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By K. Eric Drexler; Anchor Books, 1986, ISBN 0385199732. With a Foreword by Marvin Minsky, this is the first and still the classic book on nanotechnology. [Foresight Institute, Online]
http://www.foresight.org/EOC/
By Robert A. Freitas Jr.; Landes Bioscience, 1999, ISBN 157059645X, volume 1 of 3. About applying nanotechnology to medicine. [Online]
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NanomedicineBookSite Click here to purchase the book at Amazon.com or click here for information or to purchase the book directly from Landes Bioscience. Nanomedicine, Volume I: Basic Capabilities by Robert A. Freitas Jr. is now available in softcover for $89 shipping....By K. Eric Drexler, Chris Peterson, Gayle Pergamit; William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991; Quill (reprint), 1993, ISBN 0688125735. Clear, nontechnical introduction to molecular manufacturing: what it is, and may make possible, dangers and opportunities. [Foresight Institute, Online]
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Unbounding the Future: Table of Contents Foresight materials on the Web are 1986-2005 Foresight Institute. All rights reserved. Legal Notices. Web site development by Netconcepts. Email marketing by gravityMail. Maintained by James B. Lewis Enterprises....Steve Lenhert reviews his two favorite nanotech books, Travels to the Nanoworld and Nanotechnology.
http://nanotech.about.com/scienc...ech/library/weekly/aa111200a.htm
By Chris Worth. K. Eric Drexler's textbook reviewed, followed by much interesting, lively debate. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/28/1133200
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0849309166
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262031957
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By Arthur ten Wolde; New World Ventures, 1998, ISBN 908044961X. Describes topic; where physical, chemical and biotic approaches meet; possible technologies for nano-fabrication, possible effects. [Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/908044961X
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/157059645X
By K. Eric Drexler, Chris Peterson, Gayle Pergamit; Quill (reprint), 1993, ISBN 0688125735. [Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688125735
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471309141
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385199732
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471575186
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0716729482
Edited by R.S. Williams, P. Alivisatos, M.C. Roco; Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, ISBN 0792362209. Report based on consensus views of government, academia, private sector, by Interagency Working Group on Nano Science, Engineering, and Technology. [Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792362209
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387983341
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345420926
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0125137605
By Wesley M. Du Charme; Blue Creek Ventures, 1995, ISBN 0964628201. Popular treatment of nanotechnology, cryonics. [Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0964628201
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387989889
Edited by Jackie Yi-Ru Ying; Academic Press, 2001, ISBN 0127444513. Course book and compact reference for academic and industrial readers. [Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0127444513
By Bruce Balfour; ACE-Oryx, 2002, ISBN 0441009549. Futuristic thriller explores nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, colonizing Mars. Site has science news, author bio, reader's guide, links, Mars photos. [Scribbling Gargoyle Entertainment Corp.]
http://www.forgeofmars.com/
By Douglas Mulhall; Prometheus Books, 2002, ISBN 1573929921. Examines vast potential of new technologies to help us cope with many problems. Site has table of contents, excerpts, news release. [Prometheus Books Publishers]
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Our Molecular Future Please update your browser....Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441009549
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573929921
By Mark Ratner, Daniel Ratner; Prentice Hall PTR, 2002, ISBN 0131014005. For non-technical readers, simple, brief, survey, little math; shows how topic works, what's new and next, why it may be next $1 trillion industry. [Prentice Hall PTR]
http://www.phptr.com/browse/prod...025-3F44-4D9B-AD00-EC7F4E18261B}
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131014005
Edited by Hari Singh Nalwa; Academic Press, 2000, ISBN 0125137605, Volumes 1-5. Won 1999 Award of Excellence in Engineering Handbooks from Association of American Publishers; 140 authors. [Academic Press]
http://www.bhusa.com/apcatalog/u...16FC7DP1688C9HULWCASG3C6PLBQ6158
By Edward A. Rietman; Springer-Verlag NY, 2001, ISBN 0387989889. Technical introduction. It is growing possible to manipulate biotic tissues and materials the size of individual cells, organelles, molecules. [publisher website]
http://www.springer-ny.com/detail.tpl?isbn=0387989889
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http://www.randomhouse.com/ancho...og/display.pperl?isbn=0385199732
By Sergey Edward Lyshevski; CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 0849312620. Multidisciplinary, forms basis for MEMS, NEMS synthesis, modeling, analysis, simulation, control, prototyping, fabrication. [CRC Press]
http://www.crcpress.com/shopping...ucts/product_detail.asp?sku=1262
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0849312620
Edited by William A. Goddard III, Donald W. Brenner, Sergey Edward Lyshevski, Gerald J. Iafrate; CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 0849312000. Examines NEMS applications in many diverse areas. [CRC Press]
