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FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America cover

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

Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot cover

2. Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot

by Julian Dibbell

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In cover

3. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton

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One Hundred Days Between Sea and Sky cover

4. One Hundred Days Between Sea and Sky

by Amyr Klink

The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows cover

5. The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows

by Raymond Chen

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Reamde cover

6. Reamde

by Neal Stephenson

Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company's Web Site (2nd Edition) cover

7. Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company's Web Site (2nd Edition)

by Mike Moran, Bill Hunt

The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services cover

8. The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services

by Richard E. Susskind

Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean cover

9. Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean

by David Gelernter

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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa cover

10. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

by Dambisa Moyo

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Africa: A Biography of the Continent cover

11. Africa: A Biography of the Continent

by John Reader

The Illustrated Star Wars Universe (Star Wars) cover

12. The Illustrated Star Wars Universe (Star Wars)

by Kevin J. Anderson, Ralph McQuarrie

Beautiful Code cover

13. Beautiful Code

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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Red Plenty cover

14. Red Plenty

by Francis Spufford

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Git Magic cover

15. Git Magic

by Ben Lynn

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition cover

16. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition

by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman

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The New New Thing : A Silicon Valley Story cover

17. The New New Thing : A Silicon Valley Story

by Michael M. Lewis

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa cover

18. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

by Adam Hochschild

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Practical Common Lisp cover

19. Practical Common Lisp

by Peter Seibel

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The C Programming Language cover

20. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) cover

21. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press)

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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Beautiful Evidence cover

22. Beautiful Evidence

by Edward R. Tufte

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