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1901. The Price of Admission (Updated Edition): How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
by Daniel Golden
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1902. Macroeconomics
by William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray, Martin Watts
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1903. Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
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1904. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
by Joseph Henrich
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1905. Wurzelatlas Mitteleuropaeischer Gruelandpflanzen Band 2 Pteridophyta und Dicotyledoneae (Magnoliopsida) Teil 2 Anatomie (Wurzelatlas mitteleuropaeischer Gruenlandpflanzen)
by Lore Kutschera, Monika Sobotik
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1906. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
by Simon Singh
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1907. The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
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1908. The Better Angels of Our Nature
by Steven Pinker
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1909. The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
by Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner
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1910. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
by Rutger Bregman
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1911. Death by Regulation: How We Were Robbed of a Golden Age of Health and How We Can Reclaim It
by Mary J. Ruwart
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1912. The Way Things Work by Macaulay, David (1988) Hardcover
by David Macaulay
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1913. The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware
by Andrew "bunnie" Huang
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1914. Writing Interpreters and Compilers for the Raspberry Pi Using Python
by Anthony Dos Reis
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1915. GENOMICS AND PERSONALIZED MEDICINE: What Everyone Needs to Know®
by Michael Snyder
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1916. Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law
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1917. Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence
by Vikram Mansharamani
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1918. Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
by Jostein Gaarder
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1919. Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
by Conor Dougherty
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1920. Living & Working in Canada: A Survival Handbook (Living and Working)
by Graeme Chesters
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1921. Quick Start Training for IBM z/OS Application Developers, Volume 1
by Robert Wingate
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1922. IBM COBOL A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition
by Gerardus Blokdyk
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1923. Beautiful No-Mow Yards: 50 Amazing Lawn Alternatives
by Evelyn Hadden
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1924. Lawn Gone!: Low-Maintenance, Sustainable, Attractive Alternatives for Your Yard
by Pam Penick
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1925. Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today
by Jacqueline Battalora
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1926. Mini Habits for Weight Loss: Stop Dieting. Form New Habits. Change Your Lifestyle Without Suffering.
by Stephen Guise
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1927. Software Architect's Handbook
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1928. Way of the Wolf: Straight Line Selling: Master the Art of Persuasion, Influence, and Success
by Jordan Belfort
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1929. Graphics Gems
by Andrew S. Glassner
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1930. Graphics Gems III
by Kirk, David
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1931. Graphics Gems II
by James Arvo
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1932. The Algorithm Design Manual (Texts in Computer Science)
by Steven S. Skiena
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1933. The Human Element: Productivity, Self-Esteem, and the Bottom Line (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)
by Will Schutz
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1934. On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work
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1935. Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten: A Personal Story of Medical Testing of Army Volunteers
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1936. Introducing Meteor
by Josh Robinson, Aaron Gray, David Titarenco
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1937. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman
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1938. The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (5 Volume Set)
by Jacqueline L. Longe
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1939. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
by Toby Wilkinson
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1940. Questioning the Lambda Architecture
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1941. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
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1942. The critic's hornbook: Reading for interpretation
by William C. Dowling
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1943. ScratchJr Coding Cards: Creative Coding Activities
by Marina Umaschi Bers, Amanda Sullivan
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1944. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
by Michael Pollan
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1945. Real Food / Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating & What You Can Do About It
by Larry Olmsted
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1946. Machine Learning for Hackers
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1947. Real-Time 3D Graphics with WebGL 2: Build interactive 3D applications with JavaScript and WebGL 2 (OpenGL ES 3.0), 2nd Edition
by Farhad Ghayour, Diego Cantor
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1948. Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets
by Jessica Pierce
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1949. The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
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1950. The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd (Lean Marketing Series)
by Allan Dib
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1951. The current state of machine intelligence 2.0
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1952. The Dalai Lama Book of Quotes: A Collection of Speeches, Quotations, Essays and Advice from His Holiness (Little Book. Big Idea.)
by Travis Hellstrom
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1953. The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, Book 5)
by Carl Christian Erhard Schmid
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1954. The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit
by Marina Krakovsky
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1955. Machinery's Handbook Toolbox
by Erik Oberg, Franklin D. Jones, Holbrook Lynedon Horton, Henry H. Ryffel, Christopher J. McCauley
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1956. What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength
by Scott Carney
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1957. Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
by Alastair Bonnett
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1958. How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
by Alberto Cairo
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1959. Jim Blinn's Corner: A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline
by Jim Blinn
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1960. Visualizing Data
by William S. Cleveland
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1961. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Focus Philosophical Library Series)
by Aristotle, Joe Sachs
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1962. War in Human Civilization
by Azar Gat
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1963. Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
by Jo Marchant
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1964. Programming Quantum Computers
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1965. Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
by John Gall
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1966. Prey
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1967. Writing Secure Code
by Michael Howard, David LeBlanc
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1968. Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++
by John Viega, Matt Messier
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1969. Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms? when My Lab Tests Are Normal: a Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Hashimoto's Disease and Hypothyroidism
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1970. Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
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1971. Hope Is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale
by Rick Page
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1972. Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
by Daniel J. Siegel, MD
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1973. Ugly’s Electrical References, 2020 Edition
by Charles R. Miller
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1974. Neuroevolution: A different kind of deep learning
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1975. Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.)
by Pete Jordan
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1976. Hacker’s Delight, Second Edition
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1977. Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
by Jeffrey Pfeffer
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1978. Inversions
by Scott Kim
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1979. Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy
by Courtney Jung
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1980. Honeybee Democracy
by Thomas D. Seeley
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1981. The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work
by Gary Klein
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1982. How to Sue a Telemarketer
by Stephen I. Ostrow, Ozmo Kramer
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1983. In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
by Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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1984. CSS Secrets
by Lea Verou
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1985. Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History
by Robert Manne
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1986. Metal Programming Guide: Tutorial and Reference via Swift
by Janie Clayton
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1987. Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual
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1988. How the TensorFlow team handles open source support
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1989. The Great Wall Street Scandal
by Raymond L. Dirks, Leonard Gross
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1990. A Passion for Discovery
by Peter Freund
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1991. API Security in Action
by Neil Madden
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1992. The Secret Chief Revealed
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1993. National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood
by Matthew Alford, Tom Secker
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1994. An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure (Dover Books on Astronomy)
by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, S. Chandrasekhar
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1995. Fair Thee Well
by Nathan Jones
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1996. The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
by Peter T. Leeson
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1997. Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper
by Laurel Leff
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1998. Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition and Modern Medicine―Unpacking the Science Behind Food and Health
by Robert H. Lustig
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1999. Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch
by Nora Sandler
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2000. Corporate Flashcards
by Knock Knock
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