http://www.crcpress.com/shopping...ucts/product_detail.asp?sku=1200
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0849312000
By Michael Pycraft Hughes; CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 0849311837. Nanotechnology depends on abilities to manage nanoscale objects via interactions of electric fields, nanoparticles, ambient molecules. [CRC Press]
http://www.crcpress.com/shopping...ucts/product_detail.asp?sku=1183
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0849311837
Edited by Mick Wilson, Kamali Kannangara, Geoff Smith, Michelle Simmons, Burkhard Raguse; CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 0849311837. Accessible to nonspecialists, engineers, scientists outside the field, even undergraduates. [CRC Press]
http://www.crcpress.com/shopping...cts/product_detail.asp?sku=C3391
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1584883391
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691029008
Philip Ball; Princeton University Press, 1996, ISBN 0691029008. Accessible survey of new results in many major fields allied with chemistry: molecular electronics, artificial enzymes, smart polymer gels. [Princeton University Press]
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Ball, P Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier. Search within this book at Google PrintSome of the most exciting scientific developments in recent years have come not from theoretical physicists, astronomers, or molecular biologists but instead from the chemistry lab. Chemists have created superconducting ceramics for brain scanners,...Edited by B.C. Crandall, James Lewis; MIT Press, 1992, ISBN 0262031957. Overview of presently understood paths to molecule scale engineering. [MIT Press]
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/...tem/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=8128
Edited by B.C. Crandall; MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 0262531372. Accessible to wide audience, with references to technical literature, shows wide range of uses of nanotechnology. [MIT Press]
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Nanotechnology The MIT Press Technology is becoming molecularly precise. Nanotechnology, otherwise known as molecular engineering, will soon create effective machines as small as DNA. This capacity to manipulate matter to program matter with atomic precision will utterly change the economic, ecological, and cultural fabric...Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316738522
By Ed Regis; Little Brown & Co., 1996, ISBN 0316738522. Overview of short, rapid history of this topic, proponents and opponents, prospects. [Time Warner Bookmark]
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The Books: Nano by Ed Regis So named because its building blocks are the smallest pieces of matter, allowing us to build any substance or structure permitted by the laws of nature. Placing atoms as if they were bricks, nano-machines could turn grass clippings into prime...Edited by Scientific American; Warner Books, 2002, ISBN 0446679569. Accessible overview of this topic, and many profound applications. [Time Warner Bookmark]
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The Books: Understanding Nanotechnology by Editors of Scientific American Everyone in the modern world knows what technology is. But what is nanotechnology? Taken from the Greek, nano means one billionth part of a whole. In modern parlance, it means very, very small. In today's world of smaller cell phones...Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446679569
By Glenn Fishbine; John Wiley & Sons, 2002, ISBN 0471443557. First investment guide to fast emerging industry. In 2000, government and private investment topped $1 billion, should grow exponentially in future. [John Wiley & Sons]
http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471443557,00.html
By Charles P. Poole, Jr., Frank J. Owens; John Wiley & Sons, 2003, ISBN 0471079359. Broad, practical overview of topic, gives researchers coverage of developments in nanotechnology outside their fields. [publisher website]
http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471079359,00.html
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471079359
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9812380736
Edited by Markus Krummenacker, James Lewis; John Wiley & Sons, 1995, ISBN 0471309141. Result of Foresight Institute 3rd nanotechnology conference; introduction and overview, then topical presentations. [publisher website]
http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471309141,00.html
By K. Eric Drexler; John Wiley & Sons, 1992, ISBN 0471575186. Large, pioneering technical and mathematical text, may be author's greatest contribution to this field. [publisher website]
http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471575186,00.html
By Allen J. Bard; Wiley-Interscience, 1994, ISBN 0471007331. Systematic, real world approach to nanosystems, many actual examples, scores of figures and photo illustrations. [John Wiley & Sons]
http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471007331,00.html
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471007331
Edited by V.B. Alescovskii; John Wiley & Sons, 1999, ISBN 3527298045. Part of macromolecular symposia series, meeting theme: combining isolated effects in studying covalent and non-covalent multinuclear chemical systems. [publisher website]
http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,3527298045,00.html
By Jan G. Korvink, Andreas Greiner; John Wiley & Sons, 2002, ISBN 3527302573. Textbook on properties and behavior of semiconductors, how to use them to design and make micro- and nano-systems. [publisher website]
http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,3527302573,00.html
