Selected Bibliography

 

This is a book-only bibliography. The list includes only books which I have read, re-read, and referenced over the years.  Most are historical in nature and mainly cover the disciplines of astronomy and computing (and other subjects closely related to them).

 

Aplin, Tanya (2005), Copyright Law in the Digital Society – The Challenge of Multimedia, Oxford: Hart Publishing.

Arora, A., and Gambardella, A. (eds.) (2005), From Underdogs to Tigers—The rise and growth of the software industry in Brazil, China, India, Ireland, and Israel, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Aspray, William (1990), John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Aveni, F. (1995), Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks and Cultures, Kodansha

Baillie, M. G. L. (1995), A Slice Through Time, Batsford

Bainbridge, David I. (2007), Intellectual Property (6th Edition), Harlow: Pearson Longman.

Belden, Thomas G., and Belden, Marva R. (1962), The Lengthening Shadow: The Life of Thomas J. Watson, Boston: Little Brown & Co.

Beniger, James (1986), The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Bennett, J. M., Broomham R., Murton, P. M., Pearcey, T., and Rutledge, R. W. (eds.) (1994), Computing in Australia – The development of a profession, Sydney: Hale & Iremonger and the Australian Computer Society Inc.

Bickerman, E. J. (1980), Chronology of the Ancient World, Thames and Hudson

Biers, W. R. (1992), Art, Artefacts, and Chronology in Classical Archaeology, Routledge

Blind, K., Edler, J., and Friedewald, M. (2005), Software Patents – Economic Impacts and Policy Implications, UK: Edward Elgar.

Borst, A. (1993), The Ordering of Time (Winnard, A., trans.), Polity Press

Braun, Ernest (1995), Futile Progress—Technology’s Empty Promise, London: Earthscan Publications.

Breasted, J. H. (1948), A History of Egypt, Hodder & Stoughton

Brecher, K., and Feirtag, M. (eds.) (1979), Astronomy of the Ancients, MIT Press

Brock, Gerald W. (1994), Telecommunication Policy for the Information Age – From Monopoly to Competition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Budge, E. A. W. (1929), The Rosetta Stone and the Decipherment of Egyptian Hieroglyphs, The Religious Text Society

Burl, A. (1976), The Stone Circles of the British Isles, Yale University Press

Campbell-Kelly, Martin (1989), ICL: A Business and Technical History, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Campbell-Kelly, Martin (2004), From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog—A History of the Software Industry, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Campbell-Kelly, Martin and Aspray, William (2004), Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Oxford: Westview Press.

Cantalamessa, R. (1993), Easter in the Early Church, The Liturgical Press

Carmel, E. and Tjia, P. (2005), Offshoring Information Technology – Sourcing and Outsourcing to a Global Workforce, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ceruzzi, Paul E. (2003), A History of Modern Computing, (2nd ed.), Cambridge (Massachusetts): The MIT Press.

Clark, G. (1961), World Prehistory, Cambridge University Press

Clark, G. (1992), Space, Time and Man: a prehistorian's view, Cambridge University Press

Cohen, I. Bernard (1999), Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Commander, Simon (ed.) (2005), The Software Industries in Emerging Markets, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Connolly, J. (1967), History of Computing in Europe, USA: IBM World Trade Corporation.

Coopey, Richard (ed.) (2004), Information Technology Policy – An International History, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cortada, James W. (1993), Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956, Princeton (N.J.): Princeton University Press.

Cortada, James W. (1996), Information Technology as Business History – Issues in the History and Management of Computers, Connecticut: Westport.

Crippen, T. G. (1923), Christmas and Christmas Lore, Blackie and Son Ltd

Daniel, G. (1972), Megaliths in History, Thames and Hudson

Davidson, M. J. (2003), The Legal Protection of Databases, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Davies, N. (1982), The Ancient Kingdoms of Mexico, Allen Lane

Davis, J., Hirschl, T., and Stack, M. (eds.) (1997), Cutting Edge—Technology, Information Capitalism and Social Revolution, London: Verso.

Denis-Boulet, N. M. (1960), The Christian Calendar (Hepburne-Scott, P., trans.), Hawthorne Books

Dix, G. (1986), The Shape of the Liturgy, A & C Black

Dohrn-van Rossum, G. (1996), History of the Hour—Clocks and modern Temporal Orders, The University of Chicago Press

Doumas, C. G. (1983), Thera—Pompeii of the ancient Aegean, Thames and Hudson

Dreyer, J. L. E. (1953), A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler, Dover

Duncan, D. E. (1999), The Calendar, Fourth Estate

Dunnington, G.W. (1955), Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science, Exposition Press

Dutton, William H. (ed.) (1996), Information and Communications Technologies – Visions and Realities, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Eliassen, K. A. and Sjovaag, M. (eds.) (1999), European Telecommunications Liberalisation, London: Routledge.

