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Why Don't Students Like School? cover

301. Why Don't Students Like School?

by Daniel T. Willingham
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Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality – The Essential Application's Creation Story from Keyhole cover

302. Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality – The Essential Application's Creation Story from Keyhole

by Bill Kilday
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Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal cover

303. Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal

by Oren Klaff
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Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach cover

304. Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

by Tom DeMarco
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Exercises in Programming Style cover

305. Exercises in Programming Style

by Cristina Videira Lopes
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The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) cover

306. The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date cover

307. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date

by Robert X. Cringely
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A Renegade History of the United States cover

308. A Renegade History of the United States

by Thaddeus Russell
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Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications cover

309. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

by Toby Segaran
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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace cover

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

by Ricardo Semler
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PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance cover

311. PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance

by Gregory Smith
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Chaos Engineering cover

312. Chaos Engineering

by Mikolaj Pawlikowski
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Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment cover

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

by George Leonard
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Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation cover

314. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation

by John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman
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Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals cover

315. Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals

by Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.
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The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) cover

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

by K. Anders Ericsson, Robert R. Hoffman, Aaron Kozbelt, A. Mark Williams
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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind cover

317. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

by Jack Trout, Al Ries
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The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir cover

318. The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir

by Marina Whitman
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Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME): An Introduction cover

319. Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME): An Introduction

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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre cover

320. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

by Keith Johnstone
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UNIX° TEXT PROCESSING cover

321. UNIX° TEXT PROCESSING

by Dale Dougherty, Tim O'Reilly
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage cover

322. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew
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Work With Us - O'Reilly Media cover

323. Work With Us - O'Reilly Media

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Death March (2nd Edition) cover

324. Death March (2nd Edition)

by Edward Yourdon
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Introduction to Linear Algebra (Gilbert Strang, 2) cover

325. Introduction to Linear Algebra (Gilbert Strang, 2)

by Gilbert Strang
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Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Volume 136) (Lecture Notes) cover

326. Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Volume 136) (Lecture Notes)

by Donald Ervin Knuth
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The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) cover

327. The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

by Noam Wasserman
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies cover

328. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond
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Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism cover

329. Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism

by Richard D. Wolff
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals cover

330. Black Rednecks and White Liberals

by Thomas Sowell
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Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide cover

331. Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide

by Alex Reinhart
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Schaum's 3,000 Solved Problems in Calculus (Schaum's Outlines) cover

332. Schaum's 3,000 Solved Problems in Calculus (Schaum's Outlines)

by Elliott Mendelson
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The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems cover

333. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

by Jef Raskin
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Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs cover

334. Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

by Ken Kocienda
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Retargetable C Compiler, A: Design and Implementation cover

335. Retargetable C Compiler, A: Design and Implementation

by Christopher W. Fraser, David R. Hanson
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Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition cover

336. Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition

by Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa, Alan R. Hayakawa
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society cover

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

by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman
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Living Clojure cover

338. Living Clojure

by Carin Meier
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Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration cover

339. Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration

by Bryan Caplan
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Conquering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other Repetitive Strain Injuries: A Self-Care Program cover

340. Conquering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other Repetitive Strain Injuries: A Self-Care Program

by Sharon J. Butler
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All cover

341. If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares
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How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between cover

342. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
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What Is Web 2.0 cover

343. What Is Web 2.0

by Tim O'Reilly
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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood cover

344. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

by James Gleick
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built cover

345. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

by Stewart Brand
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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Incerto) cover

346. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Badass: Making Users Awesome cover

347. Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra
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Man's Search for Meaning (OLD EDITION/OUT OF PRINT) cover

348. Man's Search for Meaning (OLD EDITION/OUT OF PRINT)

by Viktor Emil Frankl
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (The How To Talk Series) cover

349. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (The How To Talk Series)

by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
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Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything cover

350. Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything

by C. Gordon Bell, Jim Gemmell
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition cover

351. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition

by Patrick M. Lencioni
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Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength cover

352. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney
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The Cult of Mac cover

353. The Cult of Mac

by Leander Kahney
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Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves cover

354. Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

by Christian Rudder
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The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism cover

355. The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

by Olivia Fox Cabane
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Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers (MSRI Mathematical Circles Library) cover

356. Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers (MSRI Mathematical Circles Library)

by Aleksandr Kalmanovich Zvonkin
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) cover

357. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)

by Clayton M. Christensen
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Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers cover

358. Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers

by Jan Gullberg
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sed & awk, 2nd Edition cover

359. sed & awk, 2nd Edition

by Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins
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Elements of Programming cover

360. Elements of Programming

by Alexander A. Stepanov, Paul McJones
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Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform cover

361. Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform

by Patrick Henry Winston
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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management cover

362. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

by Roger Lowenstein
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One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com cover

363. One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com

by Richard L. Brandt
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition cover

364. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

by Jared Diamond
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Dreamland cover

365. Dreamland

by Sam Quinones, Neil Hellegers
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The Machinery of Life cover

366. The Machinery of Life

by David S. Goodsell
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Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street (Wiley Investment Classics) cover

367. Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street (Wiley Investment Classics)

by Fred Schwed, Jr.
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Tim O'Reilly - Frank Herbert - O'Reilly Media cover

368. Tim O'Reilly - Frank Herbert - O'Reilly Media

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Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

369. Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Gerhard Weikum, Gottfried Vossen
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Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It cover

370. Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It

by David Graeber
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy cover

371. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil
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Functional JavaScript cover

372. Functional JavaScript

by Michael Fogus
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Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week cover

373. Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week

by John Little, Doug McGuff
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The Millionaire Next Door cover

374. The Millionaire Next Door

by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America cover

375. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

by Colin Woodard
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Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization cover

376. Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

by Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
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Blindsight (Firefall, 1) cover

377. Blindsight (Firefall, 1)

by Peter Watts
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Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy cover

378. Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

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

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

by Suparna Damany, Jack Bellis
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) cover

380. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Robert J. Gordon
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The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell cover

381. The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell

by Luca Turin
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The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet cover

382. The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet

by Jeff Kosseff
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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe cover

383. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

by George Dyson
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Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

384. Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Jim Gray, Andreas Reuter
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Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

385. Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Joe Celko
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The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition cover

386. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition

by Julia Cameron
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Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption cover

387. Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption

by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
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Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology cover

388. Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology

by James R. Chiles
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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology cover

389. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

by Chris Miller
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Who's in Charge?: The Neuroscience of Decision-Making, the Notion of Free Will and the Idea of a Determined World cover

390. Who's in Charge?: The Neuroscience of Decision-Making, the Notion of Free Will and the Idea of a Determined World

by Michael S. Gazzaniga
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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules cover

391. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

by Steve McConnell
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Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time cover

392. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright
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Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions cover

393. Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

by Gary A. Klein
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The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers cover

394. The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

by Robert C. Martin
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Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms (Audio Engineering Society Presents) cover

395. Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms (Audio Engineering Society Presents)

by Floyd E. Toole
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Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (Ruhlman's Ratios) cover

396. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (Ruhlman's Ratios)

by Michael Ruhlman
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Motel of the Mysteries cover

397. Motel of the Mysteries

by David Macaulay
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iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library) cover

398. iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library)

by Marcel Weiher
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Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition cover

399. Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition

by Robert Mecklenburg, Robert William Mecklenburg
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty cover

400. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
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