CHUCK'S

LIBRARY


ADIRONDACKS & UPSTATE NEW YORK
ANTIQUARIAN

BIOGRAPHY

BIOLOGY
BOTANY
CHANCE
CONSERVATION, ECOLOGY & NATURAL HISTORY

COOKBOOKS
DICTIONARIES
EARTH SCIENCE & GEOLOGY
EVOLUTION & GENETICS

EXERCISE & FITNESS
FICTION
FIX-IT AND HOW-TO
FORESTRY & AGRICULTURE
HORTICULTURE, ARBORICULTURE & LANDSCAPE DESIGN
HUMOR
MATH
MEDICINE
NONFICTION
OUTDOOR RECREATION
PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, AND ASTRONOMY
POLITICS & ECONOMICS
PUZZLES
REFERENCE & ENGLISH
SCIENCE, LOGIC & SKEPTICISM
TRAVEL & ADVENTURE



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ADIRONDACKS & UPSTATE NEW YORK

Adirondack Mountain Club  Adirondack Park Mountain Bike Preliminary
Trail & Route Listing

Adirondack Mountain Club  Guide to Adirondack Trails: High Peaks Region

Bacheller, Irving  Eben Holden: Tale of the North Country

Busch, Frederick  North

Bye, Robert A. and Frederick W. Oettinger  Vascular Flora of Onondaga County, New York

Crowell, Marnie Reed  Greener Pastures: Life in the North Country

DiNunzio, Michael G.  Adirondack Wildguide

Ehling, William P.  Canoeing Central New York

Freeman, Mark  Canoe Guide to Western & Central New York State

Folwell, Elizabeth  The Adirondack Book: A Complete Guide

Harder, Kelsie B. and Mary H. Smallman  Claims to Name: Toponyms
of St. Lawrence County

Hotchkiss, Neil  A Botanical Survey of the Tug Hill Plateau

Jaffe, Howard W. and Elizabeth B. Jaffe  Geology of the Adirondack
High Peaks Region

Jamieson, Paul  The Adirondack Reader

Jamieson, Paul and Donald Morris  Adirondack Canoe Waters: North Flow

Jenkins, Jerry and Andy Keal  The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park

Ketchledge, E. H.  Forests and Trees of the Adirondack High Peaks Region

Kick, Peter  25 Mountain Bike Tours in the Adirondacks

Kudish, Michael  Adirondack Upland Flora

Mansfield, Dick  Central New York Mountain Biking

McKibben, Bill  Long Distance: A Year of Living Strenuously

O'Shea, Peter  Guide to Adirondack Trails 2: Northern Region

Reed, Frank A.  Lumberjack Sky Pilot

Singer, Natalia Rachel and Neal Burdick  Living North Country

Slack, Nancy G. and Allison W. Bell  85 Acres

Stager, Curt  Field Notes From the Northern Forest

SUNY ESF  The Ecology of Onondaga County and Vicinity

Terrie, Philip G.  Contested Terrain: A New View of Nature and People on the Adirondacks

Thomann, Gary  Mountain Biking in the Adirondacks

Van Diver, Bradford  Field Guide of Upstate New York

Von Engeln, O. D.  The Finger Lakes Region

Wadsworth Bruce  Day Hikes for All Seasons: An Adirondack Sampler

Williams, Don  Inside the Adirondack Blue Line

Wilson, Edmund  Upstate : Records and Recollections of Northern New York



ANTIQUARIAN

Aldrich, T. B.  A Midnight Fantasy, and The Little Violinist.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877.

American Sunday-School Union  The Two Homes Compared;
or, the Advantages of Cleanliness.

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut St., 1850.

Bergholt, Ernest  A New Book of Patience Games.
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Second Impression, 1917.

Bryson, Louise Fiske  Every-Day Etiquette: A manual of Good Manners.
New York: W. D. Kerr, 52 and 54 LaFayette Place, 1890.

Case, Carleton B., Ed.  Parlor Games and Parties.
Chicago: Shrewesbury Publishing Co., 1916.

Chesterton, Lord  Practical Morality or A Guide to Men and Manners.
New York: George Long, 71 Pearl-Street, 1825

Conklin, George W.  Conklin's Handy Manual of Useful Information
and Atlas of the World.
 Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1888.

Davis, E. B., M. D., and B. G. Jefferis, M. D., Ph. D.  Home Remedies
For Man or Beast.
 Naperville, Ill.: J. L. Nichols, 2nd Ed., 1891.

Doane, William Croswell, Ed.  The Hymnal
New York: E. & J. B. Young & Co., 1899.

Donaldson, Paschal  The Odd-Fellows' Pocket Text-book.
Philadelphia: Moss & Company, Revised Ed., 1867.

Empringham, James, D. D.  "Dangerous Deceits" Exposed.
Syracuse, NY: Lynn Publishing Company, 66-67 Gurney Bldg., 1914.

Greenough, James Bradstreet, and George L. Kittredge  Latin Grammar.
Boston, U.S.A., and London: Ginn and Company, 1897.

Hall, George F., Evangelist  Plain Points on Personal Purity or
Startling Sins of the Sterner Sex.
 Chicago: American Bible House.

Hart, Samual,  "Custodian" The Book of Common Prayer.
New York: E. & J. B. Young & Co., 1893.

Ingoldsby, Thomas, Esquire  The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels.
New York: Ward, Lock and Co., 1889.

Kellogg, Vernon L., M.S.  Elementary Zoology.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2nd Ed., 1902.

Montgomery, James  The Wanderer of Switzerland, and Other Poems
Utica, NY: Seward and Williams, 1810.

Murray, Hugh, F. R. S. E.  An Historical and Descriptive Account of
British America, Vol I.
 New-York: Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street, 1842.

Napheys, George H., A.M., M.D.  The Transmission of Life. Councels
on the Nature and Hygiene of the Masculine Function.

Philadelphia: David McKay, 23 South Ninth Street, New Edition, 1887.

Pike, Nicolas, A. M.  A New and Complete System of Arithmetic.
John Mycall, 1788.

Thornwell, Emily  The Cottage Cookery Book.
New York: Edward Livermore, 1855.

Tyree, Marion Cabell, Ed.  Housekeeping in Old Virginia.
Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Company, 1879.

The Family Cyclopędia of Useful Knowledge.
F. M. Lupton, 1885.

The Gem: Christmas and New Year's Present.
Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, Chestnut Street, 1840.

The Winter Evening Book.
New-York: C. S. Francis & Co., 252 Broadway, 1844.



