{"id":1629,"date":"2007-09-29T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T17:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2007-09-29T10:27:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T17:27:28","slug":"book-sale-bonanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/09\/29\/book-sale-bonanza\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Sale Bonanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went to the Friends of the Seattle Public Library&#8217;s book sale.  It&#8217;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:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0821813293\/\">Nonlinear Programming (Siam-Ams Proceedings, Vol 4)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by Richard W. Cottle<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0072399597\/\">Introduction to Mathematical Programming With Courseware <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by  Frederick S. Hillier<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/013481374X\">Introduction to Electrodynamics<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by David J. Griffiths<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kinetic-Physical-chemistry-monograph-properties\/dp\/B0007ES0G0?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1191083783&amp;sr=1-2\">Kinetic Theory of Gases<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by W. Kauzmann<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0471597686\">Quantum Mechanics, Volume II<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by A. Messiah<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Introduction-Cybernetics-University-Paperbacks-William\/dp\/0416683002?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1191084416&amp;sr=1-1\">Introduction to Cybernetics <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by W. Ross Ashby<br \/>\nAtoms, Molecules, and Chemical Change<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by  E. Grunwald and R. Johnsen<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0262030802\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\">Revealing the Universe <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by J. Cornell and A. P. Lightman<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0195008286\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\">The Second Law: An Introduction to Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by H. A. Bent<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0700224718\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\">Functions of complex variables: An introduction <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by Z. C. Motteler<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0262530880\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\">Machine Learning: Paradigms and Methods (Special Issues of Artificial Intelligence) <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> edited by J. Carbonell<br \/>\nThirty Years That Shook Physics<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by G. Gamow<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0465001041\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\">AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by D. Crevier<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0471344524\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\">Introductory Nuclear Physics<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by D. Halliday<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/9999005098\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\">Einstein: Life and Times <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by R. W. Clark<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0684872870\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\">Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by J. Conant<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393970833\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\">Statistics, Third Edition <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by  D. Freedman, R. Pisani, and R. Purves<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Astronomy-20th-Century-Struve-Zebergs\/dp\/B000OKTSR2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1191086138&amp;sr=1-1\">Astronomy of the 20th Century <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by O. Struve and V. Zebergs<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Western-Ptolemy-Copernicus-Kepler\/dp\/B000PWWZNI?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1191086370&amp;sr=8-2\">Great Books of the Western World Vol. 16 Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> edited by R. M. Hutchins<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0395243742\/ref=nosim\/librarythin08-20\">Black holes, quasars &amp; the universe <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by H. L. Shipman\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not a bad haul for a few bucks.  Onto the queue you go, books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went to the Friends of the Seattle Public Library&#8217;s book sale. It&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/09\/29\/book-sale-bonanza\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Sale Bonanza&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}