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Computers and Typesetting cover

1. Computers and Typesetting

by Donald E. Knuth

The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play cover

2. The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

by Neil Fiore

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Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength cover

3. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

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Programmer's Guide to the EGA, VGA, and Super VGA Cards (3rd Edition) cover

4. Programmer's Guide to the EGA, VGA, and Super VGA Cards (3rd Edition)

by Richard F. Ferraro

Designerly Ways of Knowing (Board of International Research in Design) cover

5. Designerly Ways of Knowing (Board of International Research in Design)

by Nigel Cross

Thinking with a Pencil cover

6. Thinking with a Pencil

by Henning Nelms

Elements of Information Theory (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing) cover

7. Elements of Information Theory (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)

by Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas

Train Your Brain to Get Happy: The Simple Program That Primes Your Grey Cells for Joy, Optimism, and Serenity cover

8. Train Your Brain to Get Happy: The Simple Program That Primes Your Grey Cells for Joy, Optimism, and Serenity

by Teresa Aubele, Susan Reynolds

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

9. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice cover

10. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

by Shunryū Suzuki

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Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition) cover

11. Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)

by Michael Michalko

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

12. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition cover

13. Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition

by Michael J. Mauboussin

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard cover

14. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart cover

15. Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart

by Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC Research Group

Project Management With Cpm, Pert and Precedence Diagramming cover

16. Project Management With Cpm, Pert and Precedence Diagramming

by Joseph J. Moder, Cecil R. Phillips, Edward Willmore Davis

Thinking and Deciding, 4th Edition cover

17. Thinking and Deciding, 4th Edition

by Jonathan Baron

Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand cover

18. Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand

by Connie Malamed

Prometheus Rising cover

19. Prometheus Rising

by Robert Anton Wilson

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The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life cover

20. The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life

by John Daido Loori

The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation cover

21. The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation

by Frederick Franck

Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

22. Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Hanan Samet

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Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again cover

23. Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again

by Norah Vincent

Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns cover

24. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

by Kent Beck

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Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Reports) cover

25. Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Reports)

by Gerd Gigerenzer, Christoph Engel

Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions cover

26. Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

by Gary A. Klein

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You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself cover

27. You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself

by David McRaney

The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving cover

28. The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving

by Barbara Minto

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom cover

29. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

by Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less cover

30. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

by Barry Schwartz

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The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep cover

31. The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep

by William C. Dement

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

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

by Martin Elias Pete Seligman

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Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development (Essays in Social Psychology) cover

33. Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development (Essays in Social Psychology)

by Carol S. Dweck

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work cover

34. The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

by Shawn Achor

What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite cover

35. What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

by David DiSalvo

I Will Teach You To Be Rich cover

36. I Will Teach You To Be Rich

by Ramit Sethi

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JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns cover

37. JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns

by Stoyan Stefanov

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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics) cover

38. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)

by Eric Hoffer

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The Art of Prolog, Second Edition: Advanced Programming Techniques (Logic Programming) cover

39. The Art of Prolog, Second Edition: Advanced Programming Techniques (Logic Programming)

by Leon Sterling, Ehud Y. Shapiro

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On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication cover

40. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication

by William Zinsser

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How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling cover

41. How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling

by Frank Bettger

A quantum mechanics primer: An Elementary Introduction to the Formal Theory of Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics cover

42. A quantum mechanics primer: An Elementary Introduction to the Formal Theory of Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics

by Daniel T. Gillespie

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture cover

43. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

by Martin Fowler

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