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Damage Control (Revised & Updated): The Essential Lessons of Crisis Management cover

1. Damage Control (Revised & Updated): The Essential Lessons of Crisis Management

by Eric Dezenhall, John Weber

Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine cover

2. Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine

by Stephen Braun

Types and Programming Languages (MIT Press) cover

3. Types and Programming Languages (MIT Press)

by Benjamin C. Pierce

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Foundations for Programming Languages (Foundations of Computing) cover

4. Foundations for Programming Languages (Foundations of Computing)

by John C. Mitchell

Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media cover

5. Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media

by Nicholas Davies, Nick Davies

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Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, 2nd Edition cover

6. Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, 2nd Edition

by Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison

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Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State cover

7. Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State

by Dana Priest, William M. Arkin

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values cover

8. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig

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Principles of Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (Hardcover)) cover

9. Principles of Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (Hardcover))

by Franklin Allen, Stewart Myers, Richard Brealey

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer cover

10. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health cover

11. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health

by Gary Taubes

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Corporate Finance (3rd Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) cover

12. Corporate Finance (3rd Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance)

by Jonathan B. Berk, Peter M. DeMarzo

Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company cover

13. Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company

by Tim Jackson

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Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street cover

14. Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street

by Fred Schwed, Jr.

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The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Propagandist from the Crimea to Kosovo cover

15. The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Propagandist from the Crimea to Kosovo

by Phillip Knightley

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

16. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

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Asking Questions: The Definitive Guide to Questionnaire Design -- For Market Research, Political Polls, and Social and Health Questionnaires cover

17. Asking Questions: The Definitive Guide to Questionnaire Design -- For Market Research, Political Polls, and Social and Health Questionnaires

by Norman M. Bradburn, Seymour Sudman, Brian Wansink

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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code cover

18. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck

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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency cover

19. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

by Tom DeMarco

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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time cover

20. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

by Jeff Speck

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Making Software cover

21. Making Software

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler (Acm Press Books) cover

22. Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler (Acm Press Books)

by Niklaus Wirth, Jürg Gutknecht

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On Stonehenge cover

23. On Stonehenge

by Sir Fred Hoyle

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness cover

24. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

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The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism cover

25. The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism

by Jean Smith

Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance (Clarendon Lectures in Economics) cover

26. Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance (Clarendon Lectures in Economics)

by Andrei Shleifer

Anarchy, State, and Utopia cover

27. Anarchy, State, and Utopia

by Robert Nozick

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The Art of Conversation: A Guided Tour of a Neglected Pleasure cover

28. The Art of Conversation: A Guided Tour of a Neglected Pleasure

by Catherine Blyth

Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis (Econometric Society Monographs) cover

29. Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis (Econometric Society Monographs)

by Alvin E. Roth, Marilda A. Oliveira Sotomayor

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Diaspora cover

30. Diaspora

by Greg Egan

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McDonald's: Behind The Arches cover

31. McDonald's: Behind The Arches

by John F. Love

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The Digital Photography Book, Part 3 cover

32. The Digital Photography Book, Part 3

by Scott Kelby

Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground cover

33. Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground

by Kevin Poulsen

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Banishing God in Albania: cover

34. Banishing God in Albania:

by Giacomo Gardin

Programming iOS 6 cover

35. Programming iOS 6

by Matt Neuburg

iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (3rd Edition) (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) cover

36. iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (3rd Edition) (Big Nerd Ranch Guides)

by Joe Conway, Aaron Hillegass

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On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep cover

37. On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep

by Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power cover

38. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

by Daniel Yergin

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Game Frame: Using Games as a Strategy for Success cover

39. Game Frame: Using Games as a Strategy for Success

by Aaron Dignan

Consider Phlebas (Culture) cover

40. Consider Phlebas (Culture)

by Iain M. Banks

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

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

by Nate Silver

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Chaos: Making a New Science cover

42. Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick

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The Design of Everyday Things cover

43. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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