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The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience cover

2001. The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience

by Martin Elias Pete Seligman

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The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness cover

2002. The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Eric Swanson

Strata + Hadoop World 2016 - San Jose, California: Video Compilation cover

2003. Strata + Hadoop World 2016 - San Jose, California: Video Compilation

Zen in the Art of Archery cover

2004. Zen in the Art of Archery

by Eugen Herrigel

Talking Philosophy: Dialogues with Fifteen Leading Philosophers cover

2005. Talking Philosophy: Dialogues with Fifteen Leading Philosophers

by Bryan Magee

High Performance MySQL, 4th Edition cover

2006. High Performance MySQL, 4th Edition

Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons cover

2007. Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons

by Kris Newby

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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character cover

2008. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

by Paul Tough

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Practical Signal Processing cover

2009. Practical Signal Processing

by Mark Owen

101 Amazing Sights of the Night Sky: A Guided Tour for Beginners cover

2010. 101 Amazing Sights of the Night Sky: A Guided Tour for Beginners

by George Moromisato

Game Programming Tricks of the Trade (The Premier Press Game Development Series) cover

2011. Game Programming Tricks of the Trade (The Premier Press Game Development Series)

by Lorenzo D. Phillips

Discrimination and Disparities cover

2012. Discrimination and Disparities

by Thomas Sowell

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My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World cover

2013. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World

by Julian Dibbell

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How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone cover

2014. How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone

by Brian McCullough

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Abandoned Ship: An intimate account of the Costa Concordia shipwreck cover

2015. Abandoned Ship: An intimate account of the Costa Concordia shipwreck

by Benji Smith

Visual Differential Geometry and Forms: A Mathematical Drama in Five Acts cover

2016. Visual Differential Geometry and Forms: A Mathematical Drama in Five Acts

by Tristan Needham

Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance cover

2017. Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance

by Nicholas Kardaras

Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge (Issues in Crime and Justice) cover

2018. Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge (Issues in Crime and Justice)

by Donna Selman

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles cover

2019. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus cover

2020. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus

by Michael Spivak

Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell: Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry cover

2021. Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell: Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry

by George F. Simmons

Introducing RLlib: A composable and scalable reinforcement learning library cover

2022. Introducing RLlib: A composable and scalable reinforcement learning library

Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell: Techniques for Multicore and Multithreaded Programming cover

2023. Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell: Techniques for Multicore and Multithreaded Programming

by Simon Marlow

Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook cover

2024. Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook

by Nishant Shukla

Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data cover

2025. Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

by Carissa Véliz

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Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition cover

2026. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition

by Peter Bevelin

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The Quetzel and the Macaw: The Story of Costa Rica's National Parks cover

2027. The Quetzel and the Macaw: The Story of Costa Rica's National Parks

by David Rains Wallace

Secrets From A Stargazer's Notebook cover

2028. Secrets From A Stargazer's Notebook

by Debbi Kempton Smith

Designing Audio Effect Plugins in C++: For AAX, AU, and VST3 with DSP Theory cover

2029. Designing Audio Effect Plugins in C++: For AAX, AU, and VST3 with DSP Theory

by Will C. Pirkle

Digital Audio Signal Processing cover

2030. Digital Audio Signal Processing

by Udo Zölzer

DAFX: Digital Audio Effects cover

2031. DAFX: Digital Audio Effects

by Udo Zölzer

Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics cover

2032. Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics

by Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman

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Late-Talking Children cover

2033. Late-Talking Children

by Thomas Sowell

The Absorbent Mind cover

2034. The Absorbent Mind

by Maria Montessori

Embedded Controller Forth For The 8051 Family cover

2035. Embedded Controller Forth For The 8051 Family

by William H. Payne

Beyond BIOS: Developing with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface 2nd Edition cover

2036. Beyond BIOS: Developing with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface 2nd Edition

by Vincent Zimmer, Michael Rothman, Suresh Marisetty

uC/OS-III: The Real-Time Kernel cover

2037. uC/OS-III: The Real-Time Kernel

by Jean J. Labrosse

Data Structures Using C cover

2038. Data Structures Using C

by Aaron M. Tenenbaum, Yedidyah Langsam, Moshe Augenstein

Data Structures In C cover

2039. Data Structures In C

by Noel Kalicharan

API Design for C++ cover

2040. API Design for C++

by Martin Reddy

An Embedded Software Primer cover

2041. An Embedded Software Primer

by David E. Simon

Introductory Logic and Sets for Computer Scientists (International Computer Science Series) cover

2042. Introductory Logic and Sets for Computer Scientists (International Computer Science Series)

by Nimal Nissanke

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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past cover

2043. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

by David Reich

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The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda cover

2044. The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda

by Ali H. Soufan

The Philosophy of Language cover

2045. The Philosophy of Language

by Aloysius Martinich, David Sosa

Longing to Know cover

2046. Longing to Know

by Esther Lightcap Meek

Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State cover

2047. Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State

by Byron Tau

Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (Popular Science) cover

2048. Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (Popular Science)

by Nick Lane

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Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (5th Edition) cover

