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Books & Articles Read in 2009


updated: 2014-01-05

Subjects
Computers
Macintosh
Apple _OpenGL Programming Guide for Mac OS X_
 
Apple _Animation Types and Timing Programming Guide_
 
Apple _Core Animation CookBook_
 
Apple _The Objective-C 2.0 Programming Language_
 
Apple _View Programming Guide for Cocoa_
 
Apple _Object-Oriented Programming with Objective-C_
 
Apple _Objective-C 2.0 Runtime Programming Guide_
 
Apple _Garbage Collection Programming Guide_
 
Apple _Mac OS X ABI Function Call Guide_
 
Apple _Threading Programming Guide_
 
Apple 2006-04-04 _Table View Programming Guide_
 
Michael Wesemann _Plot Documentation_
 
Bert Altenberg, Alex Clarke & Philippe Moughin _Become an Xcoder: Start Programming the Mac Using Objective-C_
 
Apple 2006-06-28 _Scroll View Programming Guide_
 
LDS Family History Department 2002-01-23 _GEDCOM XML Specification Release 6.0_
 
Apple 2006-10-03 _Performance Overview_
 
Apple 2007-10-31 _Multi-Processing Services Programming Guide_
 
Apple 2009-02-04 _Mac OS X ABI Mach-O File Format Reference_
 
Apple 2007-05-03 _Notification Programming Topics for Cocoa_
 
Apple 2009-02-04 _NSXML Concepts: Tree-Based XML Programming Guide for Cocoa_
 
Apple 2008-09-09 _Event-Driven XML Programming Guide for Cocoa: XML Parsing_
 
Apple _Resource Programming Guide_
Apple 2009-02-04 _Window Programming Guide for Cocoa_
 
Apple 2009-01-12 _Document-Based Applications Overview_
 
Apple 2006-08-07 _Application Architecture OverView_
 
Apple 2008-10-15 _String Programming Guide for Cocoa_
 
Apple 2009-05-06 _Memory Management Programming Guide for Cocoa_
 
w3schools.com _XPath Tutorial_
 
w3schools.com _XSLT Tutorial_
 
w3schools.com _XSL-FO Tutorial_
 
w3schools.com _DTD Tutorial_
 
w3schools.com _XML Schema: XSD Tutorial_
 
w3schools.com _XML Schema Reference_
 
GENTECH Lexicon group 2000-05-29 _Genealogical Data Model: A Comprehensive Data Model for Genealogical Research and Analyis_
Terry Halpin 1998 "Object-Role Modeling (ORM/NIAM)" _HandBook on Architectures of Information Systems_
 
FSU COP4531 Algorithms slide show
 
"Misof" Top Coder "Computational Complexity" section 1
 
"Misof" Top Coder "Computational Complexity" section 2
 
Albert R. Meyer & Ronitt Rubinfeld MIT 6.042J/18.062J/SMA5512 "Mathematics for Computer Science"
 
Charles Leiserson & Erik Demaine 2005 Fall (updated 2009 September), MIT SMA5503/6.046J "Introduction to Algorithms" video class lectures and notes
U of VA CS332 Algorithms
lecture 1 "Proof by Induction"
lecture 2 "Asymptotic Notation"
lecture 3 "MergeSort, Solving Recurrences, The Master Theorem"
lecture 4 "Review: InsertionSort, MergeSort; Heaps; HeapSort; and Priority Queues"
lecture 5 "QuickSort"
lecture 6 "Analyzing QuickSort: Average Case"
lecture 7 "Linear-Time Sorting Algorithms"
lecture 8 "Linear-Time Sorting Review; Bucket Sort; Medians and Order Statistics"
lecture 9 "Data Structures for Dynamic Sets: Binary Search Trees"
lecture 10 "Red-Black Trees"
lecture 12 "Skip Lists, Hash Tables"
    William Pugh _Skip Lists: A Probabilistic Alternative to Balanced Trees" (pdf)
lecture 13 "Augmenting Data Structures"
lecture 14 "Augmenting Data Structures: Interval Trees"
lecture 15 "Review for Mid-Term"
lecture 16 "Mid-Term Post-Mortem; Intro to Graph Algorithms"

Economics
Robert W. Bednarzik 2005 August "ReStructuring information technology: is off-shoring a concern?" _Monthly Labor Review_
 
Sharon P. Brown & Lewis B. Siegel 2005 August "Mass lay-off data indicate out-sourcing and off-shoring of work" _Monthly Labor Review_
 
Lily Hsueh 2007-08-03 "Trends in Bay Area IT Employment" _Federal Reserve Board of San Francisco Economic Letter_
 
Michael A. Zuckerman 2009 "The Off-Shoring of American Government" _Cornell Law Review_ vol94 pp165 et seq.
 
Richard F. Tax 1992 September "Phony NSF Paper Affects Legislation" _American Engineer_
 
Peter Freeman & William Aspray of Computer Research Association 1999 _The Supply of Information Technology Workers in the United States_
 
Michael S. Teitelbaum 2003 Autumn "Do we need more scientists?" _Public Interest_
 
Norm Matloff 2003-12-12 "On the Need for Reform of the H-1B Non-Immigrant Work Visa in Computer-Related Occupations" _University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform_ vol36 #4
 
Alan Fechter 1990 Autumn "Engineering Shortages and Short-Falls: Myths and Realities" _The Bridge_
 
Public Citizen 2004 January "The 10 Year Track Record of the North American Free Trade Agreement: US Workers' Jobs, Wages and Economic Security"
 
Titus Galama & James Hosek of RAND Corporation 2008 "US Competitiveness in Science and Technology" for US Department of Defense
 
