Understanding Nanotechnology
- Edited by Scientific American; Warner Books, 2002, ISBN 0446679569. Accessible overview of this topic, and many profound applications. [Hachette]
- http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/books/47/0446679569/

Nano: The Emerging Science of Nanotechnology
- By Ed Regis; Little Brown & Co., 1996, ISBN 0316738522. Overview of short, rapid history of this topic, proponents and opponents, prospects. [Hachette]
- http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/books/95/0316738581/

Nanotechnology: A Gentle Introduction to the Next Big Idea
- By Mark Ratner, Daniel Ratner; Prentice Hall PTR, 2002, ISBN 0131014005. For non-technical readers, simple, brief, survey, little math; shows how topic works, what's new and next, why it may be next $1 trillion industry. [Prentice Hall PTR]
- http://www.phptr.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0131014005&redir=1&rl=1

Amazon.com Books: Nanotechnology
- Lists books for sale on the topic of the Nanotechnology. Includes descriptions of individual books, reviews and purchase information.
- http://www.amazon.com/s/url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Nanotechnology&Go.x=13&Go.y=12

Molecular Engineering of Nanosystems
- By Edward A. Rietman; Springer-Verlag NY, 2001, ISBN 0387989889. Technical introduction. It is growing possible to manipulate biotic tissues and materials the size of individual cells, organelles, molecules. [Publisher's description.]
- http://www.springer.com/dal/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=1-40109-22-2104592-0

Chemistry at the Beginning of the Third Millennium
- Edited by Luigi Fabbrizzi, Antonio Poggi; Springer-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 0387989889. Accessible treatment of molecular design, supramolecules, nanotechnology and beyond; 15 chapters by specialists. [Publisher website.]
- http://www.springer.com/dal/home?SGWID=1-102-22-2058179-0&changeHeader=true

NanoSPRINT - Visual Science
- Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology, with a first volume dealing with carbon nanotubes, their properties, peculiarities and applications.
- http://www.nanosprint.com

The Next Big Thing Is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business
- By Jack Uldrich, Deb Newberry; Crown Publishing Group, 2003, ISBN 1400046890. Introductory lay treatment, very useful for understanding day-to-day and business implications. [Random House]
- http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=1400046890

Nanocosm: Nanotechnology and the Big Changes Coming from the Inconceivably Small
- By William Illsey Atkinson; AMACOM, 2003, ISBN 0814471811. Lay description of topic, many opinions expressed, not as accurate as it could be. [American Management Association]
- http://www.amanet.org/books/catalog/0814471811.htm

Review of Nanocosm
- By Chris Phoenix. This anti-Drexler book reports on nanotech but suffers from many technical inaccuracies and distortions of work of nanotech pioneers. [KurzweilAI.net]
- http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0583.html

AsiaNANO 2002: Proceedings of the Asian Symposium on Nanotechnology and Nanoscience 2002
- Edited by Masatsugu Shimomura, Teruya Ishihara; World Scientific Publishing, 2002, ISBN 9812383921. Conference proceedings, Tokyo, Japan, 27-29 November 2002, table of contents. [publisher website]
- http://www.worldscientific.com/books/nanosci/5292.html

Microelectronics, Microsystems and Nanotechnology
- Edited by Androula G. Nassiopoulou, Xanthi Zianni; World Scientific Publishing, 2000, ISBN 9810247699. Conference proceedings, Athens, Greece, 20-22 November 2000, table of contents. [publisher website]
- http://www.worldscientific.com/books/nanosci/4825.html

Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
- Description, information, contents, sample chapters. [World Scientific Publishing]
- http://www.worldscientific.com/books/nanosci/p080.html

Quantum Dots
- Edited by Elena Borovitskaya, Michael S. Shur; World Scientific Publishing, 2002, ISBN 9810249187. Technical review of all current aspects of quantum dot systems, theory, and technology. [publisher website]
- http://www.worldscientific.com/books/nanosci/4934.html

