Jeff's "books I have lying about" list Stuff I've read relatively recently, or that unduly influenced me, or that's in one of my to-be-read piles... [last updated: 6-Nov-2000] Credits...  See also my want-list

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• Inplementing Directory Services

By: Archie Reed

• Understanding and Deploying Ldap Directory Services

by Tim Howes, Mark C. Smith, Gordon S. Good

• GUI Bloopers Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers

By: Jeff Johnson

• Unified Software Development Process

By: Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh

• Networked Applications: A Guide to the New Computing Infrastructure

By: David G. Messerschmitt

• Surviving Object-Oriented Projects : A Manager's Guide

By: Alistair Cockburn

• Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML

By: Meilir Page-Jones, Larry L. Constantine

• Invisible Computer : Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex and Information Applicances Are the Solution

by Donald A. Norman

• Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World

by Bruce Schneier

I just finished reading it. It is effectively a comprehensive survey of networked computer security, told as a story, with the story broken down into three main facets: Landscape, Technologies, and Strategies. In other words, he discusses the lay of the security landscape today, what tools we have to work with, and then discusses the possible strategies for dealing with it. Overall, he's echoing Dan Geer's mantra of Risk management is where the money is, but he's also filling-in the surrounding context in detail, and describing a practical framework with which to think about networked computer security in the context of getting on with our lives even though there is no such thing as perfect security. [5-Nov-2000]

• Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards

By: William Stallings

• Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice

By: William Stallings

• Trust in Cyberspace

By: Fred B. Schneider(Editor), et al

• CORBA Security: An Introduction to Safe Computing with Objects

By: Bob Blakley

• The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet : Tools of Scientific Revolutions (Nypl/Oup Lectures)

by Freeman Dyson

• Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace

by Lawrence Lessig

• The Social Life of Information

by John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid

• The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness

by Thomas J. Peters, Tom Peters, Dean LeBaron

Currently on my "gotta make time to read this" pile.
 

• Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities

by John Hagel, Arthur G. Armstrong

Currently on my "gotta make some time and finish reading this" pile. A very interesting book for anyone interested in how entrepenuership and conducting a business works in this brave new Internet-enabled age.

• A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking

One of my brothers was given this book for Christmas when it originally came out (his copy is a first edition, I believe) -- anyway, I was fascinated by it and sat down that Xmas afternoon and devoured it. I was simply blown away.
 

• Wrinkles in Time

by George Smoot, Keay Davidson (Contributor)

Several years after devouring A Brief History of Time, the same brother gave me this book for Christmas. I finally got around to reading it about a year later and was captivated. Being an engineer, I found this tale totally engrossing and a great insight into hands-on cosmological research.
 

• Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

by Kip S. Thorne

I nosed around some on the web for other books on cosmology and ended up asking for this one for Christmas 1995, and my folks gave it to me. I found this book totally engrossing and wonderful. It not only provides a careful, clear explanation of the theories behind current cosmology (I find it overall more approachable than Brief History of Time), but also a historical account of the sequence of research leading up to where we are today, and finishes with learned speculation on possible & controversial research directions we're headed in. Highly recommended.
 

• Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

by Stephen Hawking

I went out and got this book and the one below as a result of reading Thorne's book. I'm hooked on this cosmology stuff. I read these two (and Thorne's) in early 1996. It has been fascinating to notice the various discoveries that've occured since having read these books -- things that the various theories predicted, such as galactic-center giant black holes and attendant multi-lightyear long gas jets. Utterly fascinating stuff.
 

• Introducing Stephen Hawking

by J. P. McEvoy, Oscar Zarate (Contributor), Richard Appignanesi (Editor), S. Hawking

A very interesting, illustrated expose' of Hawking's theories and life. Well worth the read and quite entertaining visually. Great accompanyment to Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, and Brief History of Time.

• What Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race

by John Royden Maddox

• The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins

by Alan H. Guth, Alan P. Lightman

• About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

by P. C. W. Davies

• Imagined Worlds,

by Freeman Dyson

• Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C

by Bruce Schneier

THE CRYPTO BIBLE -- whether you're simply curious, a wannabe, or a practioner of any level.
 

• Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design

by Electronic Frontier Foundation, John Gilmore (Editor)

A must-read for anyone at all interested in the on-going cryptography debate and/or cryptography in general.
 

• A History of Mathematics

by Uta C. Merzbach (Photographer), Carl B. Boyer
 

• Hidden Order : The Economics of Everyday Life

by David D. Friedman

Currently on my "gotta make time to read this" pile.
 

• Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape

by Philip E. Agre (Editor), Marc Rotenberg (Editor)

Currently on my "gotta make time to read this" pile.
 

• Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption

by Whitfield Diffie, Susan Eva Landau

Currently on my "gotta make time to read this" pile.

These are books I own and may-or-may-not have read. I used the term "literary" in the title of this page loosely. I may or may not have purchased my copies through Amazon.com -- e.g. some were gifts. This list isn't complete; there's stuff I've read that isn't listed, and there's unlisted, to-be-read-one-of-these-days stuff piled up around here. I will (in general) list technical computer science and software books somewhere else, when I get around to it (or maybe not, I haven't decided). I add stuff to the list whimsically.

My books & music "want list" is here...

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