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Note: This is just a fraction of the books in the collections. Please view the books below as samples of what’s on the bookshelves rather than an exhaustive inventory.

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Media & New Media

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding, A Biography by W. Terrence Gordon

Information Technology and Civilization by Hiroshi Inose, John R. Pierce

Ink into Bits, Making Connections

New Media 1740-1915

The New Media Reader

The Evolution of Wired Life

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology by Howard Rheingold

The Mind Tool: Computers and Their Impact on Society, 5th Edition by Neill Graham

Multimedia : The Complete Guide by DK Publishing and Deni Brown

The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer by Georges Ifrah

Computer: A History of the Information Machine 3rd Ed. by Martin Campbell-Kelly, William Aspray, Nathan Ensmenger and Jeffrey R. Yost

Ink into Bits, Making Connections

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology by Howard Rheingold

Bletchley Park Brainteasers by Sinclair McKay

Bletchley Park Brainteasers by Sinclair McKay

ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer by Scott McCartney

ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World’s First Computer by Scott McCartney

Stupid PC Tricks: 17 Insanely Great Programs to Make Your PC More Fun by Bob LeVitus with Ed Titlel

How Computers Work: Millennium Edition by Ron White

How Computers Work: Special 10th Anniversary Edition by Ron White

Upgrading and Repairing PCs by Scott Mueller

Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary: The Comprehensive Standard for Business, School, Library, and Home Second Edition by Microsoft Press

Professional Programming Concepts by Bud Pembroke

C Made Easy by Herbert Schildt

C by Dissection by Al Kelley and Ira Pohl

Graphics in C: Programming and Techniques by Nelson Johnson

Apple II User's Guide, 3rd Edition by Lon Poole, Martin McNiff and Steven Cook

The Elementary Apple by William B. Sanders

The Most Popular Book Ever Written on Making Apples Grow Written by Winn Schwartau and Paul Gitschlag Illustrated by Dennis L. Busch

MUSE Presents Know Your Apple

The Applesoft Tutorial

Apple II A Touch of Applesoft BASIC

Applesoft BASIC Programming Reference Manual

Apple II BASIC Quick Reference Guide Plus Peeks, Pokes and Pointers

Apple II DOS Programmer's Manual

One Minute Apple Programs by Editors of Nibble Magazine

Applesoft BASIC Subroutines & Secrets by Jeanette Sullivan and Dave Sullivan

Apple BASIC: Data File Programming by LeRoy Finkel and Jerald R. Brown

Hi-Res Graphics for the Apple II/IIe/IIc by Robert I. Tice and Dorthy Jo Stevens

The Visible Computer: 6502

SAMS Assembly Cookbook for the Apple II/IIe by Don Lancaster

Assembly Language Programming for the Apple II by Robert Mottola

The Macintosh Way by Guy Kawasaki

Introducing the Macintosh by Charles B. Duff

The Macintosh Advisor by Cynthia Harriman and Bencion Calica.

Macintosh Bible, 2nd Edition by Arthur Naiman

Macintosh Programmer's Resources

Pascal on the Macintosh: A Graphical Approach by David A. Niguidula & Andries van Dam

Oh! Pascal! 2nd Edition by Doug Cooper and Michael Clancy

To Improve Learning Edited by Sidney G Tickton

The Computer in the the School: Tutor, Tool, Tutee Edited by Robert P. Taylor

Power On! New Tools for Teaching and Learning by U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment

Run, Computer, Run: The Mythology of Educational Innovation by Anthony G. Oettinger

Mind and Media: The Effects of Television, Video Games and Computers by Patricia Marks Greenfield

Microcomputers in the Schools by James L. Thomas

Computers in Education by Paul F. Merrill et al.

The American Heritage Talking Dictionary

Big Thesaurus

Encarta by Microsoft Home

Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia of Science by Dorling Kindersley

Computer Experience and Cognitive Development by Robert W. Lawler

Cognition and Computers by Robert W. Lawler

Learning with Computers by Robert W. Lawler

Advanced Qualitative Methods in the Study of Human Behavior by Robert W. Lawler and Kathleen M Carley

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert

The Children's Machine by Seymour Papert

The Connected Family by Seymour Papert

The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky

The Turing Option by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky

Investigations in Algebra by Albert Cuoco

Robot by Roger Bridgman and Ultimate Robot by Robert Malone

Wired 50 Best Robots Ever

Robotics from Usborne

Personal Robotics by Richard Raucci

How to Build Your Own Prize-Winning Robot by Ed Sobey

Robot Building for Dummies by Roger Arrick

Robot Builder's Sourcebook by Gordon McComb

Isaac Asimov Biographies

The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov's The Ultimate Robot

Teletext and Videotex in the United States by Hubert Lipinski, John Tydeman, Lawrence Zwimpfer, Michael Nyham, and Richard I. Adler

The Videotex and Teletext Handbook by Paul Hurly, Matthias Laucht, Denis Hlynka

Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee

How the Web was Born by James Gillies, James, Cailliau Robert Gillies and Robert Cailliau

Netscape Communicator 4

MIT Project Athena: A Model for Distributed Campus Computing (George A. Champne)

MIT's Project Athena Videotapes

AthenaMuse 2.2 Documentation (CECI, MIT)

AthenaMuse 2.2 Documentation (CECI, MIT)

HyperCard Stack Design Guidelines By Apple

Macintosh Hypermedia Vol. 1 & 2 by Michael Fraase

Danny Goodman's HyperCard/HyperTalk Books

Tricks of the HyperCard Masters by The Waite Group

Macintosh Programmer's Resources

Non-Fiction Books

Cyberspace: First Steps Edited by Michael Benedikt

Envisioning Cyberspace: Designing 3D Electronic Spaces by Peter Anders

Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H. Murray

Video Game Spaces: Image, Play and Structure in 3D Worlds by Michael Nitsche

Virtual Reality: Through the New Looking Glass by Ken Pimentel and Kevin Teixeira

Sex, Drugs and Tessellation: The Truth about Virtual Reality, As Revealed in the Pages of CyberEdge Journal by Ben Delaney

Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic of Virtual Reality by Ralph Schroeder

Fiction, Books

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Fiction, Movies

Tron

The Matrix Collection

Ready Player One

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