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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela cover

1. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

by Nelson Mandela

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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. cover

2. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

by Ron Chernow

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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto) cover

3. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Jackass Investing: Don't do it. Profit from it. cover

4. Jackass Investing: Don't do it. Profit from it.

by Michael Dever

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Quantitative Value, + Web Site: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors cover

5. Quantitative Value, + Web Site: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors

by Wesley R. Gray, Tobias E. Carlisle

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Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards cover

6. Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards

by Antti Ilmanen

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The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders cover

7. The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders

by Jack D. Schwager

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Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 11 cover

8. Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 11

by Frank D. Luna

3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development, 2nd Edition cover

9. 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development, 2nd Edition

by Fletcher Dunn, Ian Parberry

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Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education cover

10. Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education

by Danielle Allen

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Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach cover

11. Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach

by Leonard Bloomfield, Clarence Lewis Barnhart

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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

12. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran

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At Day's Close: Night in Times Past cover

13. At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

by A. Roger Ekirch

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Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's cover

14. Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's

by Ray Kroc, Robert Anderson

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Inside B.O.S.S.: South Africa's Secret Police cover

15. Inside B.O.S.S.: South Africa's Secret Police

by Gordon Winter

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World cover

16. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

by Liaquat Ahamed

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The Civilized Engineer cover

17. The Civilized Engineer

by Samuel C. Florman

Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

18. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment cover

19. Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

by Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin, Daniel Kahneman

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The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set cover

20. The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set

by Donald Knuth

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The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated cover

21. The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated

by Judith Rich Harris

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Recursive Programming Techniques (The Systems programming series) cover

22. Recursive Programming Techniques (The Systems programming series)

by William H. Burge

Cry, the Beloved Country cover

23. Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton

Everyone Poops (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) cover

24. Everyone Poops (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

by Taro Gomi

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Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway cover

25. Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway

by Clifford Stoll

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Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results cover

26. Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results

by Drew Boyd, Jacob Goldenberg

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Introduction to the Theory of Computation cover

27. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

by Michael Sipser

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Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach cover

28. Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach

by Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak

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Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science cover

29. Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science

by John M. Zelle

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The Nature of Computation cover

30. The Nature of Computation

by Cristopher Moore, Stephan Mertens

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Algorithms (4th Edition) cover

31. Algorithms (4th Edition)

by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne

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

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

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

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Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python (MIT Press) cover

33. Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python (MIT Press)

by John V. Guttag, John Guttag

High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian cover

34. High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian

by Clifford Stoll

Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II cover

35. Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II

by Stephen Budiansky

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Lisp (3rd Edition) cover

36. Lisp (3rd Edition)

by Patrick Henry Winston, Berthold Horn

Unix in a Nutshell cover

37. Unix in a Nutshell

by Arnold Robbins

Penguin Classics Art Of War,The cover

38. Penguin Classics Art Of War,The

by Sunzi, Sun-tzu

xkcd: volume 0 cover

39. xkcd: volume 0

by Randall Munroe

Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

40. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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Graph Databases cover

41. Graph Databases

by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber, James Webber, Emil Eifrem

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Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition) cover

42. Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition)

by Henry S. Warren

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A Simple Guide to the Mac: OS X Mountain Lion Edition cover

43. A Simple Guide to the Mac: OS X Mountain Lion Edition

by Samuel Harris

Macs For Dummies cover

44. Macs For Dummies

by Edward C. Baig

OS X Mountain Lion Pocket Guide cover

45. OS X Mountain Lion Pocket Guide

by Chris Seibold

My iMac (Mountain Lion Edition) cover

46. My iMac (Mountain Lion Edition)

by John Ray

The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) cover

47. The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)

by Jonathan Schell

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48. The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis

by Paul Simon

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Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey cover

49. Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey

by Bill Brewster

Dow 100,000: Fact or Fiction cover

50. Dow 100,000: Fact or Fiction

by Charles W. Kadlec

The Brothers Karamazov cover

51. The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade cover

52. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade

by Pietra Rivoli

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DIY Satellite Platforms cover

53. DIY Satellite Platforms

by Sandy Antunes

C++ for Java Programmers cover

54. C++ for Java Programmers

by Mark Allen Weiss

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts cover

55. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

by Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

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