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.
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
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 Medival Castle------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
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.
Original Build Date:10-31-2007
Last updated 01-15-2008