BIOGRAPHY

Boswell, James  The Life of Samuel Johnson

Branden, Nathaniel  Judgement Day: My Years With Ayn Rand

Brinkley, David  David Brinkley

Chamberlain, John  A Life With the Printed Word

Cooke, Alistair, Ed.  The Vintage Mencken

Donaldson, Frances  Yours, Plum: The Letters of P.G. Wodehouse

Dupree, A. Hunter  Asa Gray

Exley, Frederick  A Fan's Notes

Gleick, James  Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

Harwood, W.S.  New creations in Plant Life (Luther Burbank)

Kistler, Ron  I Caught Flies for Howard Hughes

MacNeil, Robert  Wordstruck

McAleer, Neil  Arthur C. Clark

Murray, K. M. Elisabeth  Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray
and the Oxford English Dictinary


Russell, Bertrand  The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Weldon, Fay  Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen

Woodward, W. E.  Tom Paine: America's Godfather

Unknown Author  Will Rogers: Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of
Wit and Wisdom



BIOLOGY

Booth, Ernest S.  How to Know the Mammals

Borror and White  Insects

Borror, De Long, and Triplehorn  An Introduction to the Study of Insects

Elliott, Lang  Music of the Birds

Golden  A Field Guide to the Identification of Birds of North America

Holtzman and Novikoff  Cells and Organelles

Murphy and Amadon  Land Birds of America

The National Geographic Society  The Book of Birds

The National Geographic Society  The Book of Dogs

Noland, George B. and William C. Beaver  General Biology

Orr, Robert T.  Vertebrate Biology

Shackelford,  Frederick Insect Stories

Whittles, Keith and Alice Goldie  Concise Dictionary of Biology

Wright, Amy Bartlett  Caterpillars



BOTANY

Attenborough, Richard  The Private Lives of Plants

Baumgardt, John Phillip  How to Identify Flowering Plant Families

Bonner and Galston  Principles of Plant Physiology

Britton, Nathaniel Lord and Hon. Addison Brown  An Illustrated Flora
of the Northern United States and Canada (Three volumes)

Brockman, Zim, and Merrilees  Trees of North America

Brown, Lauren  Grasses

Bye, Robert A. and Frederick W. Oettinger  Vascular Flora of Onondaga County, New York

Cobb, Boughton  Ferns

Cope, Edward A.  Pinophyta of New York State

Cronquist, Arthur  The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants

Elias, Thomas S.  Complete Trees of North America: Field Guide and Natural History

Farrar, John Laird  Trees of the Northern United States and Canada

Glick, Phyllis G.  The Mushroom Trail Guide

Golden  Nature  

Grimm, William  Carey How to Recognize Shrubs

Grimm, William Carey  How to Recognize Trees

Harlow, William  Fruit Key and Twig Key

Harlow, William  Textbook of Dendrology

Harlow, William  Trees of the Eastern and Central United States and Canada

Hedrick, U. P., Ed.  Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World

Hotchkiss, Neil  A Botanical Survey of the Tug Hill Plateau

House, Homer D.  Bibliography of the Botany of New York State
1751-1940 Part 1

House, Homer D.  Bibliography of the Botany of New York State
1751-1940 Part 2

How and Why  Mushrooms, Ferns, and Mosses

Imes, Rick  The Practical Botanist

Judd, Walter S., Christopher S. Campbell, Elizabeth A. Kellogg,
and Peter F. Stevens  Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach

Keeler, Harriet  Our Native Trees

Ketchledge, E. H.  Forests and Trees of the Adirondack High Peaks Region

Ketchledge, Edwin H.  Revised Checklist of the Mosses of New York State

Knobel, Edward  Field Guide to the Grasses, Sedges, and Rushes of the
United States

Kristiansen and Anderson  Chrysophytes: Aspects and Problems

Kudish, Michael  Adirondack Upland Flora

Kudish, Michael  Guidelines for Dendrology

Lounsberry, Alice  A Guide to the Trees

Mathews, F. Schuyler  Fieldbook of American Trees and Shrubs

Marie-Victorin, Frčre  Flore Laurentienne

McKnight, Kent H. and Vera B. McKnight  Mushrooms

Menninger, Edwin A. Fantastic Trees

Mitchell, Richard S.  Atlas of New York State Ferns

Mitchell, Richard S.  A Checklist of New York State Plants

Mitchell, Richard S. and Charles J. Sheviak  Rare Plants of New York State

Mitchell, Richard S. and J. Kenneth Dean  Polygonaceae of New York State

Mitchell, Richard S. and Gordon C. Tucker  Revised Checklist of New York State Plants

Pakenham, Thomas  Meetings With Remarkable Trees

Peattie, Donald Culross  Trees of North America

Peterson Field Guides  A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs

Peterson, Roger Troy and Margaret McKenny  A Field Guide to Wildflowers

Petrides, George A.  A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs Northeastern and North-Central
US and Southeastern and South-Central Canada

Platt, Rutherford  1001 Questions Answered About Trees

Pollan, Michael  The Botany of Desire

Porter, C. L  Taxonomy of Flowering Plants

Randall, Charles Edgar and Henry Clepper  Famous and Historic Trees

Raven, Evert, and Curtis  Biology of Plants

Rogers, Roger E.  Tree Flowers

Sargent, Charles Sprague, Ed.  Plantae Wilsonianae (Three volumes)

Sargent, Charles Sprague Manual of the Trees of North America

Savonius, Moira  Mushrooms and Fungi

Schery, Robert W.  Plants for Man

Smith, Peter, Ed.  Sargent's Manual of the Trees of North America

Smith, Stanley Jay  Checklist of the Grasses of New York State

Smith, Stanley Jay  Contributions to the Flora of Central New York—I

Symond, George W. D.  The Shrub Identification Book

Tanner and Auchincloss  The New York Botanical Garden

Uva, Richard H.  Weeds of the Northeast

Zomlefer, Wendy B.  Guide to Flowering Plant Families



CHANCE

Bailey, Norman T. J  Statistical Methods in Biology

Bennett, Deborah J.  Ramdomness

Demaris, Alfred  Logit Modeling: Practical applications

Dewdney, A. K.  200 Percent of Nothing

Fennick, John H.  Studies Show

Grimm, Laurence G. and Paul R. Yarnold  Reading and Understanding
Multivariate Statistics

Hoel, Paul G.  Elementary Statistics

Holland, Bart K.  What Are the Chances: Voodoo Deaths, Office Gossip, and Other Adventures in Probabiltiy

Huff, Darrel  How to Lie With Statistics

Hunt, Morton M.  How Science Takes Stock: The Story of Meta-Analysis

Kleinbaum, David G.  Logistic Regression

Langley, Russell  Practical Statistics

McKenzie, John, Schaefer, Robert L. and Elizabeth Farber  Minitab for
Windows

Menard, Scott  Applied Logistic Regression Analysis

Moore, David W.  The Superpollsters: How They Measure and Manipulate
Public Opinion in America

Morgan, Larry A. and Triola, Mario  Elementary Statistics TI-83
Companion

Orkin, Mike  Can You Win? The Real Odds for Casino Gambling,
Sports Betting, and Lotteries

Pachel, Edward  The Mathematics of Games and Gambling

Rescher, Nicholas  Luck: The Brilliant Randomness of Everyday Life

Simon, Julian L.  Resampling

Sisken, Bernard, Jerome Staller and David M. Rorvik  What are the Chances?

