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It's actually a different store. Portland name: Powell's Books. Chicago name: Powell's Book Store. Semantics, I know, but Portland-Powell's website (powells.com) lists only stores in the Portland, OR area.

-SymphonicMan

I suggest you read the excellent book "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide by Sven Lindqvist (or any other of his books on the subject of racism) on the few centuries long organized genocide Europeans put on in Africa. Might wave off some of the right-wing hypocrisy you are spouting.

See also this and this on Lindqvist and forementioned books.

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It does appear all of the current in-prints are paperback however. Powells Books in Portland, OR (a quite giant independent new & used bookstore, great for finding OOPs and rares) has 3 used hardbacks available. Just drop "Brian Aldiss non-stop" in the search. All less than $8 too.

While it was written as a handbook for social action, it's all about organizing people. And there are plenty of pragmatic tips on how to get people to work outside of their experience. Also, a good discussion of lines of power and degrees of separation. Basically, if Machiavelli left the dark side he would become Saul Alinsky.

Powell's City of Books runs a rather extensive engineering electronics/computer museum and is more than happy to take donations. Thier web page mysteriously doesn't mention it, though...

Language will evolve and with any-to-any communication will merge into a fabric of langauges. Kinda like taxilinga out of Snow Crash.

"They said it was based on English but not one word in a hundred was recognizable...Taxilinga is melliflous babble with a few harsh foreign sounds, like butter spiced with broken glass."

_Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem Of His Time_ by Dava Sobel (New York: Penguin, 1995), 185pp. Click here to get it.

_Longitude_ is an excellent book about John Harrison, the inventor of a seagoing clock and basically father of the pocketwatch. The need for accurate timekeeping was central to the problem of measuring longitude.

Eric Nystrom

In addition to Barnes & Noble, from whom I have received adequate service, I have had great experiences with A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books and Powell's Bookstore (the largest used bookstore I've ever been to online and IRL located in Portland, OR) for non-technical books.

- tokengeekgrrl
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions

My favorite physical bookstore has a presence online, along with plenty of other independent bookstores:

• Powell's City of Books in Portland, OR.
• WoodsWorth in Cambridge, MA
• Book Stacks, in Cleveland, OH, with the domain books.com
• The Tattered Cover in Denver, CO.
• Open Group Books is in Phoenix, AZ, and will ship worldwide.

All of these are smaller, independent bookstores that aren't huge conglomerates (or Internet behemoths,) and are very good alternatives to the conventional. This list has a good selection of online bookstores, including the ones listed above.

Or, there's always the old fasioned way. Walk to your local used bookstore. I guarantee that there is one in your town, and you might just find something worth reading.

Julian Dibbell wrote an interesting book, My tiny life: crime and passion in a virtual world, in which he talks about gener-bending, cybersex and other such stuff in MUDs -- particularly, LambdaMoo. Most of what's discussed won't be that surprising to /. readers, but I enjoyed reading it.

No, I don't work there or have any connection with them, other than being a regular customer.

Order new, used(!) and paperback from "The World's Greatest Bookstore", Powell's Books, Portland, Oregon, USA. Great selection, general and technical, great service, great web site. (Not a shill, just a happy customer.)

Summary for those who don't want to read:

Amazon has spammed. They have hit mailing lists. Mostly, they spam customers, without waiting for permission. They occasionally "lose" opt-out requests. They stay solidly committed to opt-out spamming, rather than opt-in mailings. Amazon employees have posted to Usenet via DejaNews as "customers", without mentioning what you'd find if you did an nslookup on NNTP-Posting-Host.

They are scum, they are liars, and they are not worth your time.

http://www.powells.com/ (Powell's Books) is a better deal. I've never been spammed by them, and neither has my mom (I bought her a gift certificate there last year.) By contrast, she bought a book from Amazon, and has gotten a number of mailings.

In the battle of the "lesser of two evils", always pick the third option.

That's why you go to Powells and browse through their catalog of new, used and out of print books. If you've ever had the joy of visiting their Technical Bookstore in Portland Oregon, you would know True Geek Love.

*not a stockholder, just a fan*

There is, however, a book called "Ender's War"; it's "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead" bound in one volume, published sometime in the 1980s. I found it in Powell's City of Books a few weeks ago but didn't buy it (I wish I had, to complete my Ender collection with this obscurity). I don't know if it's still available.

If you want another review of "Ender's Game" the novel, I wrote an epinion (silly name) which you can find at Epinions.com. I think it's pretty interesting, but...

Abigail

I've refused to shop at Spamazon for quite some time due to their penchant for spamming. Cases in point go back at least as far as early 1998 and are widely documented on Dejanews.

A better write-up of their business practices can be found at the page of Peter Seebach, a long-time n.a.n-a.e (news.admin.net-abuse.email) regular.

Finally, there's Spamazon's practice of shilling for themselves on USENET - an "astroturf" campaign eerily reminiscient of Micros~1's "independently-written letters to the editor" stunt. (Available through Dejanews - Start here or search for Message-ID <3584e5cc.1368345@news.sirius.com>.

While I'm as disgusted at the "purchase circles" idea as anyone, I'm not at all surprised. Spamazon doesn't think in terms of customers; merely in terms of targets for additional marketing. Take your business elsewhere. (Many on n.a.n-a.e have recommended Powell's. I concur.)

Agreed.

Spamazon has sucked for at least as long as spamming has been their m.o. I almost choked when I read Katz's remark about Spamazon being "ethical". But fatbrain.com and (barnesandnoble|bn).com are also spammers, so they suck mightily too.

For online book-buying, I hear good things about Powell's.

Lumber Cartel(TINLC) #487

• How to build a working digital computer
  by Edward Alcosser
  ISBN: 0810407485

• The Tinkertoy Computer and Other Machinations
  by A. K. Dewdney
  ISBN: 071672491X

I have also seen computers built from plastic or wood (the Digi-Comp 1) and Lego (not just the case, but actual computation units.)

Cracking Des Secrets Of Encryption Resea
by GILMORE, JOHN
Published by OREILLY & ASSOC INC (1565925203, 1998)
Section: Networking-Computer Security
In Stock: 9 at 29.95
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Cracking Des Secrets Of Encryption Resea
by GILMORE, JOHN
Published by OREILLY & ASSOC INC (1565925203, 1998)
Section: Networking-Computer Security
In Stock: 9 at 29.95
Trade paper; New - Standard Condition; Location: Technical
Bibliographic Information

Cracking Des Secrets Of Encryption Resea
by GILMORE, JOHN
Published by OREILLY & ASSOC INC (1565925203, 1998)
Section: Networking-Computer Security
In Stock: 9 at 29.95
Trade paper; New - Standard Condition; Location: Technical
Bibliographic Information