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Tell Me Something, She Said cover

1. Tell Me Something, She Said

by David Raether

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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Freedom at Midnight cover

3. Freedom at Midnight

by Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins

Understanding the Linux Kernel, Third Edition cover

4. Understanding the Linux Kernel, Third Edition

by Daniel P. Bovet

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The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook cover

5. The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook

by Michael Kerrisk

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Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition) cover

6. Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition)

by Robert Love

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Go: A Complete Introduction to the Game (Beginner and Elementary Go Books) cover

7. Go: A Complete Introduction to the Game (Beginner and Elementary Go Books)

by Ch'i-hun Cho

The Second Book of Go (Beginner and Elementary Go Books) cover

8. The Second Book of Go (Beginner and Elementary Go Books)

by Richard Bozulich

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Go for Beginners cover

9. Go for Beginners

by Kaoru Iwamoto

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Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market cover

10. Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market

by Scott Patterson

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

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

by John W. Foreman

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The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience cover

12. The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience

by Martin E. P. Seligman, Karen Reivich, Lisa Jaycox, Jane Gillham

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Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life cover

13. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

by Martin E.P. Seligman

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Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience cover

14. Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

by Sally Satel, Scott O. Lilienfeld

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Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide (Monographs in Computer Science) cover

15. Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide (Monographs in Computer Science)

by Dick Grune

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Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (3rd Edition) cover

16. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (3rd Edition)

by John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman

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This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly cover

17. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff

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OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word cover

18. OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word

by Allan Metcalf

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Excursions in Number Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

19. Excursions in Number Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Charles Stanley Ogilvy, John Timothy Anderson

Functional JavaScript: Introducing Functional Programming with Underscore.js cover

20. Functional JavaScript: Introducing Functional Programming with Underscore.js

by Michael Fogus

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Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide cover

21. Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide

by Thomas Szasz

Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison cover

22. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

by Michel Foucault

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The Art of Electronics Student Manual cover

23. The Art of Electronics Student Manual

by Thomas C. Hayes, Paul Horowitz

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Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers cover

24. Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers

by Jan Gullberg

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My System cover

25. My System

by Aron Nimzowitsch

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Fad Surfing In The Boardroom: Managing In The Age Of Instant Answers cover

26. Fad Surfing In The Boardroom: Managing In The Age Of Instant Answers

by Eileen C. Shapiro

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice cover

27. The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

by Christopher Hitchens

Nationalism cover

28. Nationalism

by Elie Kedourie

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The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities cover

29. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

by Mancur Olson

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid cover

30. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Hacking the Future: Privacy, Identity, and Anonymity on the Web cover

31. Hacking the Future: Privacy, Identity, and Anonymity on the Web

by Cole Stryker

The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain cover

32. The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain

by James H Fallon

Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition) cover

33. Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull

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The Complete Chess-Player cover

34. The Complete Chess-Player

by Fred Reinfeld

Blog, Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit, and to Create Community cover

35. Blog, Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit, and to Create Community

by Joy Deangdeelert Cho

ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income cover

36. ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income

by Darren Rowse, Chris Garrett

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers cover

37. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success cover

38. The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

by Kevin Dutton

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The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design cover

39. The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design

by Brenda Laurel, S. Joy Mountford

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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

40. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff

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41. "Dow, 30,000 by 2008" Why It's Different This Time - Second Printing

by Robert Zuccaro

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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Banker: And Other Baller Things You Only Get to Say If You Work on Wall Street cover

42. Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Banker: And Other Baller Things You Only Get to Say If You Work on Wall Street

by Leveraged Sellout

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43. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

by Fred Turner

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Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State cover

44. Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State

by William H. Janeway

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Business Law (Barron's Business Law) cover

45. Business Law (Barron's Business Law)

by Robert W. Emerson

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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) cover

46. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press)

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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Technical Analysis of Stock Trends cover

47. Technical Analysis of Stock Trends

by Robert D. Edwards, John Magee, W.H.C. Bassetti