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1. Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
by Walter Isaacson
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2. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
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3. The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
by Dan Roam
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4. Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town
by Stacy Horn
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5. Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form – Twelve Revolutions in Digital Publishing, Creators' Rights, and the Future of Storytelling
by Scott McCloud
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6. The History of White People
by Nell Irvin Painter
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7. The Man Who Rode the Thunder
by William Henry Rankin
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8. Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
by Thomas Sowell
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9. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi
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10. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming
by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit, Victor Luchangco, Michael Spear
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11. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition
by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
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12. 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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13. The Linux Programming Interface
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14. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialS ystem--and Themselves
by Andrew Ross Sorkin
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15. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
by John Markoff
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16. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
by Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows
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17. The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice
by Robin Williams
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18. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication
by William Zinsser
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19. The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself
by Susan Bell
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20. Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative
by Pete McBreen
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21. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney
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22. Walking the High-Tech High Wire: The Technical Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Successful Enterprise
by David Adamson
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23. That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right (Independent Studies in Political Economy)
by Stephen P. Halbrook
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24. Samurai, the Mountie and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies?
by David B. Kopel
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25. Guns and Violence: The English Experience
by Joyce Lee Malcolm
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26. Neal Knox - The Gun Rights War
by Neal Knox
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27. The Non-Designer's Design Book
by Robin Williams
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