Among the various things that I do on the Internet and that I use the
Internet for, I often need quick reference to various texts. (Of course,
having a cable modem doesn't hurt for quick searches on Google or Yahoo
either.) As of Saturday, February 10, 2007, this is what I have close at
hand (it changes occasionally):
To my right I have three shelves: |
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The lower shelf has: |
- the Physicians' Desk Reference Supplement A (2001);
- A Massage Therapist's Guide to Pathology;
- the Physicians' Desk Reference (2001);
- the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary;
- the American Heritage Dictionary;
- The American Reader;
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- The Democracy Reader;
- The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law;
- the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association;
- the User Manual for Dramatica Pro 4.0;
- the User Manual for StoryView; and
- The Songwriter's Idea Book.
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The middle shelf has: |
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International Law and World Order;
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the AMA's Home Medical
Encyclopedia;
- Mind Hacks;
- Mind Performance Hacks;
- the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
version IV (DSM-IV);
- Ethics for the New Millenium;
- The Koran;
- the KJV version of the Bible;
- the Tao Te Ching;
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- Essential Works of Lenin;
- the Catechism of the Catholic Church;
- a Latin-English Dictionary;
- the Tanakh;
- Guns, Crime, and Freedom;
- the 1987 NJ Code of Criminal Justice; and
- The Oxford Companion to American Law.
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The top shelf has: |
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- Decorative Plant and Flower Studies;
- Magic and Mystical Symbols;
- Trees and Leaves;
- Advertising Cuts of the 20s and 30s;
- Old-Fashioned Illustrations of Books, Reading, &Writing;
- Brazilian Three-Dimensional Embroidery;
- Picture Book of Devils, Demons and Witchcraft;
- Complete Review Guide for National & State Certification
Examinations in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork;
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- Trail Guide to the Body;
- NCBTMB Study Guide;
- The Body Bears the Burden;
- Flash XML StudioLab;
- Programming perl;
- Writing Java Applets;
- VB.NET Language in a Nutshell;
- MOC Programming with C#; and
- MOC Updating System Administrator Skills from Microsoft Windows
2000 to Windows 2003 .
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Above my computer monitor, I have: |
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- Basic Documents in International Law and World Order;
- Head Rush Ajax;
- User Guide for Music Creator 3;
- Web Database Applications with
PHP and MySQL;
- Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook;
- Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations;
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- Roget's Thesaurus of Words and Phrases;
- The People Shall Judge;
- PHP;
- Latin Quips at your Fingertips;
- Latin for the Illiterati;
- Secrets of Podcasting; and
- the Adobe Photoshop CS User Guide.
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And to my left I use parts of two shelves.
The lower shelf has: |
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- HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide;
- JavaScript: The Definitive Guide;
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- Apache, MySQL, and PHP Web Development for Dummies; and
- Home Wireless Networking in a Snap.
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The top shelf has: |
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a Spanish-English Dictionary;
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an Italian-English Dictionary;
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a French-English Dictionary;
- a Russian-English Dictionary;
- a German-English Dictionary;
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- Inside the Third Reich;
- The Past Through Tomorrow;
- Man and his Symbols;
- The Book of Practical Aromatherapy; and
- The First Amendment Book.
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| Inside my computer I have the Microsoft Encarta, the Encyclopedia
Britannica, and the Microsoft Developer Network Library Reference. I also
access several online sources which you can find here. |
