7 best-selling technical books like The Joy of JavaScript by Luis Atencio

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The Joy of JavaScript

By: Luis Atencio

4.50

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

Whether for building interactive browser-based applications or creating server-side applications in…

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1. Node.js Design Patterns: Master a series of patterns and techniques to create modular, scalable, and efficient applications

By: Mario Casciaro

4.39

Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition

Get the best out of Node.js by mastering a series of patterns and techniques to create modular, sca… read more

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  • computers
  • programming
  • coding
  • technical
  • computer science
  • technology
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2. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

By: Kevin Kelly

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological i… read more

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  • technology
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3. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its maste… read more

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"Drop dead-but first get permit"

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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4. Thinking, Fast and Slow

By: Daniel Kahneman

4.18

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of th… read more

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"A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it"

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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5. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

By: Greg McKeown

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underuti… read more

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6. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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7. Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming

By: Marijn Haverbeke

3.50

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

"A concise and balanced mix of principles and pragmatics. I loved the tutorial-style game-like prog… read more

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  • programming
  • coding
  • technical
  • computer science
  • technology
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8. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an i… read more

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9. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more

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10. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

By: Douglas R. Hofstadter

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal s… read more

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11. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By: Philip K. Dick

4.09

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans o… read more

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"An android,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mors certa, vita incerta,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mankind needs more empathy."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Frankly, you look more like a goat man to me."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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12. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • technology
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

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13. The War on the West

By: Douglas Murray

4.28

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim… read more

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"To delegitimize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West. It is necessary to demonize white people."

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Race is now an issue in all Western countries in a way it has not been for decades. In the place of color blindness, we have been pushed into racial ultra-awareness. A deeply warped picture has now b…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Like all societies in history, all Western nations have racism in their histories. But that is not the only history of our countries. Racism is not the sole lens through which our societies can be un…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Historical criticism and rethinking are never a bad idea. However, the hunt for visible, tangible problems shouldn't become a hunt for invisible, intangible problems. Especially not if they are carri…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

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14. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

By: Tiago Forte

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more

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  • technology
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15. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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16. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

By: Eric Jorgenson

4.44

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Getting rich is not just about luck; Happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirati… read more

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"No one in the world is going to beat you at being you."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend etern…"

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

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17. Clean Architecture

By: Robert C. Martin

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Building upon the success of best-sellers The Clean Coder and Clean Code, legendary software crafts… read more

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  • computers
  • programming
  • coding
  • technical
  • computer science
  • technology
"The only way to go fast, is to go well."

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

"All race conditions, deadlock conditions, and concurrent update problems are due to mutable variables."

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

"I'm a programmer. I like programming. And the best way I've found to have a positive impact on code is to write it."

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

"Any organisation that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organisation's communication structure"

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

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18. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

By: Walter Isaacson

4.29

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a pape… read more

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  • technology
"The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination."

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

"Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?"

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

"She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries."

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

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19. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

By: Jaron Lanier

3.58

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer who first alerted us to the danger… read more

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  • technology
"Go to where you are kindest"

-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

"Each of us has an inner troll."

-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

"Statistics are reliable, but only as idiot demons."

-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

"Fake people are a cultural denial-of-service attack."

-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

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20. What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?

By: Stephen Wolfram

3.91

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

Nobody expected this—not even its creators: ChatGPT has burst onto the scene as an AI capable of wr… read more

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  • computers
  • technology
  • computer science
  • programming
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21. API Design Patterns

By: J.J. Geewax

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Modern software systems are composed of many servers, services, and other components that communica… read more

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  • computers
  • programming
  • technical
  • computer science
  • technology
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22. Grokking Simplicity: Taming complex software with functional thinking

By: Eric Normand

4.17

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Distributed across servers, difficult to test, and resistant to modification—modern software is com… read more

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  • computers
  • programming
  • coding
  • technical
  • computer science
  • technology
Cover of Code That Fits in Your Head : Heuristics for Software Engineering (Robert C. Martin Series) by Mark Seemann

23. Code That Fits in Your Head : Heuristics for Software Engineering (Robert C. Martin Series)

By: Mark Seemann

4.10

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

The latest title in Addison Wesley's world-renowned Robert C. Martin Series on better software deve… read more

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  • computers
  • programming
  • coding
  • technical
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  • technology
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24. The Joy of JavaScript

By: Luis Atencio

4.50

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

Whether for building interactive browser-based applications or creating server-side applications in… read more

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  • computers
  • programming
  • coding
  • technical
  • computer science
  • technology
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25. CSS in Depth

By: Keith J. Grant

4.53

Format: 444 pages, Paperback

Summary CSS in Depth exposes you to a world of CSS techniques that range from clever to mind-blowi… read more

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  • computer science
  • coding
  • technology
  • programming
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26. React Hooks in Action: With Suspense and Concurrent Mode

By: John Larsen

3.83

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

React Hooks in Action teaches you to write fast and reusable React components using Hooks. Summary… read more

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  • programming

10 must-read programming books like The Joy of JavaScript by Luis Atencio

Transform Your Habits

Node.js Design Patterns: Master a series of patterns and techniques to create modular, scalable, and efficient applications

Mario Casciaro

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming

Marijn Haverbeke

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Clean Architecture

Robert C. Martin

4.23

Transform Your Habits

What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

3.91

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17 must-read audiobook books like The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson

Transform Your Habits

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

Transform Your Habits

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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