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1. Tell Me Something, She Said
by David Raether
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2. Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent
by Joel Spolsky
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3. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
by Ted Conover
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4. Freedom At Midnight
by Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins
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5. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
by John E. Sarno
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6. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
by Robert X. Cringely
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7. The Outsider
by Colin Wilson
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8. Algorithms (4th Edition)
by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
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9. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
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10. 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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11. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past
by Keith Windschuttle
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12. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
by Carmen M. Reinhart
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13. Democracy in America and Two Essays on America (Penguin Classics)
by Alexis de Tocqueville
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14. Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge
by Ed Regis
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15. Work With Us - O'Reilly Media
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16. Creating Applications with Mozilla
by David Boswell
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17. The Second Book of Go: What you need to know after you've learned the rules (Beginner and Elementary Go Books)
by Richard Bozulich
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18. GO: A Complete Introduction to the Game
by Cho Chikun
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19. Go for Beginners
by Iwamoto Kaoru
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20. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman, Neil Postman
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21. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
by Harvey Silverglate
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22. Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market
by Scott Patterson
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23. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
by Liaquat Ahamed
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24. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
by John E. Sarno
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25. Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping
by Patrick Radden Keefe
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26. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
by William Thorndike
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27. The Twilight Saga White Collection
by Stephenie Meyer
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28. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
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29. Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight
by John W. Foreman
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30. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
by Radley Balko
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31. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
by Harvey A. Silverglate
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32. Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs
by Steve Maguire
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33. At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
by A. Roger Ekirch, Roger A. Ekirch
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34. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
by Paul Fussell
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35. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
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36. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
by Steven Pressfield
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37. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
by W. Timothy Gallwey
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38. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
by Peter Van der Linden
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39. The Web Architect's Handbook
by Charles Stross
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40. 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back (Remember When It Didn't Hurt)
by Esther Gokhale
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41. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
by David Kushner
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42. Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers
by Jan Gullberg
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43. 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations
by Fred Reinfeld
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44. 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate
by Fred Reinfeld
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45. A Terrible Love of War
by James Hillman
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46. C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software
by David R. Hanson
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47. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton
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48. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
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49. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
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50. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
by Larry Gonick
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51. The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders – The Financial Strategies That Lead to Success
by Jack D. Schwager
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52. The Definitive Book of Body Language: The Hidden Meaning Behind People's Gestures and Expressions
by Allan Pease, Barbara Pease
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53. Pawn Power in Chess (Dover Chess)
by Hans Kmoch
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54. We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs And The Forging Of The Electronic Age
by Bob Johnstone
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55. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
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56. The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
by Neil Fiore
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57. Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength by Steven Low (2011-11-12)
by Steven Low
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58. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation
by John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman
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59. Inside OS/2
by Gordon Letwin
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60. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
by Robert B. Cialdini
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61. Sam Walton: Made In America
by Sam Walton
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62. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication
by William Zinsser
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63. Tricks of the Game-Programming Gurus
by André LaMothe
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64. Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 11
by Frank D. Luna
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65. High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design)
by Howard W. Johnson, Martin Graham
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66. Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education
by Danielle S. Allen
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67. Metaphors We Live By
by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
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68. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
by John Markoff
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69. The Secret Chief Revealed
by Myron J. Stolaroff
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70. Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide (Monographs in Computer Science)
by Dick Grune
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71. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
by Martin Elias Pete Seligman
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72. The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience
by Martin Elias Pete Seligman
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73. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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74. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
by Charles Perrow
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75. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
by Peter Seibel
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76. The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia
by Paul Hudak
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77. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition
by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore
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78. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
by David D. Burns
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79. Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge (Issues in Crime and Justice)
by Donna Selman
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80. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
by Mike Davis
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81. The Anarchist Cookbook
by William F. Powell, William Powell, William Powell
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82. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
by Cooper, Alan
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83. The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda
by Ali H. Soufan
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84. Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution
by Paul G. Higgs, Teresa Attwood
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85. I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World
by Trevor Paglen
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86. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series)
by Kurt W. Beyer
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87. Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach (Title Not in Series)
by Cynthia A. Barnhart
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88. Chess For the Novice Player: A Guide For the Beginning Chess Player
by Gautam R. Narula
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89. Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Voices That Matter)
by Steve Krug
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90. The harried leisure class
by Staffan Burenstam Linder
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91. Solution Selling: Creating Buyers in Difficult Selling Markets
by Michael T. Bosworth
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92. Choose Yourself!
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93. OK: The Improbable Story Of America's Greatest Word
by Allan A. Metcalf
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94. Pgp: Source Code and Internals
by Philip R. Zimmermann
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95. Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
by Ben Goldacre
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96. Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
by Matthew Symonds
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97. FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software
by Kerry Nietz
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98. My System: 21st Century Edition
by Aron Nimzovich
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99. Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., John J. Ratey, M.D.
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100. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
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