Bibliography

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bibliography \Bib`li*og"ra*phy\ (b[i^]b`l[i^]*[o^]g"r[.a]*f[y^])
     n.; pl. {Bibliographies}. [Gr. bibliografi`a: cf. F.
     bibliographie.]
     1. a history or description of books and manuscripts, with
        notices of the different editions, the times when they
        were printed, etc.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. a list of books or other printed works having some common
        theme, such as topic, period, author, or publisher.
        [PJC]
  
     3. a list of the published (and sometimes unpublished)
        sources of information referred to in a scholarly
        discourse or other text, or used as reference materials
        for its preparation.
        [PJC]
  
     4. the branch of library science dealing with the history and
        classification of books and other published materials.
        [PJC] Bibliolater

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bibliography
       n : a list of writings with time and place of publication (such
           as the writings of a single author or the works referred
           to in preparing a document etc.)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  102 Moby Thesaurus words for "bibliography":
     Art Index, Baedeker, Bibliography Index, Books in Print,
     Cumulative Book Index, Education Index, National Union Catalog,
     Yellow Pages, acknowledgments, annotated bibliography,
     annual bibliography, back, back matter, backlist, bastard title,
     bibliogenesis, bibliogony, bibliography of bibliographies,
     bibliology, bibliopolism, body of knowledge, body of learning,
     book manufacturing, book production, bookcraft, bookmaking,
     bookselling, business directory, card catalog, catalog,
     catalogue raisonne, catch line, catchword, checklist,
     city directory, classified catalog, classified directory, colophon,
     contents, contents page, copyright page, critical bibliography,
     cyclopedia, dedication, directory, encyclopedia, endleaf, endpaper,
     endsheet, errata, file, filing system, finding list, flyleaf,
     folio, fore edge, foreword, front matter, guidebook,
     half-title page, handbook, handlist, head, imprint, index,
     inscription, introduction, itinerary, leaf, letter file,
     literature, lore, makeup, materials, page, periodical index,
     phone book, pigeonholes, preface, preliminaries, publications,
     recto, reference book, reverso, road map, roadbook, running title,
     signature, store of knowledge, subtitle, system of knowledge,
     table of contents, tail, telephone book, telephone directory, text,
     title, title page, treasury of information, trim size, type page,
     verso
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  Bibliography
  
  Here are some other books you can read to help you understand the hacker
  mindset.
  
  Go"del Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
  Douglas Hofstadter
  Basic Books, 1979
  ISBN 0-394-74502-7
  
  This book reads like an intellectual Grand Tour of hacker preoccupations.
  Music, mathematical logic, programming, speculations on the nature of
  intelligence, biology, and Zen are woven into a brilliant tapestry themed
  on the concept of encoded self-reference. The perfect left-brain companion
  to "Illuminatus".
  
  Illuminatus!
  I.   "The Eye in the Pyramid"
  II.  "The Golden Apple"
  III. "Leviathan".
  Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
  Dell, 1988
  ISBN 0-440-53981-1
  
  This work of alleged fiction is an incredible berserko-surrealist
  rollercoaster of world-girdling conspiracies, intelligent dolphins, the
  fall of Atlantis, who really killed JFK, sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, and the
  Cosmic Giggle Factor. First published in three volumes, but there is now a
  one-volume trade paperback, carried by most chain bookstores under SF. The
  perfect right-brain companion to Hofstadter's "Go"del, Escher, Bach". See
  {Eris}, {Discordianism}, {random numbers}, {Church of the SubGenius}.
  
  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  Douglas Adams
  Pocket Books, 1981
  ISBN 0-671-46149-4
  
  This `Monty Python in Space' spoof of SF genre traditions has been
  popular among hackers ever since the original British radio show. Read it
  if only to learn about Vogons (see {bogon}) and the significance of the
  number 42 (see {random numbers}) -- and why the winningest chess program of
  1990 was called `Deep Thought'.
  
  The Tao of Programming
  James Geoffrey
  Infobooks, 1987
  ISBN 0-931137-07-1
  
  This gentle, funny spoof of the "Tao Te Ching" contains much that is
  illuminating about the hacker way of thought. "When you have learned to
  snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will be time for you to
  leave."
  
  Hackers
  Steven Levy
  Anchor/Doubleday 1984
  ISBN 0-385-19195-2
  
  Levy's book is at its best in describing the early MIT hackers at the
  Model Railroad Club and the early days of the microcomputer revolution. He
  never understood Unix or the networks, though, and his enshrinement of
  Richard Stallman as "the last true hacker" turns out (thankfully) to have
  been quite misleading. Despite being a bit dated and containing some minor
  errors (many fixed in the paperback edition), this remains a useful and
  stimulating book that captures the feel of several important hacker
  subcultures.
  
  The Computer Contradictionary
  Stan Kelly-Bootle
  MIT Press, 1995
  ISBN 0-262-61112-0
  
  This pastiche of Ambrose Bierce's famous work is similar in format to the
  Jargon File (and quotes several entries from TNHD-2) but somewhat different
  in tone and intent. It is more satirical and less anthropological, and is
  largely a product of the author's literate and quirky imagination. For
  example, it defines `computer science' as "a study akin to numerology and
  astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the
  latter" and `implementation' as "The fruitless struggle by the talented and
  underpaid to fulfill promises made by the rich and ignorant"; `flowchart'
  becomes "to obfuscate a problem with esoteric cartoons". Revised and
  expanded from "The Devil's DP Dictionary", McGraw-Hill 1981, ISBN
  0-07-034022-6; that work had some stylistic influence on TNHD-1.
  
