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How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way? cover

1. How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?

by Hiroyuki Nishigaki

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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism cover

2. Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang

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jQuery Pocket Reference cover

3. jQuery Pocket Reference

by David Flanagan

On Creativity (Routledge Classics) cover

4. On Creativity (Routledge Classics)

by David Bohm

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The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman cover

5. The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman

by Timothy Ferriss

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David's Sling cover

6. David's Sling

by Marc Stiegler

Mind Performance Hacks cover

7. Mind Performance Hacks

by Ron Hale-Evans

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The Housing Boom and Bust cover

8. The Housing Boom and Bust

by Thomas Sowell

It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything cover

9. It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything

by Jeffrey Steingarten

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method cover

10. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

by George Pólya

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Extinct Humans cover

11. Extinct Humans

by Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey H. Schwartz

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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives cover

12. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

by Leonard Mlodinow

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High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers cover

13. High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers

by Steve Souders

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Purely Functional Data Structures cover

14. Purely Functional Data Structures

by Chris Okasaki

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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age cover

15. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

by Paul Graham

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Million Dollar Consulting, New and Updated Edition: The Professional's Guide to Growing a Practice cover

16. Million Dollar Consulting, New and Updated Edition: The Professional's Guide to Growing a Practice

by Alan Weiss

Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL cover

17. Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL

by Kevin Yank

The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition) cover

18. The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition)

by Robin Williams

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Augustine's Laws, Sixth Edition cover

19. Augustine's Laws, Sixth Edition

by Norman R. Augustine

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Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (Special Edition) cover

20. Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (Special Edition)

by Michael Abrash

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Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites (Animal Guide) cover

21. Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites (Animal Guide)

by Robin Nixon

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Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love cover

22. Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love

by Marty Cagan

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Scalable Internet Architectures cover

23. Scalable Internet Architectures

by Theo Schlossnagle

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Collected Fictions cover

24. Collected Fictions

by Jorge Luis Borges

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Game Coding Complete, Third Edition cover

25. Game Coding Complete, Third Edition

by Mike McShaffry

Real-Time Collision Detection (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3-D Technology) cover

26. Real-Time Collision Detection (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3-D Technology)

by Christer Ericson

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Game Engine Architecture cover

27. Game Engine Architecture

by Jason Gregory

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