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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

1. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B. Irvine
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The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations cover

2. The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius
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The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis cover

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

by Paul Simon
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

4. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande
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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy cover

5. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

by David D. Burns
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

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

by David Kushner
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Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design cover

7. Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design

by Richard Bird
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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche cover

8. Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

by Ethan Watters
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21st Century C cover

9. 21st Century C

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Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery) cover

10. Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery)

by Charles Platt
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SPIN Selling cover

11. SPIN Selling

by Neil Rackham
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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language cover

12. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

by Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum
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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

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

by Harvey Silverglate
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams cover

14. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
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