 | The Art of Computer Programming: v. 1-3: Bd. 1: Fundamental Algorithms / Bd. 2: Seminumerical Algorithms / Bd. 3: Sorting and Searching: Vol 1-3 (Series in Computer Science & Information Processing) by Donald E. Knuth
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 | The C Programming Language (Prentice-Hall Software Series) by Brian W. Kernighan
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 | The C++ Programming Language: Third Edition by Bjarne Stroustrup
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 | Programming Perl: There's More Than One Way To Do It by Larry Wall
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 | Essential System Administration: Help for Unix System Administrators (Nutshell Handbook) by Aeleen Frisch
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 | Common LISP: The Language (HP Technologies) by Guy Steele
Buy used from: £48.79 Cool
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 | The Mythical Man Month and Other Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
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 | The Illuminatus!: Trilogy by Robert Shea
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 | The Hitchhiker Trilogy by Douglas Adams
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 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Coronet Books) by John Le Carre
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £1.30 A bit dated as a spy novel, but as a metaphor for contemporary corporate politics it can't be beaten.
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 | Alice in Wonderland (Penguin Classics) by Hugh Haughton
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 | Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Ralph Leighton
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 | No Logo: No Space. No Choice. No Jobs by Naomi Klein
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 | The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll
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 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
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