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Books and References for our National Parks

National Park Service has a listing of online books about our National Parks

Including such favourites as:

National Park Service Uniforms: In Search of an Identity, 1872-1920
National Park Service Uniforms: Ironing Out the Wrinkles, 1920-1932
National Park Service Uniforms: Breeches, Blouses, and Skirts, 1918-1991

But for real...

A History of the U.S. Department of the Interior During the Clinton Administration 1993-2001

America's National Park System: The Critical Documents

Our National Parks by John Muir

National Parks: The American Experience (bound copy from Amazon.

Free online version here.

UPDATE:
Two important ones for the thesis
THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: A Brief History
Barry Mackintosh 1999

History of Niagra Falls

Free Classic Literature online

Read Print offers up some great public domain works... perfect for some post-thesis reading!

Then there's Bartleby.com which has a wider selection

Probably the most well known is Project Gutenberg, which is a large distributed effort.

The DMoz directory for free online literature.

Two to reads, Neal Stephenson and Hardware Hacking

Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty

Looks pretty fun. Always wanted to be able to hack electronics... being able to work with hardware seems.. in my mind to graduate you to the next level of geekdom.

Reviewed by Slashdot here.

Also will probably read Neal Stephenson's The Confusion

The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)

Reviewed by Wired here.

I adored Cryptonomicon so I picked up Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) the day it came out. Had potential.. but was just to windy, with no driven plot.

Still want to read his early cyber-punk stuff in Snow Crash some day.