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Extinct Humans cover

1. Extinct Humans

by Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey H. Schwartz

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One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey cover

2. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

by Richard Proenneke, Sam Keith

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

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

by William B Irvine

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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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The Handbook (The Encheiridion) (Hackett Classics) cover

5. The Handbook (The Encheiridion) (Hackett Classics)

by Epictetus, Nicholas P. White

Dialogues and Essays (Oxford World's Classics) cover

6. Dialogues and Essays (Oxford World's Classics)

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Liberalism: A Counter-History cover

7. Liberalism: A Counter-History

by Domenico Losurdo

Turn Signals Are The Facial Expressions Of Automobiles cover

8. Turn Signals Are The Facial Expressions Of Automobiles

by Don Norman

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy cover

9. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

by David D. Burns

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Drugs Without the Hot Air cover

10. Drugs Without the Hot Air

by David J. Nutt

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Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design cover

11. Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design

by Richard Bird

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

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

by David Kushner

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Accidents in North American Mountaineering cover

13. Accidents in North American Mountaineering

by American Alpine Club, John Williamson

The Inner Citadel: The <i>Meditations</i> of Marcus Aurelius (Meditations of Marcus Aurelius) cover

14. The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Meditations of Marcus Aurelius)

by Pierre Hadot

Meditations: A New Translation cover

15. Meditations: A New Translation

by Marcus Aurelius

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Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked cover

16. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked

by James Lasdun

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche cover

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

by Ethan Watters

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Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940 (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry) cover

18. Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940 (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry)

by Ian Robert Dowbiggin

Psychiatrists: The Men Behind Hitler cover

19. Psychiatrists: The Men Behind Hitler

by Thomas Röder, Volker Kubillus, Anthony Burwell

The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence cover

20. The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

by Gavin De Becker

21st Century C cover

21. 21st Century C

by Ben Klemens

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Real World OCaml cover

22. Real World OCaml

by Jason Hickey, Anil Madhavapeddy, Yaron Minsky

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

by Paul Simon

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Sailloons and Fliptackers: The Limits to High-Speed Sailing (Library of Flight) cover

24. Sailloons and Fliptackers: The Limits to High-Speed Sailing (Library of Flight)

by Bernard Smith

Modern Compiler Design (Worldwide Series in Computer Science) cover

25. Modern Compiler Design (Worldwide Series in Computer Science)

by Dick Grune

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The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference (2nd Edition) cover

26. The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference (2nd Edition)

by Nicolai M. Josuttis

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The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production cover

27. The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production

by James P. Womack

Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example cover

28. Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example

by Andrew Koenig, Barbara E. Moo

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Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery) cover

29. Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery)

by Charles Platt

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How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed cover

30. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

by Ray Kurzweil

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SPIN Selling cover

31. SPIN Selling

by Neil Rackham

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Translucent Databases cover

32. Translucent Databases

by Peter Wayner

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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language cover

33. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

by Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum

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The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience cover

34. The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience

by Benny Shanon

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Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings cover

35. Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings

by Kenneth R. Ginsburg, Martha Moraghan Jablow

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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think cover

37. The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

by Eli Pariser

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Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings cover

38. Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings

by Paul Reps, Nyogen Senzaki

C# Smorgasbord cover

39. C# Smorgasbord

by Filip Ekberg

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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art cover

40. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

by Donald N. Thompson, Don Thompson

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Legal Guide to Web & Software Development (book with CD-Rom) cover

41. Legal Guide to Web & Software Development (book with CD-Rom)

by Stephen Fishman

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Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements cover

42. Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements

by Stephen Fishman

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The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything cover

43. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

by Guy Kawasaki

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Rework cover

44. Rework

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses cover

45. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

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Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds cover

46. Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds

by Ping Fu, MeiMei Fox