Coders At Work, Peter Seibel, ISBN 987-1-4302-1948-4
This is a collection of interviews with well known and successful programmers. Many of the names were already familiar to me (Knuth, Thompson, Zawinski, …) but others were new to me - though given the descriptions of their achievements, they are by no means out of place.
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Montaillou is a village in southwestern France. In the early 14th century many of its inhabitants were Cathars - a variety of Christian heresy - and as such came to the attention of the Inquisition. What makes it particularly special is that the written record of the resulting interrogations, made under the aegis of Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers and later Pope Benedict XII, survives to this day. The book at hand is a study of that record and its subjects.
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