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1. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition
by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
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2. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock
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3. Gödel's Proof
by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman
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4. A Philosophy of Software Design
by John Ousterhout
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5. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1)
by Rob Walling
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6. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
by Cooper, Alan
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7. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
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8. Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by Ian Stewart
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9. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck
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10. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language
by Ted Gioia
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11. Discrete Mathematics with Applications
by Susanna S. Epp
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12. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
by Christopher M. Bishop
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13. Functional JavaScript
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14. Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty
by Gerd Gigerenzer
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15. The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
by Noam Wasserman
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16. Have Fun at Work
by William L. Livingston
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17. Feedback Control for Computer Systems
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18. Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
by Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles van Marrewijk
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19. Clojure Programming
by Chas Emerick. Brian Carper. Christophe Grand
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20. Algorithms
by Jeff Erickson
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