network of books portal 03-09-2014d1057

2015-07-04

network of books portal 03-09-2014d1057




other possible categories
books on science
textbooks on science
books on math
books on networks
textbooks on math
books on social topics
books on morality or purpose of life or philosophy
books on technology
books on health


loose collection of categories so far 06-28-2015d2349 


Technology


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Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs (from Amazon recommendation)


Science 


Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain


**Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves


George Church


http://www.amazon.com/Regenesis-Synthetic-Biology-Reinvent-Ourselves/dp/0465021751/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1352582497&sr=8-1&keywords=Regenesis%3A+How+Synthetic+Biology+Will+Reinvent+Nature+and+Ourselves





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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory


http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Evolutionary-Theory-Stephen-Gould/dp/0674006135/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1360176956&sr=8-2&keywords=evolutionary+theory


some book about RNA


books that contain these terms (books about lab techniques protocols and procedures)


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intraperitoneal injection facs fish immunohistochemistry telomeric repeat amplification protocol microarray Positron emission tomography

The Lazy Intellectual: Maximum Knowledge, Minimal Effort
Richard Wallace
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Math 


Handbook of Optimization in Complex Networks: Theory and Applications (Springer Optimization and Its Applications)


-http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Optimization-Complex-Networks-Applications/dp/1461407532/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413880837&sr=8-1&keywords=Handbook+of+Optimization+in+Complex+Networks%3A+Theory+and+Applications


-Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality


--found on Amazon on 02-16-2015d0037 when I was searching for some programming and/or math stuff


Lab Math: A Handbook of Measurements, Calculations, and Other Quantitative Skills for Use at the Bench, Second edition


*****


Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life


http://www.amazon.com/Evolutionary-Dynamics-Exploring-Equations-Life/dp/0674023382/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1360176956&sr=8-6&keywords=evolutionary+theory


-Martin Nowak


Scale-Free Networks: Complex Webs in Nature and Technology


The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization (Voices That Matter)


Bioinformatics 


Intelligent Bioinformatics : The Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Bioinformatics Problems


Bioinformatics Software Engineering: Delivering Effective Applications


http://www.amazon.com/Bioinformatics-Software-Engineering-Delivering-Applications/dp/0470857722/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376408477&sr=8-1&keywords=bioinformatics+software+engineer


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Evolutionary Theory


http://www.amazon.com/Evolutionary-Theory-Sean-H-Rice/dp/0878937021/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360176956&sr=8-1&keywords=evolutionary+theory


Genetics: A Conceptual Approach by Benjamin Price 2010


Books about biological networks (books that showed up from Amazon search of biological networks)


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-Biological Networks (Complex Systems and Interdisciplinary Science) by Frantois Kopos (Dec 3, 2007) 


- Introduction to Biological Networks (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology) by Alpan Raval and Animesh Ray (Apr 24, 2013) 


-Statistical Analysis of Network Data with R (Use R!)


- An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical... by Uri Alon (Jul 7, 2006) 


- Analysis of Biological Networks by Björn H. Junker and Falk Schreiber (Mar 31, 2008) 


- Handbook on Biological Networks (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems)


-Complex Networks: An Algorithmic Perspective 


- Genetic Analysis: Genes, Genomes, and Networks in Eukaryotes by Philip Meneely (Sep 10, 2014)

Understanding Bioinformatics 9-17-14 (from Amazon recommendation)
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Professor Fritjof Capra
Dynamic Systems Biology Modeling and Simulation by Joseph DiStefano III
Systems Biology: Mathematical Modeling and Model Analysis (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical & Computational Biology) by Andreas Kremling
An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms
Power Laws, Scale-Free Networks and Genome Biology
Instrumental methods of analysis in biotechnology

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edutainment 


The Manga Guide to . . . series





The Cartoon Guide to . . . series



computer science and programming 


book about complex adaptive systems


Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (recommended by Hojoon)