Texas Instruments  TI-83

Triola, Mario  Elementary Statistics

Wallis, W. Allen and Harry V. Roberts  The Nature of Statistics

Walsh, James  True Odds: How Risk Affects Your Everyday Life

Weaver, Warren   Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability



COOKBOOKS

American Heart Association  American Heart Association Quick & Easy Cookbook :
More Than 200 Healthful Recipes You Can Make in Minutes

Carpender, Dana  500 Low-Carb Recipes: 500 Recipes from Snacks to Dessert,
That the Whole Family Will Love

Carpender, Dana  200 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes:
Healthy Dinners That Are Ready When You Are!

Joachim, David  A Man, A Can, A Plan: 50 Great Guy Meals Even You Can Make!

McGee, Harold  On Food and Cooking

Pallister, Nancy  NOLS Cookery

Rysavy, Karen  Cooking TLC: Truly Low Carb Cooking, Volume 1

Thibault, Rose  New England Church Supper Cookbook



CONSERVATION, ECOLOGY &
NATURAL HISTORY

Ausubel, Kenny  Seeds of Change

Bailey, L. H.  The Holy Earth

Bates, Marston  The Forest and the Sea

Borland, Hal  Our Natural World

Botkin, Daniel B.  Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the
Twenty-First Century

Carson, Rachael  The Edge of the Sea

Castillon, David A.  Conservation of Natural Resourses

Colinvaux, Paul  Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare

Comstock, Anna Botsford  Handbook of Nature Study

DiNunzio, Michael G.  Adirondack Wildguide

Flannery, Tim  The Eternal Frontier

Golden Guide  Pond Life

Goldfarb, Theodore D, Ed.  Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial
Environmental Issues

Gore, Al  Earth in the Balance

Gregerson, Jon  The Good Earth

Koopowitz and Kaye  Plant Extinction

Leopold, Aldo  A Sand County Almanac

Marchand, Peter  North Woods: An Inside Look at the Nature of Forests in the Northeast

Marshall, Nina T.  The Gardener's Guide to Plant Conservation

New York State Museum  Ecosystem Management: Rare Species and
Significant Habitats

Pianka, Eric R.  Evolutionary ecology

Palmer  Fieldbook of Natural History

Pichaske, Daved R., Ed,  Late Harvest

Reece, Erik  Lost Mountain

Siegfried, Clifford A. Understanding New York Lakes

Slack, Nancy G. and Allison W. Bell  85 Acres

Smith, Robert Leo  Ecology and Field Biology

Stager, Curt  Field Notes From the Northern Forest

SUNY ESF  The Ecology of Onondaga County and Vicinity

Suzuki, David  Time to Change

Vessel and Wong  Natural History of Vacant Lots

Watts, May Theilgaard  Reading the Landscape of America

Williams, Don  Inside the Adirondack Blue Line

The 1994 Information Please Environmental Almanac



DICTIONARIES

Agnes, Michael, Ed.  Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition. (1999)

Barnhart, C. L., Ed. The American College Dictionary. (1965)

Barnhart, C. L., Ed. The World Book Dictionary. (1969) 2 Vols.

Burt, A. L.  Burt's Latin-English and English-Latin Dictionary

Campbell, Loomis J., compiler.  Worcester's Dictionary: A Pocket Dictionary of the
English Language.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Conpany, 1877.

Cobb, Lyman.  Cobb's Abridgement of J. Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary,
and Expositor of the English Language.
Ithaca, NY: Mack and Andrus, 1829.

Devlin, Joseph, Ed.  Webster's New School and Office Dictionary and Atlas. (1946)

Donald, James, Ed. Chambers's English Dictionary. (1872)

E. E. Miles, Publisher, South Lancaster, Mass.  The New Webster Dictionary and
Complete Vest Pocket Library.
South Lancaster, Mass.: E. E. Miles, 3rd Ed., 1914.

Faulkner, H. C.  A Handy Dictionary of Synonyms. 1884. New York: A. L. Burt, 1884.

G. & C. Merriam Co. Webster's Elementary Dictionary:
A Dictionary for Boys and Girls.
(1941)

Gove, Philip Babcock, Ed.  Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the
English Language Unabridged.
(1976)

Hadida, Sophie C.  Pitfalls in English and How to Avoid Them.
New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 12th impression, 1931.

Johnson, Samuel  A Dictionary of the English Language. (Facsimile)

Kister, Kenneth F.  Kister's Best Dictionaries for Adults & Young People : A Comparative Guide

Malcolm, Howard  Malcolm's Bible Dictionary.
Boston: Lincoln, Edmands, & Co., 6th Ed., 1834.

Mathews, William, LL. D.  Words; Their Use and Abuse.
Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, Knight & Leonard, 1876.

Mish, Frederick C., Ed.  Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 11th Edition

Murray, Lindley  Murray's English Grammar.
Cooperstown, NY: H. & E. Phinney, 1819.

Neilson, William Allan, Ed.  Webster’s New International Dictionary,
Second Edition. 3 Vols. (1950)

Pelo, W. J., Ed.  New Universal Self-pronouncing Dictionary.
Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, Handy Edition, 1944.

Phyfe, William Henry P.  18,000 Words Often Mispronounced. 6th Ed. 1914.
New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 6th Ed., 1914.

Phyfe, William Henry P.  7000 Words Often Mispronounced.
New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1891.

Phyfe, William Henry P.  7000 Words Often Mispronounced.
11th Ed. 1891. New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons,
The Knickerbocker Press, 3rd Ed., 1901

Pickett, Joseph P., Ed.  The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,
4th Ed. (2000)

Santvoord, George Van, Ed.  The Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English.
New York: Oxford University Press, American Edition. 9th Printing. 1944.

Smith, Thomas, Rev.  Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary.
Cooperstown, NY: H. & E. Phinney, 1839.

Smith, William W.  The Speller's Manual: Being a Collection of Words Usually Misspelled.
Philadelphia: J. A. Bancroet & Co., 1867.

Soukhanov, Anne H., Ed.  Encarta World English Dictionary.

