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1. Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
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2. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
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3. On Competition
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4. Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis.
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5. Creating Harmonious Relationships: A Practical Guide to the Power of True Empathy
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6. The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
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7. Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow
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8. The Rich Are Different: A Priceless Treasury of Quotations and Anecdotes About the Affluent, the Posh, a nd the Just Plain Loaded
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9. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)
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10. Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
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11. Dive Into Python
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12. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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13. The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Book & CD)
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14. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
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15. Modern Compiler Implementation in ML
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16. Land of LISP: Learn to Program in LISP, One Game at a Time!
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17. The Money Is the Gravy: Finding the Career That Nourishes You
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18. Hacker's Delight
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19. Essential System Administration: Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration, 3rd Edition
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20. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
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21. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
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22. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
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23. The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
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24. How to Lie with Statistics
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25. A Course in Mathematical Logic (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
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26. Why Evolution Is True
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27. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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28. Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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29. Evolution: The First Four Billion Years
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30. Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library)
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31. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
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32. Teach Your Child to Read in Just Ten Minutes a Day
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33. The Method of Coordinates
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34. Sequences, Combinations, Limits (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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35. Calculus, Vol. 2: Multi-Variable Calculus and Linear Algebra with Applications to Differential Equations and Probability
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36. Trigonometry
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37. Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History of a Methodological Concept (Ideas in Context)
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38. The Day I Became an Autodidact and the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies That Befell Me Thereafter
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39. Learning the bash Shell
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40. The Tyranny of Testing
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41. The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
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42. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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43. Pushing Yourself to Power: The Ultimate Guide to Total Body Transformation
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44. Masterminds of Programming
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45. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Revised Edition)
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46. Selected Papers on Computer Science (Lecture Notes)
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47. The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis
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48. Quantum Fields and Strings: A Course for Mathematicians
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49. DNS and BIND (5th Edition)
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50. Insider's Tell-All Handbook on Weight-Training Technique: Illustrated Step-by-step Guide to Perfecting Your Exercise Form for Injury-free Maximum Gains, 3rd Edition
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51. Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
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52. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
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53. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
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54. The Nature of Paleolithic Art
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55. How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)
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56. The Art & Science Of Dumpster Diving
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57. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
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58. Game Theory at Work: How to Use Game Theory to Outthink and Outmaneuver Your Competition
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59. Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
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60. Buddhism Plain and Simple
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61. The Design of the UNIX Operating System
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62. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
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63. Understanding the Linux Kernel
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64. Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition)
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65. Linux System Programming
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66. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
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67. The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
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68. The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
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69. Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care
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70. War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900 (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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71. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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72. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround
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73. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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74. Axiomatic
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75. Beautiful Data
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76. iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
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77. Principles of Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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78. Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown
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79. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
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80. The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die
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81. Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
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82. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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83. Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
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84. The Leap: How 3 Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career from Good to Great
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85. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
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86. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 4th Edition
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87. Unix Power Tools
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88. Outliers: The Story of Success
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89. Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering
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90. Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control
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91. A Mathematician's Survival Guide: Graduate School and Early Career Development
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92. Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America
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93. The Practice of System and Network Administration, Second Edition
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94. DNS and BIND
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95. Calculus, Vol. 1: One-Variable Calculus, with an Introduction to Linear Algebra
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96. Elementary Classical Analysis, 2nd Edition
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97. Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting
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98. The Piano Tuner
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99. Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition
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100. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)
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