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The Engelbart Hypothesis: dialogs with Douglas Engelbart cover

1. The Engelbart Hypothesis: dialogs with Douglas Engelbart

by D. C. Engelbart, Valerie Landau, Eileen Clegg

Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Writing Science) cover

2. Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Writing Science)

by Thierry Bardini

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

3. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff

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High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic cover

4. High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic

by Howard W. Johnson, Martin Graham

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Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler cover

5. Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler

by Antony C. Sutton

Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) cover

6. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)

by Liping Ma

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Smart Schools cover

7. Smart Schools

by David Perkins

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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less cover

8. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

by Barry Schwartz

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Build Your Own Printed Circuit Board cover

9. Build Your Own Printed Circuit Board

by Stephen J. Bigelow

High-Speed Digital System Design: A Handbook of Interconnect Theory and Design Practices cover

10. High-Speed Digital System Design: A Handbook of Interconnect Theory and Design Practices

by Stephen H. Hall, Garrett W. Hall, James A. McCall

RTL Hardware Design Using VHDL: Coding for Efficiency, Portability, and Scalability cover

11. RTL Hardware Design Using VHDL: Coding for Efficiency, Portability, and Scalability

by Pong P. Chu

Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies cover

12. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies

by Charles Perrow

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Nations and Nationalism, Second Edition (New Perspectives on the Past) cover

13. Nations and Nationalism, Second Edition (New Perspectives on the Past)

by Ernest Gellner

Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory cover

14. Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory

by George Gamow

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Sugar Blues cover

15. Sugar Blues

by William Dufty

AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame cover

16. AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame

by Paul Farmer

The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (International Series of Monographs on Physics) cover

17. The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (International Series of Monographs on Physics)

by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance cover

18. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

by Laurie Garrett

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Computable Calculus cover

19. Computable Calculus

by Oliver Aberth

Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach cover

20. Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach

by Martha C. Nussbaum

Introduction to Algorithms, Third Edition (International Edition) cover

21. Introduction to Algorithms, Third Edition (International Edition)

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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Data Structures and Algorithms Using Python cover

22. Data Structures and Algorithms Using Python

by Rance D. Necaise

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Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education cover

23. Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education

by Danielle Allen

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The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

24. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients. by Ben Goldacre cover

25. Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients. by Ben Goldacre

by Ben Goldacre

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Computer Organization and Design, Fourth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

26. Computer Organization and Design, Fourth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

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Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions cover

27. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely

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Web Operations 101 cover

28. Web Operations 101

Unix Fundamentals 101 cover

29. Unix Fundamentals 101

General Operations 101 cover

30. General Operations 101

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet cover

31. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon

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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces cover

32. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces

by Radley Balko

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REST API Design Rulebook cover

33. REST API Design Rulebook

by Mark Masse

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RESTful Web Services cover

34. RESTful Web Services

by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby

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The Angry Self: A Comprehensive Approach to Anger Management cover

35. The Angry Self: A Comprehensive Approach to Anger Management

by Miriam M. Gottlieb

Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use cover

36. Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use

by Lorrie Faith Cranor, Simson Garfinkel

The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) cover

37. The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

by Noam Wasserman

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UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition cover

38. UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition

by Evi Nemeth

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