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201. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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202. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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203. The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition)
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204. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)
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205. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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206. C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software
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207. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
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208. Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)
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209. Algebra
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210. UNIX: A History and a Memoir
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211. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
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212. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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213. Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market
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214. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
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215. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)
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216. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
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217. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)
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218. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
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219. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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220. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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221. The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
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222. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
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223. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd Edition)
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224. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
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225. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
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226. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior, 4)
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227. Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists
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228. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
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229. Who Is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure 2nd Edition
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230. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
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231. The Gun
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232. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
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233. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
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234. The Dream Machine
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235. Basic Mathematics
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236. The Rent Is Too Damn High: What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think
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237. The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan
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238. It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!: RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals
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239. Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
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240. Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation
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241. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition
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242. Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols (2nd Edition)
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243. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
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244. Head First Design Patterns
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245. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
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246. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
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247. Large-Scale C++ Software Design
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248. Python for Data Analysis
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249. Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)
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250. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
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251. The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
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252. The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) (Collins Business Essentials)
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253. Windows Internals, Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more (7th Edition)
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254. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
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255. Java Concurrency in Practice
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256. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
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257. Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
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258. Physically Based Rendering, Third Edition: From Theory to Implementation
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259. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
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260. Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
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261. Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition
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262. An Introduction to Database Systems (8th Edition)
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263. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
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264. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling
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265. Book of Proof
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266. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
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267. The Art of UNIX Programming (The Addison-Wesley Professional Computng Series)
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268. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health
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269. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)
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270. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
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271. Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
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272. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
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273. Discrete Mathematics with Applications
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274. Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development
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275. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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276. The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition)
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277. Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course
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278. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))
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279. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)
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280. On Bullshit
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281. But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone
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282. Theory of Wing Sections: Including a Summary of Airfoil Data (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
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283. Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America
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284. The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History)
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285. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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286. Mindfulness in Plain English
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287. Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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288. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
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289. The Art of Profitability
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290. Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
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291. Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
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292. First A Dream
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293. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
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294. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
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295. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
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296. The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving
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297. Compiling with Continuations
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298. The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
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299. Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications
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300. The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
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