 | Don't You Have Time to Think? by Richard P. Feynman
Buy used from: £4.00 Exceptional - his life through his private letters only.
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 | What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P Feynman
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.98 Feynman's enthusiasm for life is inspiring, an entertaining read!
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 | Screw It, Let's Do It: 14 Lessons on Making It to the Top While Having Fun and Growing Greener by Richard Branson
Buy used from: £33.99 Motivational if you feel your life's in a rut!
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 | Icon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by Jeffrey S. Young
Buy new: £10.69 / Used from: £4.98 Intensly or driven by failure? A great insight into the world of Jobs.
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 | The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly (New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Blogs,) by David Meerman Scott
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £5.00 Wandered what all the Web 2.0 hype was about - this really opens it up.
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 | Principles of Marketing: European Edition by Philip Kotler
Buy used from: £3.29 A veritable Tome but well worth the time to read. Great if you're moving to product management.
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 | Exploring Corporate Strategy: Text and Cases by Prof Gerry Johnson
Buy new: £40.19 / Used from: £34.01 A great book that has opened my eyes to corporate strategy.
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 | Balanced Scorecard, The: Translating Strategy into Action by Robert S Kaplan
Buy new: £16.30 / Used from: £3.22 A great book of Balanced Scorecards (but doesn't pick holes in it's use)
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 | Software Product Management and Pricing: Key Success Factors for Software Organizations by Hans-Bernd Kittlaus
Buy new: £44.99 / Used from: £29.21 If you're a software product manager you'll know this. I found myself matching experiences and observations whilst reading this.
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 | Smarter Pricing: How to capture more value in your market ("Financial Times" S.) by Tony. Cram
Buy new: £19.08 / Used from: £17.57 A fantastic book on pricing, I found my experiences echoing the words and then learning more. Not specifically software orientated.
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 | The C Programming Language (2nd Edition) by Brian W. Kernighan
Buy new: £19.16 / Used from: £15.00 The book that decades ago put me on the software path (1st Edition!)
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 | The C++ Programming Language: Third Edition by Bjarne Stroustrup
Buy new: £28.69 / Used from: £4.00 The most comprehensive C++ reference
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 | Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software by Erich Gamma
Buy new: £24.66 / Used from: £18.00 The best concise Object Oriented Design Patterns reference.
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 | Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) by Scott Meyers
Buy new: £15.96 / Used from: £12.50 If you're a professional C++ programmer this should be in your collection.
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 | Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (Developer's Library) by Stephen G. Kochan
Buy new: £15.91 / Used from: £15.00 The defacto Objective-C 2.0 book for programming. Apple heavily uses Objective-C.
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 | Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass
Buy new: £17.96 / Used from: £16.00 The defacto learning Cocoa programming on the Apple Mac OS X (needs Objective-C)
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 | Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK by Dave Mark
Buy new: £19.62 / Used from: £14.85 The defacto learning to program the Apple iPhone (Cocoa, needs Objective-C)
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 | Introduction to Formal Specification and Z (Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science) by Ben Potter
Buy used from: £1.00 Three years of mandatory Z through university has left me with a unique view on software..
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 | Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A superb non-discworld book. I've re-read this many times.
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 | Feet of Clay: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 The imagery in this book, along with the humour makes it into my top 5 disc world books
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 | Guards! Guards!: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.90 Imagery again and story make this a compelling read. I still can't forget the smouldering outline against the wall..
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 | Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
Buy used from: £0.01 An interesting read, when will DNA altering viruses spread.. reengineering the human race.
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