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10 Great Tech Books from Spectrum
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Philip Weiss "King Rat"
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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
by Henry Petroski
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Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean
by David Gelernter
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A New Kind of Science
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
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The Design of Everyday Things
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The Soul Of A New Machine
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The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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