2049. Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (5th Edition)

by John Hull

Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer cover

2050. Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer

by Peter Wright

Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever cover

2051. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

by Joseph Cox

Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution cover

2052. Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution

by Paul G. Higgs, Teresa Attwood

Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks: Languages That Are Shaping the Future cover

2053. Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks: Languages That Are Shaping the Future

by Bruce A. Tate, Ian Dees, Frederic Daoud, Jack Moffitt

The Art of Electronics Student Manual cover

2054. The Art of Electronics Student Manual

by Thomas C. Hayes, Paul Horowitz

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Naive Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

2055. Naive Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by P. R. Halmos

Exploring RANDOMNESS cover

2056. Exploring RANDOMNESS

by Gregory J. Chaitin

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World cover

2057. Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

by Maryanne Wolf

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics cover

2058. The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

by Christopher Lasch

Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story cover

2059. Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story

by Jerry Weissman

Effectual Entrepreneurship cover

2060. Effectual Entrepreneurship

by Stuart Read, Saras D. Sarasvathy, Nick Dew, Robert Wiltbank

Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement (Columbia Business School Publishing) cover

2061. Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement (Columbia Business School Publishing)

by William Duggan

A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles cover

2062. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

by Thomas Sowell

The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time cover

2063. The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time

by Alex Korb

Building Machine Learning Powered Applications: Going from Idea to Product cover

2064. Building Machine Learning Powered Applications: Going from Idea to Product

by Emmanuel Ameisen

Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier cover

2065. Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier

by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition cover

2066. The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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Stan Weinstein's Secrets For Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets cover

2067. Stan Weinstein's Secrets For Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets

by Stan Weinstein

A History of the World in 100 Objects cover

2068. A History of the World in 100 Objects

by Neil MacGregor

Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss (English) cover

2069. Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss (English)

by Brad Pilon

Logical Miracles: 100 Stories of Hope and Healing cover

2070. Logical Miracles: 100 Stories of Hope and Healing

by Dor Mullen

UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 5th Edition cover

2071. UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 5th Edition

by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley, Dan Mackin

VB & VBA in a Nutshell: The Language cover

2072. VB & VBA in a Nutshell: The Language

by Paul Lomax

Incident Response & Computer Forensics, Third Edition cover

2073. Incident Response & Computer Forensics, Third Edition

by Kevin Mandia, Matthew Pepe, Jason T. Luttgens

Against Method cover

2074. Against Method

by Paul Feyerabend

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game cover

2075. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

by Michael Lewis

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices (J-B Warren Bennis Series) cover

2076. Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices (J-B Warren Bennis Series)

by Paul R. Lawrence, Nitin Nohria

Digital Signal Processing: A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists cover

2077. Digital Signal Processing: A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists

by Steven Smith

The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs cover

2078. The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs

by Andrew Hussey

Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach (Title Not in Series) cover

2079. Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach (Title Not in Series)

by Cynthia A. Barnhart

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Chess For the Novice Player: A Guide For the Beginning Chess Player cover

2080. Chess For the Novice Player: A Guide For the Beginning Chess Player

by Gautam R. Narula

Developing a chaos architecture mindset cover

2081. Developing a chaos architecture mindset

Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story cover

2082. Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story

by Julie K. Brown

Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice (Volume 1998) (Morality and Society Series) cover

2083. Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice (Volume 1998) (Morality and Society Series)

by Bent Flyvbjerg

How to Use a Breadboard! (Make: Handbook) cover

2084. How to Use a Breadboard! (Make: Handbook)

by Sean Michael Ragan, Jody Culkin

The harried leisure class cover

2085. The harried leisure class

by Staffan Burenstam Linder

Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code cover

2086. Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe, and Fast Code

by J. Davidson, Kate Gregory

Embracing Modern C++ Safely cover

2087. Embracing Modern C++ Safely

by John Lakos, Vittorio Romeo, Rostislav Khlebnikov, Alisdair Meredith

Introduction to Montague Semantics (Synthese Language Library) cover

2088. Introduction to Montague Semantics (Synthese Language Library)

by David R. Dowty

Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico: A Cookbook cover

2089. Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico: A Cookbook

by Rick Martínez

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste cover

2090. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

by Pierre Bourdieu

The Tyranny of Nations: How the Last 500 Years Shaped Today's Global Economy cover

2091. The Tyranny of Nations: How the Last 500 Years Shaped Today's Global Economy

by Palak Patel

The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win cover

2092. The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

by Maria Konnikova

The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web cover

2093. The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web

by Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag

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Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ cover

2094. Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ

by Giulia Enders

Drugs Unlimited: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High cover

2095. Drugs Unlimited: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High

by Power, Mike (Journalist)

The Linux Programming Interface cover

2096. The Linux Programming Interface

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ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic cover

2097. ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic

by Alan Schwarz

War is a Racket: The Profit Motive Behind Warfare cover

2098. War is a Racket: The Profit Motive Behind Warfare

by Smedley Butler

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Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons cover

2099. Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons

by John Carter

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Beyond The Galaxy: How Humanity Looked Beyond Our Milky Way And Discovered The Entire Universe cover

2100. Beyond The Galaxy: How Humanity Looked Beyond Our Milky Way And Discovered The Entire Universe

by Ethan Siegel