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The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play cover

201. The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

by Neil Fiore
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work cover

202. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

by Mason Currey
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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section:

203. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Large-Scale C++ Software Design cover

204. Large-Scale C++ Software Design

by John Lakos
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Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life cover

205. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

by Peter Gray
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking cover

206. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain
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Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition) cover

207. Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition)

by Henry S. Warren
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The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness cover

208. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness

by John Yates, Matthew Immergut, Jeremy Graves
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Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft cover

209. Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft

by Paul Allen
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race cover

210. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen cover

211. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

by Christopher McDougall
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind cover

212. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

213. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
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The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition) cover

214. The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition)

by Robin Williams
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition) cover

215. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)

by Stuart Jonathan Russell, Peter Norvig, Ernest Davis
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Algebra cover

216. Algebra

by I.M. Gelfand, Alexander Shen
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Free to Choose: A Personal Statement cover

217. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman
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Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics) cover

218. Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)

by John Drury Clark
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography cover

219. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

by Simon Singh
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature cover

220. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker, Victor Bevine, Roc Filella Escolà, ʻImanuʾel Loṭem
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything cover

221. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

by Joshua Foer
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The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) cover

222. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

by K. Anders Ericsson, Neil Charness, Paul J. Feltovich, Robert R. Hoffman
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Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press) cover

223. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)

by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi
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The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully cover

224. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

by Gerald M. Weinberg
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Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers cover

225. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers

by Robert Jackall
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Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists cover

226. Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists

by Noson S. Yanofsky, Mirco A. Mannucci
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values cover

227. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig
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Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd Edition) cover

228. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd Edition)

by Randal E. Bryant, David R. O'Hallaron
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Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market cover

229. Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market

by Scott Patterson
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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction cover

230. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

by Philip Eyrikson Tetlock, Dan Gardner
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer cover

231. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change cover

232. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

by Camille Fournier
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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth cover

233. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products cover

234. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society cover

235. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman
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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior, 4) cover

236. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior, 4)

by Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels
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Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists cover

237. Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists

by Edward Scheinerman
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life cover

238. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

by Scott Adams
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma cover

239. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel A. Van der Kolk
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Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond cover

240. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

by Gene Kranz
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Basic Mathematics cover

241. Basic Mathematics

by Serge Lang
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This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly cover

242. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff
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The Gun cover

243. The Gun

by C. J. Chivers
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

244. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) cover

245. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)

by George Polya
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The Dream Machine cover

246. The Dream Machine

by M. Mitchell Waldrop
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter cover

247. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

by Richard Phillips Feynman
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan cover

248. The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan

by Robert Shea
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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software cover

249. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

by Scott Rosenberg
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It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!: RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals cover

250. It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!: RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals

by Suparna Damany, Jack Bellis
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Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment cover

251. Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

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

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

by Peter Bevelin
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The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

253. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto
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Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols (2nd Edition) cover

254. Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols (2nd Edition)

by Radia Perlman
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Head First Design Patterns cover

255. Head First Design Patterns

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System cover

256. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

by Paul Fussell
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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace cover

257. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

by Ricardo Semler
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The Art of UNIX Programming (The Addison-Wesley Professional Computng Series) cover

258. The Art of UNIX Programming (The Addison-Wesley Professional Computng Series)

by Eric S. Raymond
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Python for Data Analysis cover

259. Python for Data Analysis

by Wes McKinney
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Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) cover

260. Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)

by Jon Louis Bentley
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The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

261. The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) (Collins Business Essentials) cover

262. The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) (Collins Business Essentials)

by Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig, Atsuhiro Dokō, Kazumi Masuzawa, Miwa Niimi, Warren Buffett, Yonatan Bar
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Windows Internals, Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more (7th Edition) cover

263. Windows Internals, Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more (7th Edition)

by Pavel Yosifovich, Mark E. Russinovich, Alex Ionescu, David A. Solomon
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity cover

264. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

by Alan Cooper
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information cover

265. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

by Edward R. Tufte
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Java Concurrency in Practice cover

266. Java Concurrency in Practice

by Brian Goetz
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The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. cover

267. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.

by Daniel Coyle
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Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

268. Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Daphne Koller, Nir Friedman
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Physically Based Rendering, Third Edition: From Theory to Implementation cover

269. Physically Based Rendering, Third Edition: From Theory to Implementation

by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys, Wenzel Jakob
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Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students cover

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

by Allan Bloom
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What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods cover

271. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins
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Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition cover

272. Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition

by Keith Daniel Cooper, Linda Torczon
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Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

273. Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Sheldon Jay Axler
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An Introduction to Database Systems (8th Edition) cover

274. An Introduction to Database Systems (8th Edition)

by C.J. Date
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In cover

275. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton
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The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling cover

276. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling

by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross
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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective cover

277. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

by Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman
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Book of Proof cover

278. Book of Proof

by Richard H. Hammack
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) cover

279. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)

by Kim Stanley Robinson
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Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems) cover

280. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell
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Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength cover

281. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney
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The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe cover

282. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

by Roger Penrose
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Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development cover

283. Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff
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The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition) cover

284. The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition)

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil, Robert N. M. Watson
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Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course cover

285. Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course

by Thomas C. Hayes, Paul Horowitz
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) cover

286. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

by Martin Fowler
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Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company cover

287. Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company

by Michael Shawn Malone
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Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health cover

288. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health

by Gary Taubes
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But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone cover

289. But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone

by J. Clark Scott
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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet cover

290. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

by Yasha Levine
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Theory of Wing Sections: Including a Summary of Airfoil Data (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering) cover

291. Theory of Wing Sections: Including a Summary of Airfoil Data (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)

by Ira Herbert Abbott, Albert Edward Von Doenhoff
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Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win cover

292. Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win

by Jack D. Schwager
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All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School cover

293. All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School

by Thomas A. Garrity
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Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America cover

294. Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America

by Stephen Manes, Paul Andrews
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The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History) cover

295. The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History)

by Ola Tunander
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup cover

296. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

by John Carreyrou
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Mindfulness in Plain English cover

297. Mindfulness in Plain English

by Bhante Henepola Gunarantana
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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life cover

298. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

by Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
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The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities cover

299. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

by Mancur Olson
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The Rent Is Too Damn High: What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think cover

300. The Rent Is Too Damn High: What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think

by Matthew Yglesias
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