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1. Lasers, Ray Guns, and Light Cannon : Projects from the Wizard's Workbench by Gordon McComb 2. Airborne Laser : Bullets of Light by Robert W. Duffner, Hans Mark 3. The Laser Cookbook : 88 Practical Projects by Gordon McComb 4. The Blue Laser Diode : GaN Based Light Emitters and Lasers by Gerhard Fasol, et al 5. Lasers and Holography : An Introduction to Coherent Optics by Winston E. Kock 6. Laser Fundamentals by William T. Silfvast 7. Lasers : Harnessing the Atom's Light by James P. Harbison, Robert E. Nahory (Contributor) 8. Build Your Own Working Fiberoptic Infrared and Laser Space-Age Projects by Robert E. Iannini 9. The Laser Guidebook (Optical and Electro-Optical Engineering Series) by Jeff Hecht 10. Understanding Lasers : An Entry-Level Guide by Jeff Hecht 11. Principles of Lasers by Orazio Svelto(Editor), David C. Hanna (Translator) 12. Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits (Wiley Series in Microwave & Optical Engineering) by Larry A. Coldren, Scott W. Corzine (Contributor) 13. Laser Experiments for Beginners by Richard N. Zare, et al 14. Industrial Applications of Lasers by John F. Ready 15. Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena : Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications on a Femtosecond Time Scale (Optics and Photonics) by Jean-Claude Diels, Wolfgang Rudolph (Contributor) 16. Laser Communications in Space (Artech House Optoelectronics Library) by Stephen G. Lambert, William L. Casey (Contributor) 17. Laser : Light of a Million Uses by Jeff Hecht, Dick Teresi 18. Lasers by Peter W. Milonni, Joseph H. Eberly (Contributor) 19. Laser Electronics (Prentice Hall Series in Solid State Physical Electronics) by Joesph T. Verdeyen, Joseph T. Verdeyen 20. Optical Waves in Crystals : Propagation and Control of Laser Radiation by Amnon and Yeh, Pochi Yariv, Pochi Yeh (Photographer) 21. Handbook of Nonlinear Optical Crystals (Springer Series in Optical Sciences, Vol 64) by V. G. Dmitriev, et al 22. Handbook of Distributed Feedback Laser Diodes by Geert Morthier, Patrick Vankwikelberge (Contributor) 23. Semiconductor-Laser Physics by Weng W. Chow, et al 24. Laser Engineering by Kelin J. Kuhn 25. Tunable Laser Diodes (Artech House Optoelectronics Library) by Markus-Christian Amann, et al 26. Lasers : Theory and Practice (Prentice-Hall International Series in Optoelectronics) by John Hawkes, et al 27. Laser Material Processing by W. M. Steen 28. Semiconductor Lasers : Past, Present, and Future (Aip Series in Theoretical and Applied Optics) by G. P. Agrawal(Editor) 29. Optical Fdm Network Technologies (Artech House Optoelectronics Library) by Kiyoshi Nosu 30. Femtosecond Laser Pulses : Principles and Experiments by Claude Rulliere(Editor) 31. Quantum Well Lasers (Quantum Electronics : Principles and Applications) by Peter S. Zory(Editor) 32. Ultraviolet Laser Technology and Applications by David J. Elliott 33. Nonlinear Optics : Basic Concepts by D. L. Mills 34. The Laser in America, 1950-1970 by Joan Lisa Bromberg 35. Laser Physics by Murry III Sargent, et al 36. Lasers, Ray Guns, and Light Cannons : Projects from the Wizard's Workbench by Gordon McComb 37. Spontaneous Emission and Laser Oscillation in Microcavities (The CRC Press Laser Nad Optical Science and Technology) by Hiroyuki Yokoyama(Editor), Kikuo Ujihara (Editor) 38. Optical Design Fundamentals for Infrared Systems (Tutorial Texts in Optical Engineering, Vol Tt 20) by Max J. Riedl 39. Laser-Molecule Interaction : Laser Physics and Molecular Nonlinear Optics by A. Ducasse, et al 40. Frequency Stabilization of Semiconductor Laser Diodes (Artech House Optoelectronics Library) by Tetsuhiko Ikegami, et al 41. Handbook of Laser Wavelengths (CRC Press Laser and Optical Science and Technology Series) by Marvin John Weber 42. Laser Fundamentals by William T. Silfvast 43. Lasers : Invention to Application by John R. Whinnery(Editor), Jesse H. Ausubel (Editor) 44. Digital Image Processing : Practical Applications of Parallel Processing Techniques (Ellis Horwood Series in Digital and Signal Processing) by Zahid Hussain 45. Ultrafast Diode Lasers : Fundamentals and Applications (Artech House Optoeletronics Library) by Peter Vasil'Ev 46. Introduction to Lasers and Their Applications by Donald C. O'Shea, et al 47. Semiconductor Lasers II : Materials and Structures (Optics and Photonics) by Eli Kapon(Editor) 48. Semiconductor Lasers I : Fundamentals (Optics and Photonics) by Eli Kapon(Editor) 49. Tunable Lasers Handbook (Optics and Photonics) by F. J. Duarte(Editor) 50. Laser Optoacoustics by V.E. Gusev, et al 51. Coherent Lightwave Communication Systems by Shiro Ryu 52. Crystalline Lasers : Physical Processes and Operating Schemes (Laser Science and Technology Series) by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kaminskii, et al 53. Distributed Feedback Laser Diodes: Principles and Physical Modelling by H. Ghafouri-Shiraz, B. S. K. Lo (Contributor) 54. Coherence, Amplification, and Quantum Effects in Semiconductor Lasers (Wiley Series on Pure and Applied Optics) by Yoshihisa Yamamoto(Editor) 55. Laser Pioneers by Jeff Hecht 56. Acousto-Optic Signal Processing : Fundamentals & Applications by Pankaj K. Das, et al 57. Undulators and Free-Electron Lasers (International Series of Monographs on Physics, No 79) by P. Luchini, H. Motz (Contributor) 58. Instabilities in Laser-Matter Interaction by Viktor A. Khokhlov(Contributor), Sergei I. Anisimov 59. Laser-Enhanced Ionization Spectrometry (Chemical Analysis, Vol 136) by John C. Travis(Editor), Gregory C. Turk (Editor) 60. Frequency Control of Semiconductor Lasers (Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering) by Motoichi Ohtsu(Editor), Motoichi Ohstu (Editor) 61. Solid-State Laser Engineering by Walter Koechner 62. Semiconductor-Laser Fundamentals; Physics of the Gain Materials by Weng W. Chow 63. Short Pulse Laser Interactions with Matter; An Introduction by Paul Gibbon 64. Bistabilities and Nonlinearities in Laser Diodes (Artech House Optoelectronics Library) by Hitoshi Kawaguchi 65. Semiconductor Raman Lasers (Artech House Optoelectronics Library) by Ken Suto, et al 66. Fundamentals of Nonlinear Optics of Atomic Gases (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics) by Nikolai B. Delone, Vladimir Krainov (Contributor) 67. Unturned Stones : How the Laser Happened by Charles H. Townes

