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2011
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Showing 101 - 200 of 426 books
101. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
by Robert B. Cialdini
Read 39 comments
102. My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
by Nikola Tesla
Read 1 comment
103. Designerly Ways of Knowing (Board of International Research in Design)
by Nigel Cross
Read 1 comment
104. Effective Cycling: 6th Edition
by John Forester
Read 2 comments
105. How to Lie with Statistics
by Darrell Huff
Read 18 comments
106. Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
by Gary A. Klein
Read 4 comments
107. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
by Jef Raskin
Read 9 comments
108. Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form – Twelve Revolutions in Digital Publishing, Creators' Rights, and the Future of Storytelling
by Scott McCloud
Read 1 comment
109. Smart Calling: Eliminate the Fear, Failure, and Rejection From Cold Calling
by Art Sobczak
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110. Judgment in Managerial Decision Making
by Max H. Bazerman
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111. Convicted but Innocent: Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy
by C. Ronald Huff, Arye Rattner, Edward Sagarin
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112. The History of White People
by Nell Irvin Painter
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113. The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
by Benjamin Graham
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114. The Man Who Rode the Thunder
by William Henry Rankin
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115. Secrets of Power Negotiating: Inside Secrets from a Master Negotiator
by Roger Dawson
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116. To Mock a Mockingbird
by Raymond M. Smullyan
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117. Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business
by Ernie Chan
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118. Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves
by Sharon Begley
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119. The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
by Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Sharon Begley
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120. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
by Sam Harris
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121. Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse
by Peter D. Schiff
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122. Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder
by Rudy von Bitter Rucker
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123. Health Behavior Change and Treatment Adherence: Evidence-based Guidelines for Improving Healthcare
by Leslie R. Martin, Kelly B. Haskard-Zolnierek, M. Robin DiMatteo
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124. Programming Pearls (ACM Press)
by Jon Louis Bentley
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125. Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual
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126. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health
by Gary Taubes
Read 7 comments
127. Fat and Cholesterol Are Good for You: What Really Causes Heart Disease
by Uffe Ravnskov
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128. The Great Cholesterol Con
by Anthony Colpo
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129. Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
by William Davis
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130. Paleo Solution, 2nd Edition
by Robb Wolf
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131. Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
by George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller
Read 1 comment
132. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition
by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Read 36 comments
133. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley
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134. Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
by Thomas Sowell
Read 1 comment
135. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi
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136. Thinking with a Pencil
by Henning Nelms
Read 1 comment
137. Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk
by Richard Grinold, Ronald Kahn
Read 1 comment
138. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
by Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas
Read 1 comment
139. Elements of Information Theory (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)
by Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas
Read 1 comment
140. Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition
by Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher
Read 1 comment
141. Statistics
by David Freedman
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142. The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
by Robert Wright
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143. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
by Martin Elias Pete Seligman
Read 7 comments
144. Train Your Brain to Get Happy: The Simple Program That Primes Your Grey Cells for Joy, Optimism, and Serenity
by Teresa Aubele, Susan Reynolds
Read 1 comment
145. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
by Seth Godin
Read 3 comments
146. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
Read 10 comments
147. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
Read 20 comments
148. Hilary Mason: An Introduction to Machine Learning with Web Data
Read 3 comments
149. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming
by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit, Victor Luchangco, Michael Spear
Read 9 comments
150. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
by Larry Harris
Read 4 comments
151. The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation
by Perseus
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152. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
by Shunryū Suzuki
Read 6 comments
153. The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
by Brian W. Kernighan
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154. The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers
by Edward Fields
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155. Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
by Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC Research Group
Read 1 comment
156. Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)
by Michael Michalko
Read 3 comments
157. Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
by Michael J. Mauboussin
Read 1 comment
158. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Read 2 comments
159. Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems
by Carl Townsend, Dennis Feucht
Read 1 comment
160. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts
by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier
Read 27 comments
161. Thinking and Deciding, 4th Edition
by Jonathan Baron
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162. Project Management With Cpm, Pert and Precedence Diagramming
by Joseph J. Moder, Cecil R. Phillips, Edward Willmore Davis
Read 1 comment
163. Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand
by Connie Malamed
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164. R Graphs Cookbook
by Hrishi V. Mittal
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165. Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by Joshua Foer
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166. Debugging: The Nine Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems
by David J. Agans
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167. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
by Scott McCloud
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168. The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance)
by Alex Kuznetsov
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169. Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge
by Oded Shenkar
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170. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley
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171. The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life
by John Daido Loori
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172. The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation
by Frederick Franck
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173. The Elements of Typographic Style
by Robert Bringhurst
Read 9 comments
174. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Interview Questions and Solutions
by Gayle Laakmann
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175. Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference
by Judea Pearl
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176. Zinn's Cycling Primer: Maintenance Tips and Skill Building for Cyclists
by Lennard Zinn
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177. Building Scalable Web Sites
by Cal Henderson
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178. Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by Hanan Samet
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179. Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman
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180. Personality Not Included: Why Companies Lose Their Authenticity And How Great Brands Get it Back, Foreword by Guy Kawasaki
by Rohit Bhargava
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181. The Art of Capacity Planning
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182. Web Operations
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183. Programming Collective Intelligence
Read 30 comments
184. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton
Read 15 comments
185. Beginning Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 (Expert's Voice in Java Technology)
by Antonio Goncalves
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186. Pro JPA 2: Mastering the Java™ Persistence API (Expert's Voice in Java Technology)
by Mike Keith
Read 1 comment
187. Real World Java EE Night Hacks Dissecting the Business Tier
by Adam Bien
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188. Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server
by David R. Heffelfinger
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189. Pro Puppet (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
by James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune
Read 1 comment
190. The Triumph of Contrarian Investing : Crowds, Manias, and Beating the Market by Going Against the Grain
by Nathan E. Davis
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191. Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again
by Norah Vincent
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192. Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition)
by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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193. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
Read 23 comments
194. The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor
Read 3 comments
195. Payments Systems in the U.S.
by Carol Coye Benson, Scott Loftesness
Read 1 comment
196. Remembering the Kana: The Hiragana / The Katakana
by James W. Heisig, Helmut Morsbach, Kazue Kurebayashi
Read 1 comment
197. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
by Kent Beck
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198. Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, 2nd Edition (Programmer to Programmer)
by John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Gigu?re
Read 1 comment
199. The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing)
by Kees Doets, Jan Eijck
Read 6 comments
200. High Performance Discovery In Time Series: Techniques and Case Studies (Monographs in Computer Science)
by Dennis Elliott Shasha, Yunyue Zhu
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