Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

If you're looking for introductory material, I'd highly recommend Computer Systems, A Programmer's Perspective by Bryant and O'Hallaron: https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/ It sounds like the material you're after would mostly be in chapters two or three through five depending on where you'd want to start. The second edition is much cheaper used and follows broadly the same path, though it does have x86-32 in the main text with -64 as an appendix ("web aside"); third swaps that.

Second this, don't buy global edition. The authors explicitly mentioned that they are NOT going to release an errata for it. Probably because it would be a book of itself...

I can highly recommend this, on the following site you can find the labs accompanying the book http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/labs.html remark: DON'T buy the Global Edition of the book, it contains different exercises than the original book and is riddled with errors, it's basically unreadable/unusable.

Aho/Ullman Foundations of CS http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html O'Halloran/Bryant CSPP https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/ David Money Harris Digital Design... https://booksite.elsevier.com/9780128000564/

Along with the usual classics, I highly recommend Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective by Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron of Carnegie Mellon. The authors wrote it after teaching a class on the subject. It's extremely readable and gives you an excellent introduction of machine level code, processor architecture and memory as well as a solid foundation of higher level concepts including networking and concurrency. If you're considering programming as a career, I'd say this book (or something similar, probably spread across multiple books) is a must-read. It's used by CMU, Stanford, Caltech, UIUC, Harvard and dozens of other schools. http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/ http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Systems-Programmers-Perspecti... (http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Systems-Programmers-Perspective-2nd/dp/0136108040)