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1. Dark Waters:: An Insider's Account of the NR-1 The Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub
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2. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
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3. How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life
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4. Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
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5. Anglo-American Establishment
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6. Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939
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7. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden
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8. Tell Me Something, She Said
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9. Rubī De Tsukuru Kimyō Na Puroguramingu Gengo: Esoteric Language
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10. The Engelbart Hypothesis: dialogs with Douglas Engelbart
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11. Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course
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12. Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent
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13. Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Writing Science)
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14. The Hipster Handbook
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15. The Rocket Company (Library of Flight)
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16. Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State"
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17. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
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18. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
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19. Genetic Programming: An Introduction (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)
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20. Your Movie Sucks
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21. Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
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22. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
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23. Freedom at Midnight
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24. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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25. The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty
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26. This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital
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27. The Outsider
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28. The Price of Greatness: Resolving the Creativity and Madness Controversy
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29. Touched With Fire: Manic-depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
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30. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
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31. A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
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32. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
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33. The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
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34. The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook
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35. Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars)
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36. Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty
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37. Algorithms (4th Edition)
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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
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39. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life
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40. Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change
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41. Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression
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42. Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge
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43. 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School
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44. DNS and BIND (5th Edition)
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45. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
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46. Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To
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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)
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48. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
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49. The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
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50. My Life with the Eskimo (New Edition)
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51. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past
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52. Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People through Delegation
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53. Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything
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54. 100 Bullshit Jobs...And How to Get Them
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55. Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)
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56. Fluoride the Aging Factor: How to Recognize and Avoid the Devastating Effects of Fluoride
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57. The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
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58. Corrugated Iron
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59. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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60. Creating Applications with Mozilla
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61. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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62. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
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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
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64. The Art of the Rifle
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65. Modern Classics One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics)
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66. Broken Piano for President
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67. The Second Book of Go (Beginner and Elementary Go Books)
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68. Go: A Complete Introduction to the Game (Beginner and Elementary Go Books)
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69. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
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70. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition
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71. Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping
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72. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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73. Whatever (Serpent's Tail Classics)
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74. Understanding the Linux Kernel, Third Edition
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75. Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
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76. Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads
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77. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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78. Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
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79. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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80. Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation (Faber Edition)
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81. The Twilight Saga White Collection
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82. Writing Solid Code (Microsoft Programming Series)
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83. The Soviet Political Poster: 1917-1980
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84. Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
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85. The File: A Personal History
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86. The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
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87. A Victorian Handbook of Mechanical Movements
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88. 507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and Devices (Dover Science Books)
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89. 1800 Mechanical Movements, Devices and Appliances (Dover Science Books)
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90. Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration
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91. Smart Schools
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92. 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Foot
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93. The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
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94. The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
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95. Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
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96. Eating Animals
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97. Quantitative Value, + Web Site: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors
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98. Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards
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99. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
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100. Cisco ISP Essentials (Cisco Press Networking Technology)
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