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1. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)
by Liping Ma
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2. 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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3. Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education
by Harold Stevenson, James W. Stigler
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4. Vision in Elementary Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by W. W. Sawyer
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5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
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6. Secret Diary of a Call Girl
by Belle de Jour, Anonymous
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7. How to Develop a Super Power Memory
by Harry Lorayne
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8. Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language
by Don Watson
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9. Code
by Charles Petzold
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10. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
by Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas
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11. The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
by Brian W. Kernighan
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12. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
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13. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson
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14. Mathematics in India
by Kim Plofker
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15. The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies
by David Wilcock
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16. The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
by Neil Postman
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17. Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
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18. Making Software
by Andrew Oram, Greg Wilson
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19. The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2)
by Patrick Rothfuss
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20. Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
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21. Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar Featuring the Original Formulae
by David Wondrich
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22. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries
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23. Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas
by Brad Thomas Parsons
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24. Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work: A Cookbook
by Alexander H. Talbot, Aki Kamozawa, H. Alexander Talbot
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25. Tree of Smoke: A Novel
by Denis Johnson
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26. Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
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27. Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap
by Steven Farr
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28. Understanding Numbers in Elementary School Mathematics
by Hongxi Wu
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29. Visible Learning
by John Hattie
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30. Drunken Comportment: A Social Explanation (Foundations of Anthropology)
by Craig MacAndrew, Robert B. Edgerton
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31. Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
by Timothy Gowers
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32. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein
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33. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
by Sam Harris
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34. Wraeththu: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate, The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire
by Storm Constantine
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35. Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
by Renni Browne
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36. Influence: Science and Practice
by Robert B. Cialdini
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37. The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America
by Jim Marrs
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38. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
by Michael A. Hiltzik
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39. The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
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40. Under The Skin: A Chilling Literary Sci-Fi Thriller About Hitchhikers Who Disappear in Scotland
by Michel Faber
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