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The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World cover

1. The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

by David Kirkpatrick

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Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to those Beautiful Methods of Rekoning which are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus cover

2. Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to those Beautiful Methods of Rekoning which are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus

by Silvanus Phillips Thompson

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Chapter Zero: Fundamental Notions of Abstract Mathematics (2nd Edition) cover

3. Chapter Zero: Fundamental Notions of Abstract Mathematics (2nd Edition)

by Carol Schumacher

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Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point cover

4. Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point

by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck

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Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way cover

5. Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way

by Richard Branson

Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits cover

6. Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits

by Robert C. Townsend, Warren Bennis

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American Roulette: How I Turned the Odds Upside Down---My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off the World's Casinos (Thomas Dunne Books) cover

7. American Roulette: How I Turned the Odds Upside Down---My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off the World's Casinos (Thomas Dunne Books)

by Richard Marcus

The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems cover

8. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

by Jef Raskin

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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It cover

9. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

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Crossroads of Twilight (Wheel of Time, Book 10) cover

10. Crossroads of Twilight (Wheel of Time, Book 10)

by Robert Jordan

Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Oxford Paperbacks) cover

11. Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Oxford Paperbacks)

by Morris Kline

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance cover

12. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

by Barack Obama

When You Are Engulfed in Flames cover

13. When You Are Engulfed in Flames

by David Sedaris

Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us cover

14. Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us

by Rodney Allen Brooks

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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules cover

15. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

by David Sedaris

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness cover

16. Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness

by Bruce Rosenblum, Fred Kuttner

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The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine cover

17. The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine

by Francis S. Collins

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

18. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

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The Web Startup Success Guide (Books for Professionals by Professionals) cover

19. The Web Startup Success Guide (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

by Robert Walsh

Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 cover

20. Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0

by Sarah Lacy

A People's History of the United States cover

21. A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn

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Shantaram: A Novel cover

22. Shantaram: A Novel

by Gregory David Roberts

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A Study in Scarlet: The First Sherlock Holmes Mystery cover

23. A Study in Scarlet: The First Sherlock Holmes Mystery

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity cover

24. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen

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Anticancer: A New Way of Life cover

25. Anticancer: A New Way of Life

by David Servan-Schreiber

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Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries cover

26. Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries

by Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams

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Professional Visual Studio 2010 cover

27. Professional Visual Studio 2010

by Nick Randolph, David Gardner, Chris Anderson, Michael Minutillo

Professional C# 4.0 and .NET 4 cover

28. Professional C# 4.0 and .NET 4

by Christian Nagel

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference cover

29. C# 4.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference

C# in Depth: What you need to master C# 2 and 3, 1st Edition cover

30. C# in Depth: What you need to master C# 2 and 3, 1st Edition

by Jon Skeet

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CLR via C# (3rd Edition) (Developer Reference) cover

31. CLR via C# (3rd Edition) (Developer Reference)

by Jeffrey Richter

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The Truth About Addiction and Recovery cover

32. The Truth About Addiction and Recovery

by Stanton Peele, Archie Brodsky, Mary Arnold

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

33. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

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Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime cover

34. Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime

by Don Box, Chris Sells

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CLR via C#, Second Edition (Developer Reference) cover

35. CLR via C#, Second Edition (Developer Reference)

by Jeffrey Richter

Concurrent Programming on Windows cover

36. Concurrent Programming on Windows

by Joe Duffy

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine cover

37. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael M. Lewis

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