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How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer cover

5001. How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

by Sarah Bakewell

Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain cover

5002. Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

The Theory of Probability: Explorations and Applications cover

5003. The Theory of Probability: Explorations and Applications

by Santosh S. Venkatesh

Learn Basic Now cover

5004. Learn Basic Now

by Michael Halvorson, David Rygmyr

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF RELIGION AND EMOTION cover

5005. THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF RELIGION AND EMOTION

by John Corrigan

Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms cover

5006. Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

by Miriam Lichtheim

From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia cover

5007. From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia

by Benjamin R. Foster

Gilgamesh: A New English Version cover

5008. Gilgamesh: A New English Version

by Stephen Mitchell, Mitchell, Stephen

The Literature of Ancient Sumer cover

5009. The Literature of Ancient Sumer

by Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, Gabor Zolyomi

Coyote America cover

5010. Coyote America

by Dan Flores

The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball cover

5011. The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball

by Noam Cohen

Regular Expressions Cookbook, 2nd Edition cover

5012. Regular Expressions Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Calculus cover

5013. Calculus

by Michael Spivak

Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill cover

5014. Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

by Matthieu Ricard

97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts cover

5015. 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

by Camille Fournier

Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership Success cover

5016. Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership Success

by Geoff Smart, Randy Street, Alan Foster

Information Hiding Techniques for Steganography and Digital Watermarking cover

5017. Information Hiding Techniques for Steganography and Digital Watermarking

by Stefan Katzenbeisser, Fabien A. P. Petitcolas

The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It, Centennial Edition cover

5018. The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It, Centennial Edition

by Daniel Carter Beard

The Dangerous Book for Boys cover

5019. The Dangerous Book for Boys

by Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden

The Likeability Factor: How to Boost Your L-Factor and Achieve Your Life's Dreams cover

5020. The Likeability Factor: How to Boost Your L-Factor and Achieve Your Life's Dreams

by Tim Sanders

Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion cover

5021. Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion

by Al Seckel

The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better cover

5022. The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better

by Tyler Cowen

Letters to a Young Scientist cover

5023. Letters to a Young Scientist

Superintelligence cover

5024. Superintelligence

by Nick Bostrom

The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest cover

5025. The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest

by Dan Buettner

Super Squats: How to Gain 30 Pounds of Muscle in 6 Weeks cover

5026. Super Squats: How to Gain 30 Pounds of Muscle in 6 Weeks

by Randall J. Strossen

Embodied Cognition (New Problems of Philosophy) cover

5027. Embodied Cognition (New Problems of Philosophy)

by Shapir Lawrence

How to Fix Copyright cover

5028. How to Fix Copyright

by William Patry

Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) cover

5029. Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

by Chad Pytel, Tammer Saleh

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

5030. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers

by Tom Standage

Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation--and Positive Strategies for Change cover

5031. Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation--and Positive Strategies for Change

by Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever

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How To DJ Properly cover

5032. How To DJ Properly

by Frank Broughton, Bill Brewster

Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld cover

5033. Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld

by Jake Halpern

Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future cover

5034. Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future

by Saul Griffith

The Creative Act: A Way of Being cover

5035. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

by Rick Rubin

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All Politics Is Local: and Other Rules of the Game cover

5036. All Politics Is Local: and Other Rules of the Game

by Tip O'Neill, Gary Hymel

The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School cover

5037. The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

by Neil Postman

Matrix Analysis cover

5038. Matrix Analysis

by Roger A. Horn, Charles R. Johnson

The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick cover

5039. The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick

by Benoit B. Mandelbrot

Hello, My Name Is Ice Cream: The Art and Science of the Scoop: A Cookbook cover

5040. Hello, My Name Is Ice Cream: The Art and Science of the Scoop: A Cookbook

by Dana Cree

Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and Opensolaris Kernel Architecture cover

5041. Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and Opensolaris Kernel Architecture

by Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro

Algorithms For Interviews: A Problem Solving Approach cover

5042. Algorithms For Interviews: A Problem Solving Approach

by Adnan Aziz, Amit Prakash

C++17 upgrades you should be using in your code cover

5043. C++17 upgrades you should be using in your code

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What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part II) cover

5044. What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part II)

Learn to Program with Small Basic: An Introduction to Programming with Games, Art, Science, and Math cover

5045. Learn to Program with Small Basic: An Introduction to Programming with Games, Art, Science, and Math

by Majed Marji, Ed Price

Writing the Blockbuster Novel cover

5046. Writing the Blockbuster Novel

by Albert Zuckerman

Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments (Mit Press) cover

5047. Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments (Mit Press)

by Mary P. Czerwinski

Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power cover

5048. Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

by Howard W. French

Think Stats, 2nd Edition cover

5049. Think Stats, 2nd Edition

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C++ Database Development cover

5050. C++ Database Development

by Stevens A L

Data Structures: A Pseudocode Approach with C cover

5051. Data Structures: A Pseudocode Approach with C

by Richard F. Gilberg, Behrouz A. Forouzan

Winning through Intimidation: How to Be the Victor, Not the Victim, in Business and in Life cover

