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The mission of spreading the knowledge of innovators continues cover

901. The mission of spreading the knowledge of innovators continues

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How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life cover

902. How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

by Thomas Gilovich

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Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age cover

903. Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

by Steven Levy

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Feedback Control for Computer Systems cover

904. Feedback Control for Computer Systems

by Philipp K. Janert

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Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers cover

905. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers

by Robert Jackall

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Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography cover

906. Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

by Walter Isaacson

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street cover

907. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

by John Brooks

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Introduction to Machine Learning with Python cover

908. Introduction to Machine Learning with Python

by Andreas C. Mueller, Sarah Guido

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T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us cover

909. T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

by Carole Hooven

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol cover

910. The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

by Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow

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JavaScript Web Applications cover

911. JavaScript Web Applications

by Alex MacCaw

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Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners cover

912. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

by Larry Harris

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Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation cover

913. Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation

by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys, Wenzel Jakob

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Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America cover

914. Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America

by Jo Barraclough Paoletti

The Geek Atlas cover

915. The Geek Atlas

by John Graham-Cumming

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Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Voices That Matter) cover

916. Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Voices That Matter)

by Steve Krug

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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History cover

917. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

by John M. Barry

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The Political Economy of Dictatorship cover

918. The Political Economy of Dictatorship

by Ronald Wintrobe

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Data Analysis with Open Source Tools cover

919. Data Analysis with Open Source Tools

by Philipp K. Janert

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Taking Charge of Adult ADHD: Proven Strategies to Succeed at Work, at Home, and in Relationships cover

920. Taking Charge of Adult ADHD: Proven Strategies to Succeed at Work, at Home, and in Relationships

by Russell A. Barkley, Christine M. Benton

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How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships cover

921. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

by Leil Lowndes

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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork and the Myth of Total Efficiency cover

922. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork and the Myth of Total Efficiency

by Tom DeMarco

Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir cover

923. Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir

by Don Eyles

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A Life of One's Own (The Collected Works of Marion Milner) cover

924. A Life of One's Own (The Collected Works of Marion Milner)

by Marion Milner

The Making of Buddhist Modernism cover

925. The Making of Buddhist Modernism

by David L. McMahan

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Operating System Concepts cover

926. Operating System Concepts

by Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter B. Galvin

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

927. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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

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

by Steven L. Kent

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Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality cover

929. Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality

by Don Watkins, Yaron Brook

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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood cover

930. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

by James Gleick

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Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention and Problem Solving cover

931. Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention and Problem Solving

by John R. Koza

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong cover

932. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

by James W. Loewen

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Principles of Mathematical Analysis (International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics) cover

933. Principles of Mathematical Analysis (International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics)

by Walter Rudin

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The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You cover

934. The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

by Scott E. Page

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Lao-tzu's Taoteching cover

935. Lao-tzu's Taoteching

by Laozi

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Data-oriented design: software engineering for limited resources and short schedules cover

936. Data-oriented design: software engineering for limited resources and short schedules

by Richard Fabian

MAC OS X Internals: A Systems Approach cover

937. MAC OS X Internals: A Systems Approach

by Amit Singh

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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System cover

938. A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System

by T. R. Reid

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And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future cover

939. And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future

by Yanis Varoufakis

Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For cover

940. Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For

by Jonathan Raymond

Improvised Munitions Handbook TM 31 210 cover

941. Improvised Munitions Handbook TM 31 210

by Department of the Army

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End cover

942. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

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O'Reilly First to Adopt Founders' Copyright: Publisher Restores Balance to Copyright with New Legal Option from Creative Commons cover

943. O'Reilly First to Adopt Founders' Copyright: Publisher Restores Balance to Copyright with New Legal Option from Creative Commons

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War of Art, The cover

944. War of Art, The

by Steven Pressfield

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Laces: 100s of Ways to Pimp Your Kicks cover

945. Laces: 100s of Ways to Pimp Your Kicks

by Ian Fieggen

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Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success cover

946. Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success

by James Persse

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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us cover

947. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

by Daniel H. Pink

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Toki Pona Dictionary (Official Toki Pona) cover

948. Toki Pona Dictionary (Official Toki Pona)

by Sonja Lang

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Calculus Made Easy cover

949. Calculus Made Easy

by Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner

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Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering) cover

950. Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)

by Roger R. Bate, Donald D. Mueller, Jerry E. White

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Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World cover

951. Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

by Adrian Wooldridge

Learning Perl, 8th Edition cover

952. Learning Perl, 8th Edition

by Randal Schwartz, brian foy, Tom Phoenix

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The Art of Thinking Clearly: The International Bestseller That Improves Decision Making and Counters Faulty Reasoning with Research-Backed Good Sense cover

953. The Art of Thinking Clearly: The International Bestseller That Improves Decision Making and Counters Faulty Reasoning with Research-Backed Good Sense

by Rolf Dobelli

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Proofs Without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking (Classroom Resource Materials, 1) cover

