About Brian Long

These are the books that sit upon my bookshelves (amongst a bunch of others). I list them here because so far as I have found, they are either pretty good or very good. You may well have some of these titles yourself but in case you find any potentially interesting I list them here with Amazon US and Amazon UK links.

I'll add more from the bookshelves as time permits.

PowerShell Books
Miscellaneous .NET Books
.NET 3.0-specific Books
.NET 2.0 and 3.0 Books
.NET 1.x Books
Windows Books
Delphi Books
C++Builder Books
Anti-hacking Books
Miscellaneous Books
Non-Fiction books by Rudy Rucker (my favourite sci-fi guy)
Fiction books by Rudy Rucker (my favourite sci-fi guy)

PowerShell Books

Title, author & publisher	Amazon US Link	Amazon UK Link
Windows Powershell in Action by Bruce Payette, Manning Publications, 2007	Click here	Click here
Microsoft Windows PowerShell: TFM by Don Jones & Jeffery Hicks, SAPIEN Press, 2007	Click here	Click here
Monad: An Administrator's Guide by Andy Oakley, O'Reilly, 2005	Click here	Click here

Miscellaneous .NET Books

Title, author & publisher	Amazon US Link	Amazon UK Link
Essential .NET Volume I: The Common Language Runtime by Don Box & Chris Sells, Addison Wesley, 2002	Click here	Click here
.NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide by Adam Nathan, Sams, 2002	Click here	Click here
Programming In The .NET Environment by Damien Watkins, Mark Hammond & Brad Abrams, Addison Wesley, 2002	Click here	Click here
.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library by Brad Abrams, Addison Wesley, 2004	Click here	Click here
.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Volume 2: Networking Library, Reflection Library, and XML Lirary by Brad Abrams & Tamara Abrams, Addison Wesley, 2006	Click here	Click here
The Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard by James S. Miller & Susann Ragsdale, Addison Wesley, 2003	Click here	Click here
Shared Source CLI Essentials by David Stutz, Ted Neward & Geoff Shilling, O'Reilly, 2003	Click here	Click here
Managed DirectX: Kick Start by Tom Miller, Sams, 2003	Click here	Click here
Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability by J. D. Meier, Srinath Vasireddy, Ashish Babbar & Alex Mackman, Microsoft Press, 2004	Click here	Click here
Programming .NET Components, Second Edition by Juval Löwy, O'Reilly, 2005	Click here	Click here
.NET Compact Framework Pocket Guide by Wei-Meng Lee, O'Reilly, 2005	Click here	Click here

.NET 3.0-specific Books

Title, author & publisher	Amazon US Link	Amazon UK Link
Programming Windows presentation Foundation by Chris Sells & Ian Griffiths, O'Reilly, 2005	Click here	Click here
Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation by Charles Petzold, Microsoft Press, 2006	Click here	Click here
Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF) (Unleashed) by Adam Nathan, Sams, 2006	Click here	Click here

.NET 2.0 and 3.0 Books

Title, author & publisher	Amazon US Link	Amazon UK Link
CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter, Microsoft Press, 2006	Click here	Click here
Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications by John Robbins, Microsoft Press, 2006	Click here	Click here
Practical .NET 2 and C# 2: Harness the Platform, the Language, the Framework by Patrick Smacchia, Paradoxal Press, 2006	Click here	Click here
Customizing the Microsoft.NET Framework Common Language Runtime by Steven Pratschner, Microsoft Press, 2005	Click here	Click here
Programming ASP.NET 2.0: Core Reference by Dino Esposito, Microsoft Press, 2006	Click here	Click here
Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics by Dino Esposito, Microsoft Press, 2006	Click here	Click here

.NET 1.x Books

Title, author & publisher	Amazon US Link	Amazon UK Link
.NET Core Requirements, Microsoft Press, 2003	Click here	Click here
Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming by Jeffrey Richter, Microsoft Press, 2001	Click here	Click here
Microsoft Visual C#.NET Language Reference, Microsoft Press, 2002	Click here	Click here
Microsoft C# Language Specifications, Microsoft Press, 2001	Click here	Click here
Programming ASP.NET by Dino Esposito, Microsoft Press, 2003	Click here	Click here
Microsoft ADO.NET by David Sceppa, Microsoft Press, 2001	Click here	Click here
Advanced .NET Remoting by Ingo Rammer, 2004	Click here	Click here
Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop by Christian Holm, Mike Krüger & Bernhard Spuida, Wrox, 2003	Click here	Click here
.NET Framework Security by Brian A. LaMacchia, Sebastian Lange, Matthew Lyons, Rudi Martin & Kevin T. Price, Addison Wesle, 2002	Click here	Click here
Debugging Applications For .NET And Windows by John Robbins, Microsoft Press, 2002	Click here	Click here
Debugging Strategies for .NET Developers by Darin Dillon, Apress, 2003	Click here	Click here
Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler by Serge Lidin, Microsoft press, 2002	Click here	Click here

Windows Books

Title, author & publisher	Amazon US Link	Amazon UK Link
Microsoft Windows Internals, Fourth Edition: Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 by Mark E. Russinovich & David A. Solomon, Microsoft Press, 2005	Click here	Click here
Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model, Second Edition by Walter Oney, Microsoft Press, 2002	Click here	Click here
Debugging Applications For .NET And Windows by John Robbins, Microsoft Press, 2002	Click here	Click here
Windows XP Registry Guide by Jerry Honeycutt, Microsoft Press, 2002	Click here	Click here
Advanced Windows: The Developer's Guide to the Win32 Api for Windows Nt 3.5 and Windows 95 by Jeffrey Richter, Microsoft Press, 1995	Click here	Click here
Windows 95 Win 32 Programming Api Bible by Richard Simon with Michael Gouker and Brian Barnes, Waite Group Press, 1995	Click here	Click here

