A comparison of American history textbooks from Texas and California
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as in the title. Be it textbooks, bios or anything else. Somewhere I've heard that a couple of books in a given subject can give you quite a good understanding of it.
It does not have to be a niche either; I am interested in hearing about your favourite general psychology or biotechnology books just as well; I hope we can exchange recommendations about how to dive into a given field.
For me, I'd say that to get a taste of Computer Science from the metal to high level concepts, I'd go with: