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We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs And The Forging Of The Electronic Age cover

1. We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs And The Forging Of The Electronic Age

by Bob Johnstone

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk cover

2. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk

by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

Pgp: Source Code and Internals cover

3. Pgp: Source Code and Internals

by Philip R. Zimmermann

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Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle cover

4. Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle

by Matthew Symonds

Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine cover

5. Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine

by Sāmī ʻAbd al-Razzāq ʻAdwān, Dan Bar-On, Eyal J. Naveh, Peace Research Institute in the Middle East

Learning From Data cover

6. Learning From Data

by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Hsuan-Tien Lin

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The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community cover

7. The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community

by Katie Hafner

Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor cover

8. Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor

by Paul Lutus

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft cover

9. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King

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Stories of Your Life And Others cover

10. Stories of Your Life And Others

by Ted Chiang

The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic cover

11. The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

by Mark R. Levin

The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems cover

12. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

by Jef Raskin

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MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition cover

13. MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (2nd Edition) cover

14. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (2nd Edition)

by Randal E. Bryant, Davie Richard O'Hallaron

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Programming Language Pragmatics cover

15. Programming Language Pragmatics

by Michael Lee Scott

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Getting Started with Amazon Redshift cover

16. Getting Started with Amazon Redshift

by Stefan Bauer

The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities (Volume 1 of 2) cover

17. The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities (Volume 1 of 2)

by Mark Dowd, John McDonald, Justin Schuh

Gödel's Proof cover

18. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman

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The Garbage Collection Handbook (

19. The Garbage Collection Handbook ("International Perspectives on Science, Culture and Society")

by Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss

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Great Danes (B.E.S. Dog Bibles Series) cover

20. Great Danes (B.E.S. Dog Bibles Series)

by Rachel Cawley, John Cawley

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much cover

21. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

by Sendhil Mullainathan

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Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based on Algorithmic Probability (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series) cover

22. Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based on Algorithmic Probability (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)

by Marcus Hutter

Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life cover

23. Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life

by Allen Frances

How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets cover

24. How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

by Felix Dennis

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