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

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

by John W. Foreman

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Tell Me Something, She Said cover

2. Tell Me Something, She Said

by David Raether

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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Freedom At Midnight cover

4. Freedom At Midnight

by Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins

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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Understanding the Linux Kernel, Third Edition cover

6. Understanding the Linux Kernel, Third Edition

by Daniel P. Bovet

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

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

by Scott Patterson

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

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

by Eileen C. Shapiro

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The Second Book of Go: What you need to know after you've learned the rules (Beginner and Elementary Go Books) cover

9. The Second Book of Go: What you need to know after you've learned the rules (Beginner and Elementary Go Books)

by Richard Bozulich

GO: A Complete Introduction to the Game cover

10. GO: A Complete Introduction to the Game

by Cho Chikun

Go for Beginners cover

11. Go for Beginners

by Iwamoto Kaoru

Linux Kernel Development cover

12. Linux Kernel Development

by Robert Love

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

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

by Dick Grune

Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation cover

14. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation

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

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

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

by Martin Elias Pete Seligman

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

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

by Martin Elias Pete Seligman

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

17. OK: The Improbable Story Of America's Greatest Word

by Allan A. Metcalf

Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience cover

18. Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

by Sally L. Satel, Scott O. Lilienfeld

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Functional JavaScript: Introducing Functional Programming with Underscore.js cover

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

by Michael Fogus

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This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly cover

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

by Carmen M. Reinhart

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Excursions in Number Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

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

by C. Stanley Ogilvy

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison cover

22. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

by Michel Foucault, mechil foucault, Simon Prebble

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Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide cover

23. Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide

by Thomas Stephen Szasz

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

24. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist cover

25. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson

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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice cover

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

by Christopher Hitchens

Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers cover

27. Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers

by Jan Gullberg

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The Art of Electronics Student Manual cover

28. The Art of Electronics Student Manual

by Thomas C. Hayes, Paul Horowitz

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My System: 21st Century Edition cover

29. My System: 21st Century Edition

by Aron Nimzovich

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Nationalism cover

30. Nationalism

by Elie Kedourie

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

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

by Mancur Olson

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid cover

32. 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

33. 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

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

by James H. Fallon

The Complete Chess-Player cover

35. The Complete Chess-Player

by Fred Reinfeld

Operating Systems Design and Implementation cover

36. Operating Systems Design and Implementation

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull

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

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

by Kevin Dutton

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

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

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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

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

by Darren Rowse

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

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

by Joy Deangdeelert Cho

Single Page Web Applications: JavaScript end-to-end cover

41. Single Page Web Applications: JavaScript end-to-end

by Michael Mikowski, Josh C. Powell

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

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

by John Markoff

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Dow 30,000 by 2008!: Why It's Different This Time cover

43. Dow 30,000 by 2008!: Why It's Different This Time

by Robert Zuccaro

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

44. 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 Sell-Out LLC

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

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

by William H. Janeway

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Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager cover

46. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

by Michael Lopp

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Business Law (Barron's Business Review Series) cover

47. Business Law (Barron's Business Review Series)

by Robert W. Emerson

Technical Analysis of Stock Trends cover

48. Technical Analysis of Stock Trends

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