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2012
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1. Assholes: A Theory
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2. 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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3. Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals
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4. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman
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5. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition
by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore
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6. The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
by Noam Wasserman
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7. Living in the Future: The Education and Adventures of an Advanced Aircraft Designer
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8. Persuasion Skills Black Book: Practical NLP Language Patterns for Getting The Response You Want
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9. Space Propulsion Analysis and Design
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10. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It―A Guide to Starting a Business in a Productive and Successful Way
by Michael E. Gerber
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11. Earth: An Intimate History
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12. How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
by Felix Dennis
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13. Over the Himalaya
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14. What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought
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15. Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature
by Zhizhong Cai
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16. The German Generals Talk
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17. The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
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18. Grid systems in graphic design: A visual communication manual for graphic designers, typographers and three dimensional designers (German and English Edition)
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19. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
by Colin Woodard
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20. South: The ENDURANCE Expedition
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21. One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
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22. How to Win Friends AND Influence People by Dale Carnegie
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23. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto Book 3)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Genís Sánchez Barberán, Albino Santos Mosquera
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24. Steve Jobs
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25. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
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26. How to Live with a Huge Penis: Advice, Meditations, and Wisdom for Men Who Have Too Much
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27. Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving
by V. Anton Spraul
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28. 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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29. Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition
by Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, Linda Lamb
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30. How Music Works
by David Byrne
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31. 10 Print Chr$205.5+rnd1: Goto 10 (Software Studies)
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32. Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives,and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form
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33. Feeding Back: Conversations with Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock
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34. Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with Processing
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35. Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics
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36. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
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37. Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet
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38. Algorithms
by Jeff Erickson
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39. Operating System Concepts
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40. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
by Harvey Silverglate
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41. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
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42. Founder: Meyer Amschel Rothschild and His Time
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43. 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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44. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
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45. An Introduction to the Mathematics of Financial Derivatives (Academic Press Advanced Finance)
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46. Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance (The Wiley Finance Series)
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47. WebGL: Up and Running: Building 3D Graphics for the Web
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48. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed.
by Edward R. Tufte
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49. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
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50. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
by Peter Seibel
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51. The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death: A Novel
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52. Ready Player One: A Novel
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53. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos)
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54. World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It
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55. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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56. It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
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57. Annals of the Former World
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58. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator: With New Commentary and Insights on the Life and Times of Jesse Livermore
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59. The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
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60. The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods
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61. Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback)
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62. Anticancer: A New Way of Life
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63. Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score
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64. The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry
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65. Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Galaxy Books)
by Morris Kline
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66. Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
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67. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
by Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton
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68. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
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69. Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
by Wendy Walrabenstein
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70. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (2nd Edition)
by Randal E. Bryant, Davie Richard O'Hallaron
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71. Embedded Controller Forth For The 8051 Family
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72. Beyond BIOS: Developing with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface 2nd Edition
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73. uC/OS-III: The Real-Time Kernel
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74. Data Structures Using C
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75. Data Structures In C
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76. C Traps and Pitfalls
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77. API Design for C++
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78. An Embedded Software Primer
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79. The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play
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80. Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice (Volume 1998) (Morality and Society Series)
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81. Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within, Book & Includes Online Downloadable code
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82. The Geek Atlas
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83. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling
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84. Redshift Rendezvous
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85. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
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86. Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter
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87. Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World
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88. The Design of the UNIX Operating System
by Maurice J. Bach
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89. Programming Pearls
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90. Introduction to the Theory of Computation
by Michael Sipser
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91. Hacking The LSAT: Full Explanations For LSATs 29-38 (Volume I: LSATs 29-33): An LSAT Prep and Study Guide For The Next Ten Actual Official LSATs (Includes Logic Games Diagrams)
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92. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
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93. PostgreSQL: Up and Running
by Regina O. Obe, Leo S. Hsu
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94. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
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95. Making Software
by Andrew Oram, Greg Wilson
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96. Buttonless: Incredible iPhone and iPad Games and the Stories Behind Them
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97. Options as a Strategic Investment
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98. The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
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99. What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect
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100. Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
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