Missing Textbooks

Here is a list of textbooks I own that have gotten misplaced sometime over the past 3 years, possibly in the same box or something. I no longer have any hope for retrieval, but here, I will mourn their passing.

Moore & McCabe - Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (4th edition - Magritte artwork on cover)
Parker - The Military Revolution
Nestler, Hyman, & Malenka - Molecular Neuropharmocology (1st edition, paperback)
Alberts et al. - Molecular Biology of the Cell (4th edition, hardcover, really just called "The Cell")
??? - Optics (blue hardcover, small silver diagram, rather old-timey: pre-color diagrams)

I will probably never have these books on my shelves again, as I very rarely buy the same thing twice. (Hey, you would buy Firefly again in blu-ray if it only cost 30 Canadian dollars, too!)

Oh, you silly Republicans

I see what you are trying to do, Sacramento Republicans. When McCain asks "Who is the real Barack Obama?", lesser people might use wikipedia. But no, Sacramento Republicans, you and I are too nerdy to do that. As TRUE Firefly fans, we turn to the works of Xiang Yu. My only regret is that active volcanoes are hard to come by in California. I guess waterboarding is the next best thing...