Nanoscience: Friction and Rheology on the Nanometer Scale
- Edited by E. Meyer, T. Gyalog, R.M. Overney, K. Dransfeld; World Scientific Publishing, 1999, ISBN 9812380620. Technical introduction to nanometer-scale tribology via friction force probe microscopy. [publisher website]
- http://www.worldscientific.com/books/nanosci/3026.html

Nano-Engineering in Science and Technology: An Introduction to the World of Nano-Design
- By Michael Rieth; World Scientific Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9812380736. Technical introduction, starts with quantum mechanical treatment of many-particle problem; focus: molecular dynamics method. [publisher website]
- http://www.worldscientific.com/books/nanosci/5026.html

Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms
- By Wil McCarthy; Basic Books, 2003, ISBN 046504428X. Programmable matter, via quantum dots, will someday change our lives. Author visits labs of major firms, talks to researchers developing this extraordinary technology. [SFF Net]
- http://www.sff.net/people/wmccarth/hm.htm

Key Technologies for the 21st Century: Scientific American: A Special Issue
- Edited by Scientific American; W.H. Freeman & Co, 1996, ISBN 0716729482. One of series; treats future of medicine, cyberspace, transport, production, energy, environment, with a nanotechnology focus. [publisher website]
- http://www.whfreeman.com/generalreaders/book.asp?id_product=1002002034

Future Trends in Microelectronics: The Nano Millennium
- Edited by Serge Luryi, Jimmy Xu, Alex Zaslavsky; John Wiley & Sons, 2002, ISBN 0471212474. Based on ideas, discussions arising from 3rd Future Trends in Microelectronics (FTM) workshop series, summer 2001. [publisher website]
- http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471212474,00.html

Semiconductors for Micro- and Nanotechnology: An Introduction for Engineers
- By Jan G. Korvink, Andreas Greiner; John Wiley & Sons, 2002, ISBN 3527302573. Textbook on properties and behavior of semiconductors, how to use them to design and make micro- and nano-systems. [publisher website]
- http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,3527302573,00.html

Highly-Organized Substances and Nanotechnology: 2nd International Conference on Chemistry of Highly-Organized Substances and Scientific Principles of Nanotechnology
- Edited by V.B. Alescovskii; John Wiley & Sons, 1999, ISBN 3527298045. Part of macromolecular symposia series, meeting theme: combining isolated effects in studying covalent and non-covalent multinuclear chemical systems. [publisher website]
- http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,3527298045,00.html

Integrated Chemical Systems: A Chemical Approach to Nanotechnology
- By Allen J. Bard; Wiley-Interscience, 1994, ISBN 0471007331. Systematic, real world approach to nanosystems, many actual examples, scores of figures and photo illustrations. [John Wiley & Sons]
- http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471007331,00.html

Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation
- By K. Eric Drexler; John Wiley & Sons, 1992, ISBN 0471575186. Large, pioneering technical and mathematical text, may be author's greatest contribution to this field. [publisher website]
- http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471575186,00.html

Introduction to Nanotechnology
- By Charles P. Poole, Jr., Frank J. Owens; John Wiley & Sons, 2003, ISBN 0471079359. Broad, practical overview of topic, gives researchers coverage of developments in nanotechnology outside their fields. [publisher website]
- http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471079359,00.html

The Investor's Guide to Nanotechnology & Micromachines
- By Glenn Fishbine; John Wiley & Sons, 2002, ISBN 0471443557. First investment guide to fast emerging industry. In 2000, government and private investment topped $1 billion, should grow exponentially in future. [John Wiley & Sons]
- http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471443557,00.html

Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance
- Edited by B.C. Crandall; MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 0262531372. Accessible to wide audience, with references to technical literature, shows wide range of uses of nanotechnology. [MIT Press]
- http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=5039

Nanotechnology: Research and Perspectives
- Edited by B.C. Crandall, James Lewis; MIT Press, 1992, ISBN 0262031957. Overview of presently understood paths to molecule scale engineering. [MIT Press]
- http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=8128

Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier
- Philip Ball; Princeton University Press, 1996, ISBN 0691029008. Accessible survey of new results in many major fields allied with chemistry: molecular electronics, artificial enzymes, smart polymer gels. [Princeton University Press]
- http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/5414.html

Nanotechnology: Basic Science and Emerging Technologies
- Edited by Mick Wilson, Kamali Kannangara, Geoff Smith, Michelle Simmons, Burkhard Raguse; CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 0849311837. Accessible to nonspecialists, engineers, scientists outside the field, even undergraduates. [CRC Press]
- http://www.crcpress.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=C3391

Nanoelectromechanics in Engineering and Biology
- By Michael Pycraft Hughes; CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 0849311837. Nanotechnology depends on abilities to manage nanoscale objects via interactions of electric fields, nanoparticles, ambient molecules. [CRC Press]
- http://www.crcpress.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=1183

Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology
- Edited by William A. Goddard III, Donald W. Brenner, Sergey Edward Lyshevski, Gerald J. Iafrate; CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 0849312000. Examines NEMS applications in many diverse areas. [CRC Press]
- http://www.crcpress.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=1200

MEMS and NEMS: Systems, Devices, and Structures
- By Sergey Edward Lyshevski; CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 0849312620. Multidisciplinary, forms basis for MEMS, NEMS synthesis, modeling, analysis, simulation, control, prototyping, fabrication. [CRC Press]
- http://www.crcpress.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=1262

Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
- Description, picture, links. [Anchor]
- http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0385199732

Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology
- Edited by Hari Singh Nalwa; Academic Press, 2000, ISBN 0125137605, Volumes 1-5. Won 1999 Award of Excellence in Engineering Handbooks from Association of American Publishers; 140 authors. [Academic Press]
- http://www.bhusa.com/apcatalog/us/subindex.asp?maintarget=bookscat%2Fsearch%2Fresults%2Easp&country=United+States&ref=&mscssid=16FC7DP1688C9HULWCASG3C6PLBQ6158

Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World
- By Douglas Mulhall; Prometheus Books, 2002, ISBN 1573929921. Examines vast potential of new technologies to help us cope with many problems. Site has table of contents, excerpts, news release. [Prometheus Books Publishers]
- http://www.ourmolecularfuture.com/

The Forge of Mars
- By Bruce Balfour; ACE-Oryx, 2002, ISBN 0441009549. Futuristic thriller explores nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, colonizing Mars. Site has science news, author bio, reader's guide, links, Mars photos. [Scribbling Gargoyle Entertainment Corp.]
- http://www.forgeofmars.com/

The First Immortal
- By James L. Halperin; Del Rey, Random House, 1998, ISBN 0345420926. Fictionally explores nanotechnology's impact on the human future, special focus on cryonics, life extension. Has author forum, news, information, opinion poll. [Random House]
- http://www.randomhouse.com/features/firstimmortal/

Nanosystems Book Review
- By Chris Worth. K. Eric Drexler's textbook reviewed, followed by much interesting, lively debate. [Slashdot]
- http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/28/1133200

Nanotech Book Reviews
- Steve Lenhert reviews his two favorite nanotech books, Travels to the Nanoworld and Nanotechnology.
- http://nanotech.about.com/science/nanotech/library/weekly/aa111200a.htm

Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution
- By K. Eric Drexler, Chris Peterson, Gayle Pergamit; William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991; Quill (reprint), 1993, ISBN 0688125735. Clear, nontechnical introduction to molecular manufacturing: what it is, and may make possible, dangers and opportunities.
- http://www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/

Nanomedicine, Volume 1: Basic Capabilities
- By Robert A. Freitas Jr.; Landes Bioscience, 1999, ISBN 157059645X, volume 1 of 3. About applying nanotechnology to medicine. [Online]
- http://www.nanomedicine.com/