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101. The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist
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102. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
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103. High Output Management
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104. Calculus Made Easy
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105. Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
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106. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
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107. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)
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108. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'
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109. The Soul of A New Machine
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110. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
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111. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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112. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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113. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
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114. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
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115. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
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116. Finite and Infinite Games
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117. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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118. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)
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119. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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120. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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121. The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
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122. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
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123. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
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124. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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125. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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126. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science
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127. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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128. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
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129. Calculus, 4th edition
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130. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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131. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
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132. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition
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133. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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134. 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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135. Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
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136. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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137. Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition)
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138. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
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139. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
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140. Planet of Slums
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141. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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142. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
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143. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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144. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
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145. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think
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146. The Science of Interstellar
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147. Against Intellectual Monopoly
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148. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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149. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
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150. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
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151. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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152. Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition)
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153. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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154. Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition)
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155. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition
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156. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
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157. DAEMON
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158. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
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159. The Four Steps to the Epiphany
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160. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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161. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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162. Quantum Computing since Democritus
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163. Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
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164. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
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165. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)
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166. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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167. Beautiful Code
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168. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
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169. Basic Economics
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170. Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition)
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171. Watchmaking
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172. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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173. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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174. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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175. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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176. How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life
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177. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition
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178. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
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179. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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180. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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181. Introduction to Information Retrieval
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182. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
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183. Algorithms (4th Edition)
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184. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))
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185. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
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186. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition
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187. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
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188. Introduction to the Theory of Computation
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189. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
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190. Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption
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191. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
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192. The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
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193. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
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194. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking
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195. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
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196. Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition)
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197. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness
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198. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
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199. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
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200. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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