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1. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
by James Wallace, Jim Erickson
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2. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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3. Corporate Confidential
by Cynthia Shapiro
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4. Dissecting DOS
by Michael Podanoffsky
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5. Can Japan Compete?
by Michael E. Porter, Michael, Porter, Hirotaka, Takeuchi, Mariko, Sakakibara
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6. Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
by Danny Goodman
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7. Building Web Applications with Erlang
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8. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork and the Myth of Total Efficiency
by Tom DeMarco
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9. Graphics Gems
by Andrew S. Glassner
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10. It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News
by Drew Curtis
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11. It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!: RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals
by Suparna Damany, Jack Bellis
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12. The Art of Profitability
by Adrian Slywotzky
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13. An Introduction to Japanese Society
by Yoshio Sugimoto
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14. Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It
by Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor Jr.
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15. Webmaster in a Nutshell, Second Edition
by Stephen Spainhour, Robert Eckstein
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16. Blindsight (Firefall, 1)
by Peter Watts
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17. Rapid Recovery from Back and Neck Pain: A Proven Nine-Step Recovery Plan
by Fred Amir
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18. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
by Donald C. Shoup
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19. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
by Steven Levy
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20. On Intelligence
by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
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21. Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison
by Michael Daly
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22. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (Ruhlman's Ratios)
by Michael Ruhlman
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23. 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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24. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared M. Diamond
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25. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
by David Kadavy
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26. James A. Michener's Writer's Handbook: Explorations in Writing and Publishing
by James A. Michener
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27. Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach
by Ivar Jacobson
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28. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner
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29. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
by William B. Irvine
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30. Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
by Karen Armstrong
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31. Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity
by David W. Galenson
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32. A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market
by John Allen Paulos
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33. One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Vintage, 1)
by Michael Dobbs (historian), Michael Dobbs
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34. Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric, 2-Volume Set
by Leslie J. DeGroot, J. Larry Jameson
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35. The Physics Of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable – A Persuasive Exploration of Science, Economics, and the 2008 Collapse
by James Owen Weatherall
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36. Closure: The Definitive Guide
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37. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
by Eric Schlosser
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38. Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman
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39. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
by David Hoffman
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40. Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards (The Wiley Finance Series)
by Antti Ilmanen
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41. Jackass Investing: Don't do it. Profit from it.
by Michael Dever
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42. Quantitative Value, + Web Site: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (Wiley Finance)
by Tobias Carlisle
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43. Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks
by Michal Zalewski
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44. The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications
by Michal Zalewski
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45. Enigma: The Battle for the Code
by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
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46. Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation
by R. G. Loeliger
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47. Consider Your Options: Get the Most from Your Equity Compensation
by Kaye A. Thomas
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48. The New Way Things Work
by David Macaulay
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49. Revenue Management: Hard-Core Tactics for Market Domination
by Robert G. Cross
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50. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
by 村上春樹
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51. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
by Jack Trout, Al Ries
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52. How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III
by Ron Rosenbaum
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53. The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process
by Thomas M. Sterner
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54. The Safe Hiring Manual: The Complete Guide to Employment Screening Background Checks for Employers, Recruiters, and Jobseekers
by Lester S. Rosen
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55. Case Study Research: Design and Methods (Applied Social Research Methods)
by Robert K. Yin
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56. Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications
by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, Tadayoshi Kohno
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57. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Vintage)
by Roger Penrose
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58. Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design
by Richard G. Budynas, Richard Budynas, J. Keith Nisbett
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59. How to See Color and Paint It
by Arthur Stern
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60. Secret Knowledge (New and Expanded Edition): Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
by David Hockney
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61. Van Gogh: The Life
by Steven Naifeh
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62. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)
by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
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63. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition
by W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago
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64. Algorithms Unlocked (Mit Press)
by Thomas H. Cormen
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65. Counterexamples in Analysis
by Bernard R. Gelbaum, John M. H. Olmsted
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66. The Hindus: An Alternative History
by Wendy Doniger
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67. The World's Writing Systems
by William Bright, Peter T. Daniels
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68. Mathematics for the Million: How to Master the Magic of Numbers
by Lancelot Hogben
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69. Algorithms in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
by George T. Heineman
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70. Effective Modern C++
by Scott Meyers
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71. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
by Robert B. Cialdini
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72. Precision Machining Technology
by Peter J. Hoffman
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73. Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC
by Peter Norton, John Socha
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74. Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs
by Mark Jason Dominus
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75. Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity
by Avram Joel Spolsky
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76. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
by James Gleick
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77. High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design)
by Howard W. Johnson, Martin Graham
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78. Zen in the Art of Archery
by Eugen Herrigel
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79. Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
by Pamela Druckerman
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80. Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD, 2nd Edition
by Michael W. Lucas
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81. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus
by Michael Spivak
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82. Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell: Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry
by George F. Simmons
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83. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
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84. Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell: Techniques for Multicore and Multithreaded Programming
by Simon Marlow
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85. Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook
by Nishant Shukla
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86. Code
by Charles Petzold
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87. Apollo
by Charles A. Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
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88. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
by Richard Rhodes
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89. Longing to Know
by Esther Lightcap Meek
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90. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
by John Markoff
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91. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
by Ryan Holiday
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92. The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking
by Barbara Minto
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93. The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk
by William Bernstein
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94. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
by G. Pascal Zachary
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95. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
by Thomas Sowell
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96. Drugs Unlimited: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High
by Power, Mike (Journalist)
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97. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by Jon Ronson
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98. Art of Plain Talk
by Rudolf Flesch
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99. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
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100. Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)
by Marcus Aurelius
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