Delphi Books

Title, author & publisher	Amazon US Link	Amazon UK Link
Mastering Delphi 2005 by Marco Cantù, Sybex, 2005	Click here	Click here
Delphi for .NET Developers Guide by Xavier Pacheco, Sams, 2004	Click here	Click here
Mastering Delphi 7 by Marco Cantù, Sybex, 2003	Click here	Click here

C++Builder Books

Title, author & publisher	Amazon US Link	Amazon UK Link
C++Builder 6 Developers Guide by Jarrod Hollingworth, Bob Swart, Mark Cashman & Paul Gustavson, Sams, 2002	Click here	Click here
C++Builder 5 Developers Guide by Jarrod Hollingworth, Dan Butterfield, Bob Swart, Jamie Allsop et al, Sams, 2000	Click here	Click here

Anti-hacking Books

Title, author & publisher	Amazon US Link	Amazon UK Link
Malware: Fighting Malicious Code by Ed Skoudis with Lenny Zeltser, Prentice Hall, 2003	Click here	Click here
Hacker Disassembling Uncovered by Kris Kaspersky, A-List, 2003	Click here	Click here
Exploiting Software: How To Break Code by Greg Hoglund & Gary McGraw, Addison-Wesley, 2004	Click here	Click here
Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Fourth Edition by Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray & George Kurtz, McGraw-Hill, 2003	Click here	Click here
Anti-Hacker Toolkit, Second Edition by Mike Schema & Bradley C. Johnson, Mc-Graw Hill, 2003	Click here	Click here

Miscellaneous Books

Title, author & publisher	Amazon US Link	Amazon UK Link
Writing Secure Code, Second Edition by Michael Howard & David LeBlanc, Microsoft Press, 2003	Click here	Click here
Pentium Processor System Architecture (2nd Edition) by Mindshare Inc., Tom Shanley & Don Anderson, Addison-Wesley, 1995	Click here	Click here
PC Underground: Unconventional Programming Techniques by Bertelsons, Rasch & Hoffmann, Abacus, 1995	Click here	Click here
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice by James Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven Feiner & John Hughes, Addison-Wesley, 1990	Click here	Click here
Mastering HTML 4, Second Edition by Deborah S Ray & Eric J. Ray, Sybex, 1999	Click here	Click here
Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus by André LaMothe, Sams, 1999	Click here	Click here
The Revolutionary Guide To Assembly Language by Vitaly Maljugin, Jacov Izrailevich, Semyon Lavin & Aleksandr Sopin, Wrox Press, 1993	Click here	Click here
Master Class Assembly Language by Igor Chebotko, Peter Kalatchin, Yuri Keselev, Kiril Malakhov, Yuri Petrenko, Efim Podvoisky, Mike Schmit, Sergei Shkredov, Gennady Soudlenkov & Dan Wronski, Wrox Press, 1993	Click here	Click here

Non-Fiction Books by Rudy Rucker

Listed in the order written by the author.

Title, original publisher & original publication date	Amazon US Link	Amazon UK Link
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning Of Life, and How To Be Happy, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005	Click here	Click here
Software Engineering and Computer Games, Addison-Wesley, 2002	Click here	Click here
Seek!, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999	Click here	Click here
Artifical Life Lab, Waite Group Press, 1993	Click here	N/A
Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality, Houghton Mifflin, 1987	Click here	Click here
Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder (editor), Arbor House, 1987	Click here	Click here
The Fouth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes (alternative publication of the below), Houghton Mifflin, 1985	Click here	Click here
The Fourth Dimension and How To Get There (alternative publication of the below), Vintage/Ebury, 1985	Click here	Click here
The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality, Houghton Mifflin, 1984	Click here	Click here
Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite, Birkhäuser, 1982	Click here	Click here
Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension, Dover Publications, 1977	Click here	Click here

Fiction Books by Rudy Rucker

Listed in the order written by the author.

Title, original publisher & original publication date	Amazon US Link	Amazon UK Link
Mathematicians In Love, Tor Books, 2006	Click here	Click here
Mad Professor: The Uncollected Short Stories of Rudy Rucker, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006	Click here	Click here
Frek and the Elixir, Tor Books, 2004	Click here	Click here
As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel, Tor Books, 2002	Click here	Click here
Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension, Tor Books, 2002	Click here	Click here
Realware, Avon Books, 2000	Click here	Click here
Gnarl!, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000	Click here	Click here
Saucer Wisdom, Tor Books, 1999	Click here	Click here
Freeware, Avon Books, 1997	Click here	Click here
The Hacker and the Ants, Avon Books, 1994	Click here	Click here
Transreal!, WCS Books, 1991	Click here	Click here
The Hollow Earth, William Morrow & Co., 1990	Click here	Click here
All the Visions, Ocean View Books, 1991	Click here	Click here
The Secret of Life, Bluejay Books, 1985	Click here	Click here
Wetware, Avon Books, 1988	Click here	Click here
Master of Space and Time, Bluejay Books, 1984	Click here	Click here
The Sex Sphere, Ace Books, 1983	Click here	Click here
The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka, Ace Books, 1983	Click here	Click here
Software, Ace Books, 1982	Click here	Click here
White Light: Or, What Is Cantor's Continuum Problem, Ace Books, 1980	Click here	Click here
Spacetime Donuts, Ace Books, 1981	Click here	Click here

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