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| 1. |  | The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" from Random House Trade Paperbacks Customer Review:  This is a book that can challenge the way you view the world, your own life, and more than a few of life's basic and irrefutable "laws". If you have an open mind, and are naturally cynical and skeptical you will love this book. Taleb ruthlessly exposes the clay feet of Academics, Economists, Stock... |
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| 2. |  | The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist from Addison-Wesley Professional Price: $25.46 Customer Review:  It's a well written and substantial book. Deep personal experiences and clear writing style make it a winner. I tried to outline the essence of the book here. [...] If you are like me, you can use this as checklist to see areas of improvement in your project. |
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| 3. |  | Programming in Objective-C 2.0, 2/e from Addison-Wesley Professional Customer Review: A very well written book which requires, but deserves, a serious effort, especially from novice programmers. It provides a solid foundation in Objective-C. After reading it I felt ready for any Cocoa tutorial. You buy not only an excellent book but also a nearly unlimited pedagogical support... |
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| 4. | [no image] | Pathophysiology: The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults and Children from C.V. Mosby Customer Review: I'm glad McCance is on my shelf. This book is a great adjunct to Merck for pathomaps and clarifying A and P concepts. Wonderfully illustrated, lots of pictures... commonly referrenced by my required nursing text--Iggy. A GREAT buy finacncialy and for the sake of time. |
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| 5. |  | The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) from Addison-Wesley Professional Price: $23.32 Customer Review: This book is a classic for a reason. Every essay by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. addresses software engineering and proves invaluable for those interested in the history and processes of that field. getAbstract also recommends Brooks' book to anyone who plans or organizes major projects. The collection... |
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| 6. |  | Love in the Time of Cholera (Penguin Modern Classics) from Penguin Classics Customer Review: What a great story. While it may seem simply like a tale of unrequetted or delayed love, it is much more and is more enjoyable everytime I read it. After just a brief encounter, Florentino falls in love with Fermina when they are young, but she is forced to marry another, and Florentino thereafter... |
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| 7. |  | Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid from Basic Books Price: $12.44 Customer Review: I've read this book, on and off, over the better part of the last 4 years. It is certainly a fascinating read, the kind of book that effortlessly discusses everything from computers to art, from paradoxes to physics, from philosophy to tortoises, and seemingly everything in between. However,... |
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| 8. |  | Organic Chemistry, Fifth Edition Solutions Manual from Prentice-Hall Price: $4.99 Customer Review: what else can i say? they are brand new textbooks for my organic chemistry class |
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| 9. | [no image] | Microeconomics: Coursecompass Access Card from Prentice-Hall Price: $98.89 Customer Review:  I had a copy of this book which changed editions between my second and third year of university. I went to the library and compared the old and new editions, and out of the entire 600 pages, only SIX pages had new content. Three chapters had been re-ordered. The rest of the book was identical. If... |
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| 10. |  | R in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference from O'Reilly Media Price: $41.13 Customer Review: R is a statistical computing environment that is free, open-source, cross-platform, and interactive. And now it has its own O'Reilly Nutshell book, R in a Nutshell, written by Joseph Adler. I am pleased to report that Adler has risen to the challenge of the highly-regarded "Nutshell" franchise. As... |
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| 11. |  | Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software from Addison-Wesley Professional Price: $39.00 Customer Review: This is not a book that you read then put on the bookshelf. This is a book that you skim over to familiarize yourself with the subject matter, then put on the bookshelf. Then, every time you start a new program or major upgrade, check the table of contents to determine whether or not any of the... |
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| 12. |  | MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exams 70-640, 70-642, 70-643, 70-647): Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise Administrator Core Requirements from Microsoft Press Price: $139.99 Customer Review:  I've only read the first two books so far. I'm a visual learner. Microsoft seems to be going the way of requiring more be done at a command prompt vs. with a GUI. While this is a good thing for automation purposes, it's going back to the days where people have to memorize commands. While this,... |
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| 13. |  | Head First Design Patterns from O'Reilly Media Price: $25.54 Customer Review: The key issue with design patterns is that software engineers have to know them in order to use them. This book addresses that issue by working hard to ensure that the patterns are absorbed by the reader in the necessary detail ... as opposed to simply documenting them. The Head First books are all... |
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| 14. |  | Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction from Microsoft Press Price: $27.48 Customer Review: I was told this was a classic, must read for every programmer. I found that it is a classic, must-read that no programmer should be without. |
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| 15. |  | Getting Started with Arduino (Make: Projects) from Make Price: $7.02 Customer Review: This was just exactly what the title says it is. For getting started with the Arduino its a fine book if you are going in dry. After reading the book in my case though I had already found most if not all the material on various websites so it was redundant. If you have not done any research on the... |
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| 16. |  | Linux Kernel Development from Sams Price: $30.00 Customer Review: I have got the latest third edition. This is a very well written book. It doesn't cover too depth, just enough for an ordinary undergraduate. |
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| 17. |  | Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship from Prentice Hall Customer Review: This book is far better then I expected. Much more in depth and looking at real codeing problems and shows great ways to solve them. Excelent book there should be more like this one out there :) |
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| 18. |  | The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $10.03 Customer Review: The Big Switch is a well written book that takes the reader a a journey through time and the technology that makes our day the way it is. It starts by talking about how accessible power changed the way factories and communities worked. The more that bought electricity the cheaper it became and... |
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| 19. |  | QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Princeton Science Library) from Princeton University Press Price: $8.75 Customer Review: This is one of my favorite books of all time. This book changed the way I view the world and was inspiring. Throughout high school and college, we are taught statements that light moves in a straight line as facts. The reality is that this is not a fact but rather a simplification. The real... |
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| 20. |  | Natural Computing: DNA, Quantum Bits, and the Future of Smart Machines from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $9.65 | |
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