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1. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
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2. The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself
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3. Maverick!: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workshop
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4. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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5. The Book of Webmin: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love UNIX
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6. Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small
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7. Farmer Boy (Little House)
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8. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)
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9. Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
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10. Growing a Business
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11. Strategy, Economic Organization, and the Knowledge Economy: The Coordination of Firms and Resources
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12. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
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13. The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
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14. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
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15. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 4th Edition
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16. Tao Te Ching: A New Translation with Commentary
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17. Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Entrepreneurship from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
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18. The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality
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19. Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want, The
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20. Algebra (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
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21. Algebra
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22. Undergraduate Algebra (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
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23. RESTful Web Services
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24. Secrets for Higher Success
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25. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
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26. Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality
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27. Black Rednecks and White Liberals
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28. Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition
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29. Biostatistical Analysis (4th Edition)
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30. My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
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31. Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance
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32. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)
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33. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
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34. Calculus
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35. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
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36. The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing
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37. The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)
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38. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
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39. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
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40. Python Cookbook
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41. How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
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42. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books)
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43. Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (New York Institute of Finance)
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44. Intro Stats (2nd Edition)
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45. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
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46. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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47. Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)
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48. The Handbook of Mortgage-Backed Securities
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49. Salomon Smith Barney Guide to Mortgage-Backed and Asset-Backed Securities
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50. Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
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51. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Ninth Edition)
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52. Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
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53. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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54. The Art of Electronics
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55. Spidering Hacks
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56. Core Python Programming (2nd Edition)
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57. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
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58. Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District
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59. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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60. In Defense of Elitism
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61. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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62. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
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63. The 80/10/10 Diet
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64. Fit for Life
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65. Investments
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66. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto)
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67. Understanding the Linux Kernel
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68. Programming Python
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69. Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance
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70. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
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71. Learning GNU Emacs
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72. Making Things Talk
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73. Python in a Nutshell
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74. F**k it: The Ultimate Spiritual Way
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75. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
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76. NLP in 21 Days: A Complete Introduction and Training Programme
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77. The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory (Complete Idiot's Guides (Lifestyle Paperback))
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78. Visual Complex Analysis
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79. Digital Image Processing (2nd Edition)
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80. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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81. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
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82. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
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83. Gravitation
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84. The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
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85. Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
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86. The High-Performance Mind
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87. The Myths of Innovation
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88. Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
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89. Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives)
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90. Potential
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91. The Eighteenth Emergency
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92. Learning Python
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93. Python Essential Reference (3rd Edition)
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94. The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (Star Wars)
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95. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
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96. Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
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97. Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach (2nd Edition)
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98. Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Web Sites
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99. Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation
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100. Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points
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