Stein, Jess, Ed.  Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language --
New Revised Edition.
(Based on The Randon House Dictionary of the English Language,
the Unabridged Edition, First Edition [1966]

Swinton, William  Swinton's Word Book of English Spelling, Oral and Written.
New York and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Company. Revised Ed. 1883.

Thomas, J., A.M., M.D.  Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1881.

Watson, Richard  A Biblical and Theological Dictionary.
New York: Carlton & Lanahan, 1832.

Webster, Noah  An American Dictionary of the English Language.
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1846.

Webster, Noah   An American Dictionary of the English Language.
Springfield, Mass.: George and Charles Merriam, 1855.

Weekley, Ernest and Anne Scott  New Gem Dictionary. (1959)

Whitney, William Dwight, Ed.  The Century Dictionary:
An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language.
6 Vols. (1889)

Wood, John Marshall  A Handy Dictionary of the English Language.
New York: Published For the Trade, 1881.

Wood, John Marshall  American People's Dictionary of the English Language.
New York and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co., 1883.

The American Diamond Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language. 1878.
New York: Hurst & Co., Publishers, 122 Nassau Street, 1878.

The American Popular Dictionary of the English Language.
New York: Hurst & Co., 122 Nassau St., 1882.

The New Excelsior Dictionary of the English Language.
Nashua, NH: C. C. Parker, 1884.



EARTH SCIENCE & GEOLOGY

Bolt, Bruce A.  Inside the Earth

Duncan, David Ewing  The Calendar

Hillel, Daniel  Out of Earth

Jaffe, Howard W. and Elizabeth B. Jaffe  Geology of the Adirondack
High Peaks Region

Kein and Hurlbut  Manual of Mineralogy

Kohnke, Helmut and D. P. Franzmeier  Soil Science Simplified

Loomis, Frederick B.  Field Book of Common Rocks and Minerals

McAlester, A. Lee  The History of Life

Sinkankas  Mineralogy for Amateurs

Sobel, Dava and William J. H. Andrewes  The Illustrated Longitude

SUNY State Education Department  Geology of New York

Van Diver, Bradford  Field Guide of Upstate New York

Van Diver, Bradford  Roadside Geology of New York

Von Engeln, O. D.  The Finger Lakes Region

Wyllie, Peter J.  The Way the Earth Works

Zim and Shaffer  Rocks and Minerals



EVOLUTION & GENETICS

Acquaah, George  Practical Protein Electrophoresis of Genetic
Research

Aldridge, Susan  The Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic
Engineering

Bailey, L. H.  Plant-Breeding

Bailey, L. H.  Survival of the Unlike

Barlow, Connie  The Ghosts of Evolution

Burnham, Terry and Jay Phelan   Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food:
Taming Our Primal Instincts

Burbank, Luther and Wilbur Hall  The Harvest of the Years

Calder, Nigel  The Green Machines

Carter, C.O.  Human Heredity

Cherfas, Jeremy  Man-Made Life

Cherfas, Jeremy  Redundant Male: Is Sex Irrelevant in the Modern World

Dawkins, Richard  River Out of Eden

Dawkins, Richard, ed.  The Best American Science and Nature Writing

Dawkins, Richard  The Selfish Gene

Dennett, Daniel Clement  Darwin's Dangerous Idea:
Evolution and the Meanings of Life

Doyle, Jack  Altered Harvest: Agriculture, Genetics, and the Fate of the
World's Food Supply

Farber, Paul Lawrence  Finding Order in Nature: The
Naturalist Tradition From Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson

Fedoroff, Nina and Nancy Marie Brown  Mendel in the Kitchen

Fehr, Walter R.  Principles of Cultivar Development

Fritz, Robert and Ellen L. Simms  Plant resistance to Herbivores and
Pathogens

Gould, Stephen J.  Ever Since Darwin

Gould, Stephen J.  The Flamingo's Smile

Gould, Stephen J.  Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes

Gould, Stephen J.  The Panda's Thumb

Hall, Stephen S.  Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene

Hawkes, J. G.  The Diversity of Crop Plants

Hodson, Anna  Essential Genetics

King, James C.  The Biology of Race

Klug and Cummings  Concepts of Genetics

Kucherlapati, Raju and Gerald R. Smith  Genetic Recombination

National Academy of Sciences NRC  Statistical Genetics and Plant Breeding

Micklos, David  DNA Science: A First Course In Recombinant DNA Technology

Niklas, Karl J.  The Evolutionary Biology of Plants

Provine, William B.  The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics

Ridley, Matt  Genome

Rose, Kamin, and Lewontin  Not in Our Genes

Vavilov, N. I.  The Origin, Variation, and Breeding of Cultivated Plants

Watson, James  The Double helix

Weiner, Jonathan  The Beak of the Finch : A Story of Evolution in Our Time

Wells, Spencer  The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

Wilson, E. O.  Biophilia

Wilson, E. O.  On Human Nature

Wilson, E. O.  The Diversity of Life



EXERCISE & FITNESS

Anderson, Bob  Stretching

Brookfield, John  Mastery of Hand Strength

Campbell, Phil  Ready, Set, Go! Synergy Fitness For Time-Crunched Adults

Cressey, Eric  Maximum Strength: Get Your Strongest Body in 16 Weeks
with the Ultimate Weight-Training Program

Enamait, Ross  Infinite Intensity - Training Manual

Miller, Liz  Advanced In-Line Skating

Mirkin, Gabe and Marshall Hoffman  Sports Medicine

Pavelka, Ed, Ed.  Bicycling Magazine's 900 All-Time Best Tips

Publow, Barry  Speed on Skates

Rippetoe, Mark and Lon Kilgore  Practical Programming for Strength Training

Rippetoe, Mark  Starting Strength

Rippetoe, Mark  Strong Enough? Thoughts from Thirty Years of Barbell Training

Sleamaker, Rob, and Ray Browning  Serious Training For Endurance Athletes

Waterbury, Chad  Muscle Revolution


FICTION

Anderson, Sherwood  Winesboro, Ohio

Ashbery, John  Ice Storm

Asimov, Isaac  I, Robot

Asimov, Isaac  The Robots of Dawn

Auel, Jean  The Clan of the Cave Bear

Auel, Jean  The Valley of Horses

Bacheller, Irving  Eben Holden: Tale of the North Country

Bacheller, Irving  The Light in the clearing

Banks, Russell  The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks

Banks, Russell  Cloudsplitter

Banks, Russell  Continental Drift

Benchley, Peter  The Deep

Berendt, John  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Brautigan, Richard  Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus
The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

