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[sauergeek]

I did a substantial book purge today. The following books are going away, whether to friends, strangers, used bookstores, charities, or the recycling bin (and likely in that order). If you want any of them, speak up! If you want to give me money for some of them, even better. I will be traveling to both Boston and New York in the relatively near future, so I can carry some of them with me when I go. If you want me to ship them elsewhere, I ask that you at least cover the cost of shipping and what they're shipped in.

The list
Fiction (general):
Norman Mailer, "Ancient Evenings"

Science Fiction & Fantasy:
Robert Heinlein, "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress"
Robert Heinlein, "Double Star"
JRR Tolkien, "The Hobbit"
Roger Zelazny, "The Chronicles of Amber", vol. 1 and 2 (together, the first five Amber novels)

Poetry (childrens):
Shel Silverstein, "Where The Sidewalk Ends"

Travel books:
"Access: Seattle"
Marcia Lieberman, "The Alps (The Outdoor Traveler's Guide)"

Reference:
"Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary"
"Barnes & Noble Thesaurus of Chemistry"
Dave Marsh and John Swenson (eds), "The New Rolling Stone Record Guide", 2nd edition

Writing and getting published:
Judith Applebaum, "How to Get Happily Published"
Gordon Burgett, "The Writer's Guide to Query Letters and Cover Letters"
Richard Balkin, "A Writer's Guide to Contract Negotiations"
Sharon Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody, Carol Rogers (eds), "Scientists and Journalists: Reporting Science as News"
Michael Seidman, "From Printout to Published"

Self-help:
Rick Fields, Peggy Taylor, Rex Weyler, Rick Ingrasci, "Chop Wood, Carry Water"

Computers and technical:
Adobe Systems, Inc., "PostScript Language Reference Manual" (this is the only book I know for certain is NOT the current edition)
Adobe Systems, Inc., "PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook"
Fintan Culwin, "An X/Motif Programmer's Primer"
Margaret Ellis, Bjarne Stroustrup, "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual"
Dan Heller, Paula Ferguson, "Motif Programming Manual, for OSF/Motif Release 1.2"
Donald Knuth, "The TeXbook"
Leslie Lamport, "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System"
Ken Leebow, "300 Incredible Things to Do on the Internet"
Sanford Leestma, Larry Nyhoff, "Pascal", 2nd edition
Carl Malamud, "Exploring the Internet"
Henry McGilton, Rachel Morgan, "Introducing the Unix System"
Bradford Nichols, Dick Buttlar, Jacqueline Proulx Farrell, "Pthreads Programming"
Adrian Nye, "Xlib Programming Manual, for version 11R4/R5"
Adrian Nye (ed), "Xlib Reference Manual, for version 11R4/R5"
Larry Nyhoff, Sanford Leestma, "Fortran 77 for Engineers and Scientists"
O'Reilly & Associates, "Unix in a Nutshell for BSD 4.3"
Grace Todino, John Strang, "Learning the Unix Operating System"
"A Guide to Activating and Using Your Phone: Sprint PCS Vision Smart Device Treo 650 by palmOne" (can include the CD-ROM if you like)
Various Palm V manuals (with software, if you like)

