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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

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

by Charles Petzold

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Operating System Concepts cover

902. Operating System Concepts

by Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter B. Galvin

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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

903. 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

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

by Don Watkins, Yaron Brook

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

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

by James W. Loewen

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

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

by James Gleick

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

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

by Walter Rudin

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Thinking About Glue cover

908. Thinking About Glue

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

909. 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

910. Lao-tzu's Taoteching

by Laozi

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

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

by T. R. Reid

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

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

by Richard Fabian

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

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

by Yanis Varoufakis

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End cover

914. 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

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

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

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

by Jonathan Raymond

Improvised Munitions Handbook TM 31 210 cover

917. Improvised Munitions Handbook TM 31 210

by Department of the Army

War of Art, The cover

918. War of Art, The

by Steven Pressfield

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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us cover

919. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

by Daniel H. Pink

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Laces: 100s of Ways to Pimp Your Kicks cover

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

by Ian Fieggen

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Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success cover

921. Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success

by James Persse

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Toki Pona Dictionary (Official Toki Pona) cover

922. Toki Pona Dictionary (Official Toki Pona)

by Sonja Lang

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Calculus Made Easy cover

923. Calculus Made Easy

by Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner

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Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering) cover

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

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

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SQL Pocket Guide, 4th Edition cover

925. SQL Pocket Guide, 4th Edition

by Alice Zhao

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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

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

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

by Joe Celko

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Learning Perl, 8th Edition cover

928. Learning Perl, 8th Edition

by Randal Schwartz, brian foy, Tom Phoenix

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Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World cover

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

by Adrian Wooldridge

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

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

by Roger B. Nelsen

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

931. 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

932. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

by Mike Isaac

Introduction to Hilbert Space and the Theory of Spectral Multiplicity cover

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

by Paul R. Halmos

Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces cover

934. 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

935. 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

936. 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

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

by Rory Sutherland

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Hack and HHVM cover

938. Hack and HHVM

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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

939. 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

940. 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

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

by Donald Ervin Knuth

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The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World cover

942. The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World

by Edward A. Feigenbaum, Pamela McCorduck

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Visual Complex Analysis cover

943. Visual Complex Analysis

by Tristan Needham

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Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th Edition cover

944. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th Edition

by Bruce Alberts

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

945. 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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High Performance JavaScript cover

946. High Performance JavaScript

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Cooking for Geeks, 2nd Edition cover

947. Cooking for Geeks, 2nd Edition

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

948. 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

949. Burn Math Class: And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself

by Jason Wilkes

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Atari Inc.: Business is Fun cover

950. Atari Inc.: Business is Fun

by Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel

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

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

by Dean Allemang, James A. Hendler

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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World cover

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

by David Deutsch

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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing cover

953. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

by Ted Conover

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman cover

954. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

by James Gleick

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Borrow: The American Way of Debt cover

955. Borrow: The American Way of Debt

by Louis Hyman

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

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

by Thomas J. Barfield

Just Java™ 2 cover

957. Just Java™ 2

Bayesian Methods for Hackers: Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference cover

958. 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

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

by Sarah Rose

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Atomic Accidents cover

960. Atomic Accidents

by James Mahaffey

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

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

by Thomas Ligotti

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

962. 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

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

by David Graeber

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

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

by Ben Goldacre

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

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

by David Hockney

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

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

by Philip Weinmeister

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

967. 3D Math Primer For Graphics and Game Development (Wordware Game Math Library)

by Fletcher Dunn, Ian Parberry

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The Art of SQL cover

968. The Art of SQL

by Stephane Faroult, Peter Robson

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

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

by Buddy Levy

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

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

by Markus Winand

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering cover

971. Fundamentals of Data Engineering

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Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value cover

972. Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

by Melissa Perri

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The Lessons of History cover

973. The Lessons of History

by Will Durant, Ariel Durant

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Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? cover

974. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

by Seth Godin

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An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Volume 1 cover

975. An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Volume 1

by William Feller

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An Introduction to Japanese Society cover

976. An Introduction to Japanese Society

by Yoshio Sugimoto

Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach (Second Edition) (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

977. Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach (Second Edition) (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Morris Kline

Mathematics and the Physical World (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

978. Mathematics and the Physical World (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Morris Kline

Mathematics, Queen and Servant of Science cover

979. Mathematics, Queen and Servant of Science

by Eric Temple Bell

The Overstory: A Novel cover

980. The Overstory: A Novel

by Richard Powers

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The Architecture of Open Source Applications cover

981. The Architecture of Open Source Applications

by Amy Brown, Greg Wilson

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The Design And Implementation Of The Freebsd Operating System cover

982. The Design And Implementation Of The Freebsd Operating System

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil

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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives cover

983. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

by Leonard Mlodinow

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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth cover

984. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares

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Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Chronic Environmental Illness cover

985. Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Chronic Environmental Illness

by Neil Nathan

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Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing (3rd Edition) cover

986. Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing (3rd Edition)

by David Harel, Yishai Feldman

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human cover

987. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

by Richard W. Wrangham

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Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive cover

988. Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive

by Bruce Schneier

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Basic Simple Type Theory (Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science, Series Number 42) cover

989. Basic Simple Type Theory (Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science, Series Number 42)

by J. Roger Hindley

Programming Distributed Computing Systems: A Foundational Approach cover

990. Programming Distributed Computing Systems: A Foundational Approach

by Carlos A. Varela, Gul Agha

The Racial Contract cover

991. The Racial Contract

by Charles W. Mills

Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community cover

992. Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

by Robert D. Putnam

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One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

993. One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by George Gamow

The Last Lecture cover

994. The Last Lecture

by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow

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Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective cover

995. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

by Randal E. Bryant, David R. O'Hallaron

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Integrable Hamiltonian Systems: Geometry, Topology, Classification cover

996. Integrable Hamiltonian Systems: Geometry, Topology, Classification

by A.V. Bolsinov, A.T. Fomenko

HAMILTONIAN DYNAMICS cover

997. HAMILTONIAN DYNAMICS

by Gaetano Vilasi

Apollo 13 cover

998. Apollo 13

by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger

The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space cover

999. The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space

by Eugene Cernan, Donald A. Davis

Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space cover

1000. Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space

by John W. Young, James R. Hansen