Science Fiction · 2000
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Science Fiction · 1985
Blood Music
Programming · 2009
Elements of programming
Productivity · 1993
Punished by Rewards
Security · 2007
The web application hacker's handbook
Security · 1998
Blind man's bluff
Fiction · 1979
Motel of the mysteries
Systems · 2019
Database Internals
Psychology · 1964
Games People Play
Biography · 2011
The Making of Prince of Persia
AI & Machine Learning · 2012
Learning From Data
Design · 1990
Envisioning Information
Programming · 1984
C, a reference manual
Mathematics · 2013
Coding the Matrix
Computer Science · 1999
Programming Language Pragmatics
Programming · 2009
The well-grounded Rubyist
Mathematics · 2014
How Not to Be Wrong
Software Engineering · 1996
Patterns of software
Programming · 2011
The passionate programmer
Mathematics · 2001
Understanding Analysis
Software Engineering · 2018
Accelerate
Programming · 2012
Scala for the impatient
Writing · 1994
Bird by Bird
Space · 2008
Digital Apollo
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