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1. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew
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2. Dark Waters:: An Insider's Account of the NR-1 The Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub
by Lee Vyborny, Donald Davis
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3. How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life
by J. J. Luna
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4. Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
by David Bayles, Ted Orland
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5. Anglo-American Establishment
by Carroll Quigley
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6. Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939
by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
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7. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden
by Mark Owen, Kevin Maurer
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8. Tell Me Something, She Said
by David Raether
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9. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project)
by Nick Turse
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10. Rubī De Tsukuru Kimyō Na Puroguramingu Gengo: Esoteric Language
by 原悠
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11. The Engelbart Hypothesis: dialogs with Douglas Engelbart
by D. C. Engelbart, Valerie Landau, Eileen Clegg
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12. Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course
by Gordon Ramsay
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13. Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent
by Joel Spolsky
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14. Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Writing Science)
by Thierry Bardini
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15. The Hipster Handbook
by Robert Lanham
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16. The Rocket Company (Library of Flight)
by Patrick J. G. Stiennon, David M. Hoerr
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17. Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State"
by Stephen P. Halbrook
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18. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard Phillips Feynman
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19. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
by Sherry Turkle
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20. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
by Ryan Holiday
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21. Genetic Programming: An Introduction (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)
by Wolfgang Banzhaf
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22. Your Movie Sucks
by Roger Ebert
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23. Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
by Antony C. Sutton
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24. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
by John E. Sarno
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25. Freedom at Midnight
by Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins
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26. The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty
by Dan Ariely
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27. This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital
by Mark Leibovich
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28. The Outsider
by Colin Wilson
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29. The Price of Greatness: Resolving the Creativity and Madness Controversy
by Arnold M. Ludwig
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30. Touched With Fire: Manic-depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
by Kay Redfield Jamison
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31. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
by Richard Proenneke, Sam Keith
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32. A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
by Nassir Ghaemi
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33. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela
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34. The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
by United States. Department of the Army, United States Marine Corps
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35. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar
by Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson
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36. Broken Piano for President
by Patrick Wensink
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37. Algorithms (4th Edition)
by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
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38. iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
by Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith
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39. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life
by Nick Lane
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40. Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change
by Pema Chödrön
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41. Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression
by Adrian Wells
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42. Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge
by Ed Regis
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43. 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School
by Ben Klemens
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44. DNS and BIND (5th Edition)
by Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz
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45. Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To
by Sian Beilock
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46. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff
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47. I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition (Martin Luther King, Jr., born January 15, 1929)
by Martin Luther King
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48. The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
by Adam Johnson
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49. My Life with the Eskimo (New Edition)
by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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50. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
by Alan Cooper
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51. Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People through Delegation
by David Schoenbrod
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52. Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything
by David J. Sirota
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53. 100 Bullshit Jobs...And How to Get Them
by Stanley Bing
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54. In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State
by Charles A. Murray
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55. Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)
by Alexis de Tocqueville
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56. Fluoride the Aging Factor: How to Recognize and Avoid the Devastating Effects of Fluoride
by John Yiamouyiannis
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57. The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
by David A. Price
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58. Corrugated Iron
by Adam Mornement, Simon Holloway
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59. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault
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60. Creating Applications with Mozilla
by David Boswell
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61. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande
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62. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
by Steve Krug
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63. The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street
by Thomas A. Bass
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64. The Art of the Rifle
by Jeff Cooper
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65. Modern Classics One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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66. The Second Book of Go (Beginner and Elementary Go Books)
by Richard Bozulich
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67. Go: A Complete Introduction to the Game (Beginner and Elementary Go Books)
by Ch'i-hun Cho
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68. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
by John E. Sarno
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69. Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping
by Patrick Radden Keefe
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70. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition
by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore
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71. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
by William Thorndike
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72. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
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73. Whatever (Serpent's Tail Classics)
by Michel Houellebecq
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74. Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads
by Lance Loveday, Sandra Niehaus
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75. Understanding the Linux Kernel, Third Edition
by Daniel P. Bovet
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76. Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
by Roger Crowley
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77. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
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78. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
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79. Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
by Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain
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80. Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation (Faber Edition)
by Elaine Gould
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81. The Twilight Saga White Collection
by Stephenie Meyer
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82. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
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83. Writing Solid Code (Microsoft Programming Series)
by Steve Maguire
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84. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
by Harvey A. Silverglate
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85. Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
by Simon Garfield
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86. The File: A Personal History
by Timothy Garton Ash
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87. The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
by Clay Johnson
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88. A Victorian Handbook of Mechanical Movements
by Thomas Walter Barber
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89. Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration
by Sal Mendaglio
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90. The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
by John McWhorter
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91. The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
by Susan Casey
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92. Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
by Karl Weber
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93. Eating Animals
by Jonathan Safran Foer
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94. Jackass Investing: Don't do it. Profit from it.
by Michael Dever
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95. Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards
by Antti Ilmanen
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96. Cisco ISP Essentials (Cisco Press Networking Technology)
by Barry Raveendran Greene, Philip Smith
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97. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
by W. Timothy Gallwey
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98. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
by Barry Schwartz
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99. Writing at University
by Creme, Phyllis, Lea, Mary
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100. The Chinese Revolution in Historical Perspective, 2nd Edition
by John E. Schrecker
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