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

501. 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

502. 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

503. 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

504. Kelly: More Than My Share of It All

by Clarence L. Johnson
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Land of Lisp cover

505. Land of Lisp

by Conrad Barski
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier cover

506. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Glaeser
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Digital Design and Computer Architecture cover

507. 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

508. 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

509. Debugging Teams

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Mathematician's Delight (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

510. 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

511. 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

512. 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

513. 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

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

by Marcus Aurelius
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Using Docker cover

515. Using Docker

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

516. 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

517. 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

518. 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

519. Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books)

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

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

by V. Anton Spraul
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Code Complete, 2nd Edition cover

521. Code Complete, 2nd Edition

by Steve McConnell
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The Outsider cover

522. The Outsider

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

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

by Joshua Foer
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Creating Applications with Mozilla cover

524. Creating Applications with Mozilla

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

525. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

by Scott Adams
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Replay cover

526. Replay

by Ken Grimwood
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The Big Short cover

527. The Big Short

by Michael M. Lewis
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I Am a Strange Loop cover

528. I Am a Strange Loop

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

529. 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

530. The Dabare Snake Launcher

by Joelle Presby
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AI Engineering cover

531. AI Engineering

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

532. 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

533. Naive Lie Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by John Stillwell
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Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences cover

534. Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences

by Mary L. Boas
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535. "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

536. 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

537. 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

538. 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

539. Learning Perl, 6th Edition

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Chaos: Making a New Science cover

540. 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

541. 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

542. 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

543. 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

544. 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

545. Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition

by Everett M. Rogers
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What's Wrong with China cover

546. What's Wrong with China

by Paul Midler
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Metaphors We Live By cover

547. 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

548. 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

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

by George T. Heineman
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Dissecting DOS cover

550. 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

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

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

552. 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

553. 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

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

by Carmen M. Reinhart
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California cover

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

by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) cover

556. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)

by Elliot Aronson Carol Tavris, Joe Barrett Marsha Mercant
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Getting Started in Electronics cover

557. Getting Started in Electronics

by Forrest M. Mims
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Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation cover

558. 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

559. 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

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

by Barbara Ehrenreich
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IPv6 Essentials cover

561. IPv6 Essentials

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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

562. 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

563. 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

564. 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

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

by Pamela Druckerman
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Traction cover

566. Traction

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

567. 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

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

by Michael Lewis
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Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition cover

569. 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

570. 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

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

by Pavel Tsatsouline
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An Island to Oneself cover

572. An Island to Oneself

by Tom Neale
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How I failed cover

573. How I failed

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

574. 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

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

by Steven Johnson
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Developing with PDF cover

576. Developing with PDF

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A Tour of the Calculus cover

577. A Tour of the Calculus

by David Berlinski
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Practical Foundations for Programming Languages cover

578. Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

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

579. Online Learning Platform Pricing - O'Reilly Media

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

580. 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

581. 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

582. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)

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

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

by Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
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How to Avoid Huge Ships cover

584. How to Avoid Huge Ships

by John W. Trimmer
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Statistical Inference cover

585. Statistical Inference

by George Casella, Roger L. Berger
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Algorithms Unlocked (Mit Press) cover

586. Algorithms Unlocked (Mit Press)

by Thomas H. Cormen
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Principles: Life and Work cover

587. Principles: Life and Work

by Ray Dalio
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The Art of Multiprocessor Programming cover

588. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit, Victor Luchangco, Michael Spear
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The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor cover

589. The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

by Mark Schatzker
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark cover

590. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
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Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store cover

591. Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store

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Algebra: Chapter 0 (Graduate Studies in Mathematics) cover

592. Algebra: Chapter 0 (Graduate Studies in Mathematics)

by Paolo Aluffi
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Out of the Crisis cover

593. Out of the Crisis

by W. Edwards Deming
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The 48 Laws of Power cover

594. The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene
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Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment cover

595. Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

by Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin, Daniel Kahneman
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World cover

596. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

by Anand Giridharadas
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Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom cover

597. Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom

by Richard A. Burgess
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Microsoft Windows User Experience (Microsoft Professional Editions) cover

598. Microsoft Windows User Experience (Microsoft Professional Editions)

by Microsoft Press
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Persecution and the Art of Writing cover

599. Persecution and the Art of Writing

by Leo Strauss
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt cover

600. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

by Michael Lewis
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