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The Technological Society (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,219 ratings — published 1954
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 17,561 ratings — published 1997
The Book of Other People (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.45 — 3,311 ratings — published 2008
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
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avg rating 4.25 — 3,257 ratings — published 2007
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 380,788 ratings — published 1979
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 24,099 ratings — published 1999
Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 326 ratings — published 1967
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 22,479 ratings — published 2008
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 629 ratings — published 1964
Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,027 ratings — published 1931
On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (Univocal)
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avg rating 4.30 — 205 ratings — published 1958
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,228 ratings — published 2020
Carve Stamp Play: Designing and Creating Custom Stamps (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 134 ratings — published 2013
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 5,208 ratings — published 2014
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,911 ratings — published 2016
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 94,201 ratings — published 2017
Clean Agile: Back to Basics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,571 ratings — published 2019
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
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avg rating 4.24 — 8,847 ratings — published 1999
Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,679 ratings — published 2004
Comedy Writing Secrets: The Best-Selling Book on How to Think Funny, Write Funny, Act Funny, And Get Paid For It (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 1,131 ratings — published 1987
Head First Design Patterns (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 9,027 ratings — published 2004
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 227,358 ratings — published 1999
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,232 ratings — published 2007
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 132,043 ratings — published 1993
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,067 ratings — published 1992
Made from Scratch Biscuit Quilts (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.70 — 10 ratings — published 2004
Secrets of Macarons (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 82 ratings — published 2010
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 23,457 ratings — published 2007
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 12,564 ratings — published 2004
Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,446 ratings — published 2012
Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
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avg rating 3.93 — 96 ratings — published 2004
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 11,952 ratings — published 1994
Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques, 100 Recipes, A Cook's Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 2,491 ratings — published 2011
True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,671 ratings — published 1997
Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book for Smart People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,036 ratings — published 2007
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 94,275 ratings — published 2011
How to Keep a Sketchbook Journal (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 132 ratings — published 2001
Drawing & Painting Fantasy Figures (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 82 ratings — published 2003
Lessons in Classical Drawing: Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,056 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Drawing (Dover Art Instruction)
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avg rating 3.82 — 256 ratings — published 1857
Anatomy for the Artist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 29,474 ratings — published 2001
Conflict and Suspense (Elements of Fiction Writing)
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avg rating 4.26 — 930 ratings — published 2011
The Fire in Fiction: Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,795 ratings — published 2009
The Art of War for Writers: Fiction Writing Strategies, Tactics, and Exercises (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,636 ratings — published 2009
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 5,986 ratings — published 2004
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings--and Life (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.42 — 14,623 ratings — published 2012
Rubank: Intermediate Method - Saxophone | Sheet Music and Study Book for Developing Saxophone Players | Scale Exercises Solos and Duets Included | Intermediate Saxophone Songbook (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 1991
Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 529 ratings — published 1975
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,844 ratings — published 2015
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 47,697 ratings — published 1988
“What she wanted was technique. She wanted to paint like a Renaissance old master. She wanted to know what color Titian tinted his canvas before he started working on it. She wanted to know what colors Caravaggio mixed to make his lights. She wanted to know exactly which pigments Rubens utilized to achieve those juicy fleshy tones, what brown Rembrandt used in his shadows, what combination of oils and resins went into Vermeer's painting medium. She wanted someone to show her how to make Raphael's line and Michelangelo's muscle masses. She wanted to know what made a good composition, and what made a bad one. She wanted to know.”
― The Color of Light
― The Color of Light
“I still suspect that most people start out with some kind of ability to tell a story but that it gets lost along the way. Of course, the ability to create life with words is essentially a gift. If you have it in the first place, you can develop it; if you don't have it, you might as well forget it.
But I have found that people who don't have it are frequently the ones hell-bent on writing stories. I'm sure anyway that they are the ones who write the books and the magazine articles on how-to-write-short-stories. I have a friend who is taking a correspondence course in this subject, and she has passed a few of the chapter headings on to me—such as, "The Story Formula for Writers," "How to Create Characters," "Let's Plot!" This form of corruption is costing her twenty-seven dollars.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
But I have found that people who don't have it are frequently the ones hell-bent on writing stories. I'm sure anyway that they are the ones who write the books and the magazine articles on how-to-write-short-stories. I have a friend who is taking a correspondence course in this subject, and she has passed a few of the chapter headings on to me—such as, "The Story Formula for Writers," "How to Create Characters," "Let's Plot!" This form of corruption is costing her twenty-seven dollars.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
