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Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) cover

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

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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Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education cover

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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Vision in Elementary Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

4. Vision in Elementary Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by W. W. Sawyer

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone cover

5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

Secret Diary of a Call Girl cover

6. Secret Diary of a Call Girl

by Belle de Jour, Anonymous

How to Develop a Super Power Memory cover

7. How to Develop a Super Power Memory

by Harry Lorayne

Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language cover

8. Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language

by Don Watson

Code cover

9. Code

by Charles Petzold

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Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage cover

10. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage

by Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas

The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

11. The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan

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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age cover

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

by Paul Graham

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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist cover

13. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson

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Mathematics in India cover

14. Mathematics in India

by Kim Plofker

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The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies cover

15. The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies

by David Wilcock

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The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School cover

16. The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

by Neil Postman

Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy cover

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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Making Software cover

18. Making Software

by Andrew Oram, Greg Wilson

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The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2) cover

19. The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2)

by Patrick Rothfuss

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Ready Player One cover

20. Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to

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

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses cover

22. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

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Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas cover

23. Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas

by Brad Thomas Parsons

Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work: A Cookbook cover

24. Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work: A Cookbook

by Alexander H. Talbot, Aki Kamozawa, H. Alexander Talbot

Tree of Smoke: A Novel cover

25. Tree of Smoke: A Novel

by Denis Johnson

Wolf Hall cover

26. Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel

Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap cover

27. Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap

by Steven Farr

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Understanding Numbers in Elementary School Mathematics cover

28. Understanding Numbers in Elementary School Mathematics

by Hongxi Wu

Visible Learning cover

29. Visible Learning

by John Hattie

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Drunken Comportment: A Social Explanation (Foundations of Anthropology) cover

30. Drunken Comportment: A Social Explanation (Foundations of Anthropology)

by Craig MacAndrew, Robert B. Edgerton

Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction cover

31. Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction

by Timothy Gowers

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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) cover

32. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein

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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason cover

33. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

by Sam Harris

Wraeththu: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate, The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire cover

34. Wraeththu: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate, The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire

by Storm Constantine

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print cover

35. Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print

by Renni Browne

Influence: Science and Practice cover

36. Influence: Science and Practice

by Robert B. Cialdini

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The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America cover

37. The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America

by Jim Marrs

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age cover

38. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Michael A. Hiltzik

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The Name of the Wind cover

39. The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

Under The Skin: A Chilling Literary Sci-Fi Thriller About Hitchhikers Who Disappear in Scotland cover

40. Under The Skin: A Chilling Literary Sci-Fi Thriller About Hitchhikers Who Disappear in Scotland

by Michel Faber