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Coders at work

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Apress in 2009; paperback, 178 × 254 × 36.3 millimetres. ISBN 9781430219484.

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A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Yaknyam Press in 2021; paperback, 165 × 203 × 11.4 millimetres. ISBN 9781732102217.

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Domain-Driven Design

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Addison-Wesley in 2008; hardcover, 156 × 234 × 20.6 millimetres. ISBN 9780321125217.

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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Addison-Wesley in 2007; hardcover, 196 × 239 × 40.6 millimetres. ISBN 9780321127426.

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Release It!

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Pragmatic Bookshelf in 2012; paperback, 216 × 279 × 20.1 millimetres. ISBN 9780978739218.

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by O'Reilly Media in 2017; paperback, 178 × 233 × 31.5 millimetres. ISBN 9781449373320.

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Site Reliability Engineering

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. in 2016; paperback, 178 × 233 × 28.4 millimetres. ISBN 9781491929124.

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Test-driven Development By Example

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Addison-Wesley Professional in 2003; paperback, 187 × 235 × 14 millimetres. ISBN 9780321146533.

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Extreme Programming Explained

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Addison-Wesley Professional in 1999; paperback, 171 × 222 × 12.7 millimetres. ISBN 9780201616415.

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Growing object-oriented software, guided by tests

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Addison Wesley in 2010; paperback, 178 × 232 × 29.2 millimetres. ISBN 9780321503626.

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The Software Craftsman

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Prentice Hall in 2014; paperback, 178 × 232 × 16.3 millimetres. ISBN 9780134052502.

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Apprenticeship patterns

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by O'Reilly in 2010; paperback, 178 × 233 × 13 millimetres. ISBN 9780596518387.

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Your Code as a Crime Scene

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Pragmatic Bookshelf in 2015; paperback, 191 × 235 × 11.7 millimetres. ISBN 9781680500387.

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Software Engineering at Google

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by O'Reilly Media in 2020; paperback, 178 × 233 × 31 millimetres. ISBN 9781492082798.

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The Nature of Code

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by The Nature of Code in 2012; paperback, 191 × 235 × 30 millimetres. ISBN 9780985930806.

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Godel, Escher, Bach

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Penguin Books Ltd in 2000; paperback, 153 × 234 × 40.9 millimetres. ISBN 9780140289206.

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by CRC in 1997; paperback, 159 × 235 × 25.4 millimetres. ISBN 9789056995010.

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To engineer is human

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Barnes & Noble Books in 1994; paperback, 140 × 216 × 19 millimetres. ISBN 9781566195027.

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The design of design

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Addison-Wesley in 2010; paperback, 155 × 231 × 27.9 millimetres. ISBN 9780201362985.

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Structures, or, Why things don't fall down

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Da Capo Press in 1981; paperback, 151 × 227 × 31.2 millimetres. ISBN 9780306801518.

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The New Science of Strong Materials

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Penguin (Non-Classics) in 1975; paperback, 127 × 178 × 25.4 millimetres. ISBN 9780140209204.

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Shop Class as Soulcraft

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Penguin Press in 2009; hardcover, 143 × 216 × 22.4 millimetres. ISBN 9780863547195.

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The Craftsman

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Yale University Press in 2008; hardcover, 156 × 235 × 26.9 millimetres. ISBN 9780300119091.

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Catalogued under Creative practice. Published by Penguin Random House in 2011; paperback, 129 × 198 × 32.6 millimetres. ISBN 9781448114146.

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