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1. Nine Open Arms

2. My Little Book of Big Freedoms: The Human Rights Act in Pictures

3. Mr Birdsnest and the House Next Door

4. The Knight Who Said No!

5. The London Eye Mystery

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6. The Lost Words

7. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

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8. The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful

9. More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

10. Gödel's Proof

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11. The Oasis of Now: Selected Poems (Lannan Translations Selection Series)

12. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

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13. Making 8-bit Arcade Games in C

14. Building Scalable Web Sites

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15. Fast Furniture: The Zegel System: A Unique Forgotten Method of Building Simple, Beautiful Wooden Furniture

16. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

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17. So Good They Can't Ignore You

18. Introduction to Probability, 2nd Edition

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19. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

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20. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

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21. Amy's Guide to Best Behavior in Japan: Do It Right and Be Polite!

22. ENVY: A Theory of Social Behaviour

23. The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles

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24. Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science

25. Essentials of Programming Languages (The MIT Press)

26. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

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27. The Russo German War, 1941-45

28. Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?)

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29. Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street

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30. Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder: A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science

31. Willful Ignorance: The Mismeasure of Uncertainty

32. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

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33. British Rail Designed 1948-1997

34. Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling

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35. Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent

36. Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

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37. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

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38. The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design

39. The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle Between Two World-Systems (Center for Environmental Structure)

40. Why Liberalism Failed (Politics and Culture)

41. The Middle Moffat

42. Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II

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