Addenda to Reader's Encyclopedia
Naiman, Arthur and others. The Macintosh Bible : Thousands of Basic and Advanced Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts Logically Organized and Fully Indexed. Peachpit 4th ed. 1992 $32.00. ISBN 1566090091. A well-established reference handbook, and collection of suggestions for Macintosh users that has benefited from several revisions.
Ralston, Antony and E. R. Reilly, eds. Encyclopedia of Computer Science. Van Nostrand 3rd ed. 1993 $59.95. ISBN 0442276796. More than 700 articles, including 175 new items, with a classification guide, cross-referenced keywords, indexes to both subjects and names, and a table of computer terms in English and four foreign languages.
Aukstakalnis, Steve. ed. Silicon Mirage : The Art and Science of Virtual Reality. Peachpit 1992 $19.95. ISBN 0938151827. An introduction to what was almost dubbed "real world virtual reality," where computer graphics, artificial intelligence, computer simulations, and computer-human interactions meet in metaphysical illusion, hacker cyberspace, and show business.
Krol, Ed. The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog. O'Reilly 1992 $24.95. ISBN 1565920252. Mike Loukides, ed. A well received and authoritative guide to the Internet, explaining telnet, e-mail, finger, software online, FTP, Archie, Gopher, WAIS, WWW, Internet relay chat, and other advanced features.
LaQuey, Tracy with Jeanne C. Ryer. The Internet Companion : A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking. Addison-Wesley 1993 $10.95. ISBN 0201622246. Foreword by Vice President Al Gore. A compact and inexpensive introduction that covers the necessary basics for beginners on the Internet.
Norton, Peter and Harley Hahn. Peter Norton's Guide to Unix. Bantam 1991 $26.95. ISBN 0553352601. A clear and concise introduction to the Unix operating system for beginners to the world of big computers, many of whom are making the transition from microcomputer operating systems.
Barry, John A. Technobabble. MIT 1991 $22.50. ISBN 0262023334. A warning that the indiscriminate use of computer terms and computer concepts is corrupting our language and ways of thinking, incidentally valuable for providing the history of such terms as bug, glitch, kludge, nerd, and Winchester.
Cringely, Robert X. Accidental Empires : How The Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, And Still Can't Get a Date. Addison-Wesley 1992 $11.00. ISBN 0201570327. Refreshing, readable, and informative stories, anecdotes, gossip, and expos‚s of successful computer executives in the inimitable manner of the author's column in Infoworld.
Aspray, William. John von Neumann and the Origins of modern Computing. MIT Press 1990 $37.50. ISBN 0262011212. A serious study of von Neumann's practical and theoretical contributions to computing written by a mathematical historian and computer historian, heavily annotated with generous us of archival source material. See also William Aspray and Arthur Burks, eds. Papers of John von Neumann on Computing and Computer Theory (MIT 1987. ISBN 026222030X.)
Aspray, William, ed. Computing before Computers (Iowa State Univ Pr 1990. $27.95. ISBN 0-8138-0047-1. Articles on the historical contributions of Napier, Babbage, Hollerith, Vannavar Bush, and others before the appearance of the first electronically stored digital computer in 1945.
Gilder, George F. Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology. Simon and Schuster 1989 $10.95. ISBN 0671509691. The boldly stated view that the impact of the microchip on mind and the realm of information amounts to "the overthrow of matter," expressed by a leading New Age futurist.
Hafner, Katie and John Markoff. Cyberpunk : Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier. Simon & Schuster 1991 $22.95. ISBN 0671683225. Case studies of how three new-style hackers, sociopaths or criminals in international espionage, replaced the old-style hackers, formerly harmless and dedicated local technical amateurs with a love for free phone calls and reading other's people's mail.
Sterling, Bruce. The Hacker Crackdown : Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. Bantam 1992 $23.00. ISBN 055308058X. An examination of the 1990 crackdown in fourteen cities by the Secret Service on computer hackers supposedly dealing in stolen credit card numbers and telephone access codes, and the unexpected rebound in support for First Amendment protection of computer bulletin boards.
