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Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy cover

2501. Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

by Jostein Gaarder

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Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn cover

2502. Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

by Richard R. Hamming

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Botnets: The Killer Web Applications cover

2503. Botnets: The Killer Web Applications

by Craig A. Schiller

Statistics in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition cover

2504. Statistics in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

The ARRL Antenna Book For Radio Communications cover

2505. The ARRL Antenna Book For Radio Communications

by American Radio Relay League (ARRL)

Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History cover

2506. Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History

by Suzanne Humphries, Roman Bystrianyk

Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution cover

2507. Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution

by Brent Berlin, Paul Kay

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A Short History of Progress cover

2508. A Short History of Progress

by Ronald Wright

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Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language cover

2509. Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

MySQL cover

2510. MySQL

by Paul DuBois

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science cover

2511. Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

by Charles Wheelan

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Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition) cover

2512. Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)

by Michael Michalko

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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization cover

2513. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

by Ed Conway

Web Copy That Sells: The Revolutionary Formula for Creating Killer Copy That Grabs Their Attention and Compels Them to Buy cover

2514. Web Copy That Sells: The Revolutionary Formula for Creating Killer Copy That Grabs Their Attention and Compels Them to Buy

by Maria Veloso

Lady of Mazes cover

2515. Lady of Mazes

by Karl Schroeder

Indians of the Oaks cover

2516. Indians of the Oaks

by Melicent Humason Lee

Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement cover

2517. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement

by Eric Redmond, Jim R. Wilson

Vasudev Ram cover

2518. Vasudev Ram

Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform cover

2519. Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform

by Diane Ravitch

Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business cover

2520. Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business

by Gino Wickman, Mark C. Winters

Game Engine Black Book Wolfenstein 3D: v2.1 cover

2521. Game Engine Black Book Wolfenstein 3D: v2.1

by Fabien Sanglard

Honeybee Democracy cover

2522. Honeybee Democracy

by Thomas D. Seeley

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Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing cover

2523. Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd, Laurie Macfarlane

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The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students cover

2524. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

by Allan Bloom

2016 Bots year in review cover

2525. 2016 Bots year in review

Anonymizing Health Data cover

2526. Anonymizing Health Data

eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work cover

2527. eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

by Randall E. Stross

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Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes cover

2528. Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes

by Charles Seife

Chills and Fever: Health and Disease in the Early History of Alaska cover

2529. Chills and Fever: Health and Disease in the Early History of Alaska

by Robert Fortuine

Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being cover

2530. Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being

by Harold Napoleon

Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America cover

2531. Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

by Steve Almond

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition cover

2532. Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition

by Charles T. Munger

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The Human Element: Productivity, Self-Esteem, and the Bottom Line (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) cover

2533. The Human Element: Productivity, Self-Esteem, and the Bottom Line (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

by Will Schutz

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Head First Networking: A Brain-Friendly Guide cover

2534. Head First Networking: A Brain-Friendly Guide

by Al Anderson, Ryan Benedetti

Calculus For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyle)) cover

2535. Calculus For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyle))

by Mark Ryan

Macroeconomics cover

2536. Macroeconomics

by William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray, Martin Watts

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The Navigator cover

2537. The Navigator

by Morris West

Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 cover

2538. Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947

by D. M. Giangreco

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone cover

2539. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type cover

2540. Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type

by Peter Mansfield, Nicolas Pelham

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History cover

2541. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert

Freighter Captain cover

2542. Freighter Captain

by Max Hardberger

JavaScript with Promises cover

2543. JavaScript with Promises

How the States Got Their Shapes: An Entertaining New York Times Bestseller on American Borders and Geographic History cover

2544. How the States Got Their Shapes: An Entertaining New York Times Bestseller on American Borders and Geographic History

by Mark Stein

The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, Book 1 - The Phenomenon of Life (Center for Environmental Structure, Vol. 9) cover

2545. The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, Book 1 - The Phenomenon of Life (Center for Environmental Structure, Vol. 9)

by Christopher Alexander

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Windows Internals: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more, Part 1 (Developer Reference) cover

2546. Windows Internals: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more, Part 1 (Developer Reference)

by Pavel Yosifovich, Mark E. Russinovich, Alex Ionescu, David A. Solomon

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Physics of Finance: Gauge Modelling in Non-Equilibrium Pricing cover

2547. Physics of Finance: Gauge Modelling in Non-Equilibrium Pricing

by Kirill Ilinski

The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware cover

2548. The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware

by Andrew "bunnie" Huang

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Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's cover

2549. Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's

by Ray Kroc

The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 1) cover

2550. The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 1)

by Carl Gustav Jung

Designing Design cover

2551. Designing Design

by Kenya Hara

Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians (Graduate Studies in Mathematics Volume 95) cover

