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The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad cover

1401. The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad

by Harrison Salisbury

The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable and Enjoyable cover

1402. The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable and Enjoyable

by Jeff S. Volek, Phd Stephen D. Phinney MD, Rd Jeff S. Volek Phd, Stephen D. Phinney

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Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping cover

1403. Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping

by Patrick Radden Keefe

Vagrant: Up and Running cover

1404. Vagrant: Up and Running

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The Secrets Behind Great One-on-One Meetings cover

1405. The Secrets Behind Great One-on-One Meetings

by Esther Schindler

The Definitive Book of Body Language: The Hidden Meaning Behind People's Gestures and Expressions cover

1406. The Definitive Book of Body Language: The Hidden Meaning Behind People's Gestures and Expressions

by Allan Pease, Barbara Pease

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Introduction to Information Retrieval cover

1407. Introduction to Information Retrieval

by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition cover

1408. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition

by Robert M. Sapolsky

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Theory of Fun for Game Design cover

1409. Theory of Fun for Game Design

by Raph Koster

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All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms cover

1410. All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms

by David Arora

Video Kids: Making Sense of Nintendo cover

1411. Video Kids: Making Sense of Nintendo

by Eugene F. Provenzo

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Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ (2nd Edition) cover

1412. Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ (2nd Edition)

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire cover

1413. The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

by David Deida

The Interrogator's War : Breaking Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan cover

1414. The Interrogator's War : Breaking Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan

by Chris Mackey, Greg Miller

Calculus and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

1415. Calculus and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Michael C. Gemignani

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The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration) cover

1416. The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration)

by Tim Severin

The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition cover

1417. The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem cover

1418. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

by Simon Singh

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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence cover

1419. Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

by Karen Armstrong

Make: Analog Synthesizers: Make Electronic Sounds the Synth-DIY Way cover

1420. Make: Analog Synthesizers: Make Electronic Sounds the Synth-DIY Way

by Ray Wilson

The New Fast Food: The Veggie Queen Pressure Cooks Whole Food Meals in Less than 30 MInutes cover

1421. The New Fast Food: The Veggie Queen Pressure Cooks Whole Food Meals in Less than 30 MInutes

by Jill Nussinow

The Angular Tutorial: Learn Front-End Development and Automated Testing with Angular cover

1422. The Angular Tutorial: Learn Front-End Development and Automated Testing with Angular

by Adam Morgan

Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World cover

1423. Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

by Jane McGonigal

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Continuum Mechanics (Foundations and Applications of Mechanics, 1) cover

1424. Continuum Mechanics (Foundations and Applications of Mechanics, 1)

by C. S. Jog

The Twilight Saga White Collection cover

1425. The Twilight Saga White Collection

by Stephenie Meyer

Software Architecture Patterns cover

1426. Software Architecture Patterns

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No More Mr Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex, and Life cover

1427. No More Mr Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex, and Life

by Robert A. Glover

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Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition cover

1428. Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition

by Henepola Gunaratana

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Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future cover

1429. Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

by Paul Mason

Linkers and Loaders (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming) cover

1430. Linkers and Loaders (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming)

by John R. Levine

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Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On: Apply modern RL methods, with deep Q-networks, value iteration, policy gradients, TRPO, AlphaGo Zero and more cover

1431. Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On: Apply modern RL methods, with deep Q-networks, value iteration, policy gradients, TRPO, AlphaGo Zero and more

by Maxim Lapan

Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 Book 1) cover

1432. Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 Book 1)

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are cover

1433. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures) cover

1434. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures)

by Daniel L. Everett

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1435. "Yellow Kid" Weil: The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler

by J. R. Weil

Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped cover

1436. Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped

by Dean Budnick, Josh Baron

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Volume 7A: XView Programming Manual cover

1437. Volume 7A: XView Programming Manual

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail cover

1438. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

by Ray Dalio

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VPNs Illustrated: Tunnels, VPNs, and IPsec cover

1439. VPNs Illustrated: Tunnels, VPNs, and IPsec

Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity cover

1440. Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

by David W. Galenson

No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller cover

1441. No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller

by Harry Markopolos

Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution cover

1442. Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution

by Jim Blascovich

The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman cover

1443. The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

by Timothy Ferriss

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Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language) cover

1444. Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language)

by Jean-Louis Dessalles

Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimising the harms of legal and illegal drugs cover

1445. Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimising the harms of legal and illegal drugs

by David J. Nutt

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The Anarchist Cookbook cover

1446. The Anarchist Cookbook

by William F. Powell, William Powell, William Powell

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Pfizer Papers: Pfizer's Crimes Against Humanity cover

1447. Pfizer Papers: Pfizer's Crimes Against Humanity

by The WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysts

Human Universals cover

1448. Human Universals

by Donald Brown

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Salt: A World History cover

1449. Salt: A World History

by Mark Kurlansky

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The Animator's Survival Kit cover

1450. The Animator's Survival Kit

by Richard Williams

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Declarative Models of Concurrent Cyclic Processes (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 438) cover

