jeffreyrogers

I randomly picked Code off a library shelf

Much easier to follow than CLRS (and much more manageable in size, though it obviously leaves out a lot of the stuff they cover).

It is really excellent, but probably hard for a first exposure to electronics unless you are very committed.

Red Plenty, a novel that is loosely about the invention of linear programming in the Soviet Union

I'm glad I finally read it. It's not really a book about baseball it's about finding and exploiting unappreciated edges.

I just want to comment that the Army publication you listed is really good.

possibly better than the movie (which I love)

If that sounds appealing to you, you'll probably like this book. If not don't bother starting it.

The Dasgupta algorithms book is great. I read through it on my own a few years ago. Much easier to follow than CLRS (and much more manageable in size, though it obviously leaves out a lot of the stuff they cover).

the book Computing in the Middle Ages

if you are interested in modern art or how things that look like something anyone could do can sell for absurd amounts of money this book is worth reading

makes a lot of the recent genetic research on human origins understandable