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1. Effective Cycling: 6th Edition
by John Forester
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2. Why Don't Students Like School?
by Daniel T. Willingham
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3. The New Quotable Einstein
by Albert Einstein, Alice Calaprice
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4. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
by Steven Johnson
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5. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence
by Betty Edwards
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6. The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
by David Hackett Fischer
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7. Musashi
by 吉川英治
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8. Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear. Dan Gardner
by Dan Gardner
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9. The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (Compass)
by Arthur Koestler
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10. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
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11. Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters)
by Jared M. Diamond
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12. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
by David Emanuel Hoffman
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13. The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses
by Chandler Burr
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14. The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
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15. Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
by Lewis Hyde
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16. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
by Sam Harris
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17. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
by Henry Hazlitt
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18. Awaken the Giant Within : How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
by Tony Robbins
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19. How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard
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20. The End of History and the Last Man
by Francis Fukuyama
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21. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
by Chuck Klosterman
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22. Programming Collective Intelligence
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23. The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, 2nd Edition
by Clair Davies, Amber Davies
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24. Once a Runner: A Novel
by John L. Parker (Jr.)
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25. How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live: Learning the Alexander Technique to Explore Your Mind-Body Connection and Achieve Self-Mastery
by Missy Vineyard
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26. Bugs in Writing: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose
by Lyn Dupré
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27. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling
by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross
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28. 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back (Remember When It Didn't Hurt)
by Esther Gokhale
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29. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by Gregory Clark
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30. The Management Secrets of T. John Dick
by Augustus Gump
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31. The C Puzzle Book
by Alan R. Feuer
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32. Patternmaking: A Comprehensive Reference for Fashion Design
by Sylvia Rosen
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33. World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques
by John Gillow, Bryan Sentance
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34. Exit Strategy
by Douglas Rushkoff
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35. Introduction to Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by Maxwell Rosenlicht
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36. Only the Paranoid Survive
by Andrew S. Grove
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37. The Wright Brothers: The Remarkable Story of the Aviation Pioneers Who Changed the World
by Ian Mackersey
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38. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
by Peter Van der Linden
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39. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics)
by Charles P. Kindleberger, Robert Aliber
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40. Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion
by Al Seckel
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41. They All Laughed When I Sat Down at the Computer: And Other True Tales of One Man's Struggle With Personal Computing
by Erik Sandberg-Diment
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42. An Introduction to Programming with IDL: Interactive Data Language
by Kenneth P. Bowman
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43. Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)
by Michael Michalko
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44. The Elements of Typographic Style
by Robert Bringhurst
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45. Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
by Steve Krug
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46. Defensive Design for the Web: How to Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points
by Matthew Linderman, Jason Fried, 37signals (Firm)
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47. Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions
by Bill Scott, Theresa Neil
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48. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
by Jonathan Kozol
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49. Dr. Pascarelli's Complete Guide to Repetitive Strain Injury: What You Need to Know About RSI and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
by Emil F. Pascarelli
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50. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)
by Clayton M. Christensen
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51. Guerilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business
by Jay Conrad Levinson, Jeannie Levinson, Amy Levinson
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52. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
by Geoffrey A. Moore
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53. The Ten-Day MBA: A Step-By-step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools
by Steven Silbiger
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54. Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone
by Drew Eric Whitman
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