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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1) cover

201. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1)

by Peter Wohlleben
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business cover

202. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

by Charles Duhigg
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Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond cover

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

by Gene Kranz
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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies cover

204. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies

by Charles Perrow
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Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

205. Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Ian Stewart
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A short history of the O'Reilly animals cover

206. A short history of the O'Reilly animals

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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers cover

207. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

by Tom Standage
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Fluent Python cover

208. Fluent Python

by Luciano Ramalho
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America cover

209. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

by Richard Rothstein
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Introduction to the Theory of Computation cover

210. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

by Michael Sipser
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Good to Great: A Study of Management Strategies of Companies with Lasting Growth cover

211. Good to Great: A Study of Management Strategies of Companies with Lasting Growth

by Jim Collins
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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys cover

212. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys

by Michael Collins
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Art of Computer Programming, The: Combinatorial Algorithms, Volume 4B cover

213. Art of Computer Programming, The: Combinatorial Algorithms, Volume 4B

by Donald Knuth
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Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight cover

214. Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight

by John W. Foreman
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life cover

215. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

by Mark Manson
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity cover

216. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen
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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency cover

217. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

by Tom DeMarco
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Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, The cover

218. Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, The

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil, Robert N. M. Watson
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Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC cover

219. Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC

by Peter Norton, John Socha
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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance cover

220. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

by W. Timothy Gallwey
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence) cover

221. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence)

by Stuart Jonathan Russell, Peter Norvig, Ernest Davis
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The Non-Designer's Design Book cover

222. The Non-Designer's Design Book

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

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

by Christopher McDougall
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner) cover

224. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by Liaquat Ahamed
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High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design) cover

225. High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design)

by Howard W. Johnson, Martin Graham
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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics cover

226. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader
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The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke cover

227. The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke

by Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi
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Team Geek cover

228. Team Geek

by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick
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Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development cover

229. Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff
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The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China cover

230. The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China

by Xiaofei Kang
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition cover

231. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

by Marc Reisner
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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software cover

232. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

by Eric Evans
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A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, 2) cover

233. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, 2)

by Vernor Vinge
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation cover

234. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

by Lynne Truss
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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow cover

235. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow

by Aurélien Géron
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Java Concurrency in Practice cover

236. Java Concurrency in Practice

by Brian Goetz
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp cover

237. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp

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

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

by Neil Fiore
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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) cover

239. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)

by Christopher M. Bishop
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An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

240. An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by John Robinson Pierce
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Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations cover

241. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
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Linux Kernel Development cover

242. Linux Kernel Development

by Robert Love
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Discrete Mathematics with Applications cover

243. Discrete Mathematics with Applications

by Susanna S. Epp
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An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition) cover

244. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)

by Gerald M. Weinberg
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Site Reliability Engineering cover

245. Site Reliability Engineering

by Betsy Beyer, Jones, Chris (Computer engineer), Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy
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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software cover

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

by Scott Rosenberg
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Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft cover

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

by Paul Allen
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time cover

248. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

by Dava Sobel
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The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership cover

249. The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
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How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease cover

250. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

by Michael Greger, Gene Stone
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives cover

251. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

by Steven Levy
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Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale cover

252. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale

by Boris Cherny
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults) cover

253. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults)

by Eric Schlosser
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All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School cover

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

by Thomas A. Garrity
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature cover

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

by Steven Pinker
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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes cover

256. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

by Alfie Kohn
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business cover

257. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

by Neil Postman
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Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence cover

258. Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

by David Benatar
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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty cover

259. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

by David Kadavy
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It―Unlock Your Persuasion Potential in Professional and Personal Life cover

260. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It―Unlock Your Persuasion Potential in Professional and Personal Life

by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
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Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective cover

261. Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

by Ha-Joon Chang
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Effective Modern C++ cover

262. Effective Modern C++

by Scott Meyers
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Head First Design Patterns cover

263. Head First Design Patterns

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In cover

264. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

by Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice cover

265. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

by Shunryū Suzuki
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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems cover

266. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems

by Aurélien Géron
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Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) cover

267. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

by Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, Gregory G. Colomb
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Mathematics for the Nonmathematician cover

268. Mathematics for the Nonmathematician

by Morris Kline
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The Design of the UNIX Operating System cover

269. The Design of the UNIX Operating System

by Maurice J. Bach
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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies) cover

270. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)

by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost
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Probability Theory: The Logic of Science cover

271. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

by E. T. Jaynes
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies cover

272. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

by Bibek Debroy
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The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium cover

273. The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

by Martin Gurri
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The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) cover

274. The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)

by Joseph Tainter
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Building Scalable Web Sites cover

275. Building Scalable Web Sites

by Cal Henderson
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia cover

276. Anarchy, State, and Utopia

by Robert Nozick
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CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised cover

277. CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised

by Katie Hafner, John Markoff
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Programming Pearls (ACM Press) cover

278. Programming Pearls (ACM Press)

by Jon Louis Bentley
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Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To cover

279. Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To

by David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

280. Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Richard W. Hamming
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The Timeless Way of Building cover

281. The Timeless Way of Building

by Christopher Alexander
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Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition cover

282. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition

by Jon Erickson
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No bullshit guide to linear algebra cover

283. No bullshit guide to linear algebra

by Ivan Savov
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The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully cover

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

by Gerald M. Weinberg
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The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet cover

285. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

by Nina Teicholz
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8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back (Remember When It Didn't Hurt) cover

286. 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back (Remember When It Didn't Hurt)

by Esther Gokhale
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The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

287. The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto
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SPIN Selling cover

288. SPIN Selling

by Neil Rackham
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An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

289. An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Greg Michaelson
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Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists cover

290. Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists

by Noson S. Yanofsky, Mirco A. Mannucci
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products cover

291. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal
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Why it's too early to get excited about Web3 cover

292. Why it's too early to get excited about Web3

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Time Management for System Administrators cover

293. Time Management for System Administrators

by Tom Limoncelli
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Counterexamples in Analysis cover

294. Counterexamples in Analysis

by Bernard R. Gelbaum, John M. H. Olmsted
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Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition cover

295. Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition

by Tomas Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman
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Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell cover

296. Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell

by Simon Marlow
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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age cover

297. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

by Paul Graham
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Land of Lisp cover

298. Land of Lisp

by Conrad Barski
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Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) cover

299. Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

by Steven C. Hayes, Spencer Xavier Smith
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The Permanent Portfolio: Harry Browne's Long-Term Investment Strategy cover

300. The Permanent Portfolio: Harry Browne's Long-Term Investment Strategy

by Craig Rowland, J. M. Lawson
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