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How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life cover

1. How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life

by J. J. Luna

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Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939 cover

2. Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939

by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

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The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain cover

3. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain

by John E. Sarno

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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

4. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity cover

5. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

by Alan Cooper

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Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection cover

6. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

by John E. Sarno

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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond cover

7. Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

by Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain

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The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade cover

8. The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade

by Alfred W. McCoy

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness cover

9. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

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Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing cover

10. Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing

by Norm Stamper

Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching off My Parents cover

11. Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching off My Parents

by Zac Bissonnette

With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful cover

12. With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful

by Glenn Greenwald

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Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition cover

13. Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition

by Ken Wilber

Programming Collective Intelligence cover

14. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't cover

15. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

by Jim Collins

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

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

by Radley Balko

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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace cover

17. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

by Ricardo Semler

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The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works cover

18. The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works

by Ricardo Semler

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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art cover

19. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

by Donald N. Thompson, Don Thompson

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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas cover

20. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

by Seymour A. Papert

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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer cover

21. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

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Measurement cover

22. Measurement

by Paul Lockhart

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A Primer of Infinitesimal Analysis cover

23. A Primer of Infinitesimal Analysis

by John L. Bell

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Meta Maths: The Quest for Omega cover

24. Meta Maths: The Quest for Omega

by Gregory J. Chaitin

Number: The Language of Science cover

25. Number: The Language of Science

by Tobias Dantzig, Joseph Mazur

Gödel's Proof cover

26. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman

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Understanding UNIX/LINUX Programming: A Guide to Theory and Practice cover

27. Understanding UNIX/LINUX Programming: A Guide to Theory and Practice

by Bruce Molay

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Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength cover

28. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

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Who Is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure 2nd Edition cover

29. Who Is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure 2nd Edition

by Transnational College of Lex

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Solution Selling: Creating Buyers in Difficult Selling Markets cover

30. Solution Selling: Creating Buyers in Difficult Selling Markets

by Michael T. Bosworth

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The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science) cover

31. The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science)

by Tor Norretranders

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Super Mario for Piano: 34 Super Mario Themes Arranged for Easy Piano cover

32. Super Mario for Piano: 34 Super Mario Themes Arranged for Easy Piano

by Alfred Publishing

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Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience cover

33. Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

by Sally Satel, Scott O. Lilienfeld

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Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations cover

34. Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations

by Karl Eugene Wiegers

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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World cover

35. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

by David Deutsch

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Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Helix Books) cover

36. Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Helix Books)

by John H. Holland

On Intelligence cover

37. On Intelligence

by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee

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Statistical Pattern Recognition cover

38. Statistical Pattern Recognition

by Andrew R. Webb, Keith D. Copsey