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Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty cover

1. Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty

by Gerd Gigerenzer

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1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations cover

2. 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations

by Fred Reinfeld

1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate cover

3. 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate

by Fred Reinfeld

Pawn Power in Chess (Dover Chess) cover

4. Pawn Power in Chess (Dover Chess)

by Hans Kmoch

Inside OS/2 cover

5. Inside OS/2

by Gordon Letwin

Chess For the Novice Player: A Guide For the Beginning Chess Player cover

6. Chess For the Novice Player: A Guide For the Beginning Chess Player

by Gautam R. Narula

FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software cover

7. FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software

by Kerry Nietz

Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

8. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary

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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients cover

9. Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

by Ben Goldacre

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions cover

10. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

by Charles Mackay

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

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

by Steve McConnell

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Graded Go Problems for Beginners, Vol. 1: Introductory Problems, 30 Kyu to 25 Kyu cover

12. Graded Go Problems for Beginners, Vol. 1: Introductory Problems, 30 Kyu to 25 Kyu

by Kano Yoshinori

Learn to Play Go: A Master's Guide to the Ultimate Game (Volume I) cover

13. Learn to Play Go: A Master's Guide to the Ultimate Game (Volume I)

by Janice Kim

Gm-Ram: Essential Grandmaster Chess Knowledge cover

14. Gm-Ram: Essential Grandmaster Chess Knowledge

by Rashid Ziyatdinov

Secret Knowledge (New and Expanded Edition): Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters cover

15. Secret Knowledge (New and Expanded Edition): Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters

by David Hockney

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Adios, Strunk and White cover

16. Adios, Strunk and White

by Gary Hoffman, Glynis Hoffman

Comprehensive Chess Course: Learn Chess in 12 Lessons cover

17. Comprehensive Chess Course: Learn Chess in 12 Lessons

by Lev Alburt, Roman Pelts

Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns cover

18. Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns

by Michael J. Mauboussin, Alfred Rappaport

Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America cover

19. Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America

by Adam Winkler

My System: 21st Century Edition cover

20. My System: 21st Century Edition

by Aron Nimzovich

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The Very Best Of The Feynman Lectures cover

21. The Very Best Of The Feynman Lectures

by Richard Phillips Feynman

Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based On Algorithmic Probability cover

22. Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based On Algorithmic Probability

by Marcus Hutter

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

23. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho

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Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story cover

24. Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story

by Ember Reichgott Junge

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Learn C the Hard Way: Practical Exercises on the Computational Subjects You Keep Avoiding (Like C) (Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series) cover

25. Learn C the Hard Way: Practical Exercises on the Computational Subjects You Keep Avoiding (Like C) (Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series)

by Zed Shaw

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking cover

26. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain

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Design and Evolution of C++, The cover

27. Design and Evolution of C++, The

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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The Annotated C++ Reference Manual cover

28. The Annotated C++ Reference Manual

by Margaret A. Ellis

How Economics Shapes Science cover

29. How Economics Shapes Science

by Paula Stephan

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Inside the C++ Object Model cover

30. Inside the C++ Object Model

by Stanley B. Lippman

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ARM System-on-Chip Architecture cover

31. ARM System-on-Chip Architecture

by Stephen B. Furber

Making Software cover

32. Making Software

by Andrew Oram, Greg Wilson

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Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets cover

33. Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets

by Peter Schweizer

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The Quest for Cosmic Justice cover

34. The Quest for Cosmic Justice

by Thomas Sowell

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Super Mario for Piano: 34 Super Mario Themes Arranged for Easy Piano cover

35. Super Mario for Piano: 34 Super Mario Themes Arranged for Easy Piano

by Alfred Publishing

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Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History cover

36. Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History

by John Lewis

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

37. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner

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