Caldwell, Erskine  Tobacco Road

Caldwell, Taylor  Captains and the Kings

Caldwell, Taylor  Ceremony of the Innocent

Carcaterra, Lorenzo  Sleepers

Castaneda, Carlos  Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan

Crichton, Michael  Congo

Crichton, Michael  The Andromeda Strain

Doctorow, E. L.  Ragtime

Doctorow, E. L.  Welcome to Hard Times

Dostoevsky, Fyodor  Crime and Punishment

Falkner, William  The Falkner Reader

Fitzgerald, F. Scott  The Great Gatsby

Foley, Martha, Ed.  Fifty Best American Short Stories

Garrett, George  Death of the Fox

Gilbert, Elizabeth  Stern Men

Harcourt, Brace, and World  Major Writers of America

Heinlein, Robert  Job: A Comedy of Justice

Heller, Joseph  Catch-22

King, Stephen  Nightshift

King, Stephen  Pet Sematary

King, Stephen  The Dead Zone

King, Stephen  The Long Walk

King, Stephen  The Running Man

King, Stephen  The Shining

King, Stephen  The Stand

King, Stephen  Thinner

L'Amour, Louis  Sacketts (Collection)

McCullough, Colleen  The Thorn Birds

McFee, John  Coming Into the Country

McFee, John  The Pine Barrens

Melville, Herman  Moby Dick

Merril, Judith  Tenth Annual Edition: The Year's Best SF

Michener, James  Chesapeake

Michener, James  Covenant

Michener, James  Fires of Spring

Michener, James  The Novel

Michener, James  This Noble Land: My Vision for America

Mitchell, Margaret  Gone With the Wind

Munro, Alice  Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories

Oates, Joyce Carol  The Falls

Proulx E. Annie  Close Range

Proulx E. Annie  Postcards

Proulx E. Annie  The Shipping News

Purple, Edwin Ruthven  Perilous Passage

Rand, Ayn  Atlas Shrugged

Read, Piers Paul  Alive!

Robeson, Kenneth  Doc Savage Series

Ross, Dana Fuller  Wagons West Series

Sagan, Carl  Contact

Salinger, J. D.  Catcher in the Rye

Shute, Nevil  On the Beach

Sinclair, Upton  The Jungle

Sper, Felix, Ed.  Living American Plays

Stewart, Mary  Airs Above the Ground

Stewart, Mary  The Crystal Cave

Steinbeck, John  The Grapes of Wrath

Swift, Jonathan  Gulliver's Travels

Thompson, Hunter S.  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Thompson, Hunter S.  Hell's Angels

Tolkein, J.R.R.  Lord of the Rings

Tolkein, J.R.R.  The Hobbit

Trevanian  Shibumi

Twain, Mark  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Twain, Mark  Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays

Twain, Mark  Life on the Mississippi

Trevanian  Shibumi

Updike, John  Rabbit is Rich

Updike, John  Rabbit Redux

Updike, John  Rabbit, Run

Updike, John  Trust Me

Unknown  The Scent of New Mown Hay

Uris, Leon  Trinity

Waugh, Evelyn  Scoop

Welty, Eudora  Delta Wedding

White, E. B.  Poems and Sketches

Wilson, Richard  The Girls From Planet 5

Wilson, Richard  Thirty Day Wonder

Wilson, Richard Those Idiots From Earth

Wilson, Richard  Time Out for Tomorrow

Wodehouse, P. G.  The Code of the Woosters

Wodehouse, P. G.  Young Men in Spats



FIX-IT AND HOW-TO

Anderson, Bob  Stretching

Berger, Michael  The Best Birdhouses for Your Backyard

Brookfield, John  Mastery of Hand Strength

Cramer, Lenox  War With Emply Hands

Doo, Jack  The Ultimate Owner's Manual

Eldred, Gary W.  The 106 Common Mistakes Homebuyers Make (& How to Avoid Them)

Fiery, Dennis  The Temp Worker's Guide to Self-Fulfillment

Finnigan, Dave The Complete Juggler

Goodman, Robert  How Electronic Things Work . . . and What to Do
When They Don't

Greenspan, Turner, Wagner, Wickes, and Spitzer  Fixing Cars: A Peoples'
Primer

Johnson, Randy  How to Save Thousands of Dollars on Your Home Mortgage

Kerrod, Robin  The Way it Works

Knox, Gerald M., Ed.  Basic Plumbing

Miller, Liz  Advanced In-Line Skating

Perry, Greg  Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming

Proulx, Earl  Yankee Home Hints

Publow, Barry  Speed on Skates

Reader's Digest  Back to Basics

Reader's Digest  Fix-it-Yourself Manual

Reader’s Digest  How a House Works

Roth, Alfred, C.  Small Gas Engines

Smiley, John  Learn to Program With Visual Basic 6

Stockel, Martin W., et al  Auto Fundamentals: How and Why of the Design,
Construction, and Operation of Automobiles. Applicable to All Makes & Models

Thomas, Charles M.  Ortho's All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams

Time-Life Books  Basic Wiring

Time-Life Books  The Big Book of Easy Home Fix-Ups

Tuttle, Merlin D. and Donna L. Hensley  The Bat House Builder's Handbook

Walker, Aidan  Wood: The New Compact Study Guide and Identifier

Zinn, Lennard  Zinn and the Art of Mororcycle Maintenance



FORESTRY & AGRICULTURE

Andrews, Ralph W.  This Was Logging

Dent, D. Douglas Professional Timber Falling

Elliott, Simon B.  The Important Timber Trees of the United States

Forbes, Reginald D.  Forestry Handbook

Frasher, Samuel  American Fruits

Gruenfeld, Jay  Purple Hearts and Ancient Trees

Sharpe, Hendee, and Allen   Introduction to Forestry

USDA  1936 Yearbook of Agriculture

USDA Dept. of Farms and Markets State of New York Agricultural Manual



HORTICULTURE, ARBORICULTURE
& LANDSCAPE DESIGN

Ackerman, Diane  Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

American Horticultural Society, et al  Plant Propagation:
The Fully Illustrated Plant-by-Plant Manual of Practical Techniques

Arnold, Henry  Trees in Urban Design

Bailey, L. H.  How Plants Get Their Names

Beranek, G.F.  The Fundamentals of General Tree Work

Birnbaum, Charles A. and Robin Karson  Pioneers of American Landscape Design

Brooklyn Botanical Garden Record  Gardening with Wildflowers and
Native Plants

Bush-Brown, Louise and James Bush-Brown  America's Garden Book

Coombs, Blackburne-Maze, Cracknell, and Bentley  The Complete book
of Pruning

Cornell Cooperative Extension  1991 Pest Management Recommendations:
Trees and Shrubs

Dirr, Michael A., and Michael Dirr  Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs:
An Illustrated Encyclopedia

