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- Title:
- Zero to One
- Author:
- Peter Thiel
- Released:
- January 1, 2014
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create....
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- Title:
- Ghost in the Wires
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- Kevin Mitnick
- Released:
- April 24, 2012
Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the biggest companies...
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- Title:
- Chaos Monkeys
- Author:
- Antonio Garcia Martinez
- Released:
- July 24, 2018
Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a data center powering everything from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software version...
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- Title:
- A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms
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- Jay Wengrow
- Released:
- September 1, 2020
The truth about algorithms and data structures is that everything about them boils down to common sense.
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- Title:
- Modern Java in Action
- Author:
- Raoul-Gabriel Urma
- Released:
- November 15, 2018
Modern Java in Action connects new features of the Java language with their practical applications. Using crystal-clear examples and careful...
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- Title:
- The Unicorn Project
- Author:
- Gene Kim
- Released:
- November 26, 2019
The Age of Software is here, and another mass extinction event looms—this is a story about rebel developers and business...
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- Title:
- Clean Architecture
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- Robert C. Martin
- Released:
- September 20, 2017
By applying universal rules of software architecture, you can dramatically improve developer productivity throughout the life of any software system....
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- Title:
- Grokking Algorithms
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- Aditya Bhargava
- Released:
- May 1, 2016
Grokking Algorithms is a fully illustrated and friendly guide that teaches you how to apply common algorithms to the practical...
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- Title:
- Staff Engineer
- Author:
- Will Larson
- Released:
- January 31, 2021
At most technology companies, you'll reach Senior software engineer, the career level for software engineers, in five to eight years....
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- Title:
- Humble Pi
- Author:
- Matt Parker
- Released:
- January 21, 2020
Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of...
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- Title:
- The Man Who Solved The Market
- Author:
- Gregory Zuckerman
- Released:
- November 5, 2019
The unbelievable story of a secretive mathematician who pioneered the era of the algorithm & made $23 billion doing it....
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- Title:
- The Clean Coder
- Author:
- Robert C. Martin
- Released:
- May 23, 2011
Programmers who endure and succeed amidst swirling uncertainty and nonstop pressure share a common attribute - They care deeply about...
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- Title:
- 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
- Author:
- Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee
- Released:
- July 14, 2020
If you want to push your Java skills to the next level, this book provides expert advice from Java leaders...
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- Title:
- Working in Public
- Author:
- Nadia Eghbal
- Released:
- August 4, 2020
Open source software in which developers publish code that anyone can use has long served as a bellwether for other...
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- Title:
- Flash Boys
- Author:
- Michael Lewis
- Released:
- March 23, 2015
In this game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged...
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- Title:
- No Rules Rules - Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
- Author:
- Reed Hastings
- Released:
- September 8, 2020
There has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led...
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- Title:
- Lab Rats
- Author:
- Dan Lyons
- Released:
- October 23, 2018
At a time of soaring corporate profits and plenty of HR lip service about wellness, millions of workers--in virtually every...
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- Title:
- 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
- Author:
- Kevlin Henney
- Released:
- March 2, 2010
Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every programmer should know, no matter what language you use. With...
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- Title:
- Naked Statistics
- Author:
- Charles Wheelan
- Released:
- January 13, 2014
Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has...
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- Title:
- The Quants
- Author:
- Scott Patterson
- Released:
- January 25, 2011
With the immediacy of today’s NASDAQ close and the timeless power of a Greek tragedy, The Quants is at once...
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- Title:
- The New New Thing
- Author:
- Michael Lewis
- Released:
- October 17, 1999
In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the...
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- Title:
- The Innovators
- Author:
- Walter Isaacson
- Released:
- October 7, 2014
The Innovators is a masterly saga of collaborative genius destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution—and an...
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- Title:
- A Philosophy of Software Design
- Author:
- John Ousterhout
- Released:
- April 6, 2018
This book addresses the topic of software design -- how to decompose complex software systems into modules (such as classes...