Barrett, Edward, ed. The Society of Text : Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Information. MIT 1989 $19.95. ISBN 0-262-52161-X. Twenty-two essays on networking, online systems, hypermedia, and hypertext, including case studies of MIT's Athena, Brown University's Intermedia, and the University of Maryland's Hyperties.
Barrett, Edward, ed. Sociomedia : Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Knowledge. MIT 1992 $45.00. ISBN 0262023466. Papers from the first conference on The Social Creation of Knowledge at MIT in Spring, 1991.
Barrett, Edward, ed. Text, ConText, and HyperText : Writing with and for the Computer. MIT 1988 $47.50. ISBN 0262022753. Despite the alliteration in the title, actually a collection of articles on technical communication, computer documentation, designing on-line help, and writer training.
Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space : The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Erlbaum 1991 $49.95. ISBN 0805804277. A significant explanation of how hypertext differs from printed text, tracing the major consequences for reading, writing, literary criticism, literary theory, and public literacy--by the author of Turing's Man.
Brandt, D. Scott. Unix and Libraries. Meckler 1991 $47.50. ISBN 0887365418. A recommended series of useful tutorials on Unix for librarians intended to supplement but not replace the Unix manual.
Nyce, James M. and Paul Kahn, eds. From Memex to Hypertext : Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine. Academic Pr. 1991 $39.95. ISBN 0125232705. Tracing the consequences of Vannevar Bush's suggestion in Atlantic magazine in the 1940s for non-linear, automated retrieval of disparate texts from microfilms and how the suggestion eventually led to hypertext.
Delany, Paul and George P. Landow, eds. Hypermedia and Literary Studies. MIT 1991 $39.95®MDBO¯. ISBN 0262041197. ISBN 0262041197. A useful collection on the theory and design of literary hypermedia, studies of actual hypermedia projects in schools, and some consequences for creative composition, teaching, and literary criticism.
Hardesty, Larry L. Faculty and the Library : The Undergraduate Experience. Ablex 1991 $37.50. ISBN 0893916854. A survey of the place of the libraries in the university that treats faculty attitudes, curriculum contents, and the disposition of undergraduate students.
Hobbs, Jerry R. Literature and Cognition. ISBN 0937073539. A two-fold introduction: literary studies for cognitive scientists, and cognitive science for literary specialists, written by a computer scientist with unexpected insights into literature, psychology, and discourse analysis.
Kehoe, Brendan P. Zen and the Art of the Internet : A Beginner's Guide. Prentice Hall 2nd ed. 1993 $22.50. ISBN 0130107786. The revision of a very accessible beginner's guide to the Internet, the first edition of which, practicing what it preached, was available on-line.
Landow, George P. Hypertext : the Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr. 1992. $45.00. ISBN 0801842808. Bibliography. Parallels between post-modern deconstruction in literary theory as practiced by Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes and he decentered, readerly, and antihierarchial structure of recent computer hypertexts.
Shneiderman, Ben. Designing the User Interface : Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction. Addison-Wesley 1992. 2nd ed. ISBN 0201572869. A standard work on human-computer interaction, user interfaces, and system design, useful for evaluating both general computer user interfaces and specialized library applications.
Tufte, Edward R. Envisioning Information. Graphics Pr. 1990 $48.00. ISBN 0-9613921-1-8. An exciting and inspiring presentation of the relations between the visual presentation of information and its statistical content by a prophet of the new field of visual information design, showing the inherent differences in several types of graphs, charts, and diagrams. See also the same author's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Graphics Press 1983 $40.00. ISBN 0-9613821-8).
Tuman, Myron C., ed. Literacy Online : The Promise (and Peril) of Reading and Writing with Computers. Univ. of Pittsburgh Pr. 1992 $34.95. ISBN 0822937018. An outstanding collection of essays on the nature of literary texts, teaching English, and critical thought, addressing the impact of computers and computing technology upon standards of public literacy.
