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101. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
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102. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
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103. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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104. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
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105. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
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106. DAEMON
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107. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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108. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
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109. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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110. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
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111. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
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112. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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113. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science
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114. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
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115. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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116. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
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117. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition
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118. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
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119. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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120. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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121. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
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122. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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123. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
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124. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
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125. Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition)
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126. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
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127. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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128. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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129. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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130. Introduction to the Theory of Computation
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131. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition
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132. The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition)
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133. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)
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134. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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135. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
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136. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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137. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
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138. A Philosophy of Software Design
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139. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)
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140. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
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141. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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142. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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143. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
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144. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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145. Finite and Infinite Games
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146. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
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147. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)
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148. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)
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149. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition
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150. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
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151. The Gun
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152. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
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153. 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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154. Basic Mathematics
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155. The Rent Is Too Damn High: What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think
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156. The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan
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157. Beautiful Code
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158. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
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159. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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160. Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
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161. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition
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162. The Science of Interstellar
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163. Head First Design Patterns
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164. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
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165. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
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166. Python for Data Analysis
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167. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
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168. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking
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169. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
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170. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
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171. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
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172. Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition
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173. Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition)
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174. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
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175. It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!: RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals
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176. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling
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177. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
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178. Algorithms (4th Edition)
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179. The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) (Collins Business Essentials)
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180. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
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181. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health
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182. How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life
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183. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
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184. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
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185. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
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186. Discrete Mathematics with Applications
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187. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
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188. Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course
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189. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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190. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
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191. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
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192. Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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193. Quantum Computing since Democritus
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194. Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market
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195. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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196. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
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197. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
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198. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
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199. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd Edition)
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200. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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