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Code cover

1. Code

by Charles Petzold
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams cover

2. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

by Matthew Walker
Read 36 comments
O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training cover

3. O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training

by Jerry D. Peek
Read 78 comments
Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

4. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman
Read 41 comments
Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

5. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate
Read 59 comments
Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition cover

6. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
Read 43 comments
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

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

by Martin Kleppmann
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

8. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini
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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

9. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
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The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

10. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
Read 28 comments
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

11. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams cover

12. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

13. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Don Norman
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

14. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas cover

15. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

by Seymour A. Papert
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C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

16. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
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Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) cover

17. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev
Read 21 comments
On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication cover

18. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication

by William Zinsser
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World cover

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

by Cal Newport
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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

20. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B. Irvine
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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal cover

21. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop
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Code Complete cover

22. Code Complete

by Steve McConnell
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives cover

23. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

by Jesse Eisinger
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It―A Guide to Starting a Business in a Productive and Successful Way cover

24. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It―A Guide to Starting a Business in a Productive and Successful Way

by Michael E. Gerber
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age cover

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

by Michael A. Hiltzik
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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love cover

26. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles cover

27. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

by Steven Pressfield
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series) cover

28. Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Michael C. Feathers
Read 31 comments
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy cover

29. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

by David D. Burns
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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

30. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

31. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston
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Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller cover

32. Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

by Donella Meadows
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires cover

33. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

34. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A Philosophy of Software Design cover

35. A Philosophy of Software Design

by John Ousterhout
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Programming Rust cover

36. Programming Rust

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High Output Management cover

37. High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove
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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

38. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup
Read 21 comments
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides) cover

39. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)

by Marshall B. Rosenberg
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The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain cover

40. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain

by John E. Sarno
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On Intelligence cover

41. On Intelligence

by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It cover

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

by Gary Taubes
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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist cover

43. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson
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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

44. Programming Collective Intelligence

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

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

by David Kushner
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Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

46. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win cover

47. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business cover

48. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business

by Clayton M. Christensen
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

49. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker
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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter) cover

50. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

by Steve Krug
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JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts cover

51. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier
Read 22 comments
Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists cover

52. Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists

by Edward Scheinerman
Read 11 comments
Finite and Infinite Games cover

53. Finite and Infinite Games

by James Carse
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage cover

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

by Cliff Stoll
Read 19 comments
21st Century C, 2nd Edition cover

55. 21st Century C, 2nd Edition

by Ben Klemens
Read 17 comments
The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition cover

56. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

by Thomas E. Pearsall
Read 8 comments
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

57. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff
Read 17 comments
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It cover

58. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
Read 7 comments
The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

59. The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
Read 9 comments
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice cover

60. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice

by John F. Hughes
Read 8 comments
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety cover

61. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser
Read 18 comments
The Art of Electronics cover

62. The Art of Electronics

by Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill
Read 9 comments
Gödel's Proof cover

63. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman
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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) cover

64. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)

by George Polya
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The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) cover

65. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)

by Leland Wilkinson
Read 10 comments
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet cover

66. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing cover

67. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

by Burton G Malkiel
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Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

68. Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
Read 9 comments
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) cover

69. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
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Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition cover

70. Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition

by Shelley Powers
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Programming Rust, 2nd Edition cover

71. Programming Rust, 2nd Edition

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Lisp in Small Pieces cover

72. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec
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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

73. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Krste Asanović
Read 16 comments
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

74. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock
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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

75. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott
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The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change cover

76. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

Read 24 comments
The Soul of A New Machine cover

77. The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder
Read 12 comments
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading cover

78. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
Read 8 comments
The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you cover

79. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

by Rob Fitzpatrick
Read 16 comments
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition cover

80. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition

by Betty Edwards
Read 10 comments
Beautiful Code cover

81. Beautiful Code

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
Read 13 comments
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto) cover

82. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Read 10 comments
The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

83. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen
Read 17 comments
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory cover

84. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

by David Graeber
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Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator cover

85. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

by Ryan Holiday
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

86. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho
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Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics) cover

87. Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)

by John Drury Clark
Read 14 comments
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains cover

88. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr
Read 15 comments
How to Lie with Statistics cover

89. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion cover

90. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation cover

91. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner
Read 13 comments
Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1) cover

92. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1)

by Rob Walling
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution cover

93. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy
Read 17 comments
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success cover

94. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

by Carol S. Dweck
Read 13 comments
JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

95. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford
Read 21 comments
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger cover

96. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson
Read 18 comments
Software Engineering at Google cover

97. Software Engineering at Google

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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions cover

98. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
Read 11 comments
The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook cover

99. The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook

by Michael Kerrisk
Read 15 comments
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

100. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande
Read 9 comments