Tuman, Myron C. Word Perfect: Literacy in the Computer Age. Univ. of Pittsburgh Pr. 1992. ISBN 1-8229-3735-2. The place of the computer in the rivalry between print literacy and on-line literacy, and the consequences therefrom for college instruction in literature, reading, and writing.
Belkin, Nicholas J and Alina Vickery. Interaction in Information Systems : A Review of Research from Document Retrieval to Knowledge-Based Systems. Bibliography. Longwood 1985. ISBN 071233050X.
Buckland, Michael Keeble. Information and Information Systems. Greenwood 1991 $16.95. ISBN 0313274630. A stimulating and accessible introductory text that takes broad views of some key issues pertaining to information storage, resources, retrieval, and automation.
Burton, Paul F. and J. Howard Petie. Information Management Technology : A Librarian's Guide. Chapman and Hall 1991 $51.95. ISBN 0412341301. Introduction for librarians to microcomputers, library software applications, information services, and information retrieval.
Costa, Betty and others. A Micro Handbook for Small Libraries and Media Centers. Libraries Unlimited 1991 $27.00. ISBN 0872879011. Guide to microcomputers, library applications, educational media programs, and printed handbooks, intended for workers in smaller libraries.
Martin, Edley Wainright and others. Managing Information Technology : What Managers Need to Know. Macmillan 1991. ISBN 0023282312. A useful introduction to information technology management that draws its case studies from real world business examples. ®pg¯ Page 136 Insert b
Neill, Samuel D. Dilemmas in the Study of Information : Exploring the Boundaries of Information Science. Greenwood 1992. ISBN 0313277346. Reflections on recent philosophical issues posed by current assumptions and practices in information science and library science. ®pg¯ Page 138 Insert f g
Rittner, Don. Ecolinking. Peachpit 1992 $18.95. ISBN 0938151355. A guide to environmental information to be found via on-line services and databases and to be used for scientific research or political activism, intended for those who already possess technical proficiency.
Taylor, Robert Saxton. Value-added Processes in Information Systems. ISBN 0385243944. A valuable work that looks at the design of information systems squarely from the user's point of view.
Wurman, Richard Saul. Information Anxiety is Produced by the Ever-Widening Gap Between What We Understand and What We Think We Should Understand. Doubleday 1989 $19.95. ISBN 0-335-24394-4. Offbeat and essential reading on the technology gap created by teachers who have forgotten what it's like not to know.
Postman, Neil. Technopoly : the surrender of culture to technology. Knopf 1992 $20.50. ISBN 0394582721. A controversial warning that our excessive trust in computers as harbingers of supposedly superior wisdom and intelligence will lead to dangerous consequences for contemporary thought and language.
Landow, George and Paul Delany, eds. The Digital Word. MIT 1993 $39.95. A collection of essays on text projects, electronic texts, text retrieval, text software, text corpora, text editing, electronic conferences, scholarly research, electronic publishing, critical analysis, and electronic reading.
Petzvold, Charles. Programming Windows 3.1. Microsoft 3rd ed. 1992 $35.00. ISBN 1-55615-395-3. A standard reference guide for Microsoft Windows programmers, diligently updated, now using C++ as its fundamental programming language.
Van Wolverton, Running MS-DOS. Microsoft rev. ed. 1993 $24.95. ISBN 1-556-15542-5. A clearer and better written explanation than the official DOS manual both as a tutorial for utter beginners and as a useful reference for intermediate and advanced users who need to keep up with the most changes.
Rheingold, Howard. Virtual Reality Simon & Shuster 1992 $12.®MDBO¯00®MDBO¯. ISBN 0-671778978®MDBO¯. An account of the social impact and cultural consequences of virtual reality, written by an editor of the Whole Earth Review.
Corr‚, Alan D. Icon Programming for Humanists. The Icon programming language in humanities applications. The first third party treatment of Icon, intended for programmers with some previous experience.
