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1. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
by Robert B. Cialdini
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2. The Algorithm Design Manual
by Steven S Skiena
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3. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
by Martin Kleppmann
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4. Purely Functional Data Structures
by Chris Okasaki
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5. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
by Seymour A. Papert
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6. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
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7. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
by Donald C. Shoup
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8. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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9. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
by Robert Coram
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10. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
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11. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
by Eric Schlosser
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12. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
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13. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
by Peter Seibel
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14. The Four Steps to the Epiphany
by Steve Blank
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15. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
by Rob Fitzpatrick
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16. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by John J. Ratey
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17. A Philosophy of Software Design
by John Ousterhout
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18. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
by Michael A. Hiltzik
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19. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by Nicholas Carr
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20. 21st Century C
by Ben Klemens
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