Dirr, Michael  Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs

Dirr, Michael  Manual of Woody Landscape Plants

Electric Counsil of New England  Trees and Shrubs for Your Community

Fine Gardening Magazine  Gardening in Containers:
Creative Ideas from America's Best Gardeners

Garden Club of Amherst (Massachusetts)  Trees in Amherst

Gardening in Containers

Garreau, Joel  Edge Cities: Life on the New Frontier

Greenbie, Barrie B  Spaces: Dimensions of the Human Landscape

Graf, A. B., Ed  Exotica: Pictorial Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants

Hannebaum, Leroy  Landscape Design

Harris, Richard  Arboriculture

Heitz, Halina  Container Plants: For Patios, Balconies and Window Boxes

Horticultural Committee of the Garden Club of America, et al  
Plants That Merit Attention: Trees

Hough, Michael  City Form and Natural Process

International Society of Arboriculture  Evaluation of Hazard Trees in
Urban Areas

International Society of Arboriculture  Municipal Tree Manual

Janick, Jules, Ed.  Classic Papers in Horticultural Science

Jennings, Jens  Siftings

Jepson, Jeff  Tree Climber's Companion

Johnson and Lyon  Insects That Feed on Trees and Shrubs

Jorgensen, Neils  New England's Landscape

Kunstler, James Howard  The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline
of America's Man-made Landscape

Lemmon and Sherman  Flowers of the World

Lemmon, Robert S.  The Best Loved Trees of America

Levy, John M.  Contempory Urban Planning

Lieberman, Arthur S. and Richard Weir III  Planting and Maintaining
Trees and Shrubs

Mathias, Mildred E., Ed  Flowering Plants in the Landscape

McHarg, Ian  Design With Nature

Miller, Robert W.  Urban Forestry

Mower, Robert G.  Shrubs for Landscape Plantings in New York State

Penn State College of Agriculture  Diagnosing Injury to Eastern Forest Trees

Pollan, Michael  Second Nature

Pirone, P. P.  Tree Maintenance

Raleigh, Duane and Mike Clellland  Knots and Ropes for Climbers

Rockwell, F. F., Ed.  10,000 Garden Questions Answered by 15 Experts

Schein, Richard D.  Street Trees: A Manual for Municipalities

Selinger, Don, Whitman, John and Nancy Rose  Growing Shrubs & Small Trees
in Cold Climates

Sinclair, Lyon, and Johnson  Diseases of Trees and Shrubs

Smith, Bruce, and Allen Padgett  On Rope: North American Vertical Rope Techniques

Smith, Ken  Home Landscaping

Snodsmith, Ralph Ralph  Snodsmith's Fundamentals of Gardening

Stein, Sara  Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards

Sunset  Greenhouse Gardening

SUNY ESF  Your Native Shade Trees

SUNY ESF  Your Native Shade Trees

Taylor's Guide  Annuals

Taylor's Guide  Perennials

Thomas, R. William  Ortho's All About Vines and Climbers

Toogood, Alan  Plant Propagation

Tripp, Kim E. and J. C. Raulston  The Year in Trees:
Superb Woody Plants for Four-Season Gardens

UMASS Cooperative Extension  Planting and Maintaining Sustainable
Landscapes

Wandell, Willet  Handbook of Landscape Tree Cultivars

Webber, Jeni  Taunton's Front Yard Idea Book

Wilson, Thomson, and Wirth  The Victory Garden: The Essential Companion

Wyman, Donald  Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia



HUMOR

Barry, Dave  Dave Barry in Cyberspace

Barry, Dave  Dave Barry Turns 50

Brautigan Richard  Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America

Bryson, Bill  Notes From a Small Island

Buruma,  Ian Anglomania

Lyall, Sarah  The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British

Owen, David  The Walls Around Us

No author  Pubs and Pub Signs

Rich, Frank Kelly  The Modern Drunkard

Rooney, Andy  Common Nonsense

Rogers, Richard A. and Laurine Rogers  The Outrageous Atlas: A Guide to
North America's Strangest Places

Sample, Tim  The New Saturday Night At Moody's Diner

Sharpe, Tom  Blott on the Landscape

Sharpe, Tom  Porterhouse Blue

Sharpe, Tom  Riotous Assembly

Staten, Vince  Did Monkeys Invent the Monkey Wrench

Troost, J. Maarten  The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

Winokur, Jon  The Portable Curmudgeon



MATH

Barron's  Calculus the Easy Way

Beckmann, Petr A History of PI

Courant, Robbins, Stewart  What is Mathematics?

Gleick, James  Chaos

Jurgensen, Donnelly, and Dolciani  Geometry

Kleppner, Daniel and Norman Ramsey  Quick Calculus

Paulos, John Allen  A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

Paulos, John Allen  Beyond Innumeracy: Ruminations of a Numbers Man

Paulos, John Allen  Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences

Poyla, George  How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

Sorgengrey, Wooton, and Dolciani  Modern Algebra

Thompson, Silvanus P. and Martin Gardner  Calculus Made Easy



MEDICINE

Edell, Dean, M.D.  Eat, Drink & Be Merry

Mirkin, Gabe and Marshall Hoffman  Sports Medicine

Le Fanu, James M. D.  The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine

Thomas, Lewis   The Fragile Species

Thomas, Lewis  The Youngest Science



NONFICTION

Boyer and Savageau  Places Rated Almanac

Campbell, Joseph  An Open Life

Capo, Fran and Frank Borzellieri  It Happened in New York

Cheyney, Edward P.  An Introduction to Industrial and Social History
of England

Cook, John, Compiler  The Book of Positive Quotations

Crowell, Marnie Reed  Greener Pastures: Life in the North Country

Dershowitz, Alan M.  The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish
Identity for the Next Century

D'Souza, Dinesh  The End of Racism

Eades, Michael R.  The Protein Power Lifeplan

Edwards, Russ  The Bathroom Trivia Almanac

Elkins, Stanley  The Age of Federalism

Ellis, Ian C.  Book Finds: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books

Hamill, Pete  A Drinking Life

Harder, Kelsie B. and Mary H. Smallman  Claims to Name: Toponyms
of St. Lawrence County

Harvey, Paul Jr.  Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story

Herriot, James  All Things Bright and Beautiful

Herriot, James  All Things Great and Small

Herriot, James  All Things Wise and Wonderful

Herriot, James  The Lord God Made Them All

Herriot, James  James Herriot's Dog Stories

Hoffer, Eric  An American Odyssey

IDS (American Express)  Money Matters

Jacobs, Jane  The Death and Life of Great American Cities

James, Peter, and Nick Thorpe  Ancient Inventions

Jencks, Christopher and Meredith Phillips  The Black-White Test Score Gap

Jerome, John  Truck: On Rebuilding a Worn-Out Pickup and Other
Post-Technological Adventures

