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It's astonishing how many books and magazines O'Reilly publishers monthly, making a name for themselves as a major player in the computer reference industry, and these new arrivals represent some top picks from their latest publications. Venkat Subramaniam's .Net Gotchas (05960-09097, $39.95) is for programmers working in .NET programming applications, whether it be the .NET platform itself, or Java or C#. Common problems from loops and exceptions from threads to garbage collection are reviewed with an eye to identifying and covering the errors which most common trip up .NET programmers. Unix users will welcome Brian Jepson and Ernest E. Rothman's Mac OS X Tiger For Unix Geeks: Demystifying The Geekier Side Of Mac OS X (0596009127, $34.95). The authors are longtime Unix users and understand the differences between Unix and the Mac OS X system: chapters cover everything from porting Unix software and understanding the X window system to partitioning for Linux and using built-in services. Patrick Niemeyer and Jonathan Knudsen's Learning Java (0596008732, $44.95) appears in its 3rd updated edition to cover J2SE 5.0. This isn't just a tutorial for beginners: it moves from a basic introduction and application examples all the way to advanced topics such as advanced Java 5.0 features and writing threaded programs. So don't expect a simple introduction--though the lessons are designed as a 'classroom in a book'--chapters are quite technical and Java programmers with programming backgrounds will be pleased with its depth.