Quarterman, John. The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide. Digital Pr. 1990 $50.®MDBO¯00®MDBO¯. ISBN 0-13-565607-9®MDBO¯. One of the first standard treatments of the global consequences of computer networking and conferencing.
Miall, David, ed. Humanities and the Computer: New Directions. Oxford Univ. Pr. 1990. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-824244-1.
Forester, Tom, ed. Computers in the Human Context : Information Technology, Productivity, and People. MIT 1989 $40.00. ISBN 0-262-06124-4. A useful collection of essays on computing and information technology in the mid- and late-1980s, superseding Forester's previous anthologies issued in 1980 and 1985.
Potter, Rosanne G., ed. Literary Computing and Literary Criticism: Theoretical and Practical Essays on Theme and Rhetoric. Univ. of Pennsylvania Pr. 1989 $38.95. ISBN 0-8122-8156-X.
Hardison, O. B. Disappearing Through the Skylight : Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century. Penguin 1990 ISBN 0-140-11582-X. Highly esteemed and profound queries into the arrival of modernism and technology in the twentieth century and the resulting disappearance of traditional ideas of nature, history, language, art, and human self-identity.
Penrose, Roger. The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and he Laws of Physics. Oxford Univ. Pr. 1989 $30.00. ISBN 0-19851973-7. A distinguished scientist opposes the "strong AI" position by taking the high ground of the philosophy of science, cosmology, and quantum mechanics to argue the natural limits of human consciousness.
Stoll, Clifford. The Cuckoo's Egg: Inside the World of Corporate Espionage. Doubleday 1989 $18.95. ISBN 0385249462. A true-life detective story of the search, undertaken without assistance from the FBI, CIA, or NSA, to explain a mysterious seventy-five-cent charge for computer time, to discover that supposedly secured computers at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory were being entered by a hacker in West Germany.
Lucky, Robert W. Silicon Dreams: Information, Man, and Machine. St. Martin's 1989 $19.95. ISBN 0-312-02960-8. The executive director of research at Bell Labs presents a serious yet understandable overview of the nature of information, from Shannon's information theory to accounts of how language, data, pictures are processed.
Penzias, Arno. Ideas and Information: Managing in a High-Tech World. W. W. Norton 1989 $18.95. ISBN 0-393-02649-3. Thoughtful and non-technical explanations and anecdotes of computation and information technology by a Nobel prize winner, enlivened with reflections on European history, art, and recollections of three decades at Bell Labs.
Vaughan, W. and A. Hamber, eds. Computers and the History of Art
Lancashire, Ian and Willard McCarty, eds. The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1988. Oxford Univ. Pr. 1988 $69.00. ISBN 0-19-824442-8. The first of a series of annual surveys of world wide computing activity by humanities scholars.
Lancashire, Ian, ed. The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1989-1990. Oxford Univ. Pr. 1991 $60.00. ISBN 0-19-824253-0. The second of a series of annual surveys, including a comprehensive guide to humanities software and other resources.
Dreyfus, Hubert L., and Stuart E. Dreyfus. Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer. Free Press 1988 $12.95. ISBN 0-02908061-4. The continuing case against AI, expert systems, and computers in education, written as a reply to "Fifth Generation" enthusiasts such as Pamela McCorduck, whose optimistic Machines Who Think was in its turn an answer to Dreyfus's pessimistic What Computers Can't Do.
Johnson-Laird, Philip. The Computer and the Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Science. Harvard Univ. Pr. 1988 $32.50. ISBN 0-674-15615-3. A high readable book that makes the case that three decades of making models of the mind as a digital computer has been both high useful and, at the same time, fraught with misunderstanding and disappointment.
Minsky, Marvin. The Society of Mind. Simon & Schuster 1988 $19.95. ISBN 0-671-60740-5. Its pages a mosaic of separate and self-contained statement, the total book emerges as something larger, suggesting how the biological brain operates locally but becomes mind when it functions globally.
