Book-Shelf

On The Shelf

Personal Development

• 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done; Peter Bregman
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity; David Allen
• Rework; 37 Signals
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware; Andy Hunt
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High Kerry Patterson , Joseph Grenny , Ron McMillan , Al Switzler

Publishing, Presentation

• Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery; Garr Reynolds, 2nd Edition 2011

Management and Decision Finding

• Evaluating Project Decisions: Case Studies in Software Engineering; Carol L. Hoover, Mel Rosso-Llopart, Gil Taran
• Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern Pragmatic Project Management Johanna Rothman
• Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management: How Top Companies Assess Risk, Manage Exposure, and Seize Opportunity; John J. Hampton
• IT-Projektmanagement kompakt; Pascal Mangold

Methods, Collaboration and Interaction in Software Engineering

• Scrum mit User Stories; Ralf Wirdemann

Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Algebra Systems

• Analysis 1; Konrad Königsberger
• Stochastik für Einsteiger: Eine Einführung in die faszinierende Welt des Zufalls; Norbert Henze
• Mathematica 6: Einführung, Grundlagen, Beispiele; Hans-Gert Gräbe, Michael Kofler
• A Introduction to Programming with Mathematica; Wellin, Kamin, Gaylord
• A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R; 2010 Brian S. Everitt and Torsten Hothorn

Information Architecture, Programming & Programming Platforms

See also Computer Algebra Systems and Statistics.

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Harold Abelson und Gerald Jay Sussman; (mobi for kindle on github)
• REST und HTTP: Einsatz der Architektur des Web für Integrationsszenarien; Stefan Tilkov;

Ruby & Ruby on Rails

• The Rails3 Way; 2011 Obie Fernandez
• Agile Web Development with Rails (4th edition)
• Metaprogramming Ruby; 2010 by Paolo Perrotta
• Agile Web Development with Rails; 3rd; S. Ruby, D. Thomas and D. H. H.
• Design Patterns in Ruby; Russ Olsen
• Eloquent Ruby; 2011 by Russ Olsen
• Programming Ruby 1.9 - "The PickAxe"; Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andy Hunt
• The RSpec Book: Behaviour-Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends; by David Chelimsky, Dave Astels, Zach Dennis, Aslak Hellesøy, Bryan Helmkamp, Dan North
• Rails 3 in Action; 2011 by Ryan Bigg and Yehuda Katz
• Rails Test Prescriptions: Keeping Your Application Healthy; 2011 Noel Rappin

Clojure

• The Joy of Clojure; 2011 by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser
• Clojure in Action; 2011 Amit Rathore
• Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway

Lisp

• Land of Lisp, Conrad Barski, M.D. 2010

Haskell

• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!, Miran Lipovača 2011
• Real World Haskell, Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen 2008
• Programming in Haskell, Graham Hutton 2007

JavaScript

• JavaScript: The Good Parts - Unearthing the Excellence in JavaScript; Douglas Crockford
• JavaScript The Definitive Guide; 6th 2011
• JavaScript - Programmer's Reference; Alexei White

Scala

• Programming in Scala - A comprehensive step-by-step guide; Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, and Bill Venners
• Programming Scala; Dean Wampler, Alex Payne
• Programming Scala; Venkat Subramaniam
• Grundkurs funktionale Programmierung mit Scala; 2010 Lothar Piepmeyer

F-Sharp

• Expert F#; Don Syme, Adam Granicz, Antonio Cisternino
• Real-World Functional Programming - With Examples in F# and C#, Tomas Petricek
• Programming F#, Chris Smith

C-Sharp

• C# 4.0 in a Nutshell; Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari

Java

• Effective Java (2nd) Joshua Bloch
• Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases; Joshua Bloch, Neal Gafter

C / C++

• Practical C++ Programming (2nd) Steve Oualline
• The C++ Standard Template Library

Data Analytics, Databases & Database Management Systems

SQL and The Relational Model

• Joe Celko's SQL Programming Style; 2005
• Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL; 2008
• Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties; 2004
• Learning SQL; 2009, Alan Beaulieu
• PostgreSQL - From Novice to Professional; Neil Matthew, Richard Stones
• PostgreSQL Documentation; 2011 The PostgreSQL Global Development Group
• PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook; Simon Riggs, Hannu Krosing
• MySQL Database Usage & Administration; Vikram Vaswani
• MySQL Administrator's Bible; Sheeri K. Cabral, Keith Murphy

Other, NoSQL

• Hadoop in Action; 2010 by Chuck Lam
• Lucene in Action; by Michael McCandless, Erik Hatcher, Otis Gospodnetic
• CouchDB: The Definitive Guide; J. Chris Anderson, Jan Lehnardt and Noah Slater
• Beginning CouchDB Joe Lennon
• MongoDB The Definitive Guide 2010
• MongoDB in Action MEAP 2011

Other, Software Engineering Related

• Pro Git; Scott Chacon

System Engineering

Linux

• Ubuntu Server: Installation, Konfiguration, Anwendung; Michael Kofler
• Pro Linux System Administration; James Turnbull, Peter Lieverdink, and Dennis Matotek

Monitoring

• Pro Nagios 2.0; James Turnbull