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- Title:
- Blink
- Author:
- Malcom Gladwell
- Released:
- April 3, 2007
Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in...
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- Title:
- Flash Crash
- Author:
- Liam Vaughan
- Released:
- May 12, 2020
On May 6, 2010, financial markets around the world tumbled simultaneously and without warning. In the span of 5 minutes,...
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- Title:
- Algorithms To Live By
- Author:
- Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
- Released:
- April 19, 2016
A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common...
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- Title:
- Disrupted
- Author:
- Dan Lyons
- Released:
- March 7, 2017
For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he...
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- Title:
- The Tipping Point
- Author:
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Released:
- January 7, 2002
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads...
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- Title:
- The Problem With Software
- Author:
- Adam Barr
- Released:
- October 23, 2018
An industry insider explains why there is so much bad software―and why academia doesn't teach programmers what industry wants them...
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- Title:
- The DevOps Handbook
- Author:
- Gene Kim, Jez Humble & Patrick Debois
- Released:
- October 6, 2016
More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to...
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- Title:
- Coders
- Author:
- Clive Thompson
- Released:
- March 26, 2019
Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in...
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- Title:
- Superintelligence
- Author:
- Nick Bostrom
- Released:
- May 1, 2016
Superintelligence asks the questions -- What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy...
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- Title:
- Tim Cook
- Author:
- Leander Kahney
- Released:
- April 16, 2019
The death of Steve Jobs left a gaping void at one of the most innovative companies of all time. Jobs...
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- Title:
- A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence
- Author:
- Kartik Hosanagar
- Released:
- March 12, 2019
A professor and entrepreneur examines how algorithms and AI are starting to run every aspect of our lives, and how...
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- Title:
- How Google Works
- Author:
- Eric Schmidt & Jon Rosenberg
- Released:
- March 21, 2017
Seasoned Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg provide an insider's guide to Google.
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- Title:
- Elon Musk
- Author:
- Ashlee Vance
- Released:
- May 19, 2015
In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary...
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- Title:
- Tribe of Mentors
- Author:
- Tim Ferriss
- Released:
- November 21, 2017
From iconic entrepreneurs to elite athletes, from artists to billionaire investors, their short profiles can help you answer life's most...
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- Title:
- Effective Java
- Author:
- Joshua Bloch
- Released:
- January 6, 2018
The support in modern Java for multiple paradigms increases the need for specific best-practices advice, and this book delivers.
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- Title:
- Developer Hegemony
- Author:
- Erik Dietrich
- Released:
- April 26, 2017
A play-by-play of how to leave the corporate carnival and control your own destiny.
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- Title:
- Tools of Titans
- Author:
- Tim Ferriss
- Released:
- December 6, 2016
This book contains the distilled tools, tactics, and ‘inside baseball’ you won’t find anywhere else. It also includes new tips...
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- Title:
- The Phoenix Project
- Author:
- Gene Kim & Kevin Behr
- Released:
- January 10, 2013
In a fast-paced style, 3 luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will...
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- Title:
- Steve Jobs
- Author:
- Walter Isaacson
- Released:
- October 24, 2011
Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than...
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- Title:
- Fumbling the Future
- Author:
- Douglas Smith & Robert Alexander
- Released:
- June 1, 1999
Tells how Xerox invented the technology of the fastest-growing products of recent times, then miscalculated the opportunity to fully exploit...
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- Title:
- Without Their Permission
- Author:
- Alexis Ohanian
- Released:
- October 1, 2013
Reddit co-founder enlightens how the internet can be harnessed to create new technologies, businesses or charities, with results that can...
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- Title:
- Peopleware
- Author:
- Tom DeMarco
- Released:
- June 28, 2013
The major issues of software development are human, not technical. They are not easy issues; but solve them, and you’ll...
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- Title:
- Code Complete
- Author:
- Steve McConnell
- Released:
- June 19, 2004
Widely considered one of the best practical guides to programming, this book llustrates the art and science of software construction....