Geoff Davis 1997 November "Mathematicians and the Market" _Notices of the American Mathematical Society_
 
Titus Galama, James Hosek, Sloan Fader, Lindsay Daugherty, Meg Blume-Kohout et al. 2006-11-08 "Conference Proceedings: Perspectives on US Competitiveness in Science and Technology"
 
William P. Butz, Gabrielle A. Bloom, Mihal E. Gross, Terrene K. Kelly, Aaron Kofner, Helga E. Rippen 2002-11-12 "Is There a Shortage of Scientists and Engineers? How Would We Know?" _RAND Science and Technology Issue Paper_
 
USCIS 2008 September "H-1B Benefit Fraud & Compliance Assessment"
 
B. Lindsay Lowell & Micah Bump 2006 October "Projecting Immigrant Visas: Report on an Experts Meeting" _Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International Migration_
 
Abraham Mosisa & Steven Hipple 2006 October "Trends in labor force participation in the United States" _MLR_
 
Ruth Ellen Wasem 2007-01-24 "Non-Immigrant Over-Stays: Brief Synthesis of the Issue" _CRS_ #RS22446
 
Leslie M. Galbreath 2007-05-11 "Tracking Public-Post-Secondary Enrollment Patterns of Missouri A+ Program-Eligible Graduates"
 
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard 2007 December "The Accelerating Decline in America's High-Skilled Work-Force: Implications for Immigration Policy" _Policy Analyses in International Economics_ (preview)
 
William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln 2008 December _The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention_
 
Edwin S. Rubenstein 2009-01-12 "The Twin Crises: Immigration and Infrastructure" _The Social Contract_
 
Alan Reynolds 2008-10-07 "Taxes and Deficits" _Free Market Forum: The Role of Markets and Governments in Pursuing the Common Good_
 
Beryl Lieff Benderly "Heavenly Labs: How to Find Them"
 
John E. Charalambakis "Free Trade as an Instrument of Justice: The Intellectual and Moral Benefits of International Trade and a Preliminary Empirical Analysis Across Nations"
 
Beryl Lieff Benderly "Feeling the Elephant" _Science_
 
Murray N. Rothbard 1986 _Protectionism_
 
Kenneth G. Elzinga 2008-09-27 "Teaching by Lecture: Saving the Sage on the Stage"
 
Edward J. Erler 2008-09-26 "In Kelo's Wake"
 
Andorra Bruno, Ruth Ellen Wasem, Alison Siskin, Karma Ester, Margaret Mikyung Lee, & Stephen R. Viña 2004-06-22 _Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 108th Congress_ CRS #RL32169
 
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, H-1B grantee and Danish Intelligence 2005 December _Out-Sourcing and Skill Imports: Foreign High-Skilled Workers on H-1B and L-1 Visas in the United States of America_ WP05-15 Institute for International Economics project on "Accelerating the Globalization of America: Information Technology"
 
Thomas McCool _Troubled Asset Relief Program: Status of Efforts to Address Transparency and Accountability Issues_ GA-09-296
 
Lester C. Thurow 1980 _The Zero-Sum Society_
 
Peter Schiff 2009-06-12 Why the Melt-Down Should Have Surprised No One
 
Chris Mosquera 2008 _Is Organized Labor a Decaying Business Model?_ (162 pages in pdf)
 

History
_American Ancestry_ volume 11
 
Bernard L. Butcher & James Morton Callahan 1912 _Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley West Virginia_ vol3
 
T.K. Cartmell 1909 _Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: An History of Frederick county VA from its Formation in 1738 to 1908_
 
Tom Clancy & Fred Franks 1998 June _Into the Storm_
 
Basil Davidson 1992 _Africa in History_
 
James W. Ely 2008-09-26 _Property Rights in American History_
 
Jon Gjerde 1998 _Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History_
 
Albert Hourani 1992 April _An History of the Arab People_
 
John C. Hover, Joseph D. Barnes, Walter D. Jones, Charlotte Reeve Conover et al. 1919 _Memoirs of the Miami Valley_ vol1of3 (685 pages in pdf)
 
Rossiter Johnson 1904 _20th Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans_ volume5 Habb-Izard
 
Franklin D. Scott 1968 _World Migration in Modern Times_
 
William Wallace Scott 1907 _An History of Orange county VA_
 
Lucullus Virgil McWhorter _Border Settlers of NW VA from 1768 to 1795_ (531 pages in pdf)
 
Alexander Scott Withers 1920 _Chronicles of Border Warfare_
 
see separate pages
 

Career
none this year
see career books
 

Screen-plays
none this year

Other
Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson 1991 _The Singers of Time_
Benjamin R. Barber 2001 _Jihad vs. McWorld_ [305 pages of drivel & maybe 3 pages of something loosely resembling substance]
Clive Cussler 1988 _Treasure_
Burton Pasternak 1976 _Introduction to Kinship and Social Organization_
Gary McCarthy 1981 _The Legend of the Lone Ranger_
Ian Wallace 1976 _The World Asunder_
Mary Montgomery 1985 _Aliens Among Us_
Katherine Kurtz & Deborah Turner Harris 1991 March _The Adept_
Katherine Kurtz & Deborah Turner Harris 1992 June _The Adept: The Lodge of the Lynx_
 
Katherine Kurtz & Deborah Turner Harris 1993 July _The Adept: The Templar Treasure_
 
Jim Butcher _Small Favor_
 
William C. Canby 1988 _American Indian Law_
 
Jerome Stern _Making Shapely Fiction_
 

2009 readings

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