Some book about the principle of programming languages


Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention and Problem Solving


*The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master


The Algorithm Design Manual


http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena/dp/1849967202/ref=pd_rhf_gw_s_cp_4_4TXC


Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition)


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201558025/ref=s9_psimh_gw_p14_d7_i6?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0SN6TFA98M50QB4YJ7D4&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1389517282&pf_rd_i=507846


Complexity and the Arrow of Time


-requested from Scottsdale ILL in early Jan, but they cancelled it Feb 2013 because it was “too new, popular, bestseller, or reference only”


Hidden Harmonies (looks like an interesting fun book about math history)


Graph Drawing Software (Mathematics and Visualization)


http://www.amazon.com/Graph-Drawing-Software-Mathematics-Visualization/dp/3642622143/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1376408477&sr=8-4&keywords=bioinformatics+software+engineer


Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling


The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible


Artificial Intelligence for Humans (vol 1 & 2)


-Programming Problems: Advanced Algorithms (Volume 2)


--found when searching for "interesting programming scenarios" 04-04-2015d1740


some R books


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-R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics 


-Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics


-R Machine Learning Essentials

The Problem With "Problem-Solving Skills" (Case Studies In Computer Science)
some book that I find from searching the term "complexity analysis"
The Philosophical Programmer: Reflections on the Moth in the Machine
Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, Second Edition, Volume 1: General Concepts and Techniques (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Algorithms and Data Structures series)
book: Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
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purpose 


Religious Books recommended by Jeff:


    The End of Faith (or a smaller, similar book Letter to a Christian Nation) by Sam Harris


    The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (a brilliant evolutionary biologist)


    Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, by Daniel Dennett 


    Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali


technosis


eric davis


Evolutionaries


-http://www.amazon.com/Evolutionaries-Unlocking-Spiritual-Cultural-Potential/dp/0061916137/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389156789&sr=8-1&keywords=evolutionaries


-book recommended on kurzweilai website


-The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language


--recommended by Amazon; 11-15-2014d1222


Ethics and the limits of philosophy


-recommended by Amazon 05-08-2015d2312


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The Beginning and the End: The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspective


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Human purpose and transhuman potential


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TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information


Virtually Human: The Promise---and the Peril---of Digital Immortality


-recommended by Amazon on 01-30-2015d1810


writing and stories and games 


Evolution and the Theory of Games 9-17-14 (from Amazon recommendation)


-Learn to Program with Scratch: A Visual Introduction to Programming with Games, Art, Science, and Math


--found when searching for "interesting programming scenarios" 04-04-2015d1740


-Introduction to Programming with Greenfoot: Object-Oriented Programming in Java with Games and Simulations 


--found when searching for "interesting programming scenarios" 04-04-2015d1740


some book about the science of fun or science about why some things are interesting and engaging and why other things are not


-I did a search of "science of fun" on amazon, but didn't see anything that matched what I was looking for


The Hero with a thousand faces by Joseph Campbell


-my father had mentioned this before; heard about it in a psychology class; and Nicolas Huber brought it to my attention again on 03-21-2015d1802 (it could help me make educational stories like I have been thinking about)


-The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 3rd edition


health 


The Hygienic System: Orthotrophy | Herbert M. Shelton


http://chestofbooks.com/health/natural-cure/The-Hygienic-System-Orthotrophy/index.html



fiction 


books on the top 100 list of the modern library


    http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html


    http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnonfiction.html


Disgrace book recommended by Samantha


Life of Pie book recommended by Samantha


The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (Sharan really liked this book)


Oryx and Crake by Margeret Atwood (book recommended by Danielle)


Chinese Classic Literature


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Great_Classical_Novels


Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance


-this is a book that Pat Coan really liked


How to survive the robot uprising


The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead


Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide





The Ultimate Survival Guide: Zombie Apocalypse


-(this might be the best zombie survival book)


Aging 


-Aging and Health - A Systems Biology Perspective; 07-04-2015d1316


Decoding Longevity: Ending Aging As We Know It


-recommended by Amazon 03-28-2015d0011



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