Minsky, Marvin, and Seymour Papert. Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computer Geometry. 1969. MIT rev. ed. 1987 $13.50. ISBN 0-262-63111-3. An expansion of the classic on learning machines, which prints the 1972 corrections with a survey of subsequent progress and problems.
Garson, Barbara. The Electronic Sweatshop: How We Are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past. Simon & Shuster 1988 $17.95. ISBN 0-671-53049-6. A provocative expos‚ alleging that data clerks are dehumanized and managers are undermined in the "second industrial revolution" now taking place in the high-tech workplace.
Zuboff, Shoshana. In the Age of the Smart Machine : the Future of Work and Power. Basic Books 1988 $11.95. ISBN 0-434-92486-5. The unusual result of five years of field work by a faculty member of the Harvard Business School, showing how the information revolution changes knowledge in the workplace, the nature of computer-mediated work, and the structure of managerial power.
Pagels, Heinz R. The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity. Simon & Schuster 1989 $9.95. ISBN 0-553-34710-1. The role the computer plays in the philosophical problem of complexity, and how we think about "the nature of physical reality, the problem of cognition, the mind-body problem, the character of scientific research, the nature of mathematics, and the role of instruments in research" (Preface).
Feldman, Paula R., and Buford Norman. The Wordworthy Computer: Classroom and Research Applications in Language and Literature. Random House 1987 $13.00. ISBN 0-394-35623-3. Bibliography. What lies beyond word processing, namely indexing, concordances, literary analysis, and text editing, using microcomputer examples in a useful teacher's handbook..
Ide, Nancy. Pascal for the Humanities. Univ. of Pennsylvania Pr. 1987 $28.95. ISBN 0-812-21242-8. Systematic explanations of computer programming in literary and textual analysis, taking the student step-by-step through examples of graduated difficulty in standard PASCAL.
Nelson, Ted. Computer Lib/ Dream Machines. 1974. Microsoft Pr. rev. ed. 1987 $18.95. ISBN 0-914-84549-7. A re-issue with some revisions of the classic double-decker that introduced the notion of hypertext.
Chicago Guide to Preparing Electronic Manuscripts. Univ. of Chicago Pr. 1987 $9.95. ISBN 0-226-10393-5. A description of standardized procedures and a style guide for electronic text production and transmission.
Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary. Ed.-in chief, John Sinclair. Collins (London) rev. ed. 1992. ISBN 0-003-70023-2. A dictionary produced by the Collins Birmingham University International Language Database project (COBUILD) in which 20 million words were scanned to determine and classify actual practices in contemporary English See also "Looking Up: An Account of the COBUILD Project" in Lexical Computing (London: Collins, 1987).
Hughes, John J. Bits, Bytes, and Biblical Studies: A Resource Guide for the Use of Computers in Biblical and Classical Studies. Zondervan (Grand Rapids) 1987 $29.95. ISBN 0-310-28581-X.
Longley, Dennis and Michael Shain. Van Nostrand Reinhold Dictionary of Information Technology. Van Nostrand 3rd ed. 1989 $34.95. ISBN 0-44-223685-9. The revised and extended edition contains extended entries on artificial intelligence, CD-ROM, desktop publishing, and the three wings of information technology, computers, telecommunications, and video.
Rosenberg, Jerry Martin. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Information Technology and Computer Acronyms, Initials, and Abbreviations. McGraw-Hill 1992 $12.95. ISBN 0070537356. A compact source book for abbreviations, acronyms, and initials in the field of information technology.
Connors, Martin and others, eds. Computers and Computing Information Resources Directory. Gale 1987 $160.00. ISBN 0-8103-2141-6. An annotated guide to 6,000 on-line and print sources of information relating to computers and data processing, including associations, online services, teleprocessing, networks, and newsletters.
