This page lists books we have found useful, organized by general subject area.
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Data Management Programming Quality Software Engineering Statistics Web Design
An Introduction to Database Systems. C. J. Date. Addison-Wesley
Building the Operational Data Store, 2d ed. W. H. Inmon. Wiley
Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought. David C. Hay. Dorset House
Oracle Data Warehousing. Michael J. Corey and Michael Abbey. Osbourne McGraw Hill
Oracle Design. Dave Ensor and Ian Stevenson. O'Reilly
Oracle Performance Tuning. Peter Corrigan and Mark Gurry. O'Reilly
Access Database Design & Programming. Steven Roman. O'Reilly
Access 2000 Developer's Handbook. Volume 1: Desktop Edition. Ken Getz, Paul Litwin, and Mike Gilbert. Sybex
Access 2000 Developer's Handbook. Volume 2: Enterprise Edition. Paul
Litwin, Ken Getz, and Mike Gilbert. Sybex
FileMaker Pro Bible. Steven Schwartz. 2000. IDG Books
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Ed. David Flanagan. 2006. O'Reilly
Mastering Regular Expressions. Jeffrey E. F. Friedl. 1997. O'Reilly
Perl Best Practices. Damian Conway. 2005. O'Reilly
Perl Cookbook. Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington. 1998. O'Reilly
Programming Perl, Second Ed. Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal Schwarz. 1996. O'Reilley
Software Tools. Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger. Addison-Wesley
Special Edition: Using FileMaker Pro 5. Rich Coulombre and Jonathan
Price. 2000. Que
Special Edition: Using FileMaker Pro 9. Jesse Feiler.
2008. Que
SQL in a Nutshell. Kevin Kline with Dnaiel Kline. 2001. O'Reilly.
The Elements of Programming Style. Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger. McGraw-Hill
The Practice of Programming. Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike. Addison-Wesley
Boards That Make a Difference: A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations. John Carver. Josey Bass
Deming Management at Work. Mary Walton. Perigee
Introduction to Statistical Quality Control, Douglas C. Montgomery, Wiley
ISO 9000 for Small Businesses: What to do. Advice from ISO/TC 176, ISO Central Secretariat
No Contest: The Case Against Competition. Alfie Kohn. Houghton Mifflin
Out of the Crisis. W. Edwards Deming. MIT
Practical Guide to Software Quality Management. John W. Horch. Artech House
Punished by Rewards, Alfie Kohn, Houghton Mifflin
Quality at Work in Research and Development. George J. Kidd, Jr. Quality Resources
ANSI/ISO/ASQC Q9000-3-1 Quality Management and Quality Assurance Standards – Guidelines for the Application of ANSI/ISO/ASQC Q9001 to the Development, Supply, and Maintenance of Software. American Society for Quality Control Standards Committee for American National Standards Committee Z-1 on Quality Assurance. American Society for Quality.
Schools of Quality: An Introduction to Total Quality Management in Education, John Jay Bonstingl, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Software Quality: A Framework for Success in Software Development and Support, Joc Sanders and Eugene Curran, Addison-Wesley
Statistical Quality Control, 5th ed. Eugene L. Grant and Richard S. Leavenworth. McGraw-Hill
The Deming Management Method. Mary Walton. Perigee
The Deming Route to Quality and Productivity: Road Maps and Roadblocks. William W. Scherkenbach.
What is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way. Kaoru Ishikawa. Prentice Hall
A Guide to Software Configuration Management. Alexis Leon. Artech House
Building the Data Warehouse, 2d ed. W. H. Inmon. Wiley
CASE*Method Fast-Track: A RAD Approach. Dai Clegg and Richard Barker. Addison-Wesley.
CASE*Method: Business Interviewing. Linda Hickman and Cliff Longman. Addison-Wesley.
CASE*Method: Entity Relationship Modelling. Richard Barker. Addison-Wesley.
CASE*Method: Function and Process Modelling. Richard Barker and Cliff Longman. Addison-Wesley
CASE*Method: Tasks and Deliverables. Richard Barker. Addison-Wesley.
Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques. Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano. 1995. Prentic Hall PTR.
Managing Open Source Projects. Jan Sandred. 2001. Johh Wiley and Sons.
Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide. Karl E. Wiegers. 2002. Addison-Wesley
Practical Software Configuration Management. Tim Mikkelsen and Suzanne Pherigo. Prentice Hall
Software Requirements, Karl E. Wiegers, Microsoft Press
Software Requirements Engineering, 2d ed. Richard H. Thayer and Merlin Dorfman, eds., IEEE Computer Society
System and Software Requirements Engineering. Richard H. Thayer and Merlin Dorfman. IEEE Computer Society
The Capability Maturity Model: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process. Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute. Addison-Wesley
UML Distilled. Third Edition. A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modelling Language, Martin Fowler. Addison-Wesley
Use Cases: Requirements in Context, Daryl Kulak and Eamonn Guiney. Addison-Wesley
Writing Effective Use Cases. Alistair Cockburn. 2001. Addison-Wesley
An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements. John R. Taylor. University Science Books
Analysis of Messy Data. George A. Milliken and Dallas E. Johnson. Lifetime Learning
Applied Linear Statistical Methods, Donald F. Morrison, Prentice-Hall
Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice, Yvonne M. M. Bishop, Stephen E. Fienberg, and Paul W. Holland, MIT Press
Elementary Survey Sampling, 2d ed, Richard Scheaffer, William Mendenhall, and Lyman Ott, Duxbury
Experimental Designs, William G. Cochran and Gertrude M. Cox., Wiley
Generalized Linear Models. P. McCullagh and J. A. Nelder, F.R.S. Chapman and Hall
Matrix Algebra Useful for Statistics, Shayle R. Searle, Wiley
Practical Nonparametric Statistics, 2d ed., W. J. Conover, Wiley
Sampling Techniques, 3d ed., William G. Cochran, Wiley
The Analysis of Contingency Tables, B. S. Everitt, Chapman and Hall
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press
Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web. 3d ed. Hakon Wium Lie and Bert Bos. 2005. Addison-Wesley
Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide. Eric A. Meyer, O'Reilly
Computer Security Basics. Rick Lehtinen, Deborah Russel and G.T. Gangemi Sr. 2006. O'Reilly.
Designing Web Usability, Jakob Nielsen, New Riders
DNS and Bind. 5th ed. Cricket Liu and Paul Albitz. 2006. O'Reilly
HTML and XHTML: A Definitive Guide. Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy. O'Reilly
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, O'Reilly
Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide. Jennifer Niederst. O'Reilly
Perl Template Toolkit. Darren Chamberlain, David Cross and Andy Wardley. 2004. O'Reilley
SSL and TLS Essentials: securing the web. Stephen Thomas. 2000. Wiley
Web Design in a Nutshell. A Quick Desktop Reference. Jennifer Niederst. 2001. O'Reilly