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Chad Fowler, Rails Recipes
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Dave Thomas, Agile Web Development with Rails (The Facets of Ruby Series)
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Dave Thomas, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition
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Tracy Kidder, The Soul Of A New Machine
Tracy Kidder recounts the feverish efforts of a team of Data General researchers to create a new 32 bit superminicomputer. A compelling account of individual sacrifice and human ingenuity. Soul of a New Machine endures as the classic chronicle of the computer age and the masterminds behind its technological advances.
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Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg
Clifford Stoll was running a central computer at a Berkeley lab, and was asked to trace a 75 cent error in the user accounts. This began a hunt for a hacker who was infiltrating sensitive American networks. This is the story of how Stoll exposed an international spy ring selling secrets to the KGB.
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Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet: Justine/Balthazar/Mountolive/Clea/Boxed Set
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George Eliot, Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
Soap avant-la-lettre, with interesting characters, a captivating plotline and beatiful language.
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Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass)
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