{"id":53,"date":"2016-12-06T23:26:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T22:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.van-steen.net\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T08:31:49","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, I have written the following books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/books\/computer-and-network-organization\/\">Computer and Network Organization<\/a> (with Henk Sips)<\/li>\n<li>Distributed Systems (with Andrew S. Tanenbaum)\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/books\/distributed-systems\/\">Second edition (2007)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/books\/ds3\/\">Third edition (2017)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/books\/ds4\/\">Fourth edition (2023)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/books\/gtcn\/\">Graph Theory and Complex Networks, An Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All books can be downloaded for free from this site.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to know more about why and how I wrote books, and notably the Distributed Systems book, there&#8217;s a fun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NhI5YA4nbzQ\">interview<\/a> hosted by Grigoriy Skobelev that may give you some insight. \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, I have written the following books: Computer and Network Organization (with Henk Sips) Distributed Systems (with Andrew S. Tanenbaum) Second edition (2007) Third edition (2017) Fourth edition (2023) <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/books\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}