Barrow - Fawcett/Columbia
Understanding Physics - Issac Asimov - Barnes&Nobles
Why Do Buses Come In Threes - Eastway & Wyndam - Barnes&Nobles



  Mathematics

Chance and Chaos - Ruelle - Princeton
Chaos - James Gleick - Viking
Complexification - John L. Casti - Harper Perennial
Golden Ratio, The - Mario Livio - Broadway
Natures Numbers - Ian Stewert - Basic
New Kind of Science, A - Stephen Wolfram - Wolfram Media

  Computers and Electronics

101 Easy Test Instrument Projects - Brown & Knietel - TAB
Antenna Anthology,The - ARRL
ARRL Amateur Radio Handbook 1980 and 1993 editions - ARRL
Crypto - Steven Levy - Penguin
Dungeons and Dreamers - King & Borland - McGraw Hill
In The Beginning Was The Command Line - Neal Stephenson - Perennial
Inside MS-DOS 6 - Minasi - New Riders
Introduction to Scientific Programming - Joseph L. Zachary - Springer
Just For Fun - Linus Torvalds and David Diamond - Harper Business
Li'l Bertha:A compact Resistance Electric Furnace - David Gingery - Lindsey
Linux For Embedded and Real Time Applications - Abbott - Newnes
Mastering Red Hat Linux 6 - Danesh - Sybex
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  Food and Brew

12 Months Harvest - Ortho Book Series
Best Ever Curry Cookbook - Miridula Baljekar - Hermes House
From Amish and Mennonite Kitchens - Good and Pellman - Good Books
Homebrewers Companion,The - Charlie Papazian - Avon
New Complete Joy of Homebrewing, The - Charlie Papazian - Quill

  Anthropology

African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man  
- Robert Ardrey - Macmillan Pub Co
Hunting Hypothesis,The : A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man
- Robert Ardrey  - Bantam Doubleday Dell 
Social Contract,The : A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder 
- Robert Ardrey - Doubleday Paperback
Territorial Imperative,The : A Personal Inquiry into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations 
- Robert Ardrey - Kodansha (1997) 

  Spirituality

DaVinci Code, The - Dan Brown - Pocket Books
Drawing Down The Moon - Margot Adler - Penguin
Positive Magic - Marion Weinstein - Earth Magic
Secret - Micheal Berg - Kabbalah Publishing
Spiral Dance - Starhawk - Harper
Tibetian Buddist Life - Don Farber - Peguin/Viking

  Other

Bonjour Laziness - Corinne Maier - Pantheon
Complete Modern Blacksmith, The - Wegers- Ngud Press
FM 21-76 US Army Survival Manual - Dorset
Foxfire Book, The - Eliott Wigginton - Doubleday/Anchor
Foxfire 2 - Eliott Wigginton - Doubleday/Anchor
Foxfire 3 - Eliott Wigginton - Doubleday/Anchor
India: The Definitive Images - Prashant Panijar - Peguin/Viking
India Travel Guide - Eyewitness Travel Guides
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Modern Guide to Houseplants - Warren - New Era
Overachivement - John Eliot, PhD - Portfolio
Overworked American,The - Juliet B. Schor - Basic
Radical Careering - Sally Hogshead - Gotham
Wrought Iron - James Aston - Edward & Story
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  Musty Book Remedy

Last year (2005) I dug out a few reference books and my shop notebook. They had a musty odor to them from sitting in a basement and then in the barn for years. I looked on line to find a fix, a few sites refered to using charcoal to cure smells. That seemed to be a common thread, even a few librarians posted it as an idea that works for books. I've tried it and it works.

I took some hot coals out of the woodstove, about 1/2 cup worth. I allowed them to cool overnight. Then I crushed them up somewhat and placed them in a paper towel. I folded the paper towel up and secured it,shaping it into a little bag with a piece of twine holding it shut. I placed it and the musty books in a plastic grocery bag that was strong and airtight. I tied the end tightly. Now came the waiting. I let them sit in there almost a year which is probably much more than needed. But since I was done looking through them for a while I didn't miss them. A year later I removed them from the bag and they have no traces of mustiness left at all. It is a success. As a final note, I suppose store bought charcoal, crushed up, would work just as good as the coals from a wood stove.

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