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101. Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)
by John Drury Clark
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102. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by Nicholas Carr
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103. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein
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104. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by Jonathan Haidt
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105. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)
by Steve McConnell
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106. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
by Steven Levy
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107. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner
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108. How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
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109. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1)
by Rob Walling
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110. The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook
by Michael Kerrisk
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111. Software Engineering at Google
by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright
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112. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
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113. Quantum Computing Since Democritus
by Scott Aaronson
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114. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
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115. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
by Nicole Perlroth
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116. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber
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117. UNIX: A History and a Memoir
by Brian W Kernighan
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118. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
by William Thorndike
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119. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
by Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D., William D. Danko Ph.D
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120. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science
by Philip N. Klein
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121. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
by Paul Fussell
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122. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition
by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore
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123. Rise of the Warrior Cop
by Radley Balko
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124. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey
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125. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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126. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
by Cooper, Alan
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127. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
by Peter Van der Linden
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128. Perl Best Practices
by Damian Conway
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129. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
by John E. Sarno
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130. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
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131. Basic Economics
by Thomas Sowell
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132. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
by Marshall B. Rosenberg
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133. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
by Michael Lopp
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134. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
by Tim Berners-Lee
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135. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness
by John Yates, Matthew Immergut, Jeremy Graves
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136. Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)
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137. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'
by Professor Sidney Dekker
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138. 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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139. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi
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140. The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, 2nd Edition
by Clair Davies, Amber Davies
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141. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
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142. Who Is Fourier?: A Mathematical Adventure
by Transnational College of Lex
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143. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by Ashlee Vance
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144. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
by Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman
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145. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition
by Paul Scherz, Simon Monk
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146. Calculus by Michael Spivak - 4th Edition (Calculus 4th edition by Michael Spivak)
by Michael Spivak
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147. Animal Menagerie - O'Reilly Media
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148. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by John J. Ratey
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149. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
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150. Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
by F. William Lawvere, Stephen H. Schanuel
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151. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
by Richard Rhodes
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152. 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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153. Hacker's Delight
by Henry S. Warren
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154. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
by Radley Balko
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155. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
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156. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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157. Making Software
by Andrew Oram, Greg Wilson
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158. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
by Martin Elias Pete Seligman
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159. Algorithms (4th Edition)
by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
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160. C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software
by David R. Hanson
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161. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))
by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
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162. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
by Kim Zetter
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163. Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP
by Francesco Cesarini, Steve Vinoski
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164. DAEMON
by Daniel Suarez
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165. Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
by Kevin P. Murphy
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166. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
by Henry Hazlitt
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167. 21st Century C
by Ben Klemens
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168. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
by Scott Adams
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169. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (A Brief History of the Natural World)
by Richard Dawkins
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170. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
by James Clear
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171. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
by Yasha Levine
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172. Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American
by Richard S. Tedlow
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173. Python for Data Analysis
by Wes McKinney
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174. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck
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175. The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
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176. Corporate Confidential
by Cynthia Shapiro
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177. The Goal: 40th Anniversary Edition: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, David Whitford
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178. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel A. Van der Kolk
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179. The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
by Benjamin Graham
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180. But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone
by J. Clark Scott
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181. Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: The Updated Version of the Insightful Guide on Bringing Cutting-Edge Products to the Mainstream (Collins Business Essentials)
by Geoffrey A. Moore
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182. Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
by Nadia Eghbal
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183. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
by Robert Coram
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184. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
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185. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
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186. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
by James Wallace, Jim Erickson
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187. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan
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188. Feynman Lectures On Computation (Frontiers in Physics)
by Richard Phillips Feynman
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189. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
by Edward Chancellor
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190. The Manager's Path
by Camille Fournier
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191. Learning From Data
by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Hsuan-Tien Lin
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192. Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
by Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen
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193. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition
by W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago
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194. The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting
by Jason Fung
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195. The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting
by Jimmy Moore, Jason Fung
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196. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
by Steven Gary Blank
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197. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries
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198. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
by Gregory Zuckerman
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199. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
by Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels
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200. The Gene: An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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