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Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming cover

5001. Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming

by Thomas VanDrunen

DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education cover

5002. DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education

by Anya Kamenetz

The Carnivore Diet cover

5003. The Carnivore Diet

by Shawn Baker

Essentials of Programming Languages cover

5004. Essentials of Programming Languages

by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand, Christopher Thomas Haynes

Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book cover

5005. Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book

by John Cassidy

The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behavior and Interactions with People cover

5006. The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behavior and Interactions with People

by James Serpell

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography cover

5007. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

by Simon Singh

Cape Horn to Starboard cover

5008. Cape Horn to Starboard

by John Kretschmer

Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics cover

5009. Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

by Timothy Morton

Introduction to Logic: And to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences cover

5010. Introduction to Logic: And to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences

by Alfred Tarski

The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War cover

5011. The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War

by Samuel Eliot Morison

Python Cookbook cover

5012. Python Cookbook

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What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer cover

5013. What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer

by John Markoff

The Bug cover

5014. The Bug

by Ellen Ullman

Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age cover

5015. Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age

by Kenneth Goldsmith, Robert C. Cottrell

Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth cover

5016. Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

by Adam Frank

Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior cover

5017. Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior

by Russell A. Barkley, Christine M. Benton

The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory, With a New Foreword by Jerome S. Bruner cover

5018. The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory, With a New Foreword by Jerome S. Bruner

by Aleksandr Romanovich Lurii͡a

Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? cover

5019. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

by Dave Eggers

The Mapmakers, Revised Edition cover

5020. The Mapmakers, Revised Edition

by John Noble Wilford

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics) cover

5021. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics)

by Charles P. Kindleberger, Robert Aliber

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling cover

5022. Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

by John Taylor Gatto

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Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering cover

5023. Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering

by Adyashanti

Self-Parenting: The Complete Guide to Your Inner Conversations cover

5024. Self-Parenting: The Complete Guide to Your Inner Conversations

by John K. Pollard

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

5025. How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

by Sarah Bakewell

In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius cover

5026. In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius

by Arika Okrent

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Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain cover

5027. Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

The Theory of Probability: Explorations and Applications cover

5028. The Theory of Probability: Explorations and Applications

by Santosh S. Venkatesh

Learn Basic Now cover

5029. Learn Basic Now

by Michael Halvorson, David Rygmyr

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF RELIGION AND EMOTION cover

5030. THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF RELIGION AND EMOTION

by John Corrigan

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

5031. Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

by Miriam Lichtheim

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

5032. From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia

by Benjamin R. Foster

The Literature of Ancient Sumer cover

5033. The Literature of Ancient Sumer

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

Gilgamesh: A New English Version cover

5034. Gilgamesh: A New English Version

by Stephen Mitchell, Mitchell, Stephen

Coyote America cover

5035. Coyote America

by Dan Flores

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

5036. 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

5037. Regular Expressions Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Calculus cover

5038. Calculus

by Michael Spivak

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

5039. 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

5040. 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

by Camille Fournier

Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership Success cover

5041. Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership Success

by Geoff Smart, Randy Street, Alan Foster

Information Hiding Techniques for Steganography and Digital Watermarking cover

5042. 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

5043. 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

5044. The Dangerous Book for Boys

by Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden

Eugene Onegin: Translation By Douglas R. Hofstadter cover

5045. Eugene Onegin: Translation By Douglas R. Hofstadter

by Alexander Pushkin

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

5046. 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

5047. 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

5048. 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

5049. Letters to a Young Scientist

Superintelligence cover

5050. Superintelligence

by Nick Bostrom

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

5051. 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

5052. Super Squats: How to Gain 30 Pounds of Muscle in 6 Weeks

by Randall J. Strossen

Embodied Cognition (New Problems of Philosophy) cover

5053. Embodied Cognition (New Problems of Philosophy)

by Shapir Lawrence

How to Fix Copyright cover

5054. How to Fix Copyright

by William Patry

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

5055. 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

5056. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers

by Tom Standage

How To DJ Properly cover

5057. How To DJ Properly

by Frank Broughton, Bill Brewster

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

5058. Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld

by Jake Halpern

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

5059. Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future

by Saul Griffith

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

5060. 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

5061. The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

by Neil Postman

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

5062. Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation--and Positive Strategies for Change

by Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever

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Matrix Analysis cover

5063. Matrix Analysis

by Roger A. Horn, Charles R. Johnson

The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick cover

5064. 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

5065. 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

5066. Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and Opensolaris Kernel Architecture

by Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro

The Creative Act: A Way of Being cover

5067. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

by Rick Rubin

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Algorithms For Interviews: A Problem Solving Approach cover

5068. Algorithms For Interviews: A Problem Solving Approach

by Adnan Aziz, Amit Prakash

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

5069. C++17 upgrades you should be using in your code

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

5070. 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

5071. 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

5072. Writing the Blockbuster Novel

by Albert Zuckerman

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

5073. 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

5074. Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

by Howard W. French

C++ Database Development cover

5075. C++ Database Development

by Stevens A L

Data Structures: A Pseudocode Approach with C cover

5076. 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

5077. 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

5078. Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Think Stats, 2nd Edition cover

5079. Think Stats, 2nd Edition

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100 Suns cover

5080. 100 Suns

by Michael Light

Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin cover

5081. Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin

by Francis Spufford

GANs in Action: Deep learning with Generative Adversarial Networks cover

5082. GANs in Action: Deep learning with Generative Adversarial Networks

by Jakub Langr, Vladimir Bok

Hurry Hard: The Russ Howard Story cover

5083. 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

5084. 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

5085. Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird

by Andrew D. Blechman

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes cover

5086. The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

by Zachary D. Carter

Complete Venus Equilateral cover

5087. Complete Venus Equilateral

by George O. Smith

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

5088. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

by Blake J. Harris

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

5089. Behavior Modification: What It Is and How To Do It

by Garry Martin, Joseph J. Pear

Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution cover

5090. Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution

by William M. Baum

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

5091. The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction

by Frank Herbert

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Mind Games cover

5092. Mind Games

by Richard Thieme

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

5093. Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

by Rachel Ignotofsky

The Redwall Cookbook cover

5094. The Redwall Cookbook

by Brian Jacques

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

5095. La puta de Babilonia /The Whore of Babylon (Spanish Edition)

by Fernando Vallejo

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia cover

5096. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

by Christina Thompson

Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python cover

5097. 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

5098. The Mathematical Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of its Creators

by Alexander Soifer

Numbers (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 123) cover

5099. Numbers (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 123)

by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus

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

5100. Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress

by Douglas Brinkley