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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date cover

1. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date

by Robert X. Cringely

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The Elements of F*cking Style: A Helpful Parody cover

2. The Elements of F*cking Style: A Helpful Parody

by Chris Baker, Jacob Hansen

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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time cover

3. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

by Dava Sobel

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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity cover

4. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

by Alan Cooper

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Visible Speech (Asian Interactions and Comparisons) cover

5. Visible Speech (Asian Interactions and Comparisons)

by John DeFrancis

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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) cover

6. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

by Seth Godin

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Reamde: A Novel cover

7. Reamde: A Novel

by Neal Stephenson

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich cover

8. Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich

by Kevin Phillips

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Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress cover

9. Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress

by Peter Tyson

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The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom? cover

10. The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?

by David Brin

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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System cover

11. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

by Paul Fussell

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The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT cover

12. The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

by Russ Harris, Steven Hayes

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Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks at Them! cover

13. Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks at Them!

by Todd Harris Goldman

Nuns Having Fun 2013 Wall Calendar cover

14. Nuns Having Fun 2013 Wall Calendar

2013 Bunny Suicides Wall Calendar cover

15. 2013 Bunny Suicides Wall Calendar

Boys Are Stupid cover

16. Boys Are Stupid

The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling cover

17. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling

by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross

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Girls are Weirdos but They Smell Pretty cover

18. Girls are Weirdos but They Smell Pretty

by Todd Harris Goldman

Introduction to Space Dynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering) cover

19. Introduction to Space Dynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)

by William Tyrrell Thomson

Spacecraft Dynamics and Control: A Practical Engineering Approach (Cambridge Aerospace Series) cover

20. Spacecraft Dynamics and Control: A Practical Engineering Approach (Cambridge Aerospace Series)

by Marcel J. Sidi

Modern Spacecraft Dynamics and Control cover

21. Modern Spacecraft Dynamics and Control

by Marshall H. Kaplan

The Coming of the Third Reich cover

22. The Coming of the Third Reich

by Richard J. Evans

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Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy cover

23. Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy

by Ross Perlin

Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games cover

24. Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games

by LEAD Project

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Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition cover

25. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition

by Jon Erickson

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Hacking Exposed 7: Network Security Secrets and Solutions cover

26. Hacking Exposed 7: Network Security Secrets and Solutions

by Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz

Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy cover

27. Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy

by John Ivan Simon

Garner's Modern American Usage cover

28. Garner's Modern American Usage

by Bryan Garner

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Enterprise Patterns and MDA: Building Better Software with Archetype Patterns and UML cover

29. Enterprise Patterns and MDA: Building Better Software with Archetype Patterns and UML

by Jim Arlow, Ila Neustadt

An Introduction to the Theory of Groups (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

30. An Introduction to the Theory of Groups (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Joseph Rotman

Visual Group Theory (MAA Classroom Resource Materials) (MAA Problem Book Series) cover

31. Visual Group Theory (MAA Classroom Resource Materials) (MAA Problem Book Series)

by Nathan Carter

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32. Groups and Their Graphs (New Mathematical Library 14)

by I. Grossman, Magnus W.

The Gun cover

33. The Gun

by C. J. Chivers

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The Women's Room cover

34. The Women's Room

by Marilyn French

Testing the War Weapons: Rifles and Light Machine Guns from Around the World cover

35. Testing the War Weapons: Rifles and Light Machine Guns from Around the World

by Timothy J. Mullin

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin cover

36. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

by Timothy Snyder

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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage cover

37. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

by Cliff Stoll

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Wheat Belly cover

38. Wheat Belly

by William Davis

The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler cover

39. The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler

by Chris Eagle

iOS Hacker's Handbook cover

40. iOS Hacker's Handbook

by Charlie Miller, Dion Blazakis, Dino DaiZovi, Stefan Esser, Vincenzo Iozzo, Ralf-Philip Weinmann

Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering cover

41. Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering

by Eldad Eilam

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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It cover

42. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

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Whatever (Serpent's Tail Classics) cover

43. Whatever (Serpent's Tail Classics)

by Michel Houellebecq

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How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants cover

44. How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants

by David Rees

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Linux Core Kernel Commentary: Guide to Insider's Knowledge on the Core Kernel of the Linux Code cover

45. Linux Core Kernel Commentary: Guide to Insider's Knowledge on the Core Kernel of the Linux Code

by Scott Maxwell

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

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

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty cover

47. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

by David Kadavy

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Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja cover

48. Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja

by John Resig, Bear Bibeault

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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide cover

49. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

by David Flanagan

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