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