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Image Processing: "Digital Image Processing", Gonzalez and Woods. Comprehensive coverage of principles, well written, practical w/ useful examples yet well grounded in signal processing and engineering principles. Complemented nicely by a version of the book rich in examples solved in MATLAB (co-author Steve Eddins).

By chance, do you know a good book for audio signal processing?

DAFX by Zölzer covers all the fundamental audio DSP building blocks. The book is eponymous with the annual international audio DSP conference.

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Watch repair:

The watch repair manual, by Fried

Practical watch repairing, by De Carle

The Swiss Watch repairer's manual, by Jendritzki (This book is great, but don't pay more than $75. After Fried's book it pulls in all the information nicely.)

Bulova Repair Training Manual

Chicago school of watchmaking (There's no copyright on this course. A guy on EBay has been scaring people for years. He does not own the copyright.)

Bestfit encyclopedia of Watch Parts 1 & 2

The clock and watch makers guide to gear making

George Daniels Watchmaking

I'll be writing my own book in the future. It will be a modern take on the repair of mechanical watches. It will have a lot of pictures. It will be direct, and to the point.

If you are interested in watch repair; I would do it as a hobby. I couldn't imagine making a good living repairing watches.

The bigger watch brands do not want to sell spare parts. That just might change in the future? Right now, it looks dim. Rolex, and the Swatch Group basically want to dictate whom, and where you can elect to get your watch repaired. Most times it the factory, at factory prices.

If you get into watch repair throughly, your appreciation of watches might change. When there's no mystery, there's no magic, I guess?

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Intriguing question, you never really think about it after you've read the books, do you?

So here you go:

The Innovators Dilema, C. M. Christensen. Just because , not really domain relevant for me but tons of interessting stuff and insights

Introduction to Materials Management, Arnold, Chapman, Clive. Covering the basics of Supply Chain Management. And I have yet to encounter a situation where the basics don't matter.

Designing and Managing the Supply Chain, Simchi-Levi, D., Simchi-Levi E., Kaminsky P.. Not just the basics of supply chain management, in essence what Amazon is doing in that regard. I have an older edition from 2005 that was just as relevant druing my Masters in 2018 as was back then, but maybe a newer edition doesn't hurt.

Logistics Engineering and Management, Blanchard. The book adding a systems engineering perspective to the above mentioned ones. A little bit weak on the actual logistics and supply chain part, which makes it even more powerfull in combination with the ones mentioned earlier. I can only recommend it for everyone working with complex long-life systems, e.g. ships, planes, industrial equipments,...

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Options, Futures and Other Derivatives is basically a Bible. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/013447208X/ref=dp_ob_neva_mob...

Related, Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners by Larry Harris is also excellent.

https://www.amazon.com/Trading-Exchanges-Market-Microstructu...

These aren't really textbooks, but regardless, the Market Wizards series by Jack Schwagger is highly recommended:

https://www.amazon.com/Market-Wizards-Updated-Interviews-Tra...

https://www.amazon.com/New-Market-Wizards-Conversations-Amer...

https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning/dp/...

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Putting my mostly-retired audio engineer hat back on for a minute... The Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reinforcement-Handbook-Gary-Dav... This is basically the soundman's bible. Sold for an aspiring live sound engineer, has much more than just advice for live sound guys - covering everything from microphones to acoustics to basic electronics to handy rules of thumb to MIDI, all writ…

Does it touch on mixing / mastering at all? I have a suspicion that some of my friends will be looking to me to put together some demos in the near future, so I'd be very interested in some beginner/intermediate knowledge around that.

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On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee

Very curious to see a book on food show up here. What did you like about the book and did it change the way you think about food or life?

McGee has a very methodical way of discussing food. It is basically like a scientific textbook in that regard, with deeper dives into almost every topic. It is also incredibly information dense, which makes it a truly a 'bible' in my opinion. And for what it is worth, many other of the more methodical chefs on the internet think so too.
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