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1. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

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2. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

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3. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

4. Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

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5. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

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6. Introduction to Graph Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)

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7. Promise Theory: Principles and Applications (Volume 1)

8. Thinking in Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation

9. ESV Gospel Transformation Bible (Black)

10. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

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11. Ship of Theseus

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12. The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

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13. Introduction to Electrodynamics

14. Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

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15. The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World

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

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17. From Bauhaus to Our House

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18. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

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19. Countdown to Mathematics Vol 1 (v. 1)

20. The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

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21. Book of Proof

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22. Conceptual Physics: A High School Physics Program

23. Statistics, 4th Edition

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24. What the World Needs Now: A Resource Book for Daydreamers, Frustrated Inventors, Cranks, Efficiency Experts, Utopians, Gadgeteers, Tinkerers and Just about Everybody Else (Third Edition)

25. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

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26. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

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27. We Are in a Book! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)

28. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

29. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

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30. GAUGE FIELDS, KNOTS AND GRAVITY (Series on Knots and Everything)

31. Renormalization Methods: A Guide For Beginners

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32. The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric

33. Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story

34. Boundaries in Marriage : Workbook

35. DAEMON

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36. The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money

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37. Drug Wars: How Big Pharma Raises Prices and Keeps Generics off the Market

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38. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

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39. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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40. The Science of Programming (Monographs in Computer Science)

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41. Tolkien

42. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science

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43. The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth

44. Doing Data Science

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45. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

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46. The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?

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