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Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition cover

501. Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition

by Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa, Alan R. Hayakawa

Thought and Language - Revised Edition cover

502. Thought and Language - Revised Edition

by Lev Semenovich Vygotskiĭ

The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower cover

503. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

by Michael Pillsbury

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Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals cover

504. Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

by Robert Pirsig

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Learning Perl, 6th Edition cover

505. Learning Perl, 6th Edition

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

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

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How to Watch TV News cover

507. How to Watch TV News

Digital Design and Computer Architecture cover

508. Digital Design and Computer Architecture

by David Money Harris, Sarah L. Harris

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A Million Thoughts: Learn All About Meditation from a Himalayan Mystic cover

509. A Million Thoughts: Learn All About Meditation from a Himalayan Mystic

by Om Swami

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Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core cover

510. Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core

by Jonathan Levin

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Deep Learning with Python cover

511. Deep Learning with Python

by Francois Chollet

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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum cover

512. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

by Alan Cooper

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World cover

513. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

by Cade Metz

Dance Me to the End of Love (Art & Poetry) cover

514. Dance Me to the End of Love (Art & Poetry)

How the Irish Became White (Routledge Classics) cover

515. How the Irish Became White (Routledge Classics)

by Noel Ignatiev

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The Design of the UNIX Operating System cover

516. The Design of the UNIX Operating System

by Maurice J. Bach

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Make: Analog Synthesizers cover

517. Make: Analog Synthesizers

by Ray Wilson (Electronics engineer)

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The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief cover

518. The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief

by Clair Davies, Amber Davies

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The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation cover

519. The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation

by Achaan Chah

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

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

by Tom Standage

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Purity: A Novel cover

521. Purity: A Novel

by Jonathan Franzen

Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines cover

522. Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines

by Stefan Buttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack

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How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way? cover

523. How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?

by Hiroyuki Nishigaki

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Stay Awhile and Listen: Book I Legendary Edition: How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire cover

524. Stay Awhile and Listen: Book I Legendary Edition: How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire

by David L. Craddock

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

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

by Roger Lowenstein

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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity cover

526. The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

by Toby Ord

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Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) cover

527. Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)

by Daniel Shiffman

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The Diversity Myth : Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus cover

528. The Diversity Myth : Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus

by David O. Sacks, Peter A. Thiel

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Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story cover

529. Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story

by John Bloom

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

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

by Rich Cohen

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Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK cover

531. Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK

by John W. McCormick, Peter C. Chapin

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Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers and Other Curious People cover

532. Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers and Other Curious People

How Asia Works cover

533. How Asia Works

by Joe Studwell

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The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How America really took over the world cover

534. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How America really took over the world

by John Perkins

The Death and Life of Great American Cities cover

535. The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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Open Sources cover

536. Open Sources

by Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone

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Digital Fundamentals (10th Edition) cover

537. Digital Fundamentals (10th Edition)

by Thomas L. Floyd

Programming Pearls (ACM Press) cover

538. Programming Pearls (ACM Press)

by Jon Louis Bentley

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Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk) cover

539. Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk)

by Andrew Schulman, David Maxey, Matt Pietrek

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Radar - O’Reilly cover

540. Radar - O’Reilly

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The World Beyond Your Head cover

541. The World Beyond Your Head

by Matthew B. Crawford

The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason (Studies in Monetary and Financial History) cover

542. The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason (Studies in Monetary and Financial History)

by Larry Neal

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

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

by Michael Ruhlman

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The Mathematical Experience: A National Book Award Winner – Exploring Mathematics: History, Philosophy, and Personalities for Lay Readers cover

544. The Mathematical Experience: A National Book Award Winner – Exploring Mathematics: History, Philosophy, and Personalities for Lay Readers

by Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh

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Deep Learning for Coders with fastai and PyTorch cover

545. Deep Learning for Coders with fastai and PyTorch

by Jeremy Howard, Sylvain Gugger

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Kubernetes: Up and Running cover

546. Kubernetes: Up and Running

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A Tour of the Calculus cover

547. A Tour of the Calculus

by David Berlinski

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve cover

548. The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

by G. Edward Griffin

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Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques: Theory and Practice cover

549. Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques: Theory and Practice

by Alan H. Watt, Mark Watt

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Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology) cover

550. Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)

by Peter D. Norton

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The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It cover

551. The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

by Kelly McGonigal

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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality cover

552. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

by Max Tegmark

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Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable cover

553. Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable

by Seth Fletcher

C++ Concurrency in Action: Practical Multithreading cover

554. C++ Concurrency in Action: Practical Multithreading

by Anthony Williams

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The Law of Attention: Nada Yoga and the Way of Inner Vigilance cover

