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Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?
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#12Electromagnatic Compatibility Engineering, Henry Ott
The Elements of Style, Strunk and White
The Hardest (working) Man in Showbiz, Ron Jeremy
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#13Map Projections: A Reference Manual - John P. Snyder
Gravitation - Misner, Wheeler, Thorne
Already mentioned: (it's a goody)
Linear Representations of Finite Groups - Serre
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#14Classical Electrodynamics By Jackson
Numerical Recipes By William H. Press et al
Quantum Theory of Materials By Kaxiras
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#15all of Tanenbaum's books, especially Structured Computer Organization
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#16Managing the Professional Service Firm by David Maister.
No longer doing consulting, but found it invaluable as a tech person building a consulting team and trying to break into enterprise. Probably useful for any professional consulting through a firm (lawyers, accountants, big 4, etc.)
Someone mentioned Designing Data Intensive Applications which I’m partial to as well.
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#17Design of Everyday Things applies to almost any design or engineering discipline. You'll never look at a door the same way.
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#18The Jazz Theory book - Mark Levine
High Performance Browser Networking - edit: Ilya Grigorik
Effortless Mastery - Kenny werner
Re: Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?
#19Electromagnatic Compatibility Engineering, Henry Ott The Elements of Style, Strunk and White The Hardest (working) Man in Showbiz, Ron Jeremy
I'm intrigued by those choices and can't tell if you are making a subtle joke about life itself (building, writing, fucking?).
Re: Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?
#20Code by Charlse Petzold.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs aka. SICP.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Klepmaan.
The C Programming Language by K&R.
Distributed Systems by Tannebaum.