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Microserfs
Microserfs, published by HarperCollins in 1995, is an epistolary novel by Douglas Coupland. It first appeared in short story form as the cover article for the January 1994 issue of Wired magazine and was subsequently expanded to full novel length....
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- Jun 1995
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Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson. The novel follows the exploits of two groups of people in two different time periods. The first is World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated...
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- 1999
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- 1999
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- 19870
In the Beginning...was the Command Line
In the Beginning...was the Command Line is an essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form (November 1999, ISBN 0380815931). The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating...
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- Nov 1999
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- 197819
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
The Cathedral and the Bazaar (abbreviated CatB) is an essay by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail. It...
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- 1999
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Snow Crash
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it references history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, and philosophy.
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- 1992
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- Jun 1992
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- 1182
The Railway Children
The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906. It has been adapted for the screen several times, of which the 1970 film version is the...
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- 1906
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Permutation City
Permutation City is a 1994 science fiction novel by Greg Egan that explores many concepts, including quantum ontology, via various philosophical aspects of artificial life and simulated reality. It won the John W. Campbell Award for the best science...
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- Apr 1994
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- 1994
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- 1398
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True Names
True Names was the science fiction novella which brought Vernor Vinge to prominence in 1981. It was one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to stories in the cyberpunk genre....
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- 1981
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Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System
Business @ the Speed of Thought is a book written by Bill Gates in 1999. It discusses how business and technology are integrated, and shows how digital infrastructures and information networks can help getting an edge on the competition.
Gates...
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- 1999
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Player Piano
Player Piano, author Kurt Vonnegut's first novel, was published in 1952. It is a dystopia of automation and capitalism, describing the dereliction they cause in the quality of life. The story takes place in a near-future society that is almost...
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- 1952
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- 1952
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- 8395
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The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in autumn 1910; the book was first published in its entirety in 1911.
Its working title was Mistress Mary, in reference to the English...
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- 1909
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- 1909
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- 13434
Literary Machines
Literary Machines (short title) is a book first published in 1980 by Ted Nelson, and republished 9 times by 1993. It offers an extensive overview of Nelson's term "hypertext" as well as Nelson's Project Xanadu. It also includes other theories by...
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Programming Perl
Programming Perl, ISBN 0-596-00027-8, best known as the Camel Book among programmers, is a book and ebook about writing programs using the Perl programming language, revised as several editions (1991-2009) to reflect major language changes since...
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Learning Perl
Learning Perl, also known as the llama book, is a tutorial book for the Perl programming language, and is published by O'Reilly. It was authored solely by Randal L. Schwartz in its first edition (1993). The second (1997) edition was coauthored with...
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Digital Fortress
Digital Fortress is a techno-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published in 1998 by St. Martin's Press. The book explores the theme of government surveillance of electronically stored information on the private lives of...
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- 1996
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The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder's non-fiction book, The Soul of a New Machine, chronicles the experiences of an engineering team racing to design a next generation computer under a blistering schedule and tremendous pressure. Published in 1981, it won a Pulitzer Prize...
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- 1981
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- Jul 1981
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- 955743
Rules of Play
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals is a book on game design by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman, published by MIT Press.
The book is divided into four units, first introducing core concepts, then expanding on these with a detailed discussion of...
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- Oct 1, 2003
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2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film. The story is based in part on various short stories by Clarke...
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- 1968
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- 1968
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- 2485
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User Unfriendly
User Unfriendly is a novel by American author Vivian Vande Velde.
The story is about a teenager by the name of Arvin Rizalli who, along with his friends, hacks an advanced virtual reality game by Rasmussem, Inc. to avoid what they believe to be...
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- 1991
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- 1991
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- 14237
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920), written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about...
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- 1920
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- 157767
How to Design Programs
How to Design Programs (HtDP) is a textbook by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt and Shriram Krishnamurthi on the systematic design of computer programs published in 2001 by MIT Press. The book introduces the concept of a...
The Virtual Community
The Virtual Community is a 1993 book about virtual communities by Howard Rheingold, a member of the early network system The Well. A second edition, with a new concluding chapter was published in 2000 by MIT Press.
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Colossus
Colossus (1966), by Dennis Feltham Jones, is a British science fiction novel about super-computers assuming control of man. two sequels, The Fall of Colossus (1974) and Colossus and the Crab (1977) continued the story. 'Colossus was adapted...
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- 1966
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The Hacker Crackdown
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (ISBN 0-553-56370-X) is a nonfiction book written by Bruce Sterling in 1992. It was published by Spectra Books.
The book discusses watershed events in the hacker subculture in the...
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- 1992
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- Nov 1, 1993
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- 102369
Introduction to Algorithms
Introduction to Algorithms is a book by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein. It is used as the textbook for algorithms courses at many universities. It is also one of the most commonly cited references for...
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- 2001 ,
- 1990
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- Jul 14, 1990
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$30 Film School
$30 Film School is the title of a book written by Michael W. Dean concerning no-budget filmmaking.