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3527302573
Edited by Wolfgang J. Lorenz, Waldfried Plieth; John Wiley & Sons, 1998, ISBN 0471575186. Full treatment of interface phenomena at solid state surfaces by local probe methods such as near contact microscopy. [publisher website]
http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,3527295208,00.html
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3527295208
Edited by Serge Luryi, Jimmy Xu, Alex Zaslavsky; John Wiley & Sons, 2002, ISBN 0471212474. Based on ideas, discussions arising from 3rd Future Trends in Microelectronics (FTM) workshop series, summer 2001. [publisher website]
http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471212474,00.html
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471212474
Edited by Gregory Timp; Springer-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 0387983341. Undergraduate level survey of machinery and science of nanometer scale, many images, 22 authors of many disciplines. [Springer-Verlag NY]
http://www.springer-ny.com/detail.tpl?ISBN=0387983341
Edited by Luigi Fabbrizzi, Antonio Poggi; Springer-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 0387989889. Accessible treatment of molecular design, supramolecules, nanotechnology and beyond; 15 chapters by specialists. [publisher website]
http://www.springer-ny.com/detail.tpl?ISBN=3540674608
Edited by Scientific American; W.H. Freeman & Co, 1996, ISBN 0716729482. One of series; treats future of medicine, cyberspace, transport, production, energy, environment, with a nanotechnology focus. [publisher website]
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W. H. Freeman Publishers Key Technologies For the 21st Century What is the future of gene therapy? Optical networks? Contraception and population control? Fusion energy? High-speed transportation? How will rapidly developing technology affect our lives in the next century? This special issue from Scientific American brings together over 30 experts...By Riichiro Saito, Gene Dresselhaus, Mildred S. Dresselhaus; Imperial College Press, 1998, ISBN 1860940935. Introductory textbook for graduate students, researchers in condensed matter and solid state physics. [publisher website]
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PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF CARBON NANOTUBES Saito studied physics at the University of Tokyo and got his Dr Sc in 1985. Since 1990, he has been an associate professor of the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo. He was a visiting scientist of MIT in 1992 where he...Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1860942237
Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms
By Wil McCarthy; Basic Books, 2003, ISBN 046504428X. Programmable matter, via quantum dots, will someday change our lives. Author visits labs of major firms, talks to researchers developing this extraordinary technology. [SFF Net]
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Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms
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By Michael Rieth; World Scientific Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9812380736. Technical introduction, starts with quantum mechanical treatment of many-particle problem; focus: molecular dynamics method. [publisher website]
http://www.worldscientific.com/books/nanosci/5026.html
Edited by E. Meyer, T. Gyalog, R.M. Overney, K. Dransfeld; World Scientific Publishing, 1999, ISBN 9812380620. Technical introduction to nanometer-scale tribology via friction force probe microscopy. [publisher website]
http://www.worldscientific.com/books/nanosci/3026.html
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9812380620
Edited by Elena Borovitskaya, Michael S. Shur; World Scientific Publishing, 2002, ISBN 9810249187. Technical review of all current aspects of quantum dot systems, theory, and technology. [publisher website]
http://www.worldscientific.com/books/nanosci/4934.html
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9810249187
Description, information, contents, sample chapters. [World Scientific Publishing]
http://www.worldscientific.com/books/nanosci/p080.html
Edited by Androula G. Nassiopoulou, Xanthi Zianni; World Scientific Publishing, 2000, ISBN 9810247699. Conference proceedings, Athens, Greece, 20-22 November 2000, table of contents. [publisher website]
http://www.worldscientific.com/books/nanosci/4825.html
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9810247699
Edited by Masatsugu Shimomura, Teruya Ishihara; World Scientific Publishing, 2002, ISBN 9812383921. Conference proceedings, Tokyo, Japan, 27-29 November 2002, table of contents. [publisher website]
http://www.worldscientific.com/books/nanosci/5292.html
By Chris Phoenix. This anti-Drexler book reports on nanotech but suffers from many technical inaccuracies and distortions of work of nanotech pioneers. [KurzweilAI.net]
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KurzweilAI.net KurzweilAI.net This site requires frames....Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814471811
By William Illsey Atkinson; AMACOM, 2003, ISBN 0814471811. Lay description of topic, many opinions expressed, not as accurate as it could be. [American Management Association]
http://www.amanet.org/books/catalog/0814471811.htm
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400046890
By Jack Uldrich, Deb Newberry; Crown Publishing Group, 2003, ISBN 1400046890. Introductory lay treatment, very useful for understanding day-to-day and business implications. [Random House]
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown...og/display.pperl?isbn=1400046890
Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology, with a first volume dealing with carbon nanotubes, their properties, peculiarities and applications.
http://www.nanosprint.com