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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

1. 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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Adios, Strunk & White: A Handbook for the New Academic Essay 5th edition cover

2. Adios, Strunk & White: A Handbook for the New Academic Essay 5th edition

by Gary Hoffman, Glynis Hoffman

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Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition cover

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

by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore

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

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

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

by Rintu Basu

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The German Generals Talk cover

6. The German Generals Talk

by Basil H. Hart

How to Cook Everything The Basics: All You Need to Make Great Food--With 1,000 Photos cover

7. How to Cook Everything The Basics: All You Need to Make Great Food--With 1,000 Photos

by Mark Bittman

Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature cover

8. Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature

by Zhizhong Cai

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

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

by David Deida

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

10. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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The Fundamentals of Ethics, 2nd Edition cover

11. The Fundamentals of Ethics, 2nd Edition

by Russ Shafer-Landau

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

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

by Felix Dennis

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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom cover

13. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

by Jonathan Haidt

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Yes Man cover

14. Yes Man

by Danny Wallace

How To Win Friends and Influence People cover

15. How To Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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Siddhartha cover

16. Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

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

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

by Colin Woodard

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How Music Works cover

18. How Music Works

by David Byrne

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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

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

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

by Jonny Bowden

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

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

by Kevin Mitnick

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Cloud Atlas: A Novel cover

22. Cloud Atlas: A Novel

by David Mitchell

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information cover

23. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

by Edward R. Tufte

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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos) cover

24. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos)

by Dan Simmons

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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

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

by Jessica Livingston

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

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

by John A. Byrne

Ready Player One: A Novel cover

27. Ready Player One: A Novel

by Ernest Cline

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

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

by Charlie Huston

Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

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

by Peter Seibel

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

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

by Max Brooks

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Founder: Meyer Amschel Rothschild and His Time cover

31. Founder: Meyer Amschel Rothschild and His Time

by Amos Elon

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

32. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator: With New Commentary and Insights on the Life and Times of Jesse Livermore (Annotated Edition)

by Edwin Lefèvre, Jon D. Markman

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

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

by Michael Craig

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Steve Jobs cover

34. Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

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Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback) cover

35. Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback)

by Michael Lewis

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The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods cover

36. The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods

by Hank Haney

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength cover

37. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

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Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals cover

38. Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals

by Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.

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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

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Bruce Lee's Fighting Method: The Complete Edition cover

40. Bruce Lee's Fighting Method: The Complete Edition

by Bruce Lee, M. Uyehara

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are cover

41. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

by Alan Watts

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The Way of Zen cover

42. The Way of Zen

by Alan Watts

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Dissolution cover

43. Dissolution

by C. J. Sansom

Core Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within cover

44. Core Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within

by Connirae Andreas, Tamara Andreas

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

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

by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

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What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People cover

46. What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People

by Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins

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Programming Pearls cover

47. Programming Pearls

by Jon Louis Bentley

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine cover

48. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael M. Lewis

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

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

by Erik Larson

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

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

by Stuart Diamond

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

51. 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

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

by Eric Redmond, Jim R. Wilson

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The Animator's Survival Kit cover

53. The Animator's Survival Kit

by Richard Williams

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Ivor Horton's Beginning Java cover

54. Ivor Horton's Beginning Java

by Ivor Horton

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

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

by Sandi Metz

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Illustrated C# 2012 (Expert's Voice in .NET) cover

56. Illustrated C# 2012 (Expert's Voice in .NET)

by Daniel Solis

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

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

by V. Anton Spraul

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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In cover

58. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton

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Drugs Without the Hot Air cover

59. Drugs Without the Hot Air

by David J. Nutt

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Introduction to the Theory of Computation cover

60. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

by Michael Sipser

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

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

by Miro Samek

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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

62. 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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Royal Flush cover

63. Royal Flush

by Scott Bartlett

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

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

by Dorling Kindersley, Inc.

21st Century C cover

65. 21st Century C

by Ben Klemens

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

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

by Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz

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Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World cover

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

by Christopher Steiner

Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty cover

68. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

by David Kadavy

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

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

by Rich Cohen

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

70. Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence

by Vicki Robin

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Transforming Negative Self-Talk: Practical, Effective Exercises cover

71. Transforming Negative Self-Talk: Practical, Effective Exercises

by Steve Andreas

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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

72. 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

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Beyond the Last Blue Mountain: the Authorised Biography of J.R.D. Tata cover

73. Beyond the Last Blue Mountain: the Authorised Biography of J.R.D. Tata

by R. M. Lala

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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Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story cover

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

by Greg Smith

On War cover

76. On War

by Carl Von Clausewitz

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Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications cover

77. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

by Toby Segaran

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

78. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Third Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber

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

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

by Nate Silver

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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients. by Ben Goldacre cover

80. Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients. by Ben Goldacre

by Ben Goldacre

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

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

by Ben Goldacre

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

82. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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Compassion and Self Hate: An Alternative to Despair cover

83. Compassion and Self Hate: An Alternative to Despair

by Theodore I. Rubin

The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) cover

84. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)

by Leland Wilkinson

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

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

by Douglas Brinkley

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) cover

86. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)

by Susan Weinschenk

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Emotional Intelligence 2.0 cover

87. Emotional Intelligence 2.0

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

Fashioning Technology cover

88. Fashioning Technology

by Syuzi Pakhchyan

Making Things Talk cover

89. Making Things Talk

by Tom Igoe

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Java Concurrency in Practice cover

90. Java Concurrency in Practice

by Brian Goetz

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