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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 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate (Chess lovers' library) cover

2. 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate (Chess lovers' library)

by Fred Reinfeld

1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations cover

3. 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations

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

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

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

by Ben Goldacre

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

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

by Gautam R. Narula

Extraordinary Popular Delusions cover

8. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

by Charles Mackay

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

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

by Yoshinori Kanō

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

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

by Janice Kim, Soo-hyun Jeong

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Payment Systems: From the Salt Mines to the Board Room (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions) cover

11. Payment Systems: From the Salt Mines to the Board Room (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)

by Dominique Rambure, Alec Nacamuli

FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software cover

12. FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software

by Kerry Nietz

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

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

by David Hockney

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Adios, Strunk & White: A Handbook for the New Academic Essay 5th edition cover

14. Adios, Strunk & White: A Handbook for the New Academic Essay 5th edition

by Gary Hoffman, Glynis Hoffman

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia cover

15. Anarchy, State, and Utopia

by Robert Nozick

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GM-RAM: Essential Grandmaster Chess Knowledge cover

16. GM-RAM: Essential Grandmaster Chess Knowledge

by Rashid Ziyatdinov, Peter Dyson

Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns cover

17. Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns

by Alfred Rappaport, Michael J. Mauboussin

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

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

by Adam Winkler

Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy cover

19. Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy

by Iain Martin

My System cover

20. My System

by Aron Nimzowitsch

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The Very Best of the Feynman Lectures cover

21. The Very Best of the Feynman Lectures

by Richard Phillips Feynman (Physicist, United States)

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition) cover

22. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)

by Alfred V. Aho

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Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story cover

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

by Ember Reichgott Junge

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Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based On Algorithmic Probability cover

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

by Marcus Hutter

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

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

by Susan Cain

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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

26. 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

The Design and Evolution of C++ cover

27. The Design and Evolution of C++

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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The Annotated C++ Reference Manual cover

28. The Annotated C++ Reference Manual

by Margaret A. Ellis, Bjarne Stroustrup

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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 (2nd Edition) cover

31. ARM System-on-Chip Architecture (2nd Edition)

by Stephen Bo Furber

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Making Software cover

32. Making Software

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

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

by John David Lewis

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

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

by Alfred Publishing

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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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