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

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

by Keith Windschuttle

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The Twilight Saga White Collection cover

2. The Twilight Saga White Collection

by Stephenie Meyer

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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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

4. 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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Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution cover

5. Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution

by Paul G. Higgs, Teresa Attwood

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

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

by Radley Balko

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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles cover

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

by Mike Davis

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

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

by Donna Selman, Paul Leighton

Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

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

by Sheldon Jay Axler

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

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

by Sheldon S. Wolin

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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 Loomis, Warren Buffett

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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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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Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Globalization of Organized Crime cover

14. Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Globalization of Organized Crime

by Michael Woodiwiss

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Schaum's Outline of Linear Algebra, 5th Edition: 612 Solved Problems + 25 Videos (Schaum's Outlines) cover

15. Schaum's Outline of Linear Algebra, 5th Edition: 612 Solved Problems + 25 Videos (Schaum's Outlines)

by Seymour Lipschutz, Marc Lipson

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, László Györfi, Gabor Lugosi

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition cover

18. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition

by Robert M. Sapolsky

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Mathematics in India cover

19. Mathematics in India

by Kim Plofker

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The Navigator cover

20. The Navigator

by Morris West

Linear Algebra Problem Book (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions) cover

21. Linear Algebra Problem Book (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions)

by Paul R. Halmos

The Machinery of Life cover

22. The Machinery of Life

by David S. Goodsell

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

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

by Ricardo Semler

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On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore cover

24. On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore

by Brian Bagnall

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Commodore: A Company on the Edge cover

25. Commodore: A Company on the Edge

by Brian Bagnall

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Commodore: The Amiga Years cover

26. Commodore: The Amiga Years

by Brian Bagnall

Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series) cover

27. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series)

by Kurt W. Beyer

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine cover

28. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael M. Lewis

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

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

by Theodore Von Kármán

Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World [With CD (Audio)] cover

30. Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World [With CD (Audio)]

by J. Mark G. Williams, Mark Williams, Danny Penman

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Programming in Prolog: Using the ISO Standard cover

31. Programming in Prolog: Using the ISO Standard

by William F. Clocksin, Christopher S. Mellish

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

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

by Thomas Hanna

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Option Trading: Pricing and Volatility Strategies and Techniques cover

33. Option Trading: Pricing and Volatility Strategies and Techniques

by Euan Sinclair

The State Against Blacks cover

34. The State Against Blacks

by Walter Edward Williams

Meditation without Gurus cover

35. Meditation without Gurus

by Clark Strand

High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication cover

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

by Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko

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The Circle cover

37. The Circle

by Dave Eggers

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Matrix Analysis cover

38. Matrix Analysis

by Roger A. Horn, Charles R. Johnson

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages cover

39. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

by Guy Deutscher

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The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State cover

40. 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

41. 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

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

by Edward Yourdon

Decline and Fall of the American Programmer cover

43. Decline and Fall of the American Programmer

by Edward Yourdon

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Ctrl Alt Delete: Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends on It. cover

44. Ctrl Alt Delete: Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends on It.

by Mitch Joel

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

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

by John L. Nesheim

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

46. 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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The Four Steps to the Epiphany cover

47. The Four Steps to the Epiphany

by Steve Blank

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