555. The Law of Attention: Nada Yoga and the Way of Inner Vigilance

by Edward Salim Michael

Nada Yoga: The Science, Psychology & Philosophy of Anahata Nada Yoga cover

556. Nada Yoga: The Science, Psychology & Philosophy of Anahata Nada Yoga

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age cover

557. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

by Paul Graham

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Zionism and the Creation of a New Society (Studies in Jewish History) cover

558. Zionism and the Creation of a New Society (Studies in Jewish History)

by Ben Halpern, Jehuda Reinharz

How to Build With Grid Beam: A Fast, Easy and Affordable System for Constructing Almost Anything cover

559. How to Build With Grid Beam: A Fast, Easy and Affordable System for Constructing Almost Anything

by Phil Jergenson, Richard Jergenson, Wilma Keppel

A Whirlwind Tour of Python cover

560. A Whirlwind Tour of Python

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BGP cover

561. BGP

by Iljitsch van Beijnum

The Diamond and the Boy: The Creation of Diamonds & The Life of H. Tracy Hall – An Inspiring Picture Book Biography cover

562. The Diamond and the Boy: The Creation of Diamonds & The Life of H. Tracy Hall – An Inspiring Picture Book Biography

by Hannah Holt

The Ashley Book of Knots cover

563. The Ashley Book of Knots

by Clifford Warren Ashley

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Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway cover

564. Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway

by Clifford Stoll

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Microservices: A quick and simple definition cover

565. Microservices: A quick and simple definition

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Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series) cover

566. Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Robert C. Martin

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The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development cover

567. The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development

by Donald G. Reinertsen

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The Kerbal Player's Guide cover

568. The Kerbal Player's Guide

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Python for Data Analysis, 2nd Edition cover

569. Python for Data Analysis, 2nd Edition

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The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies) cover

570. The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies)

by Jimmy Maher

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Relativity: The Special and General Theory cover

571. Relativity: The Special and General Theory

by Albert Einstein

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Ideology and Discontent cover

572. Ideology and Discontent

by David Ernest Apter

RESTful Web Services Cookbook cover

573. RESTful Web Services Cookbook

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The Site Reliability Workbook cover

574. The Site Reliability Workbook

575. "Cracking DES" Shows How the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Machine Beat Government Encryption Standard O'Reilly and EFF Publish Book that Proves DES is Not Secure

Awareness: Conversations with the Masters cover

576. Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

by Anthony De Mello

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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! cover

577. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk!

by Jack Trout

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Silent Invasion: China's Influence in Australia cover

578. Silent Invasion: China's Influence in Australia

by Clive Hamilton, Alex Joske

A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics cover

579. A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics

by Jeremy Kun

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Why Nothing Works: The Anthropology of Daily Life (Touchstone Books (Paperback)) cover

580. Why Nothing Works: The Anthropology of Daily Life (Touchstone Books (Paperback))

by Marvin Harris

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations cover

581. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

by Christopher Lasch

Out of the Crisis cover

582. Out of the Crisis

by W. Edwards Deming

Designing Machine Learning Systems cover

583. Designing Machine Learning Systems

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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution cover

584. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

by Walter Isaacson

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Drucker’s Lost Art of Management: Peter Drucker’s Timeless Vision for Building Effective Organizations cover

585. Drucker’s Lost Art of Management: Peter Drucker’s Timeless Vision for Building Effective Organizations

by Joseph A. Maciariello, Karen Linkletter

Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America cover

586. Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America

by Lee Drutman

The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are cover

587. The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are

by Henry Petroski

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The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself cover

588. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

by Michael A. Singer

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I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times cover

589. I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times

by Mónica Guzmán

Are You a Stock or a Bond?: Identify Your Own Human Capital for a Secure Financial Future cover

590. Are You a Stock or a Bond?: Identify Your Own Human Capital for a Secure Financial Future

by Moshe Arye Milevsky

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Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies) cover

591. Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies)

by Robert R. Locke, J.-C. Spender

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Piracy is progressive taxation, and other thoughts on the evolution of online distribution cover

592. Piracy is progressive taxation, and other thoughts on the evolution of online distribution

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Advances in Financial Machine Learning cover

593. Advances in Financial Machine Learning

by Marcos Lopez de Prado

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Software architecture patterns cover

594. Software architecture patterns

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Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb cover

595. Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb

by William Poundstone

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Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy cover

596. Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy

by Giovanni Battista Riccioli

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds cover

597. Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

by David Goggins

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CSS: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition cover

598. CSS: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition

Color Theory and Its Application in Art and Design (Springer Series in Optical Sciences) cover

599. Color Theory and Its Application in Art and Design (Springer Series in Optical Sciences)

by George A. Agoston

Fundamentals of Software Architecture cover

600. Fundamentals of Software Architecture

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