Joachim, David  A man, a Can, a Plan: 50 Great Guy Meals Even You Can Make

Lamb, Brian, Ed.  Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing,
and the Power of Ideas

Leonard, John (Intro.) and John Straley (Contributor)  These United States:
Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State Within the Union

May, Rollo  Love and Will

McGee, Harold  On Food and Cooking

Meyer, Karl, E.  Pundits, Poets, and Wits

Miller, Liz  Advanced In-Line Skating

Mirkin, Gabe and Marshall Hoffman  Sports Medicine

Muramoto, Naboro  Healing Ourselves

Nash, Ogden  You Can't Get There From Here

Nunberg, Geoffrey  The Way We Talk Now

Padwa, Lynette  Everything You Pretend to Know and Are Afraid
Someone Will Ask you

Peterson, James  Vegetables

Pollan, Michael  The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Pinney, Thomas  A History of Wine in America

Pinker, Steven  The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Postman, Neil  The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

Reader's Digest Book of Facts

Sleamaker, Rob, and Ray Browning  Serious Training For Endurance Athletes

Spence, Gerry L.  How to Argue and Win Every Time

Squire, Charles  Celtic Myth and Legend

Toffler, Alvin  Future Shock

Twain, Mark  Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays

The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Markets



OUTDOOR RECREATION

Adirondack Mountain Club  Adirondack Park Mountain Bike Preliminary
Trail & Route Listing

Adirondack Mountain Club  Guide to Adirondack Trails: High Peaks Region

Angier, Bradford  Feasting on Wild Edibles

Broze, Matt and George Gronseth  Sea Kayaker: Deep Trouble

Brown, Vinson  Reading the Woods

Dalrymple, Byron  Survival in the Outdoors

Davidson, James W. and John Rugge  The Complete Wilderness Paddler

Dowd, John  Sea Kayaking: A Manual For Long-distance Touring

Edinger, James G.  Watching for the Wind

Ehling, William P.  Canoeing Central New York

Foshee, John H.  Solo Canoeing

Freeman, Mark  Canoe Guide to Western & Central New York State

Garfield, Douglas  The New Steady Ski for Nordic Athletes

Gibbons, Euell  Stalking the Good Life

Hayes, John and Alex Wilson  Quiet Water Canoe Guide

Henninger, Bud  Bud Henniger's Weather Guide

Jacobson, Cliff  Canoeing Wild Rivers

Jamieson, Paul and Donald Morris  Adirondack Canoe Waters: North Flow

Kick, Peter  25 Mountain Bike Tours in the Adirondacks

Kinmont, Vikki and Claudia Axcell  Simple Foods for the Pack

Knopf, Alfred A.  The Audobon Society Field Guide to North American
Weather

Kulczycki, Chris  The Kayak Shop

Manning, Robert E.  Studies in Outdoor Recreation

Mansfield, Dick  Central New York Mountain Biking

McKibben, Bill  Long Distance: A Year of Living Strenuously

Merrill, W. K.  All About Camping

O'Shea, Peter  Guide to Adirondack Trails 2: Northern Region

Pallister, Nancy  NOLS Cookery

Pavelka, Ed, Ed.  Bicycling Magazine's 900 All-Time Best Tips

Peterson, Lee Allen  A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants

Seidman, David  The Essential Sea Kayaker: A Complete Guide for the
Open Water Paddler

Tapley, Lance  Ski Touring in New England and New York

Thomann, Gary  Mountain Biking in the Adirondacks

Wadsworth Bruce  Day Hikes for All Seasons: An Adirondack Sampler

Watts, Alan  Instant weather Forecasting

Wilson, Francis and Felicity Mansfield  The Weather



PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, AND ASTRONOMY

Adair, Robert K.  The Physics of Baseball

Aldridge, Susan  Magic Molecules: How Drugs Work

Armstrong, Frank B.  Biochemistry

Asimov, Isaac  Atom

Asimov, Isaac  The Solar System and Back

Atkins, P.W.  Creation Revisited: The Origin of Space, Time and the Universe

Atkins, P.W.  The Periodic Kingdom

Berger, James  Arco's Clear and Simple Chemistry

Berman, Bob  Secrets of the Night Sky

Bueche, F.  Principles of Physics

Chartrand and Wimmer  Skyguide

Cohen, Nathan  Gravity's Lens

Dean, John A.  Lange's Handbook of Chemistry

Ferris, Timothy  The Coming of Age in the Milky Way

Feynman, Richard  Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around
the Sun

Gardner, Martin  Relativity Simply Explained

Haber-Schaim, Cross, Dodge, and Walter  PSSC Physics

Hawking, Stephen W  A Brief History of Time

Kaufmann, William J. III  Black Holes and Warped Spacetime

Keenan, Charles W., Jesse H. Wood, and Donald Kleinfelter  General
College Chemistry

Kuhn, Thomas S.  The Copernican Revolution

Martin and Menzel  The Friendly Stars

Mayall and Wyckoff  The Sky Observer's Guide

Meeus, Jean  Astronomical Formulę

Meeus, Jean  Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon, and Planets

Sagan, Carl  Cosmos

Sherrod, P. Clay and Thomas L. Koed  A Complete Manual of Amateur
Astronomy

Shute, Shirk, Porter, and Hemenway  An Introduction to Navigation and
Nautical Astronomy

Smith, Clarence R.  Earth and Sky: Wonders of the Universe

Solomons  Organic Chemistry

Zim and Baker  Stars



POLITICS & ECONOMICS

Bloom, Alan  The Closing of the American Mind

Boaz, David  Libertarianism: A Primer

Hazlitt, Henry  Economics in One Lesson

Horowitz, David  Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey

Isaac, Rael and Erich Isaac  The Coercive Utopians

Jarvik, Laurence  PBS: Behind the Screen

Podhoretz, Norman  My Love Affair With America : The Cautionary Tale of a
Cheerful Conservative

Rakove, Jack N.  Original Meanings : Politics and Ideas
in the Making of the Constitution

Rauch, Jonathan  Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Freethought

Reeves, Richard  American Journey: Traveling With Tocqueville
in Search of Democracy in America

Will, George F.  The Woven Figure

Vazsonyi, Balint  America's 30 Years War



PUZZLES

Allen, Robert  The Ultimate Mental Challenge

Asimov, Isaac  Super Quiz

Blum, Raymond  Math Tricks, Puzzles, and Games

Gardner, Martin  The 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical
Puzzles and Diversions

