Book recommendations Definition and 108 Threads

I was wondering if you guys had any recommendations for a good C book (not C++ or C#), they are very heavily outnumbered by C++ books but i wanted to know if you guys knew any that were good in particular for high school level students.

I need a good calculus of variations book. I would like something that is clear but not devoid of mathematical rigour.

I need a book that's semi-introductory (advanced undergrad to beginning graduate level, if possible) on complex analysis, particularly one that covers power series well, but should be fairly general. I currently have "elementary real and complex analysis" by Georgi Shilov and while it's not...

I was wondering if any of you physics guru's have any good recommendations for college physics books. I'm taking my first semester of calc based physics, and the book required for my class is this one Needless to say, I'm not a big fan of this book. I especially don't like the lack clear...

Since it comes up so often, would it be a good idea to sticky a thread on book recommendations? It seems to especially come up a lot in this forum... Just a thought.

I'm looking for some good book recomendations for the basics of quantum mechanics. I have a decent amount of calculus, and have even taken a course on QM, though that was like 16 years ago. This is not for a course, just for my own interest. I have a good basic understanding of physics in...

Need something to give myself an introductory crash-course in LISP. Do you know of a book with really good "how-to" explanations and exercises?

Could someone please suggest a good book for beginning abstract algebra (which would allow me to begin learning number theory)? I've just finished a class in Multivariable Calc. and beginning ordinary differential equations. I will be taking Linear Algebra in the fall. I've heard the name Artin...