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101. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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102. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
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103. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)
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104. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
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105. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
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106. How to Win Friends & Influence People
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107. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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108. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition
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109. How to Lie with Statistics
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110. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
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111. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think
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112. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
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113. DAEMON
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114. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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115. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition
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116. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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117. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
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118. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
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119. Beautiful Code
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120. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
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121. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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122. A Philosophy of Software Design
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123. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science
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124. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
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125. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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126. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
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127. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition
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128. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
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129. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
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130. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
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131. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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132. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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133. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
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134. Finite and Infinite Games
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135. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)
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136. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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137. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
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138. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
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139. Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition)
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140. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
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141. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition
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142. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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143. Introduction to the Theory of Computation
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144. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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145. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
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146. The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition)
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147. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)
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148. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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149. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
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150. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
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151. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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152. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
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153. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)
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154. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking
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155. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)
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156. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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157. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
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158. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd Edition)
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159. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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160. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
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161. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
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162. Who Is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure 2nd Edition
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163. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition
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164. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
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165. The Gun
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166. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
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167. 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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168. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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169. Basic Mathematics
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170. The Rent Is Too Damn High: What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think
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171. The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan
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172. Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
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173. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
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174. Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation
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175. Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
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176. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition
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177. The Science of Interstellar
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178. Head First Design Patterns
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179. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
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180. Python for Data Analysis
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181. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
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182. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
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183. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
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184. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
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185. Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition
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186. Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition)
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187. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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188. It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!: RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals
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189. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling
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190. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
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191. Algorithms (4th Edition)
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192. The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) (Collins Business Essentials)
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193. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health
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194. How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life
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195. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))
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196. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
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197. Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
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198. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
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199. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
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200. Discrete Mathematics with Applications
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