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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man cover

501. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

by John Perkins
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Lightweight Django cover

502. Lightweight Django

by Julia Elman. Mark Lavin
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SQL and Relational Theory, 2nd Edition cover

503. SQL and Relational Theory, 2nd Edition

by C. J. Date
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Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD cover

504. Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD

by Sylvain Gugger, Jeremy Howard
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The Mac is Not a Typewriter, 2nd Edition cover

505. The Mac is Not a Typewriter, 2nd Edition

by Robin Williams
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work cover

506. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

by Mason Currey
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Free to Choose: A Personal Statement cover

507. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman
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Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices cover

508. Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices

by George Varghese
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Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com cover

509. Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com

by Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler
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Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons (Computational Neuroscience Series) cover

510. Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons (Computational Neuroscience Series)

by Christof Koch
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The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King cover

511. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

by Rich Cohen
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Streaming 102: The world beyond batch cover

512. Streaming 102: The world beyond batch

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The Art of Profitability cover

513. The Art of Profitability

by Adrian Slywotzky
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed. cover

514. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed.

by Edward R. Tufte
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Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need cover

515. Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

by Blake Snyder
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The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer cover

516. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

by Charles J. Murray
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Kelly: More Than My Share of It All cover

517. Kelly: More Than My Share of It All

by Clarence L. Johnson
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Land of Lisp cover

518. Land of Lisp

by Conrad Barski
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Digital Design and Computer Architecture cover

519. Digital Design and Computer Architecture

by David Money Harris, Sarah L. Harris
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Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory cover

520. Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory

by Michael C. Carroll
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Debugging Teams cover

521. Debugging Teams

by Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman
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Mathematician's Delight (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

522. Mathematician's Delight (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by W. W. Sawyer
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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment cover

523. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

by Robert Wright
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Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It cover

524. Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It

by Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor Jr.
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Kids Shenanigans: Great Things to Do That Mom and Dad Will Just Barely Approve Of/Book and Whoopie Cushion cover

525. Kids Shenanigans: Great Things to Do That Mom and Dad Will Just Barely Approve Of/Book and Whoopie Cushion

by Klutz Press
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The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations cover

526. The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius
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Using Docker cover

527. Using Docker

by Adrian Mouat
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The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice cover

528. The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice

by Robin Williams
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) cover

529. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers cover

530. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

by Sönke Ahrens
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Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books) cover

531. Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books)

by Edwin Hutchins
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Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving cover

532. Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving

by V. Anton Spraul
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The Outsider cover

533. The Outsider

by Colin Wilson
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything cover

534. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

by Joshua Foer
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Creating Applications with Mozilla cover

535. Creating Applications with Mozilla

by David Boswell
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Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America cover

536. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

by Scott Adams
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Replay cover

537. Replay

by Ken Grimwood
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The Big Short cover

538. The Big Short

by Michael M. Lewis
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I Am a Strange Loop cover

539. I Am a Strange Loop

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update cover

540. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

by Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows
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The Dabare Snake Launcher cover

541. The Dabare Snake Launcher

by Joelle Presby
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AI Engineering cover

542. AI Engineering

by Chip Huyen
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The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing) cover

543. The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing)

by Kees Doets, Jan Eijck
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Naive Lie Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

544. Naive Lie Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by John Stillwell
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Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences cover

545. Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences

by Mary L. Boas
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546. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P Feynman
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How the Irish Became White (Routledge Classics) cover

547. How the Irish Became White (Routledge Classics)

by Noel Ignatiev
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Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration cover

548. Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
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The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization cover

549. The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization

by James Bamford
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Learning Perl, 6th Edition cover

550. Learning Perl, 6th Edition

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Chaos: Making a New Science cover

551. Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future cover

552. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy cover

553. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy

by David Hoffman
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The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error cover

554. The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error

by Sidney Dekker
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The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph cover

555. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

by Ryan Holiday
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Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition cover

556. Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition

by Everett M. Rogers
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Intellectual Property and Open Source cover

557. Intellectual Property and Open Source

by Van Lindberg
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Intellectual Property and Open Source cover

558. Intellectual Property and Open Source

by Van Lindberg
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What's Wrong with China cover

559. What's Wrong with China

by Paul Midler
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Metaphors We Live By cover

560. Metaphors We Live By

by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
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Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History cover

561. Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History

by Richard W. Bulliet
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Algorithms in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) cover

562. Algorithms in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))

by George T. Heineman
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Dissecting DOS cover

563. Dissecting DOS

by Michael Podanoffsky
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Short Calculus: The Original Edition of “A First Course in Calculus” (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

564. Short Calculus: The Original Edition of “A First Course in Calculus” (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Serge Lang
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature cover

565. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

by Matt Ridley
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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) cover

566. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)

by Kip S Thorne
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Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation cover

567. Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation

by William A. Fischel
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This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly cover

568. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

by Carmen M. Reinhart
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) cover

569. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)

by Elliot Aronson Carol Tavris, Joe Barrett Marsha Mercant
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California cover

570. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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Getting Started in Electronics cover

571. Getting Started in Electronics

by Forrest M. Mims
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Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective cover

572. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

by Randal Bryant, David O'Hallaron
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Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

573. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey A. Silverglate
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Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation cover

574. Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation

by R. G. Loeliger
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Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era cover

575. Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

by Tomas De Yriarte, J. B. C. Grainville, Honore F. M. Langle
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America cover

576. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich
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IPv6 Essentials cover

577. IPv6 Essentials

by Silvia Hagen
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How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants cover

578. How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants

by David Rees
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The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch cover

579. The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch

by Thomas Thwaites
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Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User's Guide cover

580. Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User's Guide

by Emil Pascarelli, M.D., Deborah Quilter
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Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting cover

581. Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

by Pamela Druckerman
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Traction cover

582. Traction

by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness cover

583. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds cover

584. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

by Michael Lewis
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Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition cover

585. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition

by Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman
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Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To cover

586. Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

by David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
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Kettlebell Simple & Sinister: Revised and Updated (2nd Edition) cover

587. Kettlebell Simple & Sinister: Revised and Updated (2nd Edition)

by Pavel Tsatsouline
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An Island to Oneself cover

588. An Island to Oneself

by Tom Neale
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How I failed cover

589. How I failed

by Jennifer Jacob
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Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security cover

590. Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security

by Daniel J. Solove
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation cover

591. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

by Steven Johnson
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Developing with PDF cover

592. Developing with PDF

by Leonard Rosenthol
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A Tour of the Calculus cover

593. A Tour of the Calculus

by David Berlinski
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Practical Foundations for Programming Languages cover

594. Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

by Robert Harper
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Online Learning Platform Pricing - O'Reilly Media cover

595. Online Learning Platform Pricing - O'Reilly Media

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

596. What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part I)

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Trauma Myth: The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children-and Its Aftermath cover

597. Trauma Myth: The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children-and Its Aftermath

by Susan Clancy
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) cover

598. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)

by Kim Stanley Robinson
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What is Christian Democracy?: Politics, Religion and Ideology cover

599. What is Christian Democracy?: Politics, Religion and Ideology

by Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
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How to Avoid Huge Ships cover

600. How to Avoid Huge Ships

by John W. Trimmer
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