Fagan, B. M. (1987), The Great Journey: the Peopling of Ancient America, Thames and Hudson

Fiedel, S. J. (1987), Prehistory of the Americas, Cambridge University Press

Finegan, J. (1964), Handbook of Biblical Chronology, Princeton University Press

Fitzgerald, Ian (2023), Chernobyl, Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Flamm, Kenneth (1988), Creating the Computer – Government, Industry and High Technology, Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution.

Flegg, G. (ed.) (1989), Numbers Through the Ages, Macmillan

Forester, Tom (ed.) (1980), The Microelectronics Revolution: The Complete Guide to the New Technology and Its Impact on Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Forester, Tom (ed.) (1985), The Information Technology Revolution, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Forester, Tom (ed.) (1989), Computers in the Human Context: Information Technology, Productivity, and People, UK: Blackwell.

Galler, B. A. (1995), Software and Intellectual Property Protection: Copyright and Patent Issues for Computer and Legal Professionals, Quorum: UK.

Garson, G. D. (ed.) (2003), Public Information Technology: Policy and Management Issues, Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.

Gates, Bill (1995), The Road Ahead, New York: Viking Press.

Gernet, J. (1982), A History of Chinese Civilisation, Cambridge University Press

Gill, Colin (1985), Work,Unemployment and the New Technology, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Goldstein, Herman H. (1972), The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Grimal, N. (1992), A History of Ancient Egypt, Blackwell

Grover, D. (ed.) (1990), The Protection of Computer Software – Its Technology and Applications, BCS Monographs in Informatics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hammond, R. (1982), Ancient Maya Civilization, Rutgers University Press

Harvey, J. (1998), Modern Economics, UK: Palgrave. [2.3]

Hazlett, I. (ed.) (1991), Early Christianity: origins and evolution to AD 600, SPCK

Heap, N., Thomas, R., Einon, G., Mason, R. and Mackay, H. (eds.) (1995), Information Technology and Society—A Reader, London: Sage Publications.

Heeks, Richard (1996), India’s Software Industry – State Policy, Liberalisation and Industrial Development, New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Heeks, Richard (1999) (ed.), Reinventing Government in the Information Age, UK: Routledge.

Hefele, C. J. (1871), A history of the Christian Councils from the Original Documents to the Close of the Council of Nicaea, AD 325, T&T Clark

Heggie, D. C. (1981), Megalithic Science, Thames & Hudson

Heggie, D. C. (ed.) (1982), Archaeoastronomy in the Old World, Cambridge University Press

Hodsen, F. R. (ed.) (1974), The Place of Astronomy in the Ancient World, Oxford University Press

Hughes, P. (1961), The Church in Crisis: a History of the Twenty Great Councils, Burns & Dates

Hutchins, R. M., (ed.) (1952), Great Books of the Western World, William Benton

Hyman, Anthony (1982), Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer, Princeton, N. J.: Princenton University Press.

Ichbiah, Daniel, and Knepper, Susan L. (1991), The Making of Microsoft, Rocklin, California: Prima Publishing.

Jowett, P. and Rothwell, M. (1986), The Economics of Information Technology, UK: Macmillan.

Kahin, B. and Wilson, E., (eds.) (1997), National Information Infrastructure Initiatives – Vision and Policy Design, Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press.

Kamall, S. (1996), Telecommunications Policy – Spicers European Union Policy Briefings, London: Cartermill Publishing.

King, H. C. (1957), The Background of Astronomy, Watts

Klauser, T. (1969), A Short History of the Western Liturgy, Oxford University Press

Koenig, C., Bartosch, A. and Braun, J. (eds.) (2002), EC Competition and Telecommunications Law, The Hague: Kluwer Law International.

Krisciunas, K. (1988), Astronomical Centres of the World, Cambridge University Press

Kurihara, Y., Takava, S., Harui, H., and Kamae, H. (eds.) (2008), Information Technology and Economic Development, Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.

Leith, P. (2007), Software and Patents in Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Marshack, A. (1972), The Roots of Civilisations, McGraw-Hill

McCluskey, S. C. (1998), Astronomies and Early Cultures in Early Medieval Europe, Cambridge University Press

Metropolis, N., Howlett, J. and Rota, G. (eds.) (1980), A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century: A Collection of Essays, New York: Academic Press.

Michell, J. (1989), A Little History of Astro-Archaeology, Thames and Hudson

Michels, A. K. (1967), The Calendar of the Roman Republic, Princeton University Press

Michie, Jonathan and Grieve Smith, John (eds.) (1998), Globalisation, Growth and Governance: Creating an Innovative Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Miles, Ian (1990), “Mapping and Measuring the Information Economy”, UK: The British Library.

Miller, M. E. (1996), The Art of Mesoamerica: from Olmec to Aztec, Thames and Hudson

Milward-Oliver, Gerald (ed.) (2005), Maitland+20: Fixing the Missing Link, UK: Anima.