Hunter, J. A. H.  Fun With Figures

Ryan, Steve  Test Your Math IQ

Salny, Abbie F.  The Mensa Genius Quiz-A-Day Book

Summers, George J.  Test Your Logic



REFERENCE & ENGLISH

Baker, Sheridan  The Complete Stylist and Handbook

Bernstein, Theodore M.  Dos, Don'ts & Maybes of English Usage

Bernstein, Theodore M.  Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins

Blundell, William E.  The Art and Craft of Feature Writing

Bryson, Bill  Made in America

Bryson, Bill  The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way

Buckley, William F., Jr. Ed., Samuel S. Vaughan Buckley;  The Right Word

Burrell, Brian  The Words We Live By: The Creeds, Mottoes, and Pledges
That Have Shaped America

Couture, Louise  Le Francois Vivant 1

Dutch, Robert A.  The Original Roget's Thesaurus of English Words
and Phrases

Ehrlich, Eugene  The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate

Elster, Charles Harrington  The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations

Elster, Charles Harrington  There's a Word for It: A Grandiloquent Guide
to Life

Fernald, James C.  Synonyms, Antonyms, and Prepositions

Gabiel, Michael Lynn  A Complete Guide to the law

Garner, Bryan A.  Diictionary of Modern American Usage

Goldstein, Norm, Ed.  The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manuel
1998.

Gordon, Karen Elizabeth  The Disheveled Dictionary

Gordon, Karen Elizabeth  Torn Wings and Faux Pas

Grambs, David  The Describer's Dictionary

Graves, Robert, and Alan Hodge  The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose

Graziano and Raulin  Research Methods: A Process of Inquiry

Green, Jonathon  Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-makers and the Dictionaries
They Made

Hammond, Caleb D., Pres.  Hammond's Complete World Atlas

Hodges, Whitten  Harbrace College Handbook

Kilpatrick, James J.  The Writer's Art

Kister, Kenneth F.  Kister's Best Dictionaries For Adults & Young People

Landau, Sidney I.  Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography

Lederer, Richard  Adventures of a Verbivore

Lewis, Norman  Word Power Made Easy

Lutz, William  Doublespeak Defined

Mann, Thomas  The Oxford Guide to Library Research

McCormick, Mona  The New York Times Guide to Reference Materials

McKean, Erin  Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime . . .

Miller, Ward S .  Word Wealth

Morehead, Philip D.  Roget's College Thesaurus

Morton, Herbert C.  The Story of Webster's Third: Phllip Goves's Controversial
Dictionary and Its Critics

Newman, Edwin  A Civil Tongue

Newman, Edwin  Strictly Speaking

O'Conner, Patricia T.  Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English
in Plain English

Ross-Larson, Bruce  Edit Yourself: A Manual for Everyone Who Works With Words

Safire, William  I Stand Corrected

Safire, William  On Language

Simon, John  Paradigms Lost

Skillin, Marjorie E., Gay, Robert M., et al  Words Into Type

Smith, Ken  Junk English

Strunk, William and E.B. White  The Elements of Style

Tarshis, Barry  Grammar for Smart People: Your User-Friendly Guide to
Speaking and Writing Better English

Urdang, Laurence  The New York Times Guide to Misunderstood, Misused,
and Mispronounced Words

Waddell, Marie L., Robert M. Esch, and Roberta R. Walker  The Art of Styling
Sentences

Wallraff, Barbara  Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue Is Rewarded, Crimes
Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice Is Done

Yeager, Paul  Literally, the Best Language Book Ever: Annoying Words
and Abused Phrases You Should Never Use Again

Zinsser, William  On Writing Well



SCIENCE, LOGIC & SKEPTICISM

Asimov, Isaac  Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space

Bailey, Ronald  Ecoscam : The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse

Barrett, Stephen  The Vitamin Pushers

Diamond, Jared  Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Engel, Leonard, Ed.  New Worlds of Modern Science

Fisher and Lipson  Thinking About Science

Fumento, Michael  Science Under Seige: Balancing Technology and the
Environment

Fumento, Michael  The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS

Gardner, Martin  Gardner's Whys and Wherefores

Gell-Mann, Murray  The Quark and the Jaguar

Gross, Paul R.  Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels
with Science

Hayek, F. A.  The Counter-Revolution of Science

Herrnstein, Richard J, and Charles Murray  The Bell Curve

Huxley, T. H.  Science and Christian Tradition

Milloy, Steven  Science Without Sense

Milloy, Steven and Michael Gough  Silencing Science

Sagan, Carl  Broca's Brain

Snow, C. P.  Science and Government

Stephan, Paula and Sharon Levin  Striking the Mother Load in Science

Vos Savant, Marilyn  The Power of Logical Thinking

Allen, Steve  Meeting of the Minds

Bruce, Robert V  The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876

Chase, Alston  In a Dark Wood: The Fight Over Forests and the Rising
Tyranny of Ecology

Cohen, Bernard I.  Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political
Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison

Dawkins, Richard  Unweaving the Rainbow

Dewdney, A. K.  Yes, We Have No Neurons

Fumento, Michael  The Fat of the Land

Gardner, Martin  The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

Gilovich, Thomas  How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human
Reason in Everyday Life

Gross, Paul R.  The Flight From Science and Reason

Hagen, Margaret A.  Whores of the Court

Huber, Peter W.  Galileo's Revenge

Kurtz, Paul  Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of Humanism

Larson, Edward J.  Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's
Continuing Debate over Science and Religion

Medawar, P. B.  The Threat and the Glory

Randi, James  Flim-Flam! Psychics, Esp, Unicorns, and Other Delusions

Ray, Dixie Lee  Environmental Overkill

Rothman, Milton A.  The Science Gap: Dispelling the Myths and Understanding
the Reality of Science

Sagan, Carl  The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Sagan, Carl  The Dragons of Eden

Simon, Julian L.  The Ultimate Resourse 2

Szasz, Thomas Stephen  The Myth of Psychotherapy



TRAVEL & ADVENTURE

Alexander, Caroline  The Endurance: Shakleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition

Allen, Mel, ed.  Roadside Attractions

Bryson, Bill  A Walk in the Woods

Bryson, Bill  I'm a Stranger Here Myself

Bryson, Bill  The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

Davis, Wade  One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest

Gilbert, Roger, Anne Wallace, and Jeffrey C. Robinson  The Quotable Walker

Grant, Richard  American Nomads: Travels With Lost Conquistadors

Horwitz, Tony  Blue Latitudes

Horwitz, Tony  One for the Road: An Outback Adventure

Junger, Sebastian  The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

Kuralt, Charles  On the Road With Charles Kuralt

Muir, John  Travels in Alaska

Sevareid, Eric  Canoeing With the Cree

Toth, Susan Allen  My Love Affair With England: A Traveler's Memoir

Wilson, Edmund  Upstate : Records and Recollections of Northern New York

Whittle, Tyler  The Plant Hunters

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