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Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway cover

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

by Clifford Stoll

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超限战与反超限战，中国人提出的新战争观美国人如何应对 cover

602. 超限战与反超限战，中国人提出的新战争观美国人如何应对

by 乔良, 王湘穗

Natural Language Processing Recipes: Unlocking Text Data with Machine Learning and Deep Learning using Python cover

603. Natural Language Processing Recipes: Unlocking Text Data with Machine Learning and Deep Learning using Python

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Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing cover

604. Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing

by Jared Bhatti, Heidi Waterhouse

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Solution Selling: Creating Buyers in Difficult Selling Markets cover

605. Solution Selling: Creating Buyers in Difficult Selling Markets

by Michael T. Bosworth

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Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age cover

606. Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

by Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne

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Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum cover

607. Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

by Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman

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Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science cover

608. Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science

by Harry R. Lewis

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The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth cover

609. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

by Jonathan Rauch

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Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease cover

610. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

by Gary Taubes

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The Elements of Typographic Style cover

611. The Elements of Typographic Style

by Robert Bringhurst

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

612. 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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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst cover

613. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

by Robert M. Sapolsky

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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living cover

614. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

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

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

by William Poundstone

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iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It cover

616. iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It

by Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith

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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life cover

617. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

by Erving Goffman

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Tribes cover

618. Tribes

by Seth Godin

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship cover

619. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship

by Ben Horowitz

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

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

by Max Tegmark

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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition cover

621. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition

by Alice Miller

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The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993 cover

622. The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993

by Jordan Mechner

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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley cover

623. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

by Antonio Garcia Martinez

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Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth cover

624. Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

by Andrew Smith

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Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory cover

625. Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory

by George Gamow

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PowerShell Cookbook, 4th Edition cover

626. PowerShell Cookbook, 4th Edition

by Lee Holmes

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Information Rules cover

627. Information Rules

by Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian

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Proofs from THE BOOK cover

628. Proofs from THE BOOK

by Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler

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RESTful Web Services Cookbook: Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity cover

629. RESTful Web Services Cookbook: Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity

by Subbu Allamaraju, Subrahmanyam Allamaraju

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Tricks of the Game-Programming Gurus cover

630. Tricks of the Game-Programming Gurus

by André LaMothe

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

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

by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

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IPv6 Address Planning cover

632. IPv6 Address Planning

by Tom Coffeen

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On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen cover

633. On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

by Harold McGee

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RESTful Web Services Cookbook cover

634. RESTful Web Services Cookbook

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sendmail, 4th Edition cover

635. sendmail, 4th Edition

by Bryan Costales, Claus Assmann, George Jansen, Gregory Shapiro

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Modernist Cuisine. The Art and Science of Cooking cover

636. Modernist Cuisine. The Art and Science of Cooking

by Nathan Myhrvold

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Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX cover

637. Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

by Eric Berger

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Webmaster in a Nutshell, Second Edition cover

638. Webmaster in a Nutshell, Second Edition

by Stephen Spainhour, Robert Eckstein

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Bag in the Wind cover

639. Bag in the Wind

by Ted Kooser

Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training cover

640. Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training

by Karen Pryor

Concurrency in Go cover

641. Concurrency in Go

by Katherine Cox-Buday

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The Wright Brothers cover

642. The Wright Brothers

by David McCullough

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Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know cover

643. Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know

by Jim Camp

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Dark Matter: A Novel cover

644. Dark Matter: A Novel

by Blake Crouch

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Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America cover

645. Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

by Chris Arnade

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Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations cover

646. Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations

by William Ury

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Algorithm Design cover

647. Algorithm Design

by Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos

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Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's

648. Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire"

by William R. Newman

Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent cover

649. Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent

by Joel Spolsky

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Project Hail Mary: A Novel cover

650. Project Hail Mary: A Novel

by Andy Weir

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The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power cover

651. The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power

by Joseph Turow

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The Ashley Book of Knots cover

652. The Ashley Book of Knots

by Clifford Warren Ashley

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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World cover

653. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

by Steven Johnson

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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration cover

654. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

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MAC OS X Internals: A Systems Approach cover

655. MAC OS X Internals: A Systems Approach

by Amit Singh

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BASIC Computer Games: Microcomputer Edition cover

656. BASIC Computer Games: Microcomputer Edition

by David H. Ahl

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The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast! cover

657. The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!

by Josh Kaufman

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity cover

658. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber, David Wengrow

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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, 2nd Edition cover

659. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, 2nd Edition

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Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design cover

660. Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design

by Wendy Walrabenstein

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High Performance Web Sites cover

661. High Performance Web Sites

by Steve Souders

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Record of the Listener: Selected Stories from Hong Mai's Yijian Zhi cover

662. Record of the Listener: Selected Stories from Hong Mai's Yijian Zhi

by Mai Hong

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It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences cover

663. It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences

by June Casagrande

Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring (Paperback)) cover

664. Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring (Paperback))

by Christopher Hitchens

The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression: A Step-by-Step Program cover

665. The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression: A Step-by-Step Program

by William J. Knaus, Albert Ellis

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

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

by Christof Koch

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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty cover

667. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

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Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology cover

668. Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

by Valentino Braitenberg

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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) cover

669. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Gregory Clark

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind cover

670. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

by Julian Jaynes

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Global Catastrophic Risks cover

671. Global Catastrophic Risks

by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic

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The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America cover

672. The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America

by Ernest Freeberg

Tartine Bread cover

673. Tartine Bread

by Chad Robertson

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The Man With the President's Mind cover

674. The Man With the President's Mind

The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic cover

675. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

by Mike Duncan

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

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

by Charles J. Murray

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The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys cover

677. The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys

by James Fadiman

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Flight: My Life in Mission Control cover

678. Flight: My Life in Mission Control

by Christopher C. Kraft

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Building Web Reputation Systems cover

679. Building Web Reputation Systems

by F. Randall Farmer

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High Performance Python cover

680. High Performance Python

by Micha Gorelick

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ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History cover

681. ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History

by Jennifer Dasal

The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters cover

682. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

by Frances Stonor Saunders

Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature cover

683. Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature

by Zhizhong Cai

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator cover

684. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

by Edwin Lefèvre

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A Modern Method for Guitar Complete Edition | Volumes 1 2 and 3 in One Book | William Leavitt Berklee Guitar Course for Beginners and Intermediate Players | Essential Guitar Study Guide cover

685. A Modern Method for Guitar Complete Edition | Volumes 1 2 and 3 in One Book | William Leavitt Berklee Guitar Course for Beginners and Intermediate Players | Essential Guitar Study Guide

by William Leavitt

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition cover

686. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition

by Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang

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Building Tools with GitHub cover

687. Building Tools with GitHub

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The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books) cover

688. The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books)

by Frank O'Brien

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Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More (Culture of Enterprise) cover

689. Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More (Culture of Enterprise)

by John Medaille

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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work cover

690. It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

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Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students cover

691. Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students

by Jenny Olive

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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain cover

692. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

by David Eagleman

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Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management cover

693. Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management

by Richard Jones, Rafael Lins

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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children cover

694. NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

by Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman

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To Mock a Mockingbird cover

695. To Mock a Mockingbird

by Raymond M. Smullyan

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The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems cover

696. The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems

by W. Michael Kelley

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3,000 Solved Problems in Linear Algebra cover

697. 3,000 Solved Problems in Linear Algebra

by Seymour Lipschutz

How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking cover

698. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking

by Sönke Ahrens

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A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) cover

699. A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

by Barbara A. Oakley

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Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

700. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Bruce Tate

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