Steven S. Ross:
Publications & Productions

Books

• 1972, McGraw-Hill's 1972 Report on Business and the Environment, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. (Co-author.)
• 1973-1980, Environment Regulation Handbook, Environment Information Center. Updated monthly. This binder service was a prime source of environmental enforcement data for technical personnel and environmental activists. Cea sed publication early in Reagan Administration, when it became clear few new regulations would be issued and that enforcement would be lax.
• 1973, Trends in Pollution Control. Environment Information Center Monograph.
• 1973, Land Use Planning Abstracts, 1970-1973. Environment Information Center. One of the first examples of a book spun out of a database. It contains 2,000 abstracts and 150 pages of introductory material, plus indexing. At that time, database access was expens ive, $120/hour (the equivalent of$400/hour today). The idea of a book that would allow on-paper searches was particularly attractive. The indexing was the best available at the time, using the innovative SAMANTHA database tracking system and software developed in concert with Port City Press.
• 1975, Land Use Planning Abstracts, 1974-1975. Environment Information Center. The second book in what eventually grew to a five-book reference series for professional planners. After this volume, production became routine and I became a consulting editor only.
• 1978, Toxic Substances Sourcebook. Environment Information Center. Contains 2,000 abstracts on what was at the time the latest reliable research on health effects of toxic substances, along with more than 150 pages of introductory material and detailed indexing . Its production was, in part, directly from computer tapes to fully laid out pages <196> one of the first such books ever produced.
• 1980, Product Safety and Liability: A Desk Reference, McGraw-Hill Book Company. (Co-author with John Kolb.) This book remains one of the standard American reference works in the field.
• 1980, Toxic Substances Sourcebook II, Environment Information Center.
• 1984, Construction Disasters: Design Failures, Causes and Prevention, McGraw-Hill Book Company. Still a standard text.
• 1987, High-Tech Careers, Sun Features. (Co-author.)
• 1988, SPREADSTAT: How to Build Statistics into Your Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheets, McGraw-Hill Book Company. A featured alternate selection of the Macmillan Computer Book Club. Available as a book, or as a book-disk package. The disk, containing advanced spreadsheet statistical models (including regression with seasonality) is also available separately. The book uses, as a running example, a comparison of the performance of two magazines. Thus , some media marketing classes have picked it up as a text.
• 1988, Highway Design Reference Guide, McGraw-Hill Book Company. (Editor.)
• 1990, Data Exchange in PC/MS DOS, McGraw-Hill. Byte Book Club main selection for Winter 1990. Featured alternate for TAB Computer Book Club.
• 1990-present, How to Maximize Your PC. WEKA Publishing, Inc. This binder service adds about 160 pages every 10 weeks (the total is now over 6,400 pages in 32 updates).
• 1991, Exercises in Computer-Assisted Reporting, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. The world's first workbook for teaching computer analysis and data-gathering tools to journalists. The Fifth Edition, more than 500 pages, has been distributed since Summer 1994.
• 1994, Keys to the Internet, WEKA Publishing, Inc. This 180-page book comes with a disk of updatable material, including the HYTELNET guide, holding the equivalent of another 500 pages. The disk has been revised twice since original publication.
• 1995, Financial Planning (co-author with Nancy L. Ross). WEKA Publishing, Inc., 1995. 144 pages and three disks.
• 1996, Keys to Multimedia (co-author with Nancy L. Ross). WEKA Publishing, Inc., 1996. 144 pages and one disk.

Retail Software

• 1985, TK!SolverPack for Standard Handbook of Engineering Calculations; McGraw-Hill. The first time a major engineering text was "computerized."
• 1985, TK!SolverPack for Units Conversion; McGraw-Hill. Believed to be the most complete set of conversions ever assembled in one place. It handles more than 200,000 conversions; the equivalent book would be 8,000 pages long.
• 1988, Templates and Sample Data to Accompany SPREADSTAT; McGraw-Hill.

Selected Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings

• 1971-1978, Environment Index, Annual Review of environmental events
• 1976-1980, Product Liability Prevention, Annual conference proceedings.
• 1980, Business and Society Review, Myths of Japan (Summer)
• 1981, Journal of Real Estate Taxation, Taxing the Sun: How the IRS Has Made It Difficult to Cut the Oil Habit. Spring.
• 1989, New York Academy of Medicine, Low Level Radioactive Waste: How does the Public Respond?
• 1991, International Communications Conference, University of Miami, Environmental Reporting in the Caribbean.
• 1992, Toxic Release Inventory Data Use and Pollution Prevention Conference, PPA - A Journalist's Approach.
• 1993, Business and Society Review, The Port Authority Shell Game. Winter.

Magazine and Newspaper

• 1965-present, Articles have appeared in:
  • AIAA Student Journal
  • Air & Water News
  • Architectural Record
  • Black Enterprise
  • Boardroom Reports
  • Bottom Line Personal
  • Business Week Career Guide
  • Career World
  • Civil Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Computer Careers
  • Direct
  • Engineering News-Record
  • Engineering Times
  • Graduating Engineer
  • Juris Doctor
  • Medical Dimensions
  • MBA Magazine
  • Mother Jones
  • National Business Employment Weekly
  • New Engineer
  • New York
  • New York Daily News
  • New York Post >
  • New York Times
  • New York Newsday
  • Newsday
  • Pan Am Clipper
  • Parenting
  • Physicians World
  • Professional Engineer
  • PRSA Tactics
  • Purchasing
  • Purchasing World
  • Record (Hackensack)
  • Rensselaer Engineer
  • Savvy
  • Science Challenge
  • San Jose Mercury News
  • Standardization News
  • Sun Features
  • SuperConductor World Report
  • United
  • Washington Post

Published Reviews

• 1971-present, Reviews have appeared in:
  • Architectural Record
  • Business Week Career Guide
  • Business and Society Review
  • Environment Writer
  • Graduating Engineer
  • Juris Doctor
  • Medical Dimensions
  • MBA
  • New Engineer
  • Record (Hackensack, NJ)
  • Science Books & Films
  • Sky & Telescope

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