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. Vol 27. American Society for Information Science 1992 $89.00. ISBN 0-938-73466-0. Edited by Martha E. Williams. An authoritative annual survey of information science and information technology, familiarly known as ARIST.
Computing Reviews -- Volunteer views by experts and specialists, highly informative, monthly, probably more than local library possesses, excellent comparative reviews of specific subjects...
Strangelove, Michael and Diane Kovacs. Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists. Association of Research Libraries 6th ed. 1993. A frequently updated published listing of on-line serial publications, directories, periodicals, information networks, and machine-readable documents that is also available on-line.
McLellan, Hilary. Virtual Reality : A Selected Bibliography.
Hildebrandt, Darlene Myers. Computing Information Directory. Pedaro 10th ed. 1993. ISBN 0-993113-16-1®MDBO¯. Familiarly known as CID, and formerly know as "Computer Science Resources," a comprehensive annotated annual guide to computing literature.
Wallace, James and Jim Erickson. Hard Drive : Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire. Wiley 1992 $22.95. ISBN 0471568864. A study of Gates's ambition and ruthlessness, written by two Seattle journalists, exploring his youth, personal wealth, eccentricity, opportunism, ruthless battles with rivals, and vision of the future for personal computers.
Britton, J. L. Pure Mathematics: Collected Works of A. M. Turing. Amsterdam: North Holland Pub. 1992. ISBN 0-444-88059-3. An overdue edition of the papers of Alan Turing placed in the perspective of his mathematical work.
Thro, Ellen. The Artificial Intelligence Dictionary. Microtrend Books 1991 $24.95. ISBN 0-915391-36-8. Some 1300 terms in artificial intelligence presented in full dictionary fashion, not merely as a glossary by the author of two parallel dictionaries of artificial intelligence and networking.
Jennings, Karla. The Devouring Fungus : Tales of the Computer Age. Norton 1990 $10.95. ISBN 0393028976. A light-hearted collection of amusing anecdotes, stories, and jokes, often at the expense of such solid monuments of computing as IBM, Marvin Minsky, Alan Turing, Norbert Weiner, and Joseph Weizenbaum.
Pickover, Clifford A. Computers and the Imagination : Visual Adventures Beyond the Edge. St. Martin's 1991 $29.95. ISBN 0312061315. Serious mental games and mathematical and visual challenges that leapfrog Tetris, fractals, and similar familiar amusements. See also the same author's Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty: Graphics from an Unseen World (St. Martin's 1990 $29.95. ISBN 0312041233).
Leebaert, Derek, ed. Technology 2001 : the future of computing and communications. MIT 1991 $29.95. ISBN 0262121506. Twelve visions of the next decade--also the next century and next millennium--by scientists representing major companies such as Digital, IBM, and Intel who explain when they expect from computer chips, cellular telephones, portable computers, optical storage devices, on-line information, and the new culture of information.
Lu, Cary. The Apple Macintosh book. Microsoft 4th ed. 1992 $29.95. ISBN 1-55615-218-7. A knowledgeable, clear, concise, and no-nonsense update of the Macintosh handbook by the author of that was arguably the first Mac companion to appear in 1984.
Birnes, William and others. McGraw-Hill Personal Computer Programming Encyclopedia : Languages and Operating Systems. McGraw-Hill 2nd ed. 1989. ISBN 0070053936. Bibliography. A guide across a number of standard operating systems, programing languages, and applications packages, now adding commands in Postscript, Snobol, SPSS, dBASE III, and Paradox.
Bitter, Gary, ed. Macmillan Encyclopedia of Computers. 2 vol. Macmillan 1992 $150.00. ISBN 0028970454. A reference source targeted to students and non-specialists, with 200 articles plus biographies.
Freedman, Alan. The Computer Glossary : The Complete Illustrated Desk Reference. AMACOM 5th ed. 1990 $34.95. ISBN 0814450202. A general introduction to computer literacy, easy to read and generously illustrated with photographs, diagrams, and cartoons.
