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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

1. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

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The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street cover

2. 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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Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation (Faber Edition) cover

3. Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation (Faber Edition)

by Elaine Gould

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Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It cover

4. 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

Eating Animals cover

5. Eating Animals

by Jonathan Safran Foer

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Writing at University cover

6. Writing at University

by Creme, Phyllis, Lea, Mary

At Day's Close: Night in Times Past cover

7. At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

by A. Roger Ekirch

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Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback) cover

8. Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback)

by Michael Lewis

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Devil Take the Hindmost: a History of Financial Speculation cover

9. Devil Take the Hindmost: a History of Financial Speculation

by Edward Chancellor

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The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it cover

10. The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it

by Andy Wightman

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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto) cover

11. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising, and the Evolution of Concentration (MIT Press) cover

12. Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising, and the Evolution of Concentration (MIT Press)

by John Sutton

The Agile Virtual Enterprise: Cases, Metrics, Tools cover

13. The Agile Virtual Enterprise: Cases, Metrics, Tools

by Ted Goranson

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

14. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom cover

15. The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

by Evgeny Morozov

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Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing cover

16. Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing

by Dale Dougherty, The Editors Make, Tom Owad, Stuart Jay Deutsch, Matt J. Griffin, Kevin Scott Mack, Cory Doctorow, Anna Kaziunas France

Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know cover

17. Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know

by Jim Camp

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The Yes Book: The Art of Better Negotiation cover

18. The Yes Book: The Art of Better Negotiation

by Clive Rich

College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students cover

19. College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students

by Jeffrey J. Selingo

How Bad are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything cover

20. How Bad are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything

by Mike Berners-Lee

Details Men's Style Manual: The Ultimate Guide for Making Your Clothes Work for You cover

21. Details Men's Style Manual: The Ultimate Guide for Making Your Clothes Work for You

by Daniel Peres, Editors of Details magazine

A Discipline of Programming cover

22. A Discipline of Programming

by Edsger W. Dijkstra

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The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully cover

23. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking cover

24. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

25. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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