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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World cover

1. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World

by Gregory Clark

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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality cover

2. Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha

Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy cover

3. Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy

by John Bowe

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit cover

4. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

by Daniel Quinn

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Mining the Sky: Untold Riches From The Asteroids, Comets, And Planets (Helix Book) cover

5. Mining the Sky: Untold Riches From The Asteroids, Comets, And Planets (Helix Book)

by John S. Lewis

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Mind and Heart of the Negotiator, The (3rd Edition) cover

6. Mind and Heart of the Negotiator, The (3rd Edition)

by Leigh L. Thompson

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Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green: How to Mix the Color You Really Want- Every Time cover

7. Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green: How to Mix the Color You Really Want- Every Time

by Michael Wilcox

Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business cover

8. Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business

by Ernie Chan

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How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets cover

9. How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

by Felix Dennis

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The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear cover

10. The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear

by Seth Mnookin

Design by Contract, by Example cover

11. Design by Contract, by Example

by Richard Mitchell, Jim McKim

Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) cover

12. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

by Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, Gregory G. Colomb

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Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Prose cover

13. Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Prose

by Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner

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Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind cover

14. Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind

by Margalit Fox

Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

15. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott

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Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing cover

16. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

by Christopher Manning, Hinrich Schutze

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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) cover

17. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)

by Christopher M. Bishop

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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals cover

18. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

by Jane Mayer

Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book) cover

19. Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book)

by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray

The Wired Society: A challenge for tomorrow cover

20. The Wired Society: A challenge for tomorrow

by James Martin

Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts cover

21. Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts

by Peter McWillliams

The Procrastinator's Handbook: Mastering the Art of Doing It Now cover

22. The Procrastinator's Handbook: Mastering the Art of Doing It Now

by Rita Emmett

Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School cover

23. Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School

by Philip Delves Broughton

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The Mystery Of Capital Why Capitalism Succeeds In The West And Fails Everywhere Else cover

24. The Mystery Of Capital Why Capitalism Succeeds In The West And Fails Everywhere Else

by Hernando De Soto

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The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business cover

25. The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

by Josh Kaufman

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Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) cover

26. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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What to Say When you Talk To Yourself cover

27. What to Say When you Talk To Yourself

by Shad Helmstetter

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The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom cover

28. The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

by Evgeny Morozov

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Collective Intelligence in Action cover

29. Collective Intelligence in Action

by Satnam Alag

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Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design (Voices That Matter) cover

30. Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design (Voices That Matter)

by Khoi Vinh

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Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor: The Human Stories behind the Drugs We Use cover

31. Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor: The Human Stories behind the Drugs We Use

by Jie Jack Li

Money from Thin Air: The Story of Craig McCaw, the Visionary who Invented the Cell Phone Industry, and His Next Billion-Dollar Idea cover

32. Money from Thin Air: The Story of Craig McCaw, the Visionary who Invented the Cell Phone Industry, and His Next Billion-Dollar Idea

by O. Casey Corr

Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

33. Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by Pascal G. Zachary

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Roswell and the Reich: The Nazi Connection cover

34. Roswell and the Reich: The Nazi Connection

by Joseph P. Farrell

CUDA by Example: An Introduction to General-Purpose GPU Programming cover

35. CUDA by Example: An Introduction to General-Purpose GPU Programming

by Jason Sanders, Edward Kandrot

Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach (Applications of GPU Computing Series) cover

36. Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach (Applications of GPU Computing Series)

by David Kirk, Wen-mei Hwu

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Flipped: How Bottom-Up Co-Creation is Replacing Top-Down Innovation cover

37. Flipped: How Bottom-Up Co-Creation is Replacing Top-Down Innovation

by John Winsor

Principles of Finance with Excel: Includes CD cover

38. Principles of Finance with Excel: Includes CD

by Simon Benninga

Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites (Animal Guide) cover

39. Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites (Animal Guide)

by Robin Nixon

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jQuery: Novice to Ninja cover

40. jQuery: Novice to Ninja

by Earle Castledine, Craig Sharkie