954. Proofs Without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking (Classroom Resource Materials, 1)

by Roger B. Nelsen

Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties cover

955. Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties

by Joe Celko

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It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News cover

956. It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News

by Drew Curtis

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber cover

957. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

by Mike Isaac

Designing Interfaces, 3rd Edition cover

958. Designing Interfaces, 3rd Edition

by Jenifer Tidwell, Charles Brewer, Aynne Valencia-Brooks

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No bullshit guide to math and physics cover

959. No bullshit guide to math and physics

by Ivan Savov

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Introduction to Hilbert Space and the Theory of Spectral Multiplicity cover

960. Introduction to Hilbert Space and the Theory of Spectral Multiplicity

by Paul R. Halmos

Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces cover

961. Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces

by Paul Richard Halmos

Cut in Half: The Hidden World Inside Everyday Objects (Pop Science and Photography Gift Book, How Things Work Book) cover

962. Cut in Half: The Hidden World Inside Everyday Objects (Pop Science and Photography Gift Book, How Things Work Book)

by Mike Warren

An Invitation to Applied Category Theory: Seven Sketches in Compositionality cover

963. An Invitation to Applied Category Theory: Seven Sketches in Compositionality

by Brendan Fong, David I. Spivak

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Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense cover

964. Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

by Rory Sutherland

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Hack and HHVM cover

965. Hack and HHVM

by Owen Yamauchi

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Pure Mathematics for Beginners: A Rigorous Introduction to Logic, Set Theory, Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, Real Analysis, Topology, Complex Analysis, and Linear Algebra cover

966. Pure Mathematics for Beginners: A Rigorous Introduction to Logic, Set Theory, Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, Real Analysis, Topology, Complex Analysis, and Linear Algebra

by Steve Warner

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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm cover

967. The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm

by Lewis Dartnell

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Computers & Typesetting, Volume B: TeX: The Program cover

968. Computers & Typesetting, Volume B: TeX: The Program

by Donald Ervin Knuth

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Visual Complex Analysis cover

969. Visual Complex Analysis

by Tristan Needham

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Cooking for Geeks, 2nd Edition cover

970. Cooking for Geeks, 2nd Edition

Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond cover

971. Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond

by Deepak Malhotra, Max Bazerman

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Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th Edition cover

972. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th Edition

by Bruce Alberts

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High Performance JavaScript cover

973. High Performance JavaScript

by Nicholas C. Zakas

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Atari Inc.: Business is Fun cover

974. Atari Inc.: Business is Fun

by Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel

The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

975. The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan

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Burn Math Class: And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself cover

976. Burn Math Class: And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself

by Jason Wilkes

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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing cover

977. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

by Ted Conover

Borrow: The American Way of Debt cover

978. Borrow: The American Way of Debt

by Louis Hyman

Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL cover

979. Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL

by Dean Allemang, James A. Hendler

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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman cover

980. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

by James Gleick

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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World cover

981. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

by David Deutsch

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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think cover

982. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think

by Bryan Caplan

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Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) cover

983. Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)

by Thomas J. Barfield

Just Java™ 2 cover

984. Just Java™ 2

by Peter van der Linden

Bayesian Methods for Hackers: Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference cover

985. Bayesian Methods for Hackers: Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference

by Cameron Davidson-Pilon

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For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History cover

986. For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History

by Sarah Rose

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The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror cover

987. The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

by Thomas Ligotti

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Atomic Accidents cover

988. Atomic Accidents

by James Mahaffey

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The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel cover

989. The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel

by Nicholas Ostler

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded cover

990. Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded

by David Graeber

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Practical Guide to Salesforce Communities: Building, Enhancing, and Managing an Online Community with Salesforce Community Cloud cover

991. Practical Guide to Salesforce Communities: Building, Enhancing, and Managing an Online Community with Salesforce Community Cloud

by Philip Weinmeister

Frodo's Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings cover

992. Frodo's Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings

by Joseph Pearce, Jef Murray

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients cover

993. Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

by Ben Goldacre

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The Art of SQL cover

994. The Art of SQL

by Stephane Faroult, Peter Robson

Secret Knowledge (New and Expanded Edition): Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters cover

995. Secret Knowledge (New and Expanded Edition): Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters

by David Hockney

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Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs cover

996. Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

by Buddy Levy

3D Math Primer For Graphics and Game Development (Wordware Game Math Library) cover

997. 3D Math Primer For Graphics and Game Development (Wordware Game Math Library)

by Fletcher Dunn, Ian Parberry

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SQL Performance Explained Everything Developers Need to Know about SQL Performance cover

998. SQL Performance Explained Everything Developers Need to Know about SQL Performance

by Markus Winand

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The Dream Machine cover

999. The Dream Machine

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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An Introduction to Japanese Society cover

1000. An Introduction to Japanese Society

by Yoshio Sugimoto