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AIM is a John Fry (Fry's Electronics) nonprofit. There was an office between Fry's and the GM development complex in Palo Alto (where Fry's employees smoke), but it looks like they moved to a larger office in San Jose.

Actual university degree programs in the US are accredited by shops like ABET, which don't specify textbooks by name (probably because they change so often because $$$). Reasonable and trustworthy (not necessarily the best) textbooks for subjects can be found by comparing course syllabii on any number of top 50 university course websites and browsing titles on sellers which offer free samples.

There are seminal books in disciplines (ie Art of Electronics, TAOCP or SICP) but they're not "bibles" per-se.