In order to get any satisfaction when looking for programming books you have to head to a book store with some reason to actually pay attention to a difficult m

In order to get any satisfaction when looking for programming books you have to head to a book store with some reason to actually pay attention to a difficult market. Powel's Technical in Portland is a reasonable example. Op-AMP in Los Angles is another. There used to be a chain of stores in the Bay Area called Computer Literacy which was a pleasure to shop in. Berkeley had one who's name has escaped me and it has since disappeared, but search the area around the campus--- good exercise and great bibliographic fun. Likewise remember that most of these (if not all) have web sites, so let your browser loose as useful.