- Chambers, Whittaker. Witness. Washington: Regnery
Publishing, [1952] 2002. ISBN 0-89526-789-6.
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- Jenkins, Dennis R. and Tony Landis. North American XB-70A
Valkyrie. North Branch, MN: Specialty Press,
2002. ISBN 1-58007-056-6.
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- Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet. New York:
Berkley, 1998. ISBN 0-425-17169-8.
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- Moorcock, Michael. Behold the Man. London: Gollancz,
[1969] 1999. ISBN 1-85798-848-5.
- The link above is to the 1999
U.K. reprint, the only in-print edition as of this
writing. I actually read a 1980 mass market paperback found at abebooks.com, where numerous
inexpensive copies are offered.
- Havil, Julian. Gamma: Exploring Euler's
Constant. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2003. ISBN 0-691-09983-9.
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- Fleming, Thomas. The New Dealers' War. New York:
Basic Books, 2001. ISBN 0-465-02464-5.
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- Dyson, Freeman J. The Sun, the Genome, and the
Internet. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1999. ISBN 0-19-513922-4.
- The text in this book is set in a hideous flavour
of the Adobe Caslon font in which little
curlicue ligatures connect the letter pairs “ct” and
“st” and, in addition, the “ligatures” for
“ff”, “fi”, “fl”, and
“ft” lop off most of the bar of the “f”,
leaving it looking like a droopy “l”. This might have been
elegant for chapter titles, but it's way over the top for body copy.
Dyson's writing, of course, more than redeems the bad typography, but
you gotta wonder why we couldn't have had the former without the
latter.
- Large, Christine. Hijacking Enigma. Chichester,
England: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. ISBN 0-470-86346-3.
- The author, Director of the
Bletchley Park Trust,
recounts the story of the April 2000 theft and eventual recovery
of Bletchley's rare Abwehr Engima cipher machine, interleaved
with a history of Bletchley's World War II exploits in solving
the Engima and its significance in the war. If the latter is your
primary interest, you'll probably prefer Michael Smith's Station X (July 2001), which provides much more technical
and historical detail. Readers who didn't follow the Enigma
theft as it played out and aren't familiar with the names of
prominent British news media figures may feel a bit at sea
in places. A Web site
devoted to the book is now available, and a U.S. edition is scheduled for
publication later in 2003.
- Gardner, Martin. How Not to Test a
Psychic. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books,
1989. ISBN 0-87975-512-1.
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