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I strongly recommend the street fighting mathematics book. It is short and full of good stuff.
I end up helping otherwise smart people with techniques from this book all the time.
Here it is in PDF. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fullpdfs/Street-FightingMathematics.pdf