What's on your bookshelf -- must reads

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jackinnj

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Op Amp Applications Handbook -- Walt Jung
Analog Circuit Design -- Jim Williams
Op Amps for Everyone -- Ron Mancini
Audio Power Amplifier Handbook -- Self
Troubleshooting Analog Circuits -- Pease
Vacuum Tube Amplifiers

Art of Electronics
Experimental Methods in RD Design (ARRL)
Radio Amateur's Handbook (ARRL)

Digikey Catalog
Mouser Catalog
Allied electronics Catalog

RCA Receiving Tube Manual
RCA Solid State Devices Manual

Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
 
TerryO

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Must reads on my bookshelf?

Holy Bible KJV
Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan)
Fox's Book of Martyrs
The Lives (Plutarch)
Born in Blood (Robinson)
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
The Flame of Islam (Harold Lamb)
The Sleepwalkers (Koestler)
The Complete Angler (Issac Walton)

In addition, a bit lighter:

The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers)
Swallows and Amazons series (Arthur Ransome)
Master and Commander series (Patrick O'Brian)

And many, many more.............. I'll come back to this thread again.

Best Regards,
TerryO
 
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ashok said:
I guess this thread by default ( on this forum ) is meant to be a listing of technical books .
Correct ?
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Hopefully we have lives which extend beyond audio.

wrt the KJV -- there is a very interesting book about the creation of the KJV, the political problems of the day, the difficulty for the English Church with its antecedents. It's called "God's Secretaries" --
 
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Anarki till vardags
Computers in Context: The Philosophy and Practice of Systems Design
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Introducing Postmodernism
Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs From Alcohol To Ecstasy
Gökmannen/The Cuckoo's Progress
 
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Must reads? Hmmm.... That's tough.

Got some favorite reads on the shelf:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass- Lewis Carroll
The Mad Scientists' Club - Bertrand R. Brinley
Fatu Hiva- Thor Heyerdahl
Kon-Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl
Aku-Aku - Thor Heyerdahl
Ra Expeditions - Thor Heyerdahl
Last Voyage of Captain Cook - John Ledyard and James Zug
Little Big Man -Thomas Berger
La Planete Des Singes - Pierre Boulle
The Backstage Handbook - Paul Carter and George Chiang
Making Movies - Sidney Lumet
Les haut-parleurs - Jean Hiraga
Lafayette Radio Electronics Catalog - 1966
Mouser Catalog 2006
 
jackinnj

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Panomaniac -- if you like the adventure stuff you should consider "My Seven Years in Tibet" -- a fascinating tale of a German soldier trapped in India at the outbreak of WW-II and his escape to Tibet. If I recall correctly, he had a Leica and recorded part of his adventure.

Thor Heyerdahl was required reading when I was in high school.
 
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henry miller ¨tropic of cancer¨
john kennedy toole ¨a confederation of dunces¨
jorge luis borges ¨el aleph¨
joan peruch ¨bestiario fantàstico¨
nietzche: various
charles henry delaleu ¨haut parleurs¨-loudspeakers-
jung: psychology and alchemy
jacques rival ¨woods polishing and finish¨
poe: extraordinaire narrations
quevedo, cervantes, etc -spanish ¨siècle d´or¨-
anthony burgess ¨the right to an answer¨
lovecraft: various fictions
 
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"High Performance Loudspeakers" Martin Collums. Anything by Ben Duncan on Solid state. Anything at all by P.G.Wodehouse. Of whom E.Waugh wrote something like...."His world will never stale and will continue to release future generations from a drudgery perhaps more oppressive than our own" (not that I'm depressed or anything....!)
 
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SY said:
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, one of the greatest books in the English language. Three books if you count each volume separately.
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Yup, frequent reference.
Plus (not in order):
In Search OF Schrodinger's Cat - John Gribbin
A Brief History Of Time - Stephen W. Hawking
"Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!" - Richard F. Feynman
Q.E.D. - Richard F. Feynman
Hyperspace - Michio Kaku (Copy signed in kanji)
The Language Of The Genes - Steve Jones
Valve Amplifiers - Morgan Jones
The Radiotron Designers Handbook
Videotape Recording - Josepf F. Robinson


Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow - Peter Hoeg
Death And The Penguin - Andrey Kurkov
An Artist In The Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
Girl With A Pearl Earring - Tracy Chavalier
Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World - Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
Dance, Dance, Dance - Haruki Murakami
Kafka On The Shore - Haruki Murakami
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

Just a few that have influenced and are un-lent...:rolleyes:
 
patch

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on the bookshelf, dashboard, under the bed, etc

Right now:

Handbook of Electronics Calculations, Kaufman and Seidman. Like calming passages of scripture.

On Difficulty and Other Essays, George Steiner. Brilliant then and now.

The Naturalist's Lexicon, RS Woods. Applying latin and greek to the kingdoms of plant and animal life puts me down fast.

The World as Will and Representation, Aurthur Schopenhauer. For me, still a mind blowing ontology. His theory of boredom was so original and right on target...boredom can explain much about the recurring problems of history.
 
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