Law textbooks and study guides:
Bar/Bri books (full set) for the 2004 summer multistate bar exam, with Massachusetts state guides
Bar/Bri 2003 Professional Responsibility book
Bar/Bri first-year law review (1989?)
Paul Brest, Sanford Levinson, "Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking: Cases and Materials", 2nd edition
David Callion, Robert Frellich, "Cases and Materials on Land Use"
James Casner, Barton Leach, "Cases and Text on Property", 3rd edition
Jesse Choper, John Coffee, Robert Morris, "Cases and Materials on Corporations", 3rd edition
John Dernbach, Richard Singleton, "A Practical Guide to Legal Writing and Legal Method"
Marc Franklin, Robert Rabin, "Tort Law and Alternatives", 4th edition
Bryan Garner (ed. in chief), "Black's Law Dictionary, pocket edition", 2nd edition
Ernest Gellhorn, "Administrative Law and Process, in a Nutshell"
Joseph Glannon, "Civil Procedure"
Robert Hamilton, "The Law of Corporations, in a Nutshell"
John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, "Criminal Law: Cases and Materials"
Arnold Lowery, "Criminal Law, in a Nutshell"
Richard Marcus, Martin Redish, Edward Sherman, "Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach"
Kathleen O'Donnell, Joyce Fiocca-Bold, Craig Gilmartin, Norma Hanson, Stephen Napolitano, "Residential Real Estate for Legal Assistants"
Glen Robinson, Ernest Gellhorn, Harold Bruff, "The Administrative Process", 3rd edition
Kristin Woolever, "Untangling the Law: Strategies for Legal Writers"
Christopher Wren and Jill Wren, "The Legal Research Manual: A Game Plan for Legal Research and Analysis"
Robert Wright, Susan Wright, "Land Use, in a Nutshell"
Casenotes Legal Briefs, "Constitutional Law", Gunther and Sullivan
Casenotes Legal Briefs, "Contracts", Knapp and Crystal
Casenotes Legal Briefs, "Corporations", Frey, Choper, Leech and Morris
Casenotes Legal Briefs, "Property", Casner and Leach
Emanuel Law Outlines, "Constitutional Law"
Emanuel Law Outlines, "Contracts"
Emanuel Law Outlines, "Corporations"
Emanuel Law Outlines, "Intellectual Property"
Emanuel Law Outlines, "Property"
"Black's Law Dictionary, with pronunciations", 5th edition
"Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 1989"
"Massachusetts Rules of Court (federal) 1993"
"Massachusetts Rules of Court (state) 1993"

Textbooks (non-law):
Norman Biggs, "Discrete Mathematics"
David Dollenmayer, Thomas Hansen, "Neue Horizonte, A First Course in German Language and Culture"
William Fletcher, "An Engineering Approach to Digital Design"
Henry Gleitman, "Psychology", 2nd edition
Joseph Kerman, "Listen: Brief Edition"
Louise Kidder, Charles Judd, "Research Methods in Social Relations", 5th edition
Harry Lewis, Christos Papdimitriou, "Elements of the Theory of Computation"
Van Neie, Peter Riley, "Study Guide, O'Hanian's Physics"
Kenneth Ralls, Thomas Courtney, John Wulff, "Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering"
William Siebert, "Circuits, Signals, and Systems"
George Simmons, "Calculus with Analytic Geometry"
Robert Spaethling, Eugene Weber (eds), "Literatur Eins"
Gilbert Strang, "Linear Algebra and its Applications"
Patrick Winston, "Artificial Intelligence", 2nd edition
Patrick Winston, "Artificial Intelligence", 3rd edition
"Langenscheidt's German-English/English-German Dictionary"
"Guten Tag: A German Language Course for Television"

German literature (purported, as I've not managed to read it):
Heinrich Boell, "Doktor Murkes Gesammeltes Schweigein"
Friedrich Duerrenmatt, "Der Besuch der Alten Dame"

Not sure how to classify:
National Association of Investors Corporation, "Investor's Manual: The Handbook For Doing", 16th edition


Note that all of the textbooks are at least 12 years old. Some may be 20 years old. Likely many are not current editions, but I can't be bothered to check on all of them. I've put which edition books are when it was easy to find, or if I knew offhand. If you're curious about a given book's edition or copyright date, ask! I'll check and let you know.

Comments

[bouncingleaf.livejournal.com]

I should further add that if you do think it's a suitable introductory book, I'd be interested in it, if you're willing to tote it north :)

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

It was my freshman calculus book in college. I was quite befuddled by it, but I suspect that has more to do with my (non-)ability at calculus than it did with the book. I'll bring it up for Purgatory.