Yesterday I went to the Friends of the Seattle Public Library’s book sale. It’s always fun to see a line stretching out into the distance for people waiting to get a chance to buy used books at less than one dollar a book. Here was my take this year, where I happily picked up a copy of Messiah and Griffiths, both of which I sadly never had in my library:
Nonlinear Programming (Siam-Ams Proceedings, Vol 4)
by Richard W. Cottle
Introduction to Mathematical Programming With Courseware
Introduction to Electrodynamics
Kinetic Theory of Gases
Quantum Mechanics, Volume II
Introduction to Cybernetics
Atoms, Molecules, and Chemical Change
Revealing the Universe
The Second Law: An Introduction to Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics
Functions of complex variables: An introduction
Machine Learning: Paradigms and Methods (Special Issues of Artificial Intelligence)
Thirty Years That Shook Physics
AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence
Introductory Nuclear Physics
Einstein: Life and Times
Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
Statistics, Third Edition
Astronomy of the 20th Century
Great Books of the Western World Vol. 16 Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
Black holes, quasars & the universe
Not a bad haul for a few bucks. Onto the queue you go, books!
“Thirty Years That Shook Physics by G. Gamow” is a jewel.
I used to go to campus book sales and stock up on cheap books. Eventually I realized that I had more than enough books for a lifetime of reading. I decided that I wouldn’t buy another book until I’d read all the ones I already had. I still haven’t bought another book and it’s been a few years. It’s not confining: I still read outside of my collection if I want to, by going to the library.