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2012
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1. FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
by Burton W. Folsom, Anita Folsom
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2. The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist
by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)
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3. The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations
by Norbert Elias
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4. Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French
by Jean-Benoît Nadeau, Julie Barlow
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5. In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
by Steven Levy
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6. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround
by Louis V. Gerstner
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7. The Big Enough Company: Creating a Business That Works for You
by Adelaide Lancaster, Amy Abrams
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8. Assholes: A Theory
by Aaron James
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9. Power Stories: The 8 Stories You Must Tell to Build an Epic Business
by Valerie Khoo
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10. Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
by David Bentley Hart
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11. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
by Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen
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12. A kick in the seat of the pants: Using your explorer, artist, judge, & warrior to be more creative
by Roger Von Oech
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13. Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week
by John Little, Doug McGuff
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14. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman
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15. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks
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16. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization
by Peter M. Senge
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17. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
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18. Visual Thinking for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)
by Colin Ware
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19. The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence
by Gavin De Becker
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20. The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential...in Business and in Life
by Leo Babauta
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21. Winning Through Intimidation
by Robert J. Ringer
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22. Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond
by Deepak Malhotra, Max H. Bazerman
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23. Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals
by Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.
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24. A Discipline of Programming
by Edsger W. Dijkstra
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25. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition
by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore
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26. Living in the Future: The Education and Adventures of an Advanced Aircraft Designer
by Daniel Raymer
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27. Tricks of the Mind [Paperback]
by Derren Brown
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28. The Feeling Good Handbook
by David D. Burns
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29. Eternity in Their Hearts: Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World
by Don Richardson
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30. What to Say When you Talk To Yourself
by Shad Helmstetter
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31. Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward
by James O. Prochaska, John Norcross, Carlo DiClemente
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32. Remembering the Kana: A Guide to Reading and Writing the Japanese Syllabaries in 3 Hours Each (part 1) (Japanese Edition)
by James W. Heisig
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33. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
by Michael E. Gerber
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34. Space Propulsion Analysis and Design
by Ronald Humble
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35. The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
by Ian Mortimer
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36. On Writing Well, 25th Anniversary: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
by William K. Zinsser, William Zinsser
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37. The Way of Men
by Jack Donovan
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38. Persuasion Skills Black Book: Practical NLP Language Patterns for Getting The Response You Want
by Rintu Basu
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39. Sex, Lies, and Menopause: The Shocking Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy
by T. S. Wiley, Julie Taguchi, Bent Formby
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40. Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1000 a Minute Revised
by Jack Chapman
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41. Earth: An Intimate History
by Richard Fortey
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42. The Objective Eye: Color, Form, and Reality in the Theory of Art
by John Hyman
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43. Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before
by Michael Fried
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44. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
by David D. Burns
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45. Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
by Arbinger Institute
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46. Over the Himalaya
by Kōichirō Ōmori
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47. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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48. The German Generals Talk
by Basil H. Hart
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49. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers)
by Bruce Tate
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50. How to Cook Everything The Basics: All You Need to Make Great Food--With 1,000 Photos
by Mark Bittman
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51. Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
by Andrew Blum
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52. Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature
by Zhizhong Cai
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53. Game, Set, Match: Winning the Negotiations Game
by Henry S. Kramer
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54. Singapore development policies and trends
by Peter S. J. Chen
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55. Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
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56. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
by Clayton M. Christensen
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57. Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security
by Daniel J. Solove
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58. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton
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59. The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
by David Deida
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60. Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East
by Gita Mehta
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61. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
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62. South: The ENDURANCE Expedition
by Ernest Shackleton
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63. How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
by Felix Dennis
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64. The Fundamentals of Ethics, 2nd Edition
by Russ Shafer-Landau
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65. Smalltalk, Objects, and Design
by Chamond Liu
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66. Yes Man
by Danny Wallace
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67. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
by Jonathan Haidt
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68. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
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69. How To Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
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70. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)
by Josef Müller-Brockmann
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71. The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
by Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer
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72. 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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73. Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
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74. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
by Colin Woodard
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75. PostgreSQL: Up and Running
by Regina O. Obe, Regina Obe, Leo S. Hsu
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76. How Music Works
by David Byrne
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77. Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics
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78. One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
by Robert Maurer
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79. Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy
by Evans
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80. How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants
by David Rees
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81. Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot
by Julian Dibbell
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82. Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)
by Jonathan Nitzan, Shimshon Bichler
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83. Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do
by Albert-László Barabási
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84. Living Low Carb: Controlled-Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss
by Jonny Bowden
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85. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
by Kevin Mitnick
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86. Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
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87. Algorithms
by Umesh Vazirani, Algorithms, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Algorithms, Sanjoy Dasgupta, Algorithms
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88. The Unconscious Civilization
by John Ralston Saul
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89. Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the China Production Game
by Paul Midler
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90. Pirate Cinema
by Cory Doctorow
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91. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
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92. This Perfect Day: A Novel
by Ira Levin
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93. Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
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94. Should I Be Tested for Cancer?: Maybe Not and Here's Why
by H. Gilbert Welch
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95. WebGL: Up and Running
by Tony Parisi
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96. Learning the vi and Vim Editors
by Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, Linda Lamb
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97. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
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98. Understanding and Managing Your Child's Food Allergies (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
by Scott H. Sicherer
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99. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
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100. Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo
by Murat Kurnaz
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