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What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods cover

1. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins

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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life cover

2. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

by Scott Adams

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Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping cover

3. Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping

by Patrick Radden Keefe

The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram Your Genes for Effortless Weight Loss, Vibrant Health, and Boundless Energy cover

4. The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram Your Genes for Effortless Weight Loss, Vibrant Health, and Boundless Energy

by Mark Sisson

Red Thread Thinking: Weaving Together Connections for Brilliant Ideas and Profitable Innovation cover

5. Red Thread Thinking: Weaving Together Connections for Brilliant Ideas and Profitable Innovation

by Debra Kaye

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

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

by William B. Irvine

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

7. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman

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The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run - or Ruin - an Economy cover

8. The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run - or Ruin - an Economy

by Tim Harford

The Motivation Hacker cover

9. The Motivation Hacker

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Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) cover

10. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev

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Graph Design for the Eye and Mind cover

11. Graph Design for the Eye and Mind

by Stephen M. Kosslyn

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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition cover

12. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition

by Lawrence Weschler

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion cover

13. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt

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A Manual for Creating Atheists cover

14. A Manual for Creating Atheists

by Peter Boghossian

How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition cover

15. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition

by Daniel J. Velleman

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

16. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman

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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood cover

17. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

by James Gleick

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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem cover

18. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

by Simon Singh

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Introduction to Graph Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

19. Introduction to Graph Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Richard J. Trudeau

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Trend Following (Updated Edition): Learn to Make Millions in Up or Down Markets cover

20. Trend Following (Updated Edition): Learn to Make Millions in Up or Down Markets

by Michael Covel

Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness cover

21. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

by Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman

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Once a Runner cover

22. Once a Runner

Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript (Effective Software Development Series) cover

23. Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript (Effective Software Development Series)

by David Herman

Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

24. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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TCP/IP Illustrated: The Implementation, Vol. 2 cover

25. TCP/IP Illustrated: The Implementation, Vol. 2

by W. Richard Stevens, Kevin R. Fall, Gary R. Wright

Mathematics for the Nonmathematician cover

26. Mathematics for the Nonmathematician

by Morris Kline

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Advanced Calculus of Several Variables (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

27. Advanced Calculus of Several Variables (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by C. H. Edwards

Advanced Calculus cover

28. Advanced Calculus

by D. V. Widder

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto Book 3) cover

29. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto Book 3)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Genís Sánchez Barberán, Albino Santos Mosquera

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Choose Yourself! cover

30. Choose Yourself!

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Design Research: Methods and Perspectives (Mit Press) cover

31. Design Research: Methods and Perspectives (Mit Press)

by Brenda Laurel

Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction cover

32. Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction

by Helen Sharp, Yvonne Rogers, Jenny Preece

History of Mathematics, Vol. I (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

33. History of Mathematics, Vol. I (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by David Eugene Smith

Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design cover

34. Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design

by C. Gordon Bell, John E. McNamara, J. Craig Mudge

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) cover

35. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)

by George Polya

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Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory cover

36. Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory

by Wade Trappe

Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (3rd Edition) cover

37. Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (3rd Edition)

by Gary Chartrand, Albert D. Polimeni, Ping Zhang

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The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs: An Introduction to Mathematical Proofs cover

38. The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs: An Introduction to Mathematical Proofs

by Antonella Cupillari

The Female Brain cover

39. The Female Brain

by Louann Brizendine

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The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) cover

40. The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)

by Joseph Tainter

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Readings in Computer Architecture (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

41. Readings in Computer Architecture (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by Mark D. Hill

How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets – An Essential Primer on How Breakthrough Innovation Gets Funded from Industrial Revolution to Wall Street cover

42. How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets – An Essential Primer on How Breakthrough Innovation Gets Funded from Industrial Revolution to Wall Street

by Andy Kessler

Connections cover

43. Connections

by Burke, James

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Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts-- the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution cover

44. Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts-- the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution

by Steve Lohr

A Short History of Technology: From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900 cover

45. A Short History of Technology: From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900

by T. K. Derry

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal cover

46. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983 cover

47. Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983

by Severo M. Ornstein

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The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution cover

48. The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

by T.R. Reid

Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality cover

49. Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

by Edward Frenkel

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The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing cover

50. The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing

by Davis, Martin

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work cover

51. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

by Mason Currey

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Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers cover

52. Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers

by John MacCormick, Chris Bishop

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe cover

53. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

by George Dyson

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21st Century C cover

54. 21st Century C

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

55. 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 Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century cover

56. The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century

by James R. Norman

The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos cover

57. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

by Brian Greene, Céline Laroche

The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness cover

58. The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness

by Virginia Postrel

The Design of Everyday Things cover

59. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise cover

60. You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise

by Joel Salatin

Oliver Byrne: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid cover

61. Oliver Byrne: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid

by Euclid, Oliver Byrne, Werner Oechslin

PresentationZen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) cover

62. PresentationZen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)

by Garr Reynolds

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