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- Title:
- Masters of Doom
- Author:
- David Kushner
- Released:
- May 11, 2004
The amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games -- John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they...
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- Title:
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Author:
- Martin Kleppmann
- Released:
- April 2, 2017
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such...
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- Title:
- Clean Agile
- Author:
- Robert C. Martin
- Released:
- October 17, 2019
Nearly twenty years after the Agile Manifesto was first presented, the legendary Robert C. Martin reintroduces Agile values and principles...
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- Title:
- The Drunkard's Walk
- Author:
- Leonard Mlodinow
- Released:
- May 5, 2009
By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world...
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- Title:
- Head First Agile
- Author:
- Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene
- Released:
- October 10, 2017
Agile is growing faster every day, all across the world--and for good reason. The tools, techniques, practices, and ideas behind...
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- Title:
- Effective Python
- Author:
- Brett Slatkin
- Released:
- November 15, 2019
It’s easy to start developing programs with Python, which is why the language is so popular. However, Python’s unique strengths,...
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- Title:
- Head First Go
- Author:
- Jay McGavren
- Released:
- May 7, 2019
Go makes it easy to build software that’s simple, reliable, and efficient. And this book makes it easy for programmers...
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- Title:
- Dark Pools
- Author:
- Scott Patterson
- Released:
- June 25, 2013
In the beginning was Josh Levine, an idealistic programming genius who dreamed of wresting control of the market from the...
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- Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
- Author:
- Magnus Larsson
- Released:
- September 20, 2019
Microservices architecture allows developers to build and maintain applications with ease, and enterprises are rapidly adopting it to build software...
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- Title:
- Bad Blood - Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- Author:
- John Carreyrou
- Released:
- May 21, 2018
In Bad Blood, the Wall Street Journal’s John Carreyrou takes us through the step-by-step history of Theranos, a Silicon Valley...
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- Title:
- Rework
- Author:
- Jason Fried & David H. Hansson
- Released:
- March 1, 2010
From the founders of the trailblazing software company 37signals, here is a different kind of business book - one that...
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- Title:
- The Signal and the Noise
- Author:
- Nate Silver
- Released:
- February 3, 2015
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became...
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- Title:
- Einstein - His Life and Universe
- Author:
- Walter Isaacson
- Released:
- May 13, 2008
How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the...
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- Title:
- Java Concurrency in Practice
- Author:
- Brian Goetz
- Released:
- April 16, 2019
Threads are a fundamental part of the Java platform. As multicore processors become the norm, using concurrency effectively becomes essential...
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- Title:
- Trillion Dollar Coach
- Author:
- Eric Schmidt, Jon Rosenberg & Alan Eagle
- Released:
- April 16, 2019
Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering...
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- Title:
- Jony Ive
- Author:
- Leander Kahney
- Released:
- October 28, 2014
Leander Kahney offers a detailed portrait of the English art school student with dyslexia who became the most acclaimed tech...
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- Title:
- Fluent Python
- Author:
- Luciano Ramalho
- Released:
- September 1, 2015
An experienced programmer may start writing useful Python code in a matter of hours. As the first productive hours become...
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- Title:
- Principles
- Author:
- Ray Dalio
- Released:
- September 19, 2017
In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty...
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- Title:
- Streaming Systems
- Author:
- Tyler Akidau, Slava Chernyak & Reuven Lax
- Released:
- August 2, 2018
Streaming data is a big deal in big data these days. As more and more businesses seek to tame the...
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- Title:
- Clean Code
- Author:
- Robert C. Martin
- Released:
- August 11, 2008
Best agile practices of cleaning code “on the fly” that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman...
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- Title:
- Weapons of Math Destruction
- Author:
- Cathy O'Neil
- Released:
- September 6, 2016
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—-where we go to school, whether...
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- Title:
- Microservices in Action
- Author:
- Morgan Bruce & Paulo A. Pereira
- Released:
- November 5, 2018
Microservices in Action is a practical book about building and deploying microservice-based applications. Written for developers and architects with a...
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