 | Atanasoff: Forgotten Father of the Computer by Clark R. Mollenhoff
Buy used from: $0.18 Nonfiction. Kind of dry, but this book is amazing. This name should not be forgotten. All computers were analog before Atanasoff. Base Two Math for Digital computers. Gave the basic ideas to the ENIAC people. Atanasoff was the true Father of the Computer, and should not be forgotten.
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 | The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $5.74 Nonfiction, A great book.
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 | The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Buy new: $14.27 / Used from: $3.28 Nonfiction. Life lessons for everyone.
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 | Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag
Buy new: $13.25 / Used from: $2.09 Nonfiction. Fascinating.
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 | Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess by Fred Waitzkin
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 Nonfiction. Every parent of a child in competition, should read this book.
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 | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.94 Nonfiction. Fascinating, I would have never have guessed.
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 | Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $3.00 Nonfiction. Amazing.
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 | Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.71 Science Fiction. This book changed my life. I turned into a life long sci-fi fan.
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| Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Buy used from: $3.50 Science Fiction. Could not put it down, it should be a movie.
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 | The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2008 of the 2006 publication) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.75 Fiction. Science Fiction. End of the world, but done in a different way.
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 | Jaws by Peter Benchley
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.54 Fiction. Never saw the movie, but I could not put the book down
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 | The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan) by Tom Clancy
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Fiction. Great Book, the movie did not do the book justice.
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 | The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Buy used from: $4.98 Fiction. Never saw the movie, but I could not put the book down.
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 | The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $4.67 Fiction. A little sick, but still good.
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 | Let it Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition) (Storey's Down-to-Earth Guides) by Stu Campbell
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $5.59 Nonfiction. I never had a clue. Some things should never go into a land fill.
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 | The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions
Buy used from: $10.20 Nonfiction. I wish I had read this 40 years ago.
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