Anzovin, Steve The Green PC: Making Decisions that Make A Difference. Windcrest 1993 $9.45 ISBN 0-8306-4311-7. Raising environmental issues that computers present in the areas of energy, ergonomics, and hardware disposal.
Zurkocszy 1983 $27.95 0-442-29391-7. latest ???
Dunlop & Kling. Computerization and Controversy. Academia 1991. $34.95. ISBN 01-2224356-0.
Levy, Steven. Hackers old hackers that is: see Hafner etc
Gibson, William. Neuromancer the cult classic of cyberspace collaberation with Sterling, became a computer game
Pool, Ithiel de Sola. Eli Noam, ed. Technologies Without Boundaries : On Telecommunications in a Global Age. Harvard Univ. Pr. 1990 $27.50. ISBN 0674872630. A recommended account of the social aspects of telecommunication and related technological innovations.
Hypertext creative literature: Published by Eastgate Systems of Watertown, MA, in the form of computer software, representing authors some of whom are also distinguished for academic discussions of hypertext: Michael Joyce, Afternoon, A Story (1990), Stuart Moulthrop, Victory Garden (1991), and Jon Lanested and George P. Landow, The In Memoriam Web (1993).
Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews, Gates. Doubleday 1993 $25.00. ISBN 0-385-42075-7. A portrait of Bill Gates of Microsoft, perhaps at the same time the most loved and the most loathed person in the software business, reciting incidents from the mythology of his aggressive, confrontational style such as his favorite Porsche and his predilection for the multi-tasking bath over the uni-tasking shower.
Yourdon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer. Prentice Hall 1992 $24.95. ISBN 0-13-203670-3. A dirge for the over-confidence of American programmers, who are pleased with how they are doing, and who refuse to face the competition of overseas programmers who know they must do better and better, complete with a list of 87 books of required readings.
Wolverton, Van and Dan Gookin. Supercharging MS-DOS. Microsoft 3rd ed. 1991 $19.95. ISBN 1556153716. From a well-know DOS authority, quite a few handy tricks and practical tips as well as warnings on pitfalls to avoid in obtaining top efficiency from DOS commands and procedures.
Goodman, Danny and Richard Saul Wurman. Danny Goodman's Macintosh Handbook: Featuring System 7. Bantam 1992 $29.95. ISBN 055335485X. Foreword by John Sculley. A visually-oriented book that out-Macs even the Apple Macintosh manuals when it comes to hypertext links and balloon helps, nevertheless filled with the essential information needed by all Mac users.
Walter, Russ. The Secret Guide to Computers. Somerville, MA. 17th ed. ISBN 0-939151-0. A fascinating, sassy, and memorable collection of Walter's wisdom and humor about computing, software, hardware, and much else, , refined by 20 years of seminars and now compressed into a single volume, self-published by the author (yes, ask about quantity discounts).
Tanenbaum, Andrew S. Modern Operating Systems. Prentice Hall 1992. ISBN 0135881870. One of the best introductions to the embarrassing riches of the many old and new operating systems now available for microcomputers, ranging from MS-DOS and DR DOS and MS-Windows to Microsoft NT, OS/2, Solaris, and NeXTStep.
Raymond, Eric S., ed. The New Hacker's Dictionary. MIT 1991 $22.50. ISBN 0262181452. Assistance and illustrations by Guy L. Steele, Jr. A pungent sampler of the unofficial English and slang of hackers, generally unprinted. running to choice specimens like "Microsloth Windows" and "spaghetti code."
Salpeter, Judy with Dan Derrick. Kids & Computers: A Parent's Handbook. SAMS 1992 $16.95. ISBN 067230144X. Help for parents who wish to introduce their children to computers, suggesting both what kids must know and what parents should do, complete with reviews of approved software.
Voss, Greg. Object-Oriented Programming: An Introduction. Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1991 $24.95. ISBN 0-07-881682-3. Demonstrations of encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism, the three building blocks of object-oriented programming introduced through practical examples in four actual languages, C++, Turbo Pascal, SmallTalk, and Actor, plus three application packages, Turbo Vision, C++ Views, and ObjectWindows.
