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puercomal rated Be Slightly Evil: 4 stars
puercomal rated Managing Humans: 4 stars
puercomal rated The Bartimaeus Trilogy: 5 stars
puercomal rated The Mythical Man-Month: 5 stars
The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks
Classic text on the human side of software engineering, containing essays on the management of software teams, projections about how …
The Box by Marc Levinson
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container …
puercomal rated Backroom Boys: 4 stars
puercomal rated Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex: 4 stars
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Few things are as fundamental to human happiness as sex, and few writers are as entertaining about the subject as …
puercomal rated The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: 2 stars
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones
Imagine that all fantasy novels—the ones featuring dragons, knights, wizards, and magic—are set in the same place. That place is …
puercomal rated Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal: 4 stars
Bitter by Jennifer McLagan
"The champion of uncelebrated foods including fat, offal, and bones, Jennifer McLagan turns her attention to a fascinating, underappreciated, and …
