 | Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition) by Alistair Cockburn
Buy new: $35.47 / Used from: $22.00 An updated edition of one of the original Agile books. All of this popular author's series of Agile-related books from Addison-Wesley are worthy of attention. (Practical/General Developer Interest)
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 | Catastrophe Disentanglement: Getting Software Projects Back on Track by E. M. Bennatan
Buy new: $32.57 / Used from: $27.92 Another of the five finalists from Addison-Wesley this year. Bennatan covers a unique topic area that has needed a good book. (Practical/General Developer Interest)
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 | Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Expert's Voice) by Eric Sink
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $4.64 A collection of essays from popular blogger and SourceGear developer Eric Sink and Apress. (Practical/General Developer Interest)
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 | Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Programmers) by Venkat Subramaniam
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $9.74 Real-world Agile development advice describing "what agile development actually feels like," from Venkat Subramaniam and the Pragmatic Programmers. (Practical/General Developer Interest)
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 | Software Creativity 2.0 by Robert L Glass
Buy new: $29.91 / Used from: $13.00 An exploration of the role of creativity and innovation in the practice of software development, including a hard look at the longstanding divide between Agile/craft-based and formal methods, from developer.* Books. Foreword by Tom DeMarco. (Practical/General Developer Interest) (Full disclosure: I am the publisher, and a huge fan, of this book.)
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 | Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices (Microsoft)) by Steve McConnell
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $17.98 The long-awaited major work on the "black art" and science of estimating software projects, from Steve McConnell, who first announced that he was working on this book in 1998, and Microsoft Press. (Practical/General Developer Interest)
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 | Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method by Gerald M. Weinberg
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $22.45 Not exactly a software book, but of interest to many software people just the same--especially those who also have a strong interest in, or who are forced into, writing. Gerald Weinberg is author of many excellent software-related books, almost all published by Dorset House. (Practical/General Developer Interest)
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 | Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective by Diomidis Spinellis
Buy new: $48.34 / Used from: $25.00 Taking the Open Source view on reading and writing code, by Diomidis Spinellis, from Addison-Wesley. Learn how to judge the quality of code. (Technical)
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 | How to Break Web Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services. Book & CD by Mike Andrews
Buy new: $29.69 / Used from: $22.00 A resource for programmers, testers, network admins, and security professionals, with a focus on flexible, nonconventional methods of testing and protection. From Mike Andrews and Addison-Wesley. (Technical)
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 | Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz
Buy new: $37.79 / Used from: $33.77 Concurrency and multi-threading are hot topics across the development world; this book is for Java developers seeking to take advantage of the latest features in this area added in Java 5 and 6. By Goetz, Peierls, Bloch, Bowbeer, Holmes, and Lea, from Addison-Wesley. (Technical)
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 | Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers) by Chad Fowler
Buy new: $24.05 / Used from: $4.47 A Ruby on Rails cookbook by Chad Fowler, from the company that brought you the original Ruby book, Pragmatic Programmers. (Technical)
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 | Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design by Scott W. Ambler
Buy new: $41.93 / Used from: $26.00 Agile authority Scott Ambler continues his quest to bring Agile methods into the world of the database--in this case, the key topic of refactoring. From Addison-Wesley. (Technical)
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 | Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design by Brett D. McLaughlin
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $19.94 McLaughlin, Pollice, and West bring the popular Head First approach to OOA&D. From O'Reilly. (Technical)
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 | Ruby Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) by Lucas Carlson
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $4.92 The title says it all. Carlson and Richardson break down Ruby. From O'Reilly. (Technical)
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 | CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland
Buy new: $23.09 / Used from: $14.45 Missing Manual indeed. Try this out instead of scouring the web for all of your CSS information. By David Sawyer McFarland, from O'Reilly's Missing Manual series.
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