The book is part of the "$30 School" series, which also includes $30 Music School and $30 Writing School. All of the books in the series advocate a...
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Pocket Ref
Pocket Ref is a notedly comprehensive, all-purpose pocket-sized reference book/handbook and how-to guide containing various tips, tables, maps, formulas, constants and conversions by Thomas J. Glover. It is published by Sequoia Publishing Inc. and...
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Hex
Hex (Simon Pulse, September 1, 2001, ISBN 0-7434-2211-2) is the first book in a series of novels for young adults, written by Rhiannon Lassiter.
Hex takes place in a futuristic Europe in the mid-2300s. Similar to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four...
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- 1998
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- 24939
4th of July
4th of July is a mystery and legal thriller by James Patterson.
Police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer takes leave from the force after being sued for wrongful death after a recent shootout. She stays at her sister’s house in Half Moon Bay, and reads about...
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- May 2, 2005
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Object-Oriented Software Construction
Object-Oriented Software Construction is the title of a book by Bertrand Meyer, widely considered a foundational text of object-oriented programming. The first edition was published in 1988; the second, extensively revised and expanded edition (more...
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Decline and Fall of the American Programmer
Decline and Fall of the American Programmer is a book written by Edward Yourdon in 1992. It was addressed to American programmers and software organizations of the 1990s, warning that they were about to be driven out of business by programmers in...
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- 1992
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Love Medicine
Love Medicine is Louise Erdrich’s first novel, published in 1984. Erdrich revised and expanded the novel for an edition issued in 1993, and this version was considered the definitive edition until 2009 when Erdrich re-edited it. Erdrich explores...
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- 1984
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The God Machine
The God Machine is the title of a science fiction novel by Martin Caidin which was first published in 1968.
Set in the near future, the novel tells the story of a top secret cybernetic technician Steve Rand, one of the brains behind Project 79, a...
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- 1968
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- 1968
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- 4761
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Step on a Crack
Step on a Crack is the first novel in the Michael Bennett series by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge featuring Detective Michael Bennett and his 10 kids. It was released on February 6, 2007.
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- May 1996
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- Feb 6, 2007
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- 872777
Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Visual Display of Quantitative Information is a book written by Edward R. Tufte.
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- 2001
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The Ruby Programming Language
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Daemon
Daemon is a novel by the author Daniel Suarez, who initially published the novel under the pseudonym "Leinad Zeraus".
The story begins with legendary computer game designer Matthew Sobol's untimely death. At the time of his passing, he had a program...
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- Dec 1, 2006
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Boomsday
Boomsday is a 2007 novel by Christopher Buckley, which is a political satire about the rivalry between squandering Baby Boomers and younger generations of Americans who don't want to pay high taxes for their elders' retirement.
Boomsday is referred...
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- Apr 2, 2007
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Essentials of Programming Languages
Essentials of Programming Languages (MIT Press, 2008. 3rd edition, ISBN 0-262-06279-8) is a book by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand and Christopher T. Haynes on programming languages.
EoPL is a text book that surveys the principles of programming...
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Programming Collective Intelligence
Programming Collective Intelligence is a book by Toby Segaran and published by O'Reilly Media in August, 2007. It covers the use of data-mining and machine learning algorithms applied to online behavior and user-generated content.
According to...
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- Aug 2007
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Dave Barry in Cyberspace
Dave Barry in Cyberspace is a best-selling humor book that was published by Ballantine Books in 1996. Written by Dave Barry, this book takes the view point of a computer geek who enjoys using Windows 95. The book covers (in a comical way) such...
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- 1996
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Ruby on Rails Bible
Ruby on Rails (RoR or Rails) is a Web application framework written in
Ruby, an object-oriented programming language. RoR has grown year over
year in notoriety and popularity among developers because its ease of
use and speed for which a Web...
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- 2008
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Types and Programming Languages
Types and Programming Languages, ISBN 0-262-16209-1, (TaPL) is a book by Benjamin C. Pierce on type systems.
A review by Frank Pfenning called it "probably the single most important book in the area of programming languages in recent years."
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- 2002
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Blogging Heroes
Blogging Heroes is a book by Michael A. Banks composed of interviews with thirty prominent bloggers.
The book tries to uncover the methods, strategies, and philosophies that allowed each of these bloggers to set their blogs apart from the millions...
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- 2007
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The E-mail Mystery
The E-mail Mystery is the 144th book in the Nancy Drew series.
Nancy has always had a knack for finding trouble, but now trouble has found her ...at her own kitchen table. Her father, lawyer Carson Drew, is mystified by the sudden strange behavior...
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- 1998
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The Fall of Colossus
The Fall of Colossus is a science fiction novel written in 1974 by the British author Dennis Feltham Jones. It is the second volume in "The Colossus Trilogy" and a sequel to Jones's 1966 novel Colossus.
Five years have passed since the computer...
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- 1974
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- 1974
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- 9803
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Introduction to the Theory of Computation
Introduction to the Theory of Computation (ISBN 0-534-95097-3) is a standard textbook in theoretical computer science, written by Michael Sipser.
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- 1996
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