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101. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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102. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
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103. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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104. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition
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105. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition
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106. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
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107. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition
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108. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
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109. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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110. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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111. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
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112. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
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113. Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition)
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114. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
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115. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
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116. High Output Management
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117. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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118. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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119. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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120. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
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121. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition
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122. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
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123. The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition)
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124. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)
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125. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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126. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
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127. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
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128. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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129. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
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130. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)
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131. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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132. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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133. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science
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134. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
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135. Finite and Infinite Games
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136. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
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137. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)
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138. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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139. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition
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140. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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141. Introduction to the Theory of Computation
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142. Basic Mathematics
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143. The Rent Is Too Damn High: What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think
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144. The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan
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145. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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146. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition
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147. Head First Design Patterns
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148. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
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149. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
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150. Python for Data Analysis
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151. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
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152. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
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153. Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition)
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154. Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition
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155. Beautiful Code
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156. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling
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157. It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!: RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals
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158. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
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159. Algorithms (4th Edition)
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160. The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) (Collins Business Essentials)
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161. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health
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162. How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life
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163. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
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164. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
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165. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
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166. Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course
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167. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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168. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
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169. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
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170. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
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171. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
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172. Discrete Mathematics with Applications
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173. Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market
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174. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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175. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
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176. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
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177. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
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178. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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179. Compiling with Continuations
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180. The Gun
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181. The Universe in a Nutshell
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182. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
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183. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
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184. Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
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185. An Introduction to Database Systems (8th Edition)
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186. Hacker's Delight
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187. Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition)
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188. Against Intellectual Monopoly
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189. The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series)
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190. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)
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191. Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears (Singularity Series Book 1)
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192. Book of Proof
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193. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
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194. Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus-Advanced 3D Graphics and Rasterization (Other Sams)
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195. Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition)
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196. Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
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197. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
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198. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
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199. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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200. Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols (2nd Edition)
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