Craig, John Clark. The Microsoft Visual Basic Workshop. Microsoft 1993 $39.95. ISBN 1551504-2. A guide to the Visual Basic language, with ready-made routines and shortcuts for advanced tasks, such as building your own help system.
Kim, Won. Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases. MIT 1990. ISBN 0-262-11124-1. A comprehensive, readable introduction to object-oriented databases, refreshing in its uniform terminology and style, reflecting both practical professional experience and close familiarity with the journal literature.
Levenson, Steven, and Eli E. Hertz. Now That I Have OS/2 2.0 On My Computer, What Do I Do Next? Van Nostrand 1992 $22.95. ISBN 0-442-01227-6. A tutorial introduction which simplifies the new object-oriented Workplace Shell (WPS) in OS/2 2.0 and then thoroughly explains OS/2's four object types--devices, folders, data files, and programs.
Date, C. J. An Introduction to Database Systems, Vol. 1. Addison-Wesley 5th ed. 1990 $37.56. ISBN 0-201-51381-1. A good starting point for advanced study in database management, written in the author's characteristically authoritative and comprehensive manner, with due emphasis on the relational model.
Norton, Peter. Outside the IBM PC and PS/2: Access to New Technology. Brady 1992 $29.95. ISBN 0136435866. Edited by Scott Clark and Kevin Goldstein. "Outside" in the title means peripherals, such as modems, laptops, printers, scanners, networks, and multimedia--the opposite of "inside" in the author's well-known books on hardware and operating systems.
Glossbrenner, Alfred. Glossbrenner's Guide to Shareware for Small Businesses. Windcrest 1992 $37.95. ISBN 0830633774. Prefaced by a veritable handbook on hardware, software, shopping, installation, and configuration for the first time PC user, a useful guide to the economies of shareware for the small businessman on a tight budget.
Gralla, Preston. PC/Computing guide to Shareware. Ziff-Davis 1992. ISBN 156276036X. Encouragement for one of the last frontiers left for the small, creative computing entrepreneur, the marketing of independent shareware, with reviews of some 250 cost-efficient shareware programs in 13 categories.
Winston, Patrick. Artificial Intelligence. 1981. Addison-Wesley 3rd ed. 1992. ISBN 0-201-53377-4. An update of the classic text, first issued in 1981 when the horizon for AI seemed unlimited, still authoritative in introducing the three main wings of AI, representation and methods, learning and recognition, and vision and language (instructor's manual: ISBN 0-201-50030-2).
Blank, Marion and Laura Berlin. The Parent's Guide to Educational Software. Microsoft 1991 $14.95. ISBN 1556153171. A review of 200 software packages intended for parents, selected with a view to their educational usefulness for children.
LeVitus, Bob with Ed Tittel. Stupid PC Tricks. Addison-Wesley 1991 $19.95. ISBN 0201577593. An antidote to normality, productivity, and sanity from a bard of computer pranks and capers whose shelf of similar merciless tomes also embraces recipes for Windows and the Macintosh.
Kawasaki, Guy. Database 101. Peachpit 1991 $18.95. ISBN 0938151525.
Mungo, P. and B. Clough. Approaching Zero. David McKay 1992 $21.50. ISBN 0-679-40938-6. Computer underworld, cyberspace
®LS1¯ end of paginated material --misc follows **********************************
Three bibliographic publications of the ACM can be used in conjunction with each other.
Computing Reviews offers monthly coverage of books, journals, newsletters, technical reports, and the like, mostly reviewed by volunteers writing on separate items but sometimes in longer comparative articles.
Computing Surveys selects three or four subjects in each issue and covers each in considerable depth, frequently with hundreds of significant reference citations.
The ACM Guide to the Computing Literature is an annual index to the entire field of computing literature.