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Title: Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed. Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated Authors: Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister Rating: 5/5  This book belongs on every manager's shelf. DeMarco makes sense, with clear, easy to understand, entertaining writing. He doesn't waste your time. It's all good stuff.
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Title: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 DTS Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) Publisher: Microsoft Press Authors: Carl Rabeler Rating: 5/5 After reading the other DTS book by Chaffin, Knight and Robinson, I understood DTS, but did not understand how to apply it. If you want to learn and actually use DTS, this is the book ! Well written with very good examples that not only explain how to do real life types of problems, but explains why you are doing each step. Thanks Carl !
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Title: Problem Solving, Abstraction, and Design using C++, Fourth Edition Publisher: Addison Wesley Authors: Frank L. Friedman, Elliot B. Koffman Rating: 2/5  Provides very little applicable knowledge of developing code for an enterprise. Buy ANY OTHER BOOK besides this one!
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Title: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Publisher: Basic Books Authors: Douglas R. Hofstadter Rating: 5/5 GEB is definitely the best book I've ever read. As many people have said, it has something for everyone... who would have thought it was possible to work fugues, metamathematics, "Strange Loops" (I still don't understand what these are), molecular biology, Zen Buddhism, cognitive science, etc., etc., etc. into one book? (Of course, it is a very large book...) The dialogues are probably the best part. My favorite dialogues would have to be: - Crab Canon & Sloth Canon. Wonderful "translations" of Bach's music. (Does DRH comment on these "translations" in Le Ton Beau de Marot?) - Mu Offering: essentially a disguised version of the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology. Instead of DNA, the bases A, C, G, T, and proteins, it involves strings, funny geometric symbols, and Zen koans. I'm surprised he doesn't comment on this isomorphism in the Chapter. Also, a few days ago I noticed that he works Godel's Theorem in here with the string figures... another typical example of the many levels of meaning in the book. -Contrafactus (I think that's the name) - Achilles, the Tortoise, et al. watch a football game in "subjunctive instant replay". I think there's a chapter in Metamegical Themas about this idea of "slippability", as DRH likes to call it. I just read it for the second time... the first time for no reason in particular, this second time partially because i felt like it and partially because I'm doing a presentation in my music class on crab canons. This book has everything - I'd recommend it to friends, but it is a very challenging book. I'm sure there's plenty of things in it I've missed, and I don't know if they'd pick up on them. But maybe I underestimate them? In any case, if you haven't read this book yet, do yourself a favor and buy GEB as soon as possible. You won't regret it.
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