Moore, Patrick (1985), The Sky At Night, Patrick Stephens Ltd (Thornsons Publishing)

Moret, A. (1972), The Nile and Egyptian Civilisation, Routledge & Kegan Paul

Needham, J. (1959), Science and Civilisation in China, Cambridge University Press

Neugebauer, O. (1983), Astronomy and History—Selected Essays, Springer-Verlag

Nicholas, K. (1998), Inventing Software – The Rise of “Computer-related” Patents, Connecticut: Quorum Books.

Nicholson, I. (1983), Mexican and Central American Mythology, Newnes Books

Nilsson, M. P. (1920), Primitive Time Reckoning, Gleerup

Norberg, A. and O'Neill, J. (1996), Transforming Computer Technology--Information Processing for the Pentageon, 1962-1986, Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press.

North, J. (1994), The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology, Fontana Press

Packard David (1996), The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company, New York, NY: Harper Collins.

Parise, F. (ed.) 1982), The Book of Calendars, Facts on File

Peterson, F. (1962), Ancient Mexico, Capricorn Books

Pirotta, Joseph M. (1987), Fortress Colony: The Final Act 1945-1964, Vols. 1-3, Malta: Studia Editions.

Pollacco, Christopher (2003), An Outline of the Socio-Economic Development in Post-War Malta, Malta: Mireva Publications.

Posener, G. (1962), A Dictionary of Egyptian Civilisation, Methuen & Co. Ltd.

Pugh, Emerson W. (1995), Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Quirke, S., and Spencer, J. (eds.) (1992), The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt, British Museum Press

Reichen, C. (1968), A History of Astronomy, Edito-Service

Richards, E. G. (1998), Mapping Time—The Calendar and its History, Oxford University Press

Rifkin, Jeremy (1995), The End of Work—The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

Roberts, J. M. (1992), History of the World, Helicon

Rohr, R. R. (1970), Sundials, History, Theory and Practice, University of Toronto Press

Rordorf, W. (1968), Sunday, (Graham, A. A. K., trans.), SCM Press

Saggs, H.W.F. (1988), The Greatness that was Babylon, Sidgwick & Jackson

Smith, W., and Cheetham, S. (eds.) (1880), A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, John Murray

Spiteri, J. E. (1997), Malta: an Island in Transition, Malta: Progress Press.

Steinfield, C., Bauer, J. M. and Caby, L. (eds.) (1994), Telecommunications in Transition – Policies, Services and Technologies in the European Community, London: Sage Publications.

Stevenson, J. (ed.) (1989), Creeds, Councils and Controversies, SPCK

Talley, T. J. (1986), The Origins of the Liturgical Year, Peublo Publishing Co.

Temin, P. and Galambos, L. (1989), The Fall of the Bell System: A Study in Prices and Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Thompson, D. J. (1988), Memphis under the Ptolemies, Princenton University Press

Thompson, J. E. S. (1954), The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization, University of Oklahoma Press

Thompson, J. E. S. (1966), Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: An Introduction, University of Oklahoma Press

Torero, Maximo and von Braun, Joachim, (eds.) (2006), Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Tunstall, J. and Palmer, M. (1990), Liberating Communications – Policy Making in France and Britain, Oxford: NCC Blackwell.

UNCTAD (2009), “About ASYCUDA”. Available at: http://www.asycuda.org/aboutas.asp. Accessed: 1 February 2009

Ungerer, H. and Costello, N. P. (1990), Telecommunications in Europe, Brussels: Office for Official Publications of the EC.

UNIDO (1993), Software Industry—Current trends and implications for developing countries, Vienna: United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

US Congress (1993), U.S. Telecommunications Services in European Markets, Office of Technology Assessment, OTA-TCT-548, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

van Maarseveen, J. G., et. al. (eds.) (1999), A Century Rounded Up: Reflections on the history of the Central Bureau of Statistics in the Netherlands, Amsterdam: Stichting beheer IISG.

Vella, Catherine C. (ed.) (2000), The Maltese Islands on the Move, Malta: Central Office of Statistics.

Walden, I. and Angel, J. (eds.) (2001), Telecommunications Law, London: Blackstone Press.

Wallace Mike, Fertig Michael & Schneller Eugene (eds.) (2007), Managing Change in the Public Services, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Wallace, James, and Erickson, Jim (1992), Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, New York: John Wiley.

Webster Frank (ed.) (2004), The Information Society Reader, London: Routledge.

West, M. L. (1988), Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days, Oxford University Press

Wiener, Norbert (1950), The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society, Boston, MA: Houghton-Mifflin.

Williams, Michael, R. (1985), A History of Computing Technology, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Wilson III, Ernest J. (2006), The Information Revolution and Developing Countries, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Winsbury, Rex (ed.) (1981), Viewdata in Action – a comparative study of Prestel, UK: McGraw-Hill.

Wood, J. E. (1978), Sun, Moon and Standing Stones, Oxford University Press

Yap, Y., and Cotterell, A. (1975), The Early Civilisation of China, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Yates, J. (2005), Structuring the Information Age - Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century, Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press.

Zammit Mangion, J. (1992), Education in Malta, Malta: Studia Edition.

 

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