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Democracy in America and Two Essays on America (Penguin Classics) cover

1. Democracy in America and Two Essays on America (Penguin Classics)

by Alexis de Tocqueville

The Definitive Book of Body Language: The Hidden Meaning Behind People's Gestures and Expressions cover

2. The Definitive Book of Body Language: The Hidden Meaning Behind People's Gestures and Expressions

by Allan Pease, Barbara Pease

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Choose Yourself! cover

3. Choose Yourself!

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Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs (2nd Edition) cover

4. Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs (2nd Edition)

by Ravi Sethi

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger cover

5. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson

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The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--and the Coming Cashless Society cover

6. The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--and the Coming Cashless Society

by David Wolman

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate cover

7. Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

by Rose George, Pearl Hewitt

Learning From Data cover

8. Learning From Data

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

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Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong-and What You Really Need to Know cover

9. Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong-and What You Really Need to Know

by Emily Oster

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation cover

10. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

by Steven Johnson

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Analysis of Adverse Reactions to Monosodium Glutamate (Msg) cover

11. Analysis of Adverse Reactions to Monosodium Glutamate (Msg)

by Daniel J. Raiten, John M. Talbot, Kenneth D. Fisher, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

Tokyo Nobody (English and Japanese Edition) cover

12. Tokyo Nobody (English and Japanese Edition)

by 中野正貴

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love cover

13. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport

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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal cover

14. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

by Eric Schlosser

Finite and Infinite Games cover

15. Finite and Infinite Games

by James Carse

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Karel J Robot: A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Object-Oriented Programming in Java cover

16. Karel J Robot: A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Object-Oriented Programming in Java

by Joseph Bergin, Mark Stehlik, Jim Roberts

Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight cover

17. Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight

by John W. Foreman

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Purely Functional Data Structures (Volume 0) cover

18. Purely Functional Data Structures (Volume 0)

by Chris Okasaki

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies cover

19. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond

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Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners cover

20. Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners

by C.J. Date

Democracy – The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice) cover

21. Democracy – The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)

by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Voices That Matter) cover

22. Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Voices That Matter)

by Steve Krug

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Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation cover

23. Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation

by R. G. Loeliger

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Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best...And Learn from the Worst cover

24. Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best...And Learn from the Worst

by Robert I. Sutton

Free Will (Key Concepts in Philosophy) cover

25. Free Will (Key Concepts in Philosophy)

by Joseph Keim Campbell

Programming in C cover

26. Programming in C

by Stephen G. Kochan

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Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach cover

27. Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach

by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults) cover

28. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults)

by Eric Schlosser

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Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation cover

29. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

by Edward Chancellor

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The Coming Population Crash: and Our Planet's Surprising Future cover

30. The Coming Population Crash: and Our Planet's Surprising Future

by Fred Pearce

Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World cover

31. Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

by Mark Williams, Danny Penman

Remote: Office Not Required cover

32. Remote: Office Not Required

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life cover

33. Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

by John C. Bogle

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

34. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho

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C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

35. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices) cover

36. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)

by Steve McConnell

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No Tech Hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing cover

37. No Tech Hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing

by Johnny Long, Kevin David Mitnick

Tapping Into Water Low Tech Well Drilling Techniques and Tools cover

38. Tapping Into Water Low Tech Well Drilling Techniques and Tools

by Paul Sawyers

Ultra low tech architecture (English and Spanish Edition) cover

39. Ultra low tech architecture (English and Spanish Edition)

by Josep Maria Minguet

Code cover

40. Code

by Charles Petzold

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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

41. 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 Macmillan Visual Dictionary: 3,500 Color Illustrations, 25,000 Terms, 600 Subjects cover

42. The Macmillan Visual Dictionary: 3,500 Color Illustrations, 25,000 Terms, 600 Subjects

by Jean Claude Corbeil, Ariane Archambault

Logicomix: An epic search for truth cover

43. Logicomix: An epic search for truth

by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou

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The Complete Calvin and Hobbes cover

44. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

by Bill Watterson

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Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality cover

45. Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality

by Gail Dines