Manufacturing Processes Reference Guide $46.95
by Robert H. Todd, Dell K. Allen, Leo Alting

This is the book on manufacturing processes I have always wanted. It has great taxonometric charts of how all the different processes relate to eachother. It also has good drawings and explainations of evey process I know about and many I have never known of. Perfect reference for me as a designer...

Desk Ref (2nd Edition; Shirt Pocket Reference Series) $20.07
by Thomas J. Glover

This is the larger and more complete version of the Pocket Ref

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Building Scientific Apparatus: A Practical Guide to Design and Construction (new and used from $39.95)
by John H. Moore, Davis C. Christopher, Michael A. Coplan, Christopher C. Davis

This is, essentially, the only book that explains how to build research apparatus, how to take advantage of commercial suppliers of scientific apparatus, where to find suppliers, and how to use manufacturing facilities available to research scientists.

Materials Handbook (new and used from $18.00)
by George S. Brady, Henry R. Clauser, John A. Vaccari

Properties and uses of 15,000 materials--at your fingertips Only one resource lets you instantly check the properties and uses of more than 15,000 industrial materials and substances--including plastics, metals and alloys, rubbers, chemicals, woods, plants and plant extracts, textiles, finishes, foodstuffs, animal products and more. It's Materials Handbook, Fourteenth Edition, by George S. Brady, Henry R. Clauser and John Vaccari. This completely revised industry classic includes thousands of new technologies and products as well as extensive updates on existing materials to keep you current. You get concise descriptions of a material's origin, composition and applications--plus fingertip access to such essential details as: Density; Ductility; Hardness; Solubility; Specific heat; Toxicity; Melting point; Cost versus performance; Conductivity; Resistance to heat and corrosives; Principal alloys and component percentages; Magnetism; Tensile strength and elongation; And much more.

The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work (Science Masters Series) (used and new from $2.25)
by W. Daniel Hillis, Daniel Hillis

If you_ve ever tried to figure out how computers work, you've undoubtedly been told how 'simple' they are. When Daniel Hillis tells you computers are simple, he's quite persuasive.

Hillis and some friends once built a working computer out of tens of thousands of wooden Tinkertoys. Their device is now on display at the Computer Museum in Boston.

The Pattern on the Stone illustrates basic computing concepts with line drawings of Tinkertoys in various positions – a surprisingly helpful approach.

Hillis once drove a fire engine to work and he currently works for Disney, but there_s nothing childish about his prose. His page-long explanation about the superiority of analog over digital measurements makes analog wristwatches seem like evidence of denial. The gentle way he dislodges such misplaced nostalgia makes him a perfect counselor for your inner Unabomber.

The book_s gradual pace, low-tech design and gentle title are meant to bring hope to those who feel swamped by a tidal wave of computer-wrought change. And the approach succeeds, by showing the reader how humans, not magicians, discovered a few basic principles and built these amazing machines.

The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer $11.20
by Stewart Brand

Using the Millennial Clock as a paradigm for the Long Now, Stewart Brand offers a practical introduction to the concept of long-term responsibility

"For minds trapped in the ever-tightening time spiral of techno-capitalist progress, where fame is fifteen minutes and the future is this quarter's profits, [Stewart Brand] has provided a wonderful escape route-an exhilarating, liberating, total change of scale and pace."
-Ursula K. Le Guin

For many, the turn of the millennium represents a point beyond which nothing can be imagined. Stewart Brand, an important figure in the United States counterculture, sees this inability to imagine the future as an unwillingness to accept responsibility for it. The Clock of the Long Now tackles the necessary and "timely" question of how to make long-term thinking an integral part of our fast-paced lives.

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Fokker: The Creative years $26.95 (used)
by A. R. Weyl

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Steel Beach
by John Varley

Despite their idyllic existence, the residents of Moon Colony Luna are becoming bored, apathetic, and even suicidal, but when the central computer adopts a similar pathology, the entire colony is in danger of being destroyed.

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