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One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com cover

1. One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com

by Richard L. Brandt

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Steve Jobs cover

2. Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

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Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students cover

3. Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students

by Jenny Olive

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Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals cover

4. Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals

by Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.

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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers cover

5. What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

by Richard Nelson Bolles

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success cover

6. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

by Carol S. Dweck

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Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life cover

7. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

by Martin Elias Pete Seligman

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The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom cover

8. The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

by James W. Stigler, James Hiebert

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Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain cover

9. Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain

by Ron Hale-Evans

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Kids Don't Want to Fail: Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap cover

10. Kids Don't Want to Fail: Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap

by Angel L. Harris

The Millionaire Next Door cover

11. The Millionaire Next Door

by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

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Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating cover

12. Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating

by Walter Willett

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Designing Design cover

13. Designing Design

by Kenya Hara

Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual (Texts in Computer Science) cover

14. Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual (Texts in Computer Science)

by Steven S. Skiena, Miguel A. Revilla

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Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health cover

15. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health

by Gary Taubes

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Fat and Cholesterol Are Good for You: What Really Causes Heart Disease cover

16. Fat and Cholesterol Are Good for You: What Really Causes Heart Disease

by Uffe Ravnskov

The Great Cholesterol Con cover

17. The Great Cholesterol Con

by Anthony Colpo

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health cover

18. Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

by William Davis

Paleo Solution, 2nd Edition cover

19. Paleo Solution, 2nd Edition

by Robb Wolf

Simone Weil: An Anthology cover

20. Simone Weil: An Anthology

by Simone Weil

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

21. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

22. Programming Collective Intelligence

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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 cover

23. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

by Brian Fagan

Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) cover

24. Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

by Chad Pytel, Tammer Saleh

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Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

25. Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Scott Meyers

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Game Engine Architecture cover

26. Game Engine Architecture

by Jason Gregory

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In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State cover

27. In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State

by Charles A. Murray

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Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity cover

28. Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity

by Avinash Kaushik

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Web Analytics: An Hour a Day cover

29. Web Analytics: An Hour a Day

by Avinash Kaushik

A Geography Of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist cover

30. A Geography Of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist

by Robert N. Levine

Finance for Managers (Harvard Business Essentials) cover

31. Finance for Managers (Harvard Business Essentials)

by Richard Luecke

Frank Wood's Business Accounting 1 cover

32. Frank Wood's Business Accounting 1

by Frank Wood, Alan Sangster

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength cover

33. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

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