Books that I intend to read (in no particular order)

The World Set Free by H. G. Wells
Japan's Longest Day by ????
Thread of the Silkworm by Iris Chang
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Questioning the Millennium :
    A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown
by Stephen Jay Gould
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
Full House by Stephen Jay Gould
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering by Samuel C. Florman
Engineering in History by Richard Shelton Kirby, Sidney Withington, Arthur Burr Darling, and Frederick Gridley Kilgour
Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality by John Gribbin
Contact by Carl Sagan
Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan
Confrontations with the Reaper by Fred Feldman
Dark Sun : The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II by Peter Williams and David Wallace
Godel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
His Name is Ron: Our Search for Justice by the Goldman Family
Letters From a Nut by Ted L. Nancy
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
Iron John by Robert Bly
lots of different books by Cliff Pickover
Birdy by William Wharton
Why I am Not Christian by Bertrand Russel
Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes
Mandatory Motherhood:
    The True Meaning of Right to Life
by Garrett Hardin
Chance and Chaos by David Ruelle
The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Studies of War by Baron Blackett & Patrick Maynard Stuart
Keeping Watch, A History of American Time by Michael O'Malley
"Nov 18, 1883: The Day That Noon Showed Up on Time", Smithsonian magazine, Nov 1983, pp. 193-208 by William H. Earle
"Standard & Daylight-saving Time", Scientific American, May 1979 (Vol. 240, No. 5), pp. 46-53 by Ian R. Bartky & Elizabeth Harrison
Inventing Standard Time (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1983) by Carlene E. Stephens

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