Books
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Thomas H. Corman, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest
Introduction to Algorithms
I guess there's not much to say about that one. It's simply a classical work. Be warned that there are editions expressing the presented algorithms in a certain programming language like C. I recommend that you stick with the one containing pseudo-code which will force you to think about what you are copying from the book.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Modern Operating Systems, Second Edition
A classical introduction to operating systems.
Douglas E. Comer
Internetworking with TCP/IP (Fourth Edition)
This is my personal bible when it comes to networking concepts.
Charles E. Perkins
Ad Hoc Networking
A nice introduction to Ad-hoc networking including concepts and routing protocols.
A. Kemper, A. Eickler
Datenbanksysteme, Eine Einfuehrung (4. Auflage)
This is a great introduction to the theory of database management systems (DBMS) and design of databases.
Robert Love
Linux Kernel Development
Although I'm seriously interested in operating systems, I've never wanted to be a kernel developer. This book provides an overview of the concepts implemented in the linux kernel without discussing the specific implementation which suits me just fine. It sometimes seems that the author repeated himself once too often but in the long view some important concepts are easier to remember.
Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Alexander Samarin
Der LaTeX Begleiter
Isn't it hard to find a good book about LaTeX in one of your local stores? Although this book does not provide a reference for everyday use, it did help me a lot explaining concepts and demonstrating the usage and effect of constructs.
Lawrence H. Miller, Alexander E Quilici
Joy of C
Although I used this book as a first introduction to programming in C and, still, sometimes use it as a reference, I don't feel strongly about it at all.
Sriram Srinivasan
Advanced Perl Programming
A must-have for a Perl enthusiast like myself.
Damian Conway
Perl Best Practices
This book contains 256 best practices for writing maintainable Perl code.
Lincoln Stein, Doug MacEachern
Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C
Although I've never used the concepts and techniques I've learned from this book it is certainly great to know it is possible. Knowledge in itself is intriging, right!?
Murray R. Spiegel, Larry J. Stephens
Statistik / Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Statistics
This book is a great reference in case you need to know what statistics can do for you and under what circumstances but it does not go into details.
Simon Singh
Geheime Botschaften
This book is a must-read for everyone who is interested in cryptography in general as well as its history.
