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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams cover

1. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

2. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Polywater cover

3. Polywater

by Felix Franks

Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition cover

4. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

by Daniel Okrent

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The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton cover

5. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

by Jerome Karabel

The 48 Laws of Power cover

6. The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

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

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

by Tomas Petricek, Jon Skeet

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Product Design and Development, 5th Edition cover

8. Product Design and Development, 5th Edition

by Steven Eppinger, Karl Ulrich

How Economics Shapes Science cover

9. How Economics Shapes Science

by Paula Stephan

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Great Boss Dead Boss cover

10. Great Boss Dead Boss

by Ray Immelman

Humans of New York cover

11. Humans of New York

by Brandon Stanton

Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won't Tell You About the Internet cover

12. Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won't Tell You About the Internet

by Wallace Wang

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

13. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project) cover

14. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project)

by Nick Turse

Poland cover

15. Poland

by James Albert Michener

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

16. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey A. Silverglate

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Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage cover

17. Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage

by Kaiser Fung

Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe (Jackson School Publications in International Studies (Paperback)) cover

18. Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe (Jackson School Publications in International Studies (Paperback))

by Ernst Fidicin

Science, Strategy and War (Strategy and History) cover

19. Science, Strategy and War (Strategy and History)

by Frans P. B. Osinga

Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face cover

20. Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face

by Dale C. Carson, Wes Denham

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The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation cover

21. The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation

by Greg LeRoy

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Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk) cover

22. Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk)

by Andrew Schulman, David Maxey, Matt Pietrek

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Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models cover

23. Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models

by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill

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High Performance JavaScript cover

24. High Performance JavaScript

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Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School cover

25. Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School

by Philip Delves Broughton

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

26. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience cover

27. The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience

by Rex Hartson, Pardha S. Pyla