L.J. Savage, Foundations of Statistical Inference, 1962
and (if this counts as old) Berger and Wolpert, The Likelihood Principle, 1984
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#42Hamming, Richard R. Art of doing science and engineering: Learning to learn. CRC Press, 2014.
...and for papers, I like the curated list in Fermat's Library: https://fermatslibrary.com/journal_club
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#43"The Art of Electronics" Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill. Electronics for people who want to do stuff. I loved this book as a teenager and recently got reacquainted with this after years by the almighty AvE on youtube when he took apart this an old Helicopter Radio/Telephone here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eoBj5W7Vdc
I adore the "good circuit / bad circuit" ideas interspersed throughout that text.
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#44K&R
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#45"There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"—Richard P. Feynman (1959)
http://www.phy.pku.edu.cn/~qhcao/resources/class/QM/Feynman'...
"Zen in the Art of Archery" — Eugen Herrigel (1953)http://www.ideologic.org/files/Eugen_Herrigel_-_Zen_in_the_A...
"What is it like to be a bat?" — Thomas Nagel (1974) https://organizations.utep.edu/portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf
"The Tragedy of the Commons" — Garrett Hardin (1968) https://www.hendrix.edu/uploadedFiles/Admission/GarrettHardi...
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#46"Science and Sanity" — Alfred Korzybski (1933) http://pialogue.info/books/Science-and-Sanity-Korzybski.pdf
"The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" — Erving Goffman (1956) https://monoskop.org/images/1/19/Goffman_Erving_The_Presenta...
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#47A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (1970)
E. F. CODD
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#48Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit by Aleph One - http://phrack.org/issues/49/14.html
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#49Modern Higher Algebra by A. Adrian Albert (1937, Dover/Cambridge). It covers both abstract algebra and linear algebra. Most modern textbooks tend to approach linear algebra from geometric perspectives. Albert's text is one of the few that introduce the subject in a purely algebraic approach. With a solid algebraic foundation, the author was able to produce some elegant proofs or results that you don't often see in mo…
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#50The art of getting money (1) by PT Barnum is definitely one of those books. Even though written in 1880 most of the advice transcends time and technology and still evergreen as ever.
(1) https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Art_of_Money_Getting....