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1. What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought
by Keith E. Stanovich
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2. South: The ENDURANCE Expedition
by Ernest Shackleton
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3. 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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4. Redshift Rendezvous
by John E. Stith
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5. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
by Ray Kurzweil
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6. On Photography
by Susan Sontag
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7. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
by Steven Pressfield
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8. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication
by William Zinsser
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9. Agile Estimating and Planning (Robert C. Martin Series)
by Mike Cohn
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10. All You Need to Know About On-line Information (".net" Guide)
by Eddy Robinson
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11. The Scientist as Rebel
by Freeman Dyson
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12. Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight (Paperback))
by Thomas J. Kelly
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13. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
by Gene Kranz
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14. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
by John Markoff
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15. C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software
by David R. Hanson
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16. The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys
by James Fadiman
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17. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
by Daniel Okrent
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18. Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Book)
by E.T. Bell
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19. Alfred Tarski
by Anita Burdman Feferman, Solomon Feferman
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20. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by Paul Hoffman
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21. Social Network Analysis for Startups: Finding connections on the social web
by Maksim Tsvetovat, Alexander Kouznetsov
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22. Logicomix: An epic search for truth
by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou
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23. I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography in Three Parts (Maa Spectrum Series)
by Paul Richard Halmos
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24. The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick Mosteller
by Frederick Mosteller
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25. The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
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26. No More Mr Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex, and Life
by Robert A. Glover
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27. The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
by Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson
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28. Make: Getting Started with Processing: A Quick, Hands-on Introduction
by Casey Reas, Ben Fry
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29. 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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30. Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent
by Joel Spolsky
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