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A guide to book resources available:

• Selected etexts
• Sites with etexts or etext information
• Commercial books sources on the net
• Theses and dissertations

• Selected etexts:
  • Letters by Thomas Jefferson. A 1.5 Mb+ collection of the letters written by Thomas Jefferson.

  • Miscellany by Thomas Jefferson a 1 Mb+ collection of the miscellaneous writings of Thomas Jefferson.

  • Presumed Guilty: The Laws's Victims in the War on Drugs. A series of article published in the Pittsburgh Press about the excesses committed by law enforcement during the Holy War on Drugs (158 kb flat ascii file). (Also available on this topic is an article from Reason magazine.)

  • The Principia Discordia. Wherein everything you need to know about anything is revealed (HTML version).

  • Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young. An 1861 text which purports to offer over 500 "receipts" or articles about as eclectic a bunch of topics as you can imagine. The ostensible inside poop on each is offered (229 kb flat ascii text).

  • Study Guide to Wheelock. A study guide to accompany a popular textbook on the Latin language (664 kb flat ascii file).

  • T.A.Z.: Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey. An interesting collection of rants, editorials, observations, etc. (264 kb flat ascii file). There's more of Bey's stuff at another site.

• Sites with etexts or etext information:
  • Alex: A Catalogue of Texts on the Internet is a site at Oxford University that contains lists of all known available texts on the Internet by author or title.

  • Catalog of Available Online Books. A list of books, mostly in a classical vein, available in electronic form. All the books in this list are available via ftp from wiretap.spies.com.

  • The CRS4 Active Books Library is a collection of HTML documents structured either as textbooks or manuals on scientific or technical subjects, e.g. a text on 1-D compressible flow and one on finite elements.

• Commercial books sources on the net:
  • The MIT Press has a gopher site with information such as a book catalog and how to order.

  • Moe's Books. Moe's is primarily a used book store with a section specializing in art and antiquarian books. They have a selection of online specialized catalogs of out-of-print, new and remaindered books.

  • Deep Politics Bookstore

• Theses and dissertations:
  • Computational Mechanics of Cellular Automata by James E. Hanson, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, one or several compressed PostScript files.

  • Cardinal Spline Wavelets by Debao Chen, Univ. of Texas, Aug. 1994, six compressed PostScript files.

  • A Knowledge-Based Environment for the Design and Analysis of Multidimensional Multirate Signal Processing Algorithms by Brian L. Evans, Georgia Tech, June 1993, 1.95 Mb PostScript. Software to implement the ideas expressed in this document exists at the same site. See the README file for details.

  • Applications of Wavelets to Quantization and Random Process Representations by Marc Goldburg, Stanford University, May 1993, 726 Kb compressed PostScript.

  • Wavelets and Filter Banks - New Results and Applications by Ramesh Gopinath, Rice University, Apr. 1993, 1.4 Mb compressed PostScript. The Rice Wavelet Tools software package, which implements the ideas in this thesis, is also available, albeit sparsely documented.

  • Imagine Processing with Multiscale Stochastic Models by Mark R. Luettgen, MIT, May 1993, 2.1 Mb compressed Postscript.

  • Bayesian Methods for Adaptive Models by David J. C. Mackay, Caltech, Dec. 1991, see README file for details.

  • The Application of Neural Nets to Imaging and Signal Processing in Astronomy and Medical Imaging by A. S. Miller, University of Southampton, Jan. 1994, 1.1 Mb compressed PostScript.

  • The Iterative Solution of Large Sparse Linear Systems Using Vector Computers by Thomas C. Oppe, Univ. of Texas, May 1990, 1.25 Mb PostScript.

  • A Learning Approach to Personalized Information Filtering by Beerud Sheth, MIT, Feb. 1994, 1.15 Mb compressed PostScript.

  • Efficient Methods for Digital Signal and Image Reconstruction from Nonuniform Samples by Thomas Strohmer, Universitat Wien, Nov. 1993, 4.3 Mb compressed PostScript.

  • Neural Networks and Adaptive Computers: Theory and Methods of Stochastic Adaptive Computation by Huaiyu Zhu, Univ. of Liverpool, 1993, 890 Kb compressed PostScript.

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