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Check out the non-technical and fiction books I’m reading on Shelfari. If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them!

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Cocoa Touch for iPhone OS 3
Cocoa Touch for iPhone OS 3
by Jiva DeVoe
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Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers
Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers
by Daniel H. Steinberg
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Head First iPhone Development
Head First iPhone Development
by Dan Pilone, Tracey Pilone
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Coders at Work
Coders at Work
by Peter Seibel
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iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual
iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual
by Craig Hockenberry
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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
by Andy Hunt
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Mental Floss: Scatterbrained
Mental Floss: Scatterbrained
by Editors Of Mental Floss
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The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK
The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK
by Erica Sadun
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Lucene in Action
Lucene in Action
by Otis Gospodnetic, Erik Hatcher
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iPhone in Action: Introduction to Web and SDK Development
iPhone in Action: Introduction to Web and SDK Development
by Christopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline
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Free Prize Inside!: The Next Big Marketing Idea
Free Prize Inside!: The Next Big Marketing Idea
by Seth Godin
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Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
by Seth Godin
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey
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Go BIG or Go HOME
Go BIG or Go HOME
by Wil Schroter
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Leadership Secrets of the World’s Most Successful CEOs: 100 Top Executives Reveal the Management Strategies That Made Their Companies Great
Leadership Secrets of the World’s Most Successful CEOs: 100 Top Executives Reveal the Management Strategies That Made Their Companies Great
by Eric Yaverbaum
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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
by Dale Carnegie
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Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth
Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth
by Martin C. Brown
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Who’s There: Seth Godin’s Incomplete Guide to Blogs and the New Web
Who’s There: Seth Godin’s Incomplete Guide to Blogs and the New Web
by Seth Godin
Knock Knock: Seth Godin’s Incomplete Guide to Building a Web Site that Works
Knock Knock: Seth Godin’s Incomplete Guide to Building a Web Site that Works
by Seth Godin
The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers
The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers
by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon
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Brand Failures: The Truth about the 100 Biggest Branding Mistakes of All Time
Brand Failures: The Truth about the 100 Biggest Branding Mistakes of All Time
by Matt Haig
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Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear
Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear
by Frank Luntz
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
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Unleashing the Ideavirus
Unleashing the Ideavirus
by Seth Godin and Malcolm Gladwell
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How to Drive Your Competition Crazy: Creating Disruption for Fun and Profit
How to Drive Your Competition Crazy: Creating Disruption for Fun and Profit
by Guy Kawasaki
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The Bootstrapper’s Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money
The Bootstrapper’s Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money
by Seth Godin
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Head Rush Ajax
Head Rush Ajax
by Brett McLaughlin
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How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets
How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets
by Andy Kessler
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Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications
Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications
by Cal Henderson
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
by John Markoff
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Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
by Steve Krug
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The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products
The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products
by Craig M. Vogel, Jonathan Cagan, and Peter Boatwright
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Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman
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Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution
Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution
by Chris DiBona, Mark Stone, and Danese Cooper
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Designing with Web Standards
Designing with Web Standards
by Jeffrey Zeldman
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Google Maps Hacks
Google Maps Hacks
by Rich Gibson, Schuyler Erle
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Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software
by Sam Williams
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Stress Mastery: The Art of Coping Gracefully
Stress Mastery: The Art of Coping Gracefully
by Juan R. Abascal, Laurel Brucato, Dominic Brucato
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Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World’s Most Colorful Company
Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World’s Most Colorful Company
by Owen Linzmayer
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Ambient Findability
Ambient Findability
by Peter Morville
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Running Mac OS X Tiger: A No-Compromise Power User’s Guide to the Mac
Running Mac OS X Tiger: A No-Compromise Power User’s Guide to the Mac
by Jason Deraleau, James Duncan Davidson
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Essential PHP Security
Essential PHP Security
by Chris Shiflett
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Beyond Java
Beyond Java
by Bruce Tate
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The Art of Project Management
The Art of Project Management
by Scott Berkun
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In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions...When It Counts
In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions...When It Counts
by Jerry Weissman
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Pro Spring
Pro Spring
by Rob Harrop, Jan Machacek
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Spring: A Developer’s Notebook
Spring: A Developer’s Notebook
by Bruce Tate, Justin Gehtland
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Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide
Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide
by Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, Thomas Fuchs, Andrea Schwarz
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Better, Faster, Lighter Java
Better, Faster, Lighter Java
by Bruce Tate, Justin Gehtland
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Spring in Action
Spring in Action
by Craig Walls, Ryan Breidenbach
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The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky
The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky
by Joel Spolsky
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The Art of UNIX Programming
The Art of UNIX Programming
by Eric S. Raymond
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Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
by Frederick P. Brooks
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Head First Design Patterns
Head First Design Patterns
by Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra
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Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
by Andy Hertzfeld
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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, Steve Wozniak
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Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of...
Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of...
by Joel Spolsky
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The Unix Philosophy
The Unix Philosophy
by Mike Gancarz
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iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
by Jeffrey S. Young, William L. Simon
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Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
by Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone, Brian Behlendorf, Scott Bradner, Jim Hamerly, Kirk McKusick, Tim O’Reilly, Tom Paquin, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Richard Stallman...
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
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Version Control with Subversion
Version Control with Subversion
by C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick
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Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution
Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution
by Glyn Moody
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
by Linus Torvalds, David Diamond
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Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam (SCWCD)
Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam (SCWCD)
by Bryan Basham, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
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The PHP Anthology, Volume I: Foundations
The PHP Anthology, Volume I: Foundations
by Harry Fuecks
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The PHP Anthology, Volume II: Applications
The PHP Anthology, Volume II: Applications
by Harry Fuecks
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Upgrading to PHP 5
Upgrading to PHP 5
by Adam Trachtenberg
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The Cathedral & the Bazaar : Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
The Cathedral & the Bazaar : Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
by Eric S. Raymond
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Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition
Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition
by Rob Brooks-Bilson
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
by Michael A. Hiltzik
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
by Katie Hafner
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Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
by Tim Berners-Lee
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Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
by Jerry Kaplan
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Making the Cisco Connection: The Story Behind the Real Internet Superpower
Making the Cisco Connection: The Story Behind the Real Internet Superpower
by David Bunnell, Adam Brate
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
by Steven Levy
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Fusebox: Developing ColdFusion Applications
Fusebox: Developing ColdFusion Applications
by Jeff Peters, Nat Papovich
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Certified Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Developer Study Guide
Certified Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Developer Study Guide
by Ben Forta


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