A great introductory calculus text. Beautiful typography and graphics likely inspired by Tufte. Good foundations for approaching analysis.

The first, and best modern novel ever written. A wonderful translation in this particular edition.

A brief and highly narrative introductory text covering a grab bag of statistical methods and concepts.

A nice introductory text for probability theory with an exceptional treatment of Buffon's needle. Note this text is available online under the GNU license in pdf form.

This book really stands out as a summary of factors to consider when contemplating an entrepreneurial technology project.

A good treatment of mathematical statistics. The prose and examples lead the reader well.

While this is not a good text for a complete novice with database systems, if you have some experience this covers a nice mix of the underlying theory and implementation details of relational database systems.