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101. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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102. High Output Management
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103. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition
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104. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
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105. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
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106. The Soul of A New Machine
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107. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
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108. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
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109. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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110. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
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111. The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
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112. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
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113. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)
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114. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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115. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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116. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science
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117. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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118. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)
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119. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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120. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)
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121. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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122. Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
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123. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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124. Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition)
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125. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
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126. Planet of Slums
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127. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition
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128. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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129. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
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130. Finite and Infinite Games
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131. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
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132. The Science of Interstellar
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133. Against Intellectual Monopoly
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134. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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135. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
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136. How to Lie with Statistics
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137. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
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138. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
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139. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
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140. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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141. Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition)
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142. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think
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143. Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition)
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144. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition
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145. DAEMON
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146. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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147. Calculus, 4th edition
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148. Beautiful Code
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149. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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150. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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151. Basic Economics
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152. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
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153. Watchmaking
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154. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
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155. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
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156. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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157. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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158. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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159. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'
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160. How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life
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161. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition
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162. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
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163. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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164. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
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165. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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166. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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167. Algorithms (4th Edition)
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168. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))
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169. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
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170. Introduction to the Theory of Computation
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171. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
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172. Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption
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173. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
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174. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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175. Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition)
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176. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
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177. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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178. The Four Steps to the Epiphany
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179. Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition)
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180. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
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181. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness
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182. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
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183. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
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184. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)
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185. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition
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186. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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187. The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition)
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188. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)
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189. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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190. Quantum Computing since Democritus
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191. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
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192. Algebra
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193. UNIX: A History and a Memoir
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194. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
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195. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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196. C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software
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197. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
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198. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
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199. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)
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200. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking
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