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Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach cover

1. Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach

by Leonard Bloomfield, Clarence Lewis Barnhart

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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language cover

2. The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language

by John McWhorter

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Q For Mortals: A Tutorial In Q Programming cover

3. Q For Mortals: A Tutorial In Q Programming

by Jeffry A. Borror

Language is Power cover

4. Language is Power

by John Honey

Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup cover

5. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

by Rob Walling

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Practical Flow Cytometry cover

6. Practical Flow Cytometry

by Howard M. Shapiro

Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

7. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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Introduction to the Theory of Computation cover

8. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

by Michael Sipser

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The Broken Sword cover

9. The Broken Sword

by Poul Anderson

Stumbling on Happiness cover

10. Stumbling on Happiness

by Daniel Todd Gilbert

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

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

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Algorithms in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) cover

12. Algorithms in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))

by George T. Heineman

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The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip cover

13. The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip

by Keith Devlin

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The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing) cover

14. The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing)

by Kees Doets, Jan Eijck

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The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want cover

15. The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want

by Sonja Lyubomirsky

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Thinking Mathematically cover

16. Thinking Mathematically

by John Mason, Leone Burton, Kaye Stacey

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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) cover

17. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)

by George Polya

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The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. cover

18. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.

by Daniel Coyle

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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain cover

19. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

by Maryanne Wolf

How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition cover

20. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition

by Daniel J. Velleman

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Team Geek cover

21. Team Geek

by Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman

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The Melancholy of Resistance (New Directions Paperbook) cover

22. The Melancholy of Resistance (New Directions Paperbook)

by László Krasznahorkai

Satantango cover

23. Satantango

by László Krasznahorkai

Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy cover

24. Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy

by John DeFrancis

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How to Think Like a Mathematician: A Companion to Undergraduate Mathematics cover

25. How to Think Like a Mathematician: A Companion to Undergraduate Mathematics

by Kevin Houston

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An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases cover

26. An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases

by Moises Velasquez-Manoff

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Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not Bust - And How You Can Profit from It: How to Build Wealth in Today's Expanding Real Estate Market cover

27. Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not Bust - And How You Can Profit from It: How to Build Wealth in Today's Expanding Real Estate Market

by David Lereah

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An Island to Oneself cover

28. An Island to Oneself

by Tom Neale

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

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

by Nate Silver

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This Business of Music, 10th Edition cover

30. This Business of Music, 10th Edition

by M. William Krasilovsky, Sidney Schemel

Red Plenty cover

31. Red Plenty

by Francis Spufford

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Children Of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace Of Human Evolution cover

32. Children Of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace Of Human Evolution

by Christopher Wills

The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way cover

33. The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

by Amanda Ripley

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Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America cover

34. Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America

by Jeff Ryan

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Python Programming On Win32 cover

35. Python Programming On Win32

by Mark J. Hammond, Andy Robinson

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The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State cover

36. The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State

by Bruce L. Benson

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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In cover

37. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton

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I Will Teach You To Be Rich cover

38. I Will Teach You To Be Rich

by Ramit Sethi

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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide cover

39. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

by David Flanagan

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