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

1. 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

2. 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

3. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers

by Robert Jackall

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The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism cover

4. The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism

by Hernando De Soto

Program Generators with XML and Java cover

5. Program Generators with XML and Java

by J. Craig Cleaveland

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

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

by Katie Hafner, John Markoff

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Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail cover

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

by John Gall

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RESTful Web APIs cover

8. RESTful Web APIs

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What's the Matter with Kansas? cover

9. What's the Matter with Kansas?

by Thomas Frank

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OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Versions 3.0 and 3.1 cover

10. OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Versions 3.0 and 3.1

by Dave Shreiner

Beginning OpenGL Game Programming, Second Edition cover

11. Beginning OpenGL Game Programming, Second Edition

by Luke Benstead, Dave Astle, Kevin Hawkins

OpenGL SuperBible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference cover

12. OpenGL SuperBible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference

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

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

by World Bank

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

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

by Tomas Petricek, Jon Skeet

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Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design cover

15. Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design

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

Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America cover

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

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Vintage) cover

17. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Vintage)

by Robert Wright

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

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

by Carl Zimmer

Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids cover

19. Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids

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

C++ Programming Language, The cover

20. C++ Programming Language, The

by Martin Krieger

C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

21. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec

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

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

by Marty Weintraub

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

26. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

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High Performance Python cover

27. High Performance Python

by Micha Gorelick

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What Is Node? cover

28. What Is Node?

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

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

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

by Niklaus Wirth

JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts cover

31. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier

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JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns cover

32. JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns

by Stoyan Stefanov

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