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The Internet of Money

Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

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The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference

Charles M. Kozierok

4.8 on Amazon

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BioWare: Stories and Secrets from 25 Years of Game Development

Bioware

4.9 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation

Francis Glebas

4.7 on Amazon

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Grokking Artificial Intelligence Algorithms: Understand and apply the core algorithms of deep learning and artificial intelligence in this friendly illustrated guide including exercises and examples

Rishal Hurbans

4.9 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt

Sinan Aral

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Coding for Kids: Python: Learn to Code with 50 Awesome Games and Activities

Adrienne Tacke

4.6 on Amazon

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Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry

Jason Schreier

4.4 on Amazon

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mister_teeonMay 16, 2021

Appreciate the suggestions in this thread. Adding recommendations for Blake Harris's "Console Wars" on 90s Sega vs. Nintendo competition, and Jason Schreier's "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels" for more of the development angle. It looks like he has a new book out just last week, "Press Reset" -- seems to be on studios/projects that shut down and the aftermath. Adding that one to my reading list.

For the link to Boss Fight books: FYI the selector defaults to paperback; ebooks are a very reasonable $5 if anyone prefers digital. They're that price at Amazon for Kindle, too. But IIRC and based on reviews out there, they vary quite a bit in style and quality. Supposedly the Spelunky one is great and written by the creator himself. I bounced off the series because one book was mostly personal anecdotes from the author, a random person who just liked the game, rather than anything about the topic you wouldn't get from playing it or even reading wikipedia. Some of the books do have more research and interviews.