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The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty cover

1. The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty

by Dan Ariely

The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance cover

2. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

by W. Timothy Gallwey

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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

3. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner

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Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers cover

4. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers

by Robert Jackall

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CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised cover

5. CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised

by Katie Hafner, John Markoff

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Program Generators with XML and Java cover

6. Program Generators with XML and Java

by J. Craig Cleaveland

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Live From Downing Street: The Inside Story of Politics, Power and the Media cover

7. Live From Downing Street: The Inside Story of Politics, Power and the Media

by Nick Robinson

RESTful Web APIs cover

8. RESTful Web APIs

by Leonard Richardson, Michael Amundsen, Mike Amundsen, Sam Ruby

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What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America cover

9. What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

by Thomas Frank

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Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail cover

10. Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail

by John Gall

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Real-World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C# cover

11. Real-World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C#

by Tomas Petricek, Jon Skeet

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Beginning OpenGL Game Programming, Second Edition cover

12. Beginning OpenGL Game Programming, Second Edition

by Luke Benstead, Dave Astle, Kevin Hawkins

OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Versions 3.0 and 3.1 (7th Edition) cover

13. OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Versions 3.0 and 3.1 (7th Edition)

by Dave Shreiner

OpenGL SuperBible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference (6th Edition) cover

14. OpenGL SuperBible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference (6th Edition)

by Graham Sellers, Richard S. Wright (Jr.), Nicholas Haemel

Pirate Trails: Tracking the Illicit Financial Flows from Pirate Activities off the Horn of Africa cover

15. Pirate Trails: Tracking the Illicit Financial Flows from Pirate Activities off the Horn of Africa

by World Bank

Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America cover

16. Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (5th Edition) cover

17. Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (5th Edition)

by George F. Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, Gordon Blair

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny cover

18. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

by Robert Wright

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Moleskine Folio Professional Notebook, A4, Plain, Black, Hard Cover (8.25 x 11.75) (Professional Folio Series) cover

19. Moleskine Folio Professional Notebook, A4, Plain, Black, Hard Cover (8.25 x 11.75) (Professional Folio Series)

by Moleskine

Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures cover

20. Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

by Carl Zimmer

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Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids cover

21. Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids

by Michael J. S. Belton, Thomas H. Morgan, Nalin H. Samarasinha, Donald K. Yeomans

Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, Third Edition cover

22. Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, Third Edition

by Allen Taflove, Susan C. Hagness

The C Programming Language cover

23. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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The C++ Programming Language (hardcover) (4th Edition) cover

24. The C++ Programming Language (hardcover) (4th Edition)

by Bjarne Stroustrup

The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism cover

25. The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism

by Hernando De Soto

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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine cover

26. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

by Charles Petzold

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

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

by Kees Doets, Jan Eijck

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Lisp in Small Pieces cover

28. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec

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Killer Facebook Ads: Master Cutting-Edge Facebook Advertising Techniques cover

29. Killer Facebook Ads: Master Cutting-Edge Facebook Advertising Techniques

by Marty Weintraub

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

30. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

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High Performance Python cover

31. High Performance Python

by Micha Gorelick, Ian Ozsvald

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Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com cover

32. Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com

by Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler

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What Is Node? cover

33. What Is Node?

Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation) cover

34. Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation)

by Niklaus Wirth

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JavaScript Patterns cover

35. JavaScript Patterns

by Stoyan Stefanov

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

36. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford

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