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Steve Jobs cover

1. Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker cover

2. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

by Kevin Mitnick

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How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets cover

3. How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

by Felix Dennis

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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In cover

4. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

by Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton

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Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week cover

5. 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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Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition cover

6. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition

by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore

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Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) cover

7. Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

by Sandi Metz

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Persuasion Skills Black Book: Practical NLP Language Patterns for Getting The Response You Want cover

8. Persuasion Skills Black Book: Practical NLP Language Patterns for Getting The Response You Want

by Rintu Basu

The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play cover

9. 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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Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature cover

10. Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature

by Zhizhong Cai

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The German Generals Talk cover

11. The German Generals Talk

by Basil H. Hart

The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire cover

12. The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

by David Deida

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America cover

13. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

by Colin Woodard

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

14. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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How to Win Friends AND Influence People by Dale Carnegie cover

15. How to Win Friends AND Influence People by Dale Carnegie

by Dale Carnegie

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto Book 3) cover

16. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto Book 3)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Genís Sánchez Barberán, Albino Santos Mosquera

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Living Low Carb: Controlled-Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss cover

17. Living Low Carb: Controlled-Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss

by Jonny Bowden

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How to Live with a Huge Penis: Advice, Meditations, and Wisdom for Men Who Have Too Much cover

18. How to Live with a Huge Penis: Advice, Meditations, and Wisdom for Men Who Have Too Much

by Dr. Richard Jacob, Rev. Owen Thomas

Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving cover

19. Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving

by V. Anton Spraul

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How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants cover

20. 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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10 Print Chr$205.5+rnd1: Goto 10 (Software Studies) cover

21. 10 Print Chr$205.5+rnd1: Goto 10 (Software Studies)

by Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Casey Reas

How Music Works cover

22. How Music Works

by David Byrne

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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 cover

23. 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

by Anna Anthropy

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Feeding Back: Conversations with Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock cover

24. Feeding Back: Conversations with Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock

by David Todd

Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with Processing cover

25. Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with Processing

by Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Gross, Julia Laub

Founder: Meyer Amschel Rothschild and His Time cover

26. Founder: Meyer Amschel Rothschild and His Time

by Amos Elon

Cloud Atlas: A Novel cover

27. Cloud Atlas: A Novel

by David Mitchell

The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play cover

28. 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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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed. cover

29. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed.

by Edward R. Tufte

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Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength cover

30. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

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Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals cover

31. Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals

by Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.

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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

32. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel

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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

33. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

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The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death: A Novel cover

34. The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death: A Novel

by Charlie Huston

Ready Player One: A Novel cover

35. Ready Player One: A Novel

by Ernest Cline

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos) cover

36. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos)

by Dan Simmons

World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It cover

37. World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It

by John A. Byrne

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War cover

38. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

by Max Brooks

It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy cover

39. It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy

by D. Michael Abrashoff

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator: With New Commentary and Insights on the Life and Times of Jesse Livermore cover

40. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator: With New Commentary and Insights on the Life and Times of Jesse Livermore

by Edwin Lefèvre, Jon D. Markman

The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time cover

41. The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time

by Michael Craig

The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods cover

42. The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods

by Hank Haney

Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback) cover

43. Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback)

by Michael Lewis

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Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World cover

44. Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World

by Stuart Diamond

Programming Pearls cover

45. Programming Pearls

by Jon Louis Bentley

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark cover

46. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin cover

47. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

by Erik Larson

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The Big Short cover

48. The Big Short

by Michael M. Lewis

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Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

49. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Bruce Tate

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Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement cover

50. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement

by Eric Redmond, Jim R. Wilson

The Animator's Survival Kit cover

51. The Animator's Survival Kit

by Richard Williams

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Ivor Horton's Beginning Java: Java 7 Edition cover

52. Ivor Horton's Beginning Java: Java 7 Edition

by Ivor Horton

Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimising the harms of legal and illegal drugs cover

53. Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimising the harms of legal and illegal drugs

by David J. Nutt

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Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems cover

54. Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems

by Miro Samek

Introduction to the Theory of Computation cover

55. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

by Michael Sipser

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The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves cover

56. The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

by Annie Murphy Paul

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Way Things Work CD-ROM (Version 1.0--mac) cover

57. Way Things Work CD-ROM (Version 1.0--mac)

by Dorling Kindersley, Inc.

Royal Flush cover

58. Royal Flush

by Scott Bartlett

21st Century C cover

59. 21st Century C

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Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time cover

60. Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

by Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

61. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber

Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications cover

62. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

by Toby Segaran

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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't cover

63. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't

by Nate Silver

The Hobbit or There and Back Again. Illustrated by the Author cover

64. The Hobbit or There and Back Again. Illustrated by the Author

by J. R. R. Tolkien

Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story cover

65. Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story

by Greg Smith

Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World cover

66. Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World

by Christopher Steiner

Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty cover

67. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

by David Kadavy

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Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design cover

68. Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design

by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler

Your Money or Your Life - Revised and Updated: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence cover

69. Your Money or Your Life - Revised and Updated: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence

by Vicki Robin

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King cover

70. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

by Rich Cohen

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People cover

71. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

by Susan Weinschenk

Programming in Scala: A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide, 2nd Edition cover

72. Programming in Scala: A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide, 2nd Edition

by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, Bill Venners

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series) cover

73. Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Michael C. Feathers

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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk cover

74. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

by Peter L. Bernstein

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Beyond the last blue mountain: A life of J.R.D. Tata cover

75. Beyond the last blue mountain: A life of J.R.D. Tata

by R. M. Lala

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients cover

76. Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

by Ben Goldacre

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The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) cover

77. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)

by Leland Wilkinson

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Compassion and Self Hate: An Alternative to Despair cover

78. Compassion and Self Hate: An Alternative to Despair

by Theodore I. Rubin

Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress cover

79. Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress

by Douglas Brinkley

Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss cover

80. Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss

by Joel Fuhrman

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 cover

81. Emotional Intelligence 2.0

by Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves, Jean Greaves Travis Bradberry, Tom Parks

The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain (Digireads.com Classic) cover

82. The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain (Digireads.com Classic)

by Mark Twain

Universal Principles of Design cover

83. Universal Principles of Design

by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler

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Making Things Talk cover

84. Making Things Talk

by Tom Igoe

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Java Concurrency in Practice cover

85. Java Concurrency in Practice

by Brian Goetz

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