2552. Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians (Graduate Studies in Mathematics Volume 95)

by Leon Armenovich Takhtadzhi͡an

Quantum Theory for Mathematicians (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 267) cover

2553. Quantum Theory for Mathematicians (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 267)

by Brian C. Hall

Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model cover

2554. Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model

by Matthew D. Schwartz

OverSuccess: Healing the American Obsession With Wealth, Fame, Power, and Perfection cover

2555. OverSuccess: Healing the American Obsession With Wealth, Fame, Power, and Perfection

by Jim Rubens, James M. Rubens

MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom (Tony Robbins Financial Freedom Series) cover

2556. MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom (Tony Robbins Financial Freedom Series)

by Anthony Robbins, Tony Robbins

Schaum's Outline of Linear Algebra cover

2557. Schaum's Outline of Linear Algebra

by Seymour Lipschutz

Inside BOSS: South Africa's secret police cover

2558. Inside BOSS: South Africa's secret police

by Gordon Winter

No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 cover

2559. No Way Down: Life and Death on K2

by Graham Bowley

Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season cover

2560. Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

by Nick Heil

Annapurna: The First Conquest Of An 8,000-Meter Peak cover

2561. Annapurna: The First Conquest Of An 8,000-Meter Peak

by Maurice Herzog

The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak cover

2562. The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak

by Ed Viesturs

Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment cover

2563. Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment

by Michael A. Bishop, J. D. Trout

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Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness (Cognitive Science Series) cover

2564. Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness (Cognitive Science Series)

by Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child cover

2565. Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child

by Anthony Esolen

The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder cover

2566. The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder

by Mr. Peter Zeihan

The Ghosts Of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms cover

2567. The Ghosts Of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms

by Connie Barlow

The Missing Risk Premium: Why Low Volatility Investing Works cover

2568. The Missing Risk Premium: Why Low Volatility Investing Works

by Eric G. Falkenstein

Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything cover

2569. Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

by Joshua Foer

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Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and Reality, a Western Perspective cover

2570. Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and Reality, a Western Perspective

by Shimon Malin

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America cover

2571. $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer

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The River : A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS cover

2572. The River : A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS

by Edward Jonathan Hooper

Heteroptera: The Beautiful and the Other, or Images of a Mutating World cover

2573. Heteroptera: The Beautiful and the Other, or Images of a Mutating World

by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

The Gift of Nothing cover

2574. The Gift of Nothing

by Patrick McDonnell

The Mouse and the Motorcycle cover

2575. The Mouse and the Motorcycle

by Beverly Cleary

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations cover

2576. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

by Ronen Bergman

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From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback cover

2577. From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback

by Gordon Bethune

Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu cover

2578. Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

by David Swartz

The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction cover

2579. The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction

by Tibor Scitovsky

Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base cover

2580. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

by Annie Jacobsen

Remembering the Kanji 1: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters cover

2581. Remembering the Kanji 1: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters

by James W. Heisig

GENKI I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese cover

2582. GENKI I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese

by 坂野永理, 池田庸子, 大野裕

Andha Yug (Oxford India Paperbacks) cover

2583. Andha Yug (Oxford India Paperbacks)

by the late Dharamvir Bharati

Lee and Grant: A Dual Biography cover

2584. Lee and Grant: A Dual Biography

by Gene Smith

College Algebra (Available Titles CengageNOW) cover

2585. College Algebra (Available Titles CengageNOW)

by James Stewart

Understanding MySQL Internals cover

2586. Understanding MySQL Internals

by Alexander Pachev

Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers cover

2587. Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers

by Ellen E. Schultz

The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community cover

2588. The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community

by Katie Hafner

Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart cover

2589. Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart

by Rachel Botsman

World Without End (Kingsbridge) cover

2590. World Without End (Kingsbridge)

by Ken Follett

Lucene in Action, Second Edition: Covers Apache Lucene 3.0 cover

2591. Lucene in Action, Second Edition: Covers Apache Lucene 3.0

by Michael McCandless, Erik Hatcher, Otis Gospodnetić

Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site cover

2592. Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site

by Sherri Duskey Rinker

Smelly Louie cover

2593. Smelly Louie

by Catherine Rayner

The Promise cover

2594. The Promise

by Nicola Davies

Gorilla cover

2595. Gorilla

by Anthony Browne

This Is Not My Hat (The Hat Trilogy) cover

2596. This Is Not My Hat (The Hat Trilogy)

by Jon Klassen

Wolves cover

2597. Wolves

by Emily Gravett

The Reasoned Schemer, second edition (Mit Press) cover

2598. The Reasoned Schemer, second edition (Mit Press)

by Daniel P. Friedman, William E. Byrd, Oleg Kiselyov, Jason Hemann

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman cover

2599. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

by Yvon Chouinard

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight cover

2600. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

by Andrew Leland