Found these great photos online:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~whe/arecibo/

Any good books on the subject ?

Don’t know directly of any book for the general public, but there’re of course several papers
Anyway, this weblink gives a good idea of the ‘atmosphere’ at the Antenna featured in the movie ‘Contact’

http://www.people.carleton.edu/~jweisber/scopesub1ao.html

The 'official site':
http://www.naic.edu/public/about/photos/photogal.htm

Best regards,
Philip

Post Scriptum: I prefer views of the VLA:
http://www.vla.nrao.edu/genpub/artgallery/

Numerous photos of Arecibo beyond the usual dish antenna ones:

http://www.qedata.se/e_artiklar_bakgrund.htm#Arecibo

A different perspective on the Arecibo dish:

http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/top10_...20PR_1_7_02.jpg

A page with both Arecibo and the VLA:

http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~shami/telescopes/

Web sites on the 40th anniversary of Arecibo:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Arecibo40/

http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/03/1...bo40_cover.html

And a Jon Lomberg painting of looking up through the Arecibo antenna at night at the Milky Way:

http://www.jonlomberg.com/dp_arecibo.html

Thanks for pointing out those weblinks ljk4-1

Talking about Radio-astronomy, remember this ?
http://www.bigear.org/wow.htm