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    33Can anyone comment on some good/bad textbooks that students should/shouldn't buy on various astrophysical/mathematical/statistical/programming topics?
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     5== Numerical Recipes in "language" ==
     6This is a classic if you need numerical subroutines.  Note that there's an electronic edition, and you can find excerpts if you Google.  ~Taka
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     9Taka: Three books I use all the time:
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     11"Accretion Power in Astrophysics" (Frank, King & Raine)
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     13"Active Galactic Nuclei" (Krolik)
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     15"Black Holes, White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars" (Shapiro & Teukolsky)
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     17Also, look some review articles on arXiv are just as useful (and often more so) than a good textbook.... and it's free!