- * Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides: Design Patterns. Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley 1994, ISBN-13 978-0201633610
- * Bryan Lee O'Malley: Scott Pilgrim (for example, [this](http://www.amazon.de/Scott-Pilgrim-Boxed-Set-Poster/dp/1934964573/?tag=aflattrcom506-21) 6 Volume Set)
- * Jeffrey Friedl: Mastering Regular Expressions. O'Reilly 1997, ISBN 1-56592-257-3
- * Jon Loeliger: Versionskontrolle mit Git, O'Reilly Verlag, Köln 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3897219458 (or in English: ISBN-13: 978-0596520120)
- * Alexander Pawlak: Die Wissenschaft bei Douglas Adams, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3527504565
- * Christopher Hadnagy: Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking. ISBN-13: 978-0470639535
- * Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Knust: Linux-Treiber entwickeln. ISBN-13: 978-3-89864-696-3
- * Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon
- * Simon Singh: Fermat's Last Theorem. ISBN-13: 978-1841157917
- * Anything written by Donald E. Knuth (in English please). For the long term, “The Art of Computer Programming” would be nice to have.
- * Stephen R. Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. ISBN-13: 978-0743269513 (or in German: Die 7 Wege zur Effektivität, ISBN-13: 978-3897495739)
- * <strike>Dietmar Wätjen: Kryptographie. Grundlagen, Algorithmen, Protokolle. ISBN-13: 978-3827414311</strike> got it.
- * <strike>Günther M. Ziegler: Darf ich Zahlen? Piper Verlag, München 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3492053464</strike> got it.
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-Hardware
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-* An external backup drive (hard disk, USB/eSATA(p), 1 TB or more)
-* Arduino (kits) of any kind
-* or, in general, any electronic kit for soldering (Mood Lamps, Blinkenthings, etc)
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-Other Things I Could Make Use Of
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- * A [Go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)) set
+(ordered by preference, no e-books with restrictive DRM please.)
+
+ * Stephen Coles: The Anatomy of Type, Harper Design, US, ISBN-13: 978-0062203120
+ * Toshio Odate: Die Werkzeuge des Japanischen Schreiners, ISBN-13: 978-3878709954
+ * oder im Original: Japanese Woodworking Tools, ISBN-13: 978-0941936460
+ * Lewis Dartnell: The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World After An Apocalypse, ISBN-13: 978-0099575832
+ * auf Deutsch: Das Handbuch für den Neustart der Welt: Alles, was man wissen muss, wenn nichts mehr geht, ISBN-13: 978-3499630644
+ * Alex Soojung-Kim Pang: REST: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
+ * Raymond Chen: The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows. ISBN-13: 978-0321440303
+ * John Napier: Hands. Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN-13: 978-0691025476
+
+<!-- currently not so relevant:
+ * more “Discworld” novels by Terry Prattchet (R.I.P.), in English or German
+ * already got “Mort”, “Guards! Guards!”, “The Color of Magic”, “The Light Fantastic”, “Hogfather”
+ * based on that, refer to the [Discworld Reading Order Guides](http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/) for your optimal choice
+-->