Books and Music and Stuff to buy for One!

This is essentially a lis of things that one would like. If you want to buy these things and give them to one, yay! If you want to buy them for yourself or for someone else, well, that's okay too.

Books

• Fiction
  • Time Trilogy The three books of Madeline L'Engle's Time Trilogy (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet) in one hardcover volume.
  • An Acceptable Time Another Madeline L'Engle book.
  • A House Like a Lotus And another.
  • Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card A collection of Card's short stories
  • The Complete Chronicles of Narnia This is a beautiful, one-volume, hqardback edition of the seven Narnia books. The complete text, plus illustrations by Pauline Baynes.
• Computers
  • Postscript Language Tutorial and Cookbook Tutorial on the Postscript programming language, used for typesetting.
  • The C Programming Language, ANSI C edition The C book. Kernighan and Ritchie, K&R for short. A must-have for C programmers and those aspiring.
  • C: A Reference Manual And the recommended C reference. By Samuel Harbison and Guy Steele.
  • Unicode Standard 3.0 Comprehensive guide to the Unicode standard for international character rendering. Lots of pretty glyphs!
  • Mastering Algorithms with Perl Nifty stuff with Perl programming.
• Science
  • Nanosystems A book on the emerging science of nanotechnology, and the engineering problems of building nanoscale machines.
  • Being Digital Essays on what the digital future holds.
• Reference
  • The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy A very nice medical book.
  • What Color is Your Parachute? 2000 A guide for job-hunters.
  • The New York Public Library Desk Reference A huge book that's a reference to just about everything.
  • MacMillan World Atlas A beautiful atlas of the world.
  • Chicago Manual of Style Great big orange book.
  • The Oxford English Dictionary In 20 volumes. ]:^)
  • The Compact Oxford English Dictionary The same, in 2 volumes and with a magnifying glass.
  • Encyclopedia of Science Fiction A guide to authors, books, movies, and concepts.
  • Encyclopedia of Fantasy The same for fantasy.
  • Encyclopedia Cthulhiana A encyclopedia of Lovecraft's work.
  • A Dictionary of Symbols Symbolism in art, folklore, and literature.
  • The New Arthurian Encyclopedia A reference to the Arthur legends.
  • The New Fowler's Modern English Usage Language and usage. The authoritative guide.
  • How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy Guide to writing in the genre.
  • World Building, Aliens and Alien Societies, Space Travel, Time Travel A series of books, edited by Ben Bova, on different aspects of writing science fiction.
• Philosophy
  • The Weight of Glory Essays on theology by C. S. Lewis.

• Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon A very good album by James Taylor.
• The Return Of Koerner, Ray & Glover New album from them of Blues, Rags, and Hollers.

Gadgets

• Garmin GPS III+ A global positioning system unit with maps of the US. Whee!
• Palm III digital assistant A personal data assistant, with a lot of nifty features.
• Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System Incredibly cool toy! Legos but programmable!
• Creative Labs 3DB6872 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 32MB AGP BUS Very nice video card.