1451. Declarative Models of Concurrent Cyclic Processes (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 438)

by Grzegorz Bocewicz

The Turkish Cookbook cover

1452. The Turkish Cookbook

by Musa Dagdeviren

Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others cover

1453. Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others

by Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now cover

1454. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

by Jaron Lanier

Applied Linear Regression Models- 4th Edition with Student CD (McGraw Hill/Irwin Series: Operations and Decision Sciences) cover

1455. Applied Linear Regression Models- 4th Edition with Student CD (McGraw Hill/Irwin Series: Operations and Decision Sciences)

by John Neter, Michael Kutner, Christopher Nachtsheim

Data Analysis: A Model Comparison Approach, Second Edition cover

1456. Data Analysis: A Model Comparison Approach, Second Edition

by Charles M. Judd

Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions: A Catologue of Modern Engineering Paradigms cover

1457. Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions: A Catologue of Modern Engineering Paradigms

by Peter DeGrace, Leslie Hulet Stahl

Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual (Texts in Computer Science) cover

1458. Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual (Texts in Computer Science)

by Steven S. Skiena, Miguel A. Revilla

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The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places cover

1459. The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places

by Bernie Krause

Programming Scala, 2nd Edition cover

1460. Programming Scala, 2nd Edition

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Making Embedded Systems cover

1461. Making Embedded Systems

by Elecia White

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South: The ENDURANCE Expedition cover

1462. South: The ENDURANCE Expedition

by Ernest Shackleton

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order cover

1463. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

by Kai-Fu Lee

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A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market cover

1464. A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market

by John Allen Paulos

The Book of Xen: A Practical Guide for the System Administrator cover

1465. The Book of Xen: A Practical Guide for the System Administrator

by Chris Takemura, Luke S. Crawford

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English Grammar for Students of German: The Study Guide for Those Learning German cover

1466. English Grammar for Students of German: The Study Guide for Those Learning German

by Cecile Zorach

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The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos cover

1467. The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos

by Deborah Heiligman

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Programming Clojure cover

1468. Programming Clojure

by Stuart Dabbs Halloway, Aaron Bedra

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John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener cover

1469. John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener

by Steve Joshua Heims

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Why Don't We Learn from History? cover

1470. Why Don't We Learn from History?

by B. H. Liddell Hart, Giles Laurén

The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us cover

1471. The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us

by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Rust Atomics and Locks cover

1472. Rust Atomics and Locks

Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust cover

1473. Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

by Gary Marcus, Ernest Davis

Freebsd Mastery: Advanced Zfs cover

1474. Freebsd Mastery: Advanced Zfs

by Michael Lucas, Allan Jude

FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS cover

1475. FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS

by Michael Warren Lucas, Allan Jude

The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works cover

1476. The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works

by Henry A. Waxman, Joshua Green

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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression cover

1477. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

by Andrew Solomon

The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Numbers: Revised Edition cover

1478. The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Numbers: Revised Edition

by David Wells

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals cover

1479. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

by Michael Pollan

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Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media cover

1480. Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

by Jacob Mchangama

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Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States cover

1481. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States

by Albert O. Hirschman

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An Introduction to Elvish, Other Tongues, Proper Names and Writing Systems of the Third Age of the Western Lands of Middle-Earth as Set Forth in the Published Writings of Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien cover

1482. An Introduction to Elvish, Other Tongues, Proper Names and Writing Systems of the Third Age of the Western Lands of Middle-Earth as Set Forth in the Published Writings of Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

by Nina Carson

The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth: A Complete Guide to All Fourteen of the Languages Tolkien Invented cover

1483. The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth: A Complete Guide to All Fourteen of the Languages Tolkien Invented

by Ruth S. Noel

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization―The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath cover

1484. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization―The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

by Peter Zeihan

Think Stats cover

1485. Think Stats

Single Page Web Applications: JavaScript end-to-end cover

1486. Single Page Web Applications: JavaScript end-to-end

by Michael Mikowski, Josh C. Powell

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Gradually, then suddenly cover

1487. Gradually, then suddenly

The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern World cover

1488. The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern World

by Mary Bond

The Hills of Chianti: The Story of a Tuscan Winemaking Family, in Seven Bottles cover

1489. The Hills of Chianti: The Story of a Tuscan Winemaking Family, in Seven Bottles

by Piero Antinori

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Vintage, 1) cover

1490. One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Vintage, 1)

by Michael Dobbs (historian), Michael Dobbs

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ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Use R!) cover

1491. ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Use R!)

by Hadley Wickham

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大図解九龍城 cover

1492. 大図解九龍城

by 可児弘明

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The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies cover

1493. The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies

by Thomas C. Mcevilley

Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric, 2-Volume Set cover

1494. Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric, 2-Volume Set

by Leslie J. DeGroot, J. Larry Jameson

Statistics cover

1495. Statistics

by David Freedman

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Squid: The Definitive Guide cover

1496. Squid: The Definitive Guide

Elements of Distributed Computing (Wiley - IEEE) cover

1497. Elements of Distributed Computing (Wiley - IEEE)

by Vijay K. Garg

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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa cover

1498. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

by Dambisa Moyo

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Why Information Grows cover

1499. Why Information Grows

by Cesar Hidalgo

Brian Eno's Another Green World cover

1500. Brian Eno's Another Green World

by Geeta Dayal