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1. Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score
by Andy Kessler
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2. The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
by Michael D. Gordin
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3. What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect
by James Robert Flynn
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4. When Can You Trust the Experts?: How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education
by Daniel T. Willingham
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5. The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction
by Tibor Scitovsky
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6. The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
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7. Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems
by Betty Vandenbosch
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8. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
by Daniel Coyle
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9. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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10. PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance
by Gregory Smith
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11. Statistics
by David Freedman
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12. Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development
by Craig Larman
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13. PresentationZen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)
by Garr Reynolds
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14. Professional Node.js: Building Javascript Based Scalable Software
by Pedro Teixeira
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15. eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
by Randall E. Stross
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16. Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
by Geoff Colvin
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17. The Process of Creating Life: Nature of Order, Book 2: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe (The Nature of Order)(Flexible)
by Christopher Alexander
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18. The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, Book 1 - The Phenomenon of Life (Center for Environmental Structure, Vol. 9)
by Christopher Alexander
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19. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by Joshua Foer
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20. Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up A Woefully Incomplete Guide
by Bob Harris
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21. From Bauhaus To Our House
by Tom Wolfe
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22. Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
by Taiichi Ohno
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23. Robotic Explorations: A Hands-On Introduction to Engineering
by Fred G. Martin
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24. Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity
by Carliss Young Baldwin, Kim B. Clark
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25. The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
by Tyler Cowen
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26. The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play
by Harry Lorayne, Jerry Lucas
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27. Use Your Perfect Memory: Dramatic New Techniques for Improving Your Memory; Third Edition
by Tony Buzan
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28. The Memory Book: How to Remember Anything You Want
by Tony Buzan
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29. Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating
by Walter Willett
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30. Improve Your Memory Skills (Usborne Superskills)
by S. Reid, Struan Reid
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31. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
by Howard Rheingold
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32. X Windows System Administrator's Guide, Vol 8 (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)
by Linda Mui, Eric Pearce
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33. A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
by Janna Levin
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34. The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
by Lee Strobel
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