5052. Winning through Intimidation: How to Be the Victor, Not the Victim, in Business and in Life

by Robert Ringer

Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options cover

5053. Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

100 Suns cover

5054. 100 Suns

by Michael Light

Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin cover

5055. Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin

by Francis Spufford

GANs in Action: Deep learning with Generative Adversarial Networks cover

5056. GANs in Action: Deep learning with Generative Adversarial Networks

by Jakub Langr, Vladimir Bok

Hurry Hard: The Russ Howard Story cover

5057. Hurry Hard: The Russ Howard Story

by Russ Howard, Bob Weeks

The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed: Computer Prose and Poetry by Racter- The First Book Ever Wrritten by a Computer cover

5058. The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed: Computer Prose and Poetry by Racter- The First Book Ever Wrritten by a Computer

by William Chamberlain

Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird cover

5059. Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird

by Andrew D. Blechman

Complete Venus Equilateral cover

5060. Complete Venus Equilateral

by George O. Smith

Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation cover

5061. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

by Blake J. Harris

Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution cover

5062. Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution

by William M. Baum

Behavior Modification: What It Is and How To Do It cover

5063. Behavior Modification: What It Is and How To Do It

by Garry Martin, Joseph J. Pear

The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction cover

5064. The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction

by Frank Herbert

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Mind Games cover

5065. Mind Games

by Richard Thieme

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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World cover

5066. Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

by Rachel Ignotofsky

The Redwall Cookbook cover

5067. The Redwall Cookbook

by Brian Jacques

La puta de Babilonia /The Whore of Babylon (Spanish Edition) cover

5068. La puta de Babilonia /The Whore of Babylon (Spanish Edition)

by Fernando Vallejo

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia cover

5069. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

by Christina Thompson

Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python cover

5070. Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python

by Al Sweigart

The Mathematical Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of its Creators cover

5071. The Mathematical Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of its Creators

by Alexander Soifer

Numbers (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 123) cover

5072. Numbers (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 123)

by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus

Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress cover

5073. Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress

by Douglas Brinkley

Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It cover

5074. Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It

by April Dunford

Unix Fundamentals 101 cover

5075. Unix Fundamentals 101

General Operations 101 cover

5076. General Operations 101

Web Operations 101 cover

5077. Web Operations 101

The Art of the Pimp: One Man's Search for Love, Sex, and Money cover

5078. The Art of the Pimp: One Man's Search for Love, Sex, and Money

by Dennis Hof

Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground cover

5079. Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground

by Kevin Poulsen

The Quest for Longitude: The Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts November 4-6, 1993 cover

5080. The Quest for Longitude: The Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts November 4-6, 1993

by William J. H. Andrewes, Harvard University. Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments

Shackleton's Boat Journey cover

5081. Shackleton's Boat Journey

by Frank Arthur Worsley

Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss cover

5082. Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss

by Joel Fuhrman

Python in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition cover

5083. Python in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Alex Martelli

Killer Facebook Ads: Master Cutting-Edge Facebook Advertising Techniques cover

5084. Killer Facebook Ads: Master Cutting-Edge Facebook Advertising Techniques

by Marty Weintraub

The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century cover

5085. The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century

by James R. Norman

Python cover

5086. Python

by Chris Fehily

A Song for a New Day cover

5087. A Song for a New Day

by Sarah Pinsker

AWS Cookbook cover

5088. AWS Cookbook

by John Culkin, Mike Zazon, James Ferguson

The Sheer Joy of Celestial Mechanics cover

5089. The Sheer Joy of Celestial Mechanics

by Nathaniel Grossman

A Short History of Nuclear Folly: Mad Scientists, Dithering Nazis, Lost Nukes, and Catastrophic Cover-ups cover

5090. A Short History of Nuclear Folly: Mad Scientists, Dithering Nazis, Lost Nukes, and Catastrophic Cover-ups

by Rudolph Herzog

The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos cover

5091. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

by Brian Greene, Céline Laroche

Vicious Circles: On the Mathematics of Non-Wellfounded Phenomena cover

5092. Vicious Circles: On the Mathematics of Non-Wellfounded Phenomena

by Jon Barwise, Lawrence Moss

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Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking cover

5093. Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking

by Fuchsia Dunlop

Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth cover

5094. Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth

by Marc Lavoie, Wynne Godley

Daemon cover

5095. Daemon

by Daniel Suarez

Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss: The Visual Program for Permanent Weight Loss cover

5096. Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss: The Visual Program for Permanent Weight Loss

by Howard M. Shapiro

Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar cover

5097. Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar

by Abner Shimony

Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias (Humanidades/ Humanities) (Spanish Edition) cover

5098. Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias (Humanidades/ Humanities) (Spanish Edition)

by Bartolomé de las Casas

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RISC System/6000 PowerPC System Architecture cover

5099. RISC System/6000 PowerPC System Architecture

by Frank Levine, Steve Thurber

Build your own laser, phaser, ion ray gun & other working space-age projects cover

5100. Build your own laser, phaser, ion ray gun & other working space-age projects

by Robert E. Iannini