  The Devouring Fungus: Tales from the Computer Age
  Karla Jennings
  Norton, 1990
  ISBN 0-393-30732-8
  
  The author of this pioneering compendium knits together a great deal of
  computer- and hacker-related folklore with good writing and a few
  well-chosen cartoons. She has a keen eye for the human aspects of the lore
  and is very good at illuminating the psychology and evolution of hackerdom.
  Unfortunately, a number of small errors and awkwardnesses suggest that she
  didn't have the final manuscript checked over by a native speaker; the
  glossary in the back is particularly embarrassing, and at least one classic
  tale (the Magic Switch story, retold here under {A Story About Magic} in
  Appendix A is given in incomplete and badly mangled form. Nevertheless,
  this book is a win overall and can be enjoyed by hacker and non-hacker
  alike.
  
  The Soul of a New Machine
  Tracy Kidder
  Little, Brown, 1981
  (paperback: Avon, 1982
  ISBN 0-380-59931-7)
  
  This book (a 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner) documents the adventure of the
  design of a new Data General computer, the MV-8000 Eagle. It is an
  amazingly well-done portrait of the hacker mindset -- although largely the
  hardware hacker -- done by a complete outsider. It is a bit thin in spots,
  but with enough technical information to be entertaining to the serious
  hacker while providing non-technical people a view of what day-to-day life
  can be like -- the fun, the excitement, the disasters. During one period,
  when the microcode and logic were glitching at the nanosecond level, one of
  the overworked engineers departed the company, leaving behind a note on his
  terminal as his letter of resignation: "I am going to a commune in Vermont
  and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
  
  Life with UNIX a Guide for Everyone
  Don Libes and Sandy Ressler
  Prentice-Hall, 1989
  ISBN 0-13-536657-7
  
  The authors of this book set out to tell you all the things about Unix
  that tutorials and technical books won't. The result is gossipy, funny,
  opinionated, downright weird in spots, and invaluable. Along the way they
  expose you to enough of Unix's history, folklore and humor to qualify as a
  first-class source for these things. Because so much of today's hackerdom
  is involved with Unix, this in turn illuminates many of its in-jokes and
  preoccupations.
  
  True Names ... and Other Dangers
  Vernor Vinge
  Baen Books, 1987
  ISBN 0-671-65363-6
  
  Hacker demigod Richard Stallman used to say that the title story of this
  book "expresses the spirit of hacking best". Until the subject of the next
  entry came out, it was hard to even nominate another contender. The other
  stories in this collection are also fine work by an author who has since
  won multiple Hugos and is one of today's very best practitioners of hard
  SF.
  
  Snow Crash
  Neal Stephenson
  Bantam, 1992
  ISBN 0-553-56261-4
  
  Stephenson's epic, comic cyberpunk novel is deeply knowing about the
  hacker psychology and its foibles in a way no other author of fiction has
  ever even approached. His imagination, his grasp of the relevant technical
  details, and his ability to communicate the excitement of hacking and its
  results are astonishing, delightful, and (so far) unsurpassed.
  
  Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier
  Katie Hafner & John Markoff
  Simon & Schuster 1991
  ISBN 0-671-68322-5
  
  This book gathers narratives about the careers of three notorious
  crackers into a clear-eyed but sympathetic portrait of hackerdom's dark
  side. The principals are Kevin Mitnick, "Pengo" and "Hagbard" of the Chaos
  Computer Club, and Robert T. Morris (see {RTM}, sense 2) . Markoff and
  Hafner focus as much on their psychologies and motivations as on the
  details of their exploits, but don't slight the latter. The result is a
  balanced and fascinating account, particularly useful when read immediately
  before or after Cliff Stoll's {The Cuckoo's Egg}. It is especially
  instructive to compare RTM, a true hacker who blundered, with the
  sociopathic phone-freak Mitnick and the alienated, drug-addled crackers who
  made the Chaos Club notorious. The gulf between {wizard} and {wannabee} has
  seldom been made more obvious.
  
  Technobabble
  John Barry
  MIT Press 1991
  ISBN 0-262-02333-4
  
  Barry's book takes a critical and humorous look at the `technobabble' of
  acronyms, neologisms, hyperbole, and metaphor spawned by the computer
  industry. Though he discusses some of the same mechanisms of jargon
  formation that occur in hackish, most of what he chronicles is actually
  suit-speak -- the obfuscatory language of press releases, marketroids, and
  Silicon Valley CEOs rather than the playful jargon of hackers (most of whom
  wouldn't be caught dead uttering the kind of pompous, passive-voiced word
  salad he deplores).
  
  The Cuckoo's Egg
  Clifford Stoll
  Doubleday 1989
  ISBN 0-385-24946-2
  
     Clifford Stoll's absorbing tale of how he tracked Markus Hess and the
  Chaos Club cracking ring nicely illustrates the difference between
  `hacker' and `cracker'.  Stoll's portrait of himself, his lady Martha,
  and his friends at Berkeley and on the Internet paints a marvelously
  vivid picture of how hackers and the people around them like to live
  and how they think.  #===================== THE JARGON FILE ENDS HERE