''The Science of Programming (Texts and Monographs in ComputerScience)'' 
a BookBy DavidGries, Paperback (November 1987), Springer Verlag; 

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ISBN:03-8796-480-0 

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The amazon reviews are quite good.  What do people here think?
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An excellent book. I used and after many years eventually threw my copy away ... several years later hunted down another copy, which I'll be careful not to throw away again. --AlistairCockburn

''Could you give some idea of why this is a book you consult continually, rather than being a read-once book? The description on Amazon made it sound more like the latter.''
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