Hello All: Last week, we found out that a neighbor of someone we know died rather unexpectedly. We met his sister (A very nice woman from Florida.), and we said that we would help her with disposing of the books.
She, like us, doesn't want all these nearly 2,000 books to go into the landfill. All of us would rather see these books go to the Computer History Museum, good homes, or to the recycle bookstores for distribution. We all want the landfill to be an absolute last resort. The man who died was a technical writer who loved and sold books online. His apartment is filled with books, and some are in a storage locker. Along with a motorcycle (an old Kawasaki - bad seat), miscellaneous computer equipment, and some other stuff that we haven't been able to get to. I believe that I saw lots of computer discs, but I have no idea what was on them. His sister may have to go through them to determine if any of them have family value, first. Right now, most of the books that we've seen on our first pass include: * Chess books * Microsoft books that lead to certification * More Microsoft books that cover different associated products * Java versions that go to 2.0, as far as we can tell at this point * Books on semiconductor design and related topics * Program management * Real estate, investment, and financial topics * A few on law - especially about living with someone that you're not married to He's supposed to have collected science fiction books, also, but we haven't come across them - yet. We managed to verify two numbered boxes against a list that we were given, and the books in those boxes include: Box 16 (Author, title, ISBN) Peterson, Michael T.; Minton, Larry 3D Studio Max 2 Fundamentals 1562058398 Francis, Brian; Llibre, Juan; Kauffman, John Active Server Pages 2.0 (Beginning Ser.) 1861001347 Schildt, Herbert C++ : The Complete Reference 78821231 Mandell, Steven Dr. Mandell's Ultimate PC Desk Reference 1567615333 Monson-Haefel, Richard Enterprise JavaBeans, Engl. ed. 1565926056 Harvey, Greg Excel 5 for MACS for Dummies 1568841868 Vacca, John R. Internet Security Secrets 1568844573 Tracy, Joe; Jerrard, Dave; Wheeler, Scott LightWave 3D Applied, Version 5.6 929870484 Husain, Kamran Linux Unleashed 672307057 Sydow, Dan Parks Mac Programming for Dummies 1568841736 Pogue, David; Schorr, Joseph Macs for Dummies 1568846193 Anonymous; Sams Development Staff Maximum Security : A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your Site 672313413 Waite Group Staff Microsoft Quick C Programming 1556150482 Rathbone, Tina Modems for Dummies 1568842236 Lewis, Bil; Berg, Daniel J. Multithreaded Programming with Pthreads 136807291 Dempsey, Rob; Bruce, Glen Security in Distributed Computing : Did You Lock the Door? 131829084 Taylor, Allen G. SQL for Dummies 764504150 Roberts, Simon; Heller, Phillip; Lerner, Michael The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide 782124631 Orfali, Robert; Harkey, Daniel; Edwards, Jeri The Essential Client/Server Survival Guide 442019416 Simrin, Steven The Waite Group's MS-DOS Bible 672227894 Blum, Daniel J. Understanding Active Directory Services 1572317213 Mincberg, Mella WordPerfect 6 Made Easy 78818958 Box 34 Mano, M. Morris Computer Engineering: Hardware Design 131629263 Greif, Irene (Editor) Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: A Book of Readings 934613575 Fortier, Paul Design and Analysis of Distributed Real-Time Systems 70216193 Cruft Laboratory Electronic Circuits and Tubes Alley, Charles L.; Atwood, Kenneth W. Electronic Engineering Hayt, William H.; Kemmerly, Jack E. Engineering Circuit Analysis McGraw-Hill 70273936 Behnke, H. Fundamentals of Mathematics: Volumes 1, 2 and 3 262020483 Davis, Keith; Newstrom, John W. Human Behavior at Work: Organizational Behavior 70155747 Pilkey, Walter D.; Wunderlich, Walter Mechanics of Structures: Variational and Computational Methods 849344352 Phillips, Ron et al Professional Java Server Programming 1861002777 Yourdon, Edward; Constantine, Larry L. Structured Design: Fundamentals of a Discipline 917072111 Thomas, D. E.; Moorby, Philip R. The Verilog Hardware Description Language 792397231 Muroga, Saburo VLSI System Design: When and How to Design VLSI Circuits 471860905 Pogue, David; Schorr, Joseph Windows Me: The Missing Manual 059600009X Garms, Jason Windows NT 4 Server Unleashed: Professional Ref Edition 672310023 Please let me know if you have any interest in any of these books, future books, or more information about these books. I'd rather not bother the lists any more than I need to. So if I can get a subset of interested people, I won't have to send the information to the lists, just to the interested people. Unless the list managers tell me otherwise. ;-) Please keep any further distribution to Silicon Valley local people, unless they are willing to cover any postage fees. We have a list, but we have not been able to verify the accuracy of the whole list. For the items in boxes, it appears that it may be accurate. However, lots of books are not in boxes, so we are not as certain about them. If anyone has any questions about other potential books, please send me an e-mail, and I will try to answer any questions. Until later-- Carole _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
