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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces cover

1. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces

by Radley Balko

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Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

2. Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Sheldon Jay Axler

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

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

by David Kushner

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The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past cover

4. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past

by Keith Windschuttle

The Twilight Saga White Collection cover

5. The Twilight Saga White Collection

by Stephenie Meyer

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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge (Issues in Crime and Justice) cover

7. Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge (Issues in Crime and Justice)

by Donna Selman

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles cover

8. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution cover

9. Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution

by Paul G. Higgs, Teresa Attwood

I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World cover

10. I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World

by Trevor Paglen

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Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book cover

11. Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book

by Carol J. Loomis

Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism cover

12. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism

by Sheldon S. Wolin

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Spacecraft, 2000-2100 A.D.: Terran Trade Authority Handbook cover

13. Spacecraft, 2000-2100 A.D.: Terran Trade Authority Handbook

by Stewart Cowley

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The Navigator cover

14. The Navigator

by Morris West

Schaum's Outline of Linear Algebra cover

15. Schaum's Outline of Linear Algebra

by Seymour Lipschutz

The Stroke: Theory of Writing cover

16. The Stroke: Theory of Writing

by Gerrit Noordzij

A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition (Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability) cover

17. A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition (Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability)

by Luc Devroye

Mathematics in India cover

18. Mathematics in India

by Kim Plofker

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Linear Algebra Problem Book (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions) cover

19. Linear Algebra Problem Book (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions)

by Paul R. Halmos

The Machinery of Life cover

20. The Machinery of Life

by David S. Goodsell

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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace cover

21. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

by Ricardo Semler

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The Story of Commodore: A Company on the Edge cover

22. The Story of Commodore: A Company on the Edge

by Brian Bagnall

Commodore: A Company on the Edge cover

23. Commodore: A Company on the Edge

by Brian Bagnall

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Commodore: The Amiga Years cover

24. Commodore: The Amiga Years

by Brian Bagnall

The Big Short cover

25. The Big Short

by Michael M. Lewis

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The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Karman, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Space cover

26. The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Karman, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Space

by Lee Edson

Programming in Prolog: Using The Iso Standard cover

27. Programming in Prolog: Using The Iso Standard

by William F. Clocksin, Christopher S. Mellish

The State Against Blacks cover

28. The State Against Blacks

by Williams, Walter E.

Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health cover

29. Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health

by Thomas Hanna

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AngularJS cover

30. AngularJS

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High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication cover

31. High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication

by Jeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling, Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Baron Schwartz. Peter Zaitsev. Vadim Tkachenko. Jeremy D. Zawodny. Arjen Lentz. Derek J. Balling

Meditation without Gurus: Meditation without Gurus cover

32. Meditation without Gurus: Meditation without Gurus

by Clark Strand

The Circle cover

33. The Circle

by Dave Eggers

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Matrix Analysis cover

34. Matrix Analysis

by Roger A. Horn, Charles R. Johnson

The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State cover

35. The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State

by Bruce L. Benson

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The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't cover

36. The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't

by Robert I. Sutton

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Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer (Yourdon Press Computing Series) cover

37. Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer (Yourdon Press Computing Series)

by Edward Yourdon

Decline and Fall of the American Programmer cover

38. Decline and Fall of the American Programmer

by Edward Yourdon

The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) cover

39. The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

by Noam Wasserman

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High Tech Start Up, Revised and Updated: The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech Companies cover

40. High Tech Start Up, Revised and Updated: The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech Companies

by John L. Nesheim

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win cover

41. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win

by Steve Blank

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