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1. Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
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2. The Hidden Persuaders
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3. The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
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4. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
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5. Genderspeak: Men, Women, and the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense
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6. The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense at Work
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7. City of Truth (Harvest Book)
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8. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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9. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
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10. Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice
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11. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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12. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
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13. Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
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14. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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15. Envisioning Information
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16. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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17. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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18. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
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19. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
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20. The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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21. The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
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22. Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
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23. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
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24. The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
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25. How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
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26. Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation
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27. The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
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28. Electronic Commerce
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29. How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
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30. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
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31. Web Standards Creativity: Innovations in Web Design with XHTML, CSS, and DOM Scripting
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32. ITT: The Management of Opportunity
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33. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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34. Scalable Internet Architectures
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35. Learning Perl
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36. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books)
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37. Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
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38. Algorithms in C++, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structure, Sorting, Searching, Third Edition
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39. The Algorithm Design Manual
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40. Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
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41. Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Term Sheets & Valuations (Bigwig Briefs)
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42. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
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43. Introductory Techniques for 3-D Computer Vision
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44. PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition)
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45. Lisp in Small Pieces
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46. Computer Vision: A Modern Approach
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47. Bargaining for Advantage : Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
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48. Programming Collective Intelligence
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49. How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle -- How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
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50. Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World
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51. Code Complete (Microsoft Programming)
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52. Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation
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53. Algorithm Design
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54. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
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55. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
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56. Priest, Vol. 3: Requiem for the Damned
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57. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)
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58. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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59. The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?
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60. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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61. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)
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62. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
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63. The Selfish Gene (Popular Science)
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64. The C++ Standard Template Library
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65. Common Morality: Deciding What to Do
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66. An Invitation to Formal Reasoning: The Logic of Terms
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67. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Vms: An Unsupported-Undocumented-Can-Go-Away-At-Any-Time Feature of Vms
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68. Bootstrap: Lessons Learned Building a Successful Company from Scratch
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69. Bootstrapping Your Business: Start and Grow a Successful Company with Almost No Money
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70. Proofs without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking (Classroom Resource Materials) (v. 1)
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71. The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right (Expert's Voice in Web Development)
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72. Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
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73. Earth Story : The Forces That Have Shaped Our Planet
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74. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
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75. Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People 2nd Edition
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76. Halting State
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77. The Elements of Style (4th Edition)
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78. Advertising Design and Typography
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79. Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook: The Eight Best Practices of Task and E-Mail Management
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80. The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
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81. Patent Pending in 24 Hours
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82. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life
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83. How to Make Patent Drawings: A Patent It Yourself Companion
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84. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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85. Patent It Yourself, 12th Edition
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86. Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
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87. Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition
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88. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
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89. How To Get Rich
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90. Digital Aboriginal: The Direction of Business Now: Instinctive, Nomadic, and Ever-Changing
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91. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
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92. Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition
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93. RESTful Web Services
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94. Advanced Mac OS X Programming (2nd Edition of Core Mac OS X & Unix Programming)
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95. The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon
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96. The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably
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97. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law
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98. First Things First
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99. High Performance MySQL
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100. Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications
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