Addison-Wesley books (book reviews) (original) (raw)

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Book Reviews

• *Active Java (Adam Freeman, Darrel Ince)
  Object-Oriented Programming for the World Wide Web
• **The Art of Computer Programming (Donald E. Knuth)
  Fundamental Algorithms; Seminumerical Algorithms; Sorting and Searching
• *The Art of UNIX Programming (Eric S. Raymond)
  - thirty years of development wisdom
• BGP4 (John W. Stewart III)
  Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet
• Bugs in Writing (Lyn Dupré)
  A Guide to Debugging Your Prose
• Casting the Net (Peter H. Salus)
  From ARPANET to Internet and Beyond
• Civilizing Cyberspace (Steven E. Miller)
  Policy, Power, and the Information Superhighway
• Computer-Related Risks (Peter G. Neumann)
  - if anything can go wrong, it probably will
• Effective Perl Programming (Joseph N. Hall)
  Writing Better Programs With Perl
• Firewalls and Internet Security (Cheswick, Bellovin, Rubin)
  Repelling the Wily Hacker
• Gigabit Networking (Craig Partridge)
• *The Great Human Diasporas (Cavalli-Sforza, Cavalli-Sforza)
  The History of Diversity and Evolution
• *How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site (Lincoln D. Stein)
  - now dated, but it was a great book
• *Interconnections (Radia Perlman)
  Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols
• Internet Besieged (Dorothy E. Denning, Peter J. Denning)
  Countering Cyberspace Scofflaws
• IPng (Scott O. Bradner, Allison Mankin)
  Internet Protocol Next Generation
• LaTeX (Leslie Lamport)
  A Document Preparation System
• The LaTeX Companion (Michel Goosens, Frank Mittelbach, Alexander Samarin)
• Multicast Networking and Applications (C. Kenneth Miller)
• The Online User's Encyclopedia (Bernard Aboba)
  Bulletin Boards and Beyond
• A Quarter Century of Unix (Peter H. Salus)
  - from Space Travel to Plan 9 and Linux
• Removing the Spam (Geoff Mulligan)
  Email Processing and Filtering
• SSL and TLS (Eric Rescorla)
  Designing and Building Secure Systems
• Superdistribution (Brad Cox)
  Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier
• Surreal Numbers (D.E. Knuth)
  - a lightly dramatised exploration
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 (W. Richard Stevens)
  The Protocols
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2 (Gary R. Wright, W. Richard Stevens)
  The Implementation
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3 (W. Richard Stevens)
  TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Domain Protocols
• *Text Processing in Python (David Mertz)
  - a good mix of basic ideas and concrete examples