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101. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
by E. T. Jaynes
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102. Beautiful Code
by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
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103. High Output Management
by Andrew S. Grove
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104. Calculus Made Easy
by Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner
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105. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)
by Steve McConnell
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106. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
by John Markoff
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107. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
by Clayton M. Christensen
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108. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton
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109. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon
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110. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
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111. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
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112. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
by Steve Krug
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113. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck
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114. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
by Marshall B. Rosenberg
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115. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
by Eric Schlosser
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116. Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
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117. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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118. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein
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119. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries
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120. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
by William Thorndike
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121. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)
by Josef Müller-Brockmann
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122. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)
by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
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123. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil
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124. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
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125. Finite and Infinite Games
by James Carse
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126. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
by Tom Vanderbilt
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127. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
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128. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by Daniel H. Pink
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129. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science
by Philip N. Klein
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130. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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131. The Four Steps to the Epiphany
by Steve Blank
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132. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by John J. Ratey
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133. Calculus, 4th edition
by Michael Spivak
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134. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition
by Steven Levy
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135. Against Intellectual Monopoly
by Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine
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136. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared M. Diamond
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137. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
by David Kadavy
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138. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
by John Brooks
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139. Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
by Lawrence Lessig
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140. Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition)
by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull
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141. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
by John E. Sarno
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142. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
by Edmond Lau
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143. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
by Toby Segaran
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144. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
by Martin E.P. Seligman
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145. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by Marc Levinson
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146. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
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147. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
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148. The Science of Interstellar
by Kip Thorne
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149. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
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150. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition
by Daniel J. Velleman
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151. UNIX: A History and a Memoir
by Brian W. Kernighan
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152. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think
by Bryan Caplan
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153. C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software
by David R. Hanson
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154. Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
by Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen
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155. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
by Tom DeMarco
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156. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
by Max Tegmark
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157. Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition)
by Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik
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158. Quantum Computing since Democritus
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159. Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition)
by W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, Andrew M. Rudoff
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160. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
by Harvey A. Silverglate
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161. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
by Steve Krug
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162. DAEMON
by Daniel Suarez
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163. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
by W. Timothy Gallwey
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164. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)
by Alfred V. Aho
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165. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
by John Gall
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166. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, Gregory G. Colomb
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167. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
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168. Designing Data-Intensive Applications
by Martin Kleppmann
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169. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
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170. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
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171. Basic Economics
by Thomas Sowell
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172. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader
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173. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
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174. Introduction to the Theory of Computation
by Michael Sipser
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175. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
by Randal E. Bryant, David R. O'Hallaron
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176. Watchmaking
by George Daniels
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177. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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178. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
by Steven Pinker
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179. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition
by Paul Scherz, Simon Monk
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180. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein
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181. How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life
by J. J. Luna
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182. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
by Charles Petzold
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183. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition
by Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman
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184. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
by Gerald M. Weinberg
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185. Real-Time Collision Detection (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3-D Technology)
by Christer Ericson
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186. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)
by Leland Wilkinson
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187. Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation
by R. G. Loeliger
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188. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
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189. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber
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190. Introduction to Information Retrieval
by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze
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191. Algorithms (4th Edition)
by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
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192. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))
by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
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193. The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
by Donald G. Reinertsen
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194. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
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195. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
by Peter Norvig
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196. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
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197. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
by Keith Johnstone
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198. Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition)
by Robert Love
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199. Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption
by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
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200. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
by Marc Reisner
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