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Books I'm using, to research the novel


March, 2000:

The Quiet Rebels Margaret Hope Bacon (Quaker history) Finished this.

The Quakers Hugh Barbour and J. William Frost (Quaker history)

Hepatitis Liver Disease Dr. Melissa Palmer (hepatitis) Browsed this.

The Ticos Biesanz, Biesanz, and Biesanz (Costa Rican culture) Partway through this.

Monteverde Sneed B. Collard III (Monteverde preserve) Finished this.



Various Costa Rican tour guides.

A Costa Rican travelogue.


May, 2000:

Autism Mesibov, Adams, and Klinger

Mindblindness Simon Baron-Cohen

Thinking in Pictures Temple Grandin


August, 2000:

A Neotropical Companion

Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide

A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica

A Guide to the Birds of Panama

Costa Rican Natural History

A reference book on graduate programs at U.S. universities.


November, 2000:

Manual of the Grasses of the United Status (Volume 1) A. S. Hitchcock



Books I'm using, to research Ballistic Missile Defense



The Fallacy of Star Wars Union of Concerned Scientists, edited by John Tirman

The Strategic Defense Initiative, Shield or Snare? edited by Harold Brown

Teller's War William J. Broad

Way Out There in the Blue Frances Fitzgerald

Strategic Defenses Office of Technology Assessment