Best of all, you can use Lulu.com or a similar service to print them if you want nice hardcopies. :)
Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
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#42Some of these aren't very old at all! E.g.:
Intertwingled, about Ted Nelson, 2014:
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#43Solving Ordinary Differential Equations II by Hairer and Wanner: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-05221-7
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#44Thank you! Since the browsing experience on Springer is not very friendly, here is a link to all the old Springer titles in Amazon's catalog:
Springer: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=s...
Apress: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=s...
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#45My favorite find so far is "Advances in Crypto" conference proceedings going back to the early eighties:
- http://link.springer.com/search?query=%22advances+in+cryptol...
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#46Some good CS books that I found:
Approximation Algorithms http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-04565-7
How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-07807-5
Modern Graph Theory http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-0619-4
Computational Geometry http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-03427-9
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#47If you get so excited by limited set of old book, here's something that will keep you awake for many many nights:
https://www.safaribooksonline.com/
For couple of $100 bucks you can get unlimited access to virtually every CS/tech book out there. This include brand new ones and even exclusive access to books with future publish date.
Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
#48If you get so excited by limited set of old book, here's something that will keep you awake for many many nights: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/ For couple of $100 bucks you can get unlimited access to virtually every CS/tech book out there. This include brand new ones and even exclusive access to books with future publish date.
You know, you seem pretty out of touch.
You are comparing something free with a service that costs "couple of $100 bucks", more specifically $400/year for a subscription. If $400 is so little to you that you can just toss it aside that's all well and good, but that is not the case for a lot of people.. most of whom the subject of this post is aimed.
Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
#49If you get so excited by limited set of old book, here's something that will keep you awake for many many nights: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/ For couple of $100 bucks you can get unlimited access to virtually every CS/tech book out there. This include brand new ones and even exclusive access to books with future publish date.
How is this even remotely the same? Most of the Safari catalog isn't textbooks and it's $400 (a couple would be 200 btw) a year.
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#50One of the best of these is Holub on Patterns [1], which is IMO the best book for learning patterns. How to implement patterns, how to know which ones to use where, and how to use them in combination. Excellent, clear tutorial. Implementation language is Java. [1] http://goo.gl/DKFzCe
Slight tangent: if one is interested in design patterns, consider reading the book "A Pattern Language", 1977 by Christopher Alexander et al. It's the original patterns book, for architecture.
Continuing tangent: if that sounds interesting, please consider also reading the precursor book "The Timeless Way of Building" by Christopher Alexander. It focuses on the theory and the philosophy. This is a beautiful book, in both senses of the beauty of the book itself, and the beauty of the ideas contained inside. It is very humane.
"There is one timeless way of building. It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it has always been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. And as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form as the trees and hills,and as our faces are."
It wouldn't hurt to have more humane and beautiful things in the world, particularly those that are designed and built and customised by those who must inhabit or use them. Whether those things are buildings, or software, or laws, or societal goals.