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The Age of Spiritual Machines : When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence - if Ray Kurzweil is right, we've only got until about 2020 before computers outpace the human brain in computational power. Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of The Age of Intelligent Machines, shows that technological evolution moves at an exponential pace. Further, he asserts, in a sort of swirling postulate, time speeds up as order increases, and vice versa. He calls this the "Law of Time and Chaos," and it means that although entropy is slowing the stream of time down for the universe overall, and thus vastly increasing the amount of time between major events, in the eddy of technological evolution the exact opposite is happening, and events will soon be coming faster and more furiously. This means that we'd better figure out how to deal with conscious machines as soon as possible--they'll soon not only be able to beat us at chess, they'll likely demand civil rights, and they may at last realize the very human dream of immortality. -- an oustanding must get book!

The Pattern on the Stone : The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work (Science Masters Series) - Danie (connection machine) l Hillis has made a career of puzzling over the nature of information and the mechanisms that put information to use. Now, he's distilled his accumulated knowledge of computer science into The Pattern on the Stone, a glorious book that reveals the nature of logical machines simply and elegantly.

The Century - A LAND MARK BOOK FOR THIS ERA ... coauthored by PETER JENNINGS - - - the news anchor ... "We have sought," write Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster, "to distinguish our story from other histories by holding each chapter up to a litmus test: Have we looked at this time from the perspective of someone who lived through it? And in doing so, have we captured a sense not only of the events of a particular era, but of the mood, the prevailing attitudes?" Thus, the experiences of ordinary men and women come to life in sidebars that appear throughout The Century. Sharpe James, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, recalls the sense of excitement and possibility he felt when Jackie Robinson became the first black ballplayer in the major leagues. Gilles Ryan remembers what it was like to be a high-school student in Dayton, Tennessee, during the Scopes Trial. Connie Chang talks about emigrating to the United States from Korea and establishing a liquor store in Los Angeles, only to have it destroyed in the civil unrest. --- what this boils down to is ... GET THIS BOOK OR RISK BEING LEFT BEHIND IN THE HISTORICAL DUST ...

Microsoft Secrets : How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People - DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW BILL GATES REALLY MADE HIS BILLIONS -- AND HOW HE WILL CONTINUE TO? Read this book ... The description says: Today, Microsoft commands the high ground of the information superhighway by owning the operating systems and basic applications programs that run on the world's 170 million computers. Beyond the unquestioned genius and vision of Bill Gates, what accounts for Microsofts astounding success? Drawing on almost two years of on-site observation at Microsoft headquarters, eminent scientists Michael A. Cusumano and Richard W. Selby reveal many of Microsoft's innermost secrets. This inside report, based on forty in-depth interviews by authors who had access to confidential documents and project data, outlines the seven complementary strategies that characterize exactly how Microsoft competes and operates, including the "Brain Trust" of talented employees and exceptional management; "bang for the buck" competitive strategies and clear organizational goals that produce self-critiquing, learning, and improving; a flexible, incremental approach to product development; and a relentless pursuit of future markets. Cusumano and Selby's masterful analysis successfully uncovers the distinctive way in which Microsoft has combined all of the elements necessary to get to the top of an enormously important industry -- and stay there.