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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet cover

1. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon

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

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

by Oliver Byrne, Euclid, Werner Oechslin

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Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II cover

3. Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II

by Stephen Budiansky

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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography cover

4. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

by Simon Singh

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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar cover

5. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

by Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage cover

6. Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage

by Stephen Budiansky

The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg cover

7. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

by Nicholas Dawidoff

JPEG: Still Image Data Compression Standard (Digital Multimedia Standards) (Digital Multimedia Standards S) cover

8. JPEG: Still Image Data Compression Standard (Digital Multimedia Standards) (Digital Multimedia Standards S)

by William B. Pennebaker, Joan L. Mitchell

Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space cover

9. Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space

by Brian O'Doherty

What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement cover

10. What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement

by Martin E.P. Seligman

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Correlated: Surprising Connections Between Seemingly Unrelated Things cover

11. Correlated: Surprising Connections Between Seemingly Unrelated Things

by Shaun Gallagher

Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State cover

12. Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State

by Richard L. Miller

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The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body cover

13. The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body

by Ori Hofmekler

How to Lie with Statistics cover

14. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff

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Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up cover

15. Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up

by Bob Colacello

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition cover

16. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition

by Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang

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Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science cover

17. Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science

by Michael Nielsen

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The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you cover

18. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

by Rob Fitzpatrick

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Clojure Cookbook cover

19. Clojure Cookbook

by Luke VanderHart, Ryan Neufeld

ClojureScript: Up and Running cover

20. ClojureScript: Up and Running

by Stuart Sierra, Luke VanderHart

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Flash to the Core cover

21. Flash to the Core

by Joshua Davis

Hacking the Kinect (Technology in Action) cover

22. Hacking the Kinect (Technology in Action)

by Jeff Kramer, Matt Parker, Daniel Castro, Nicolas Burrus, Florian Echtler

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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 cover

23. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

by Christopher Clark

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

24. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

25. The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp cover

26. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp

by Peter Norvig

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Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition cover

27. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition

by W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) cover

28. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman

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The Art of UNIX Programming (The Addison-Wesley Professional Computng Series) cover

29. The Art of UNIX Programming (The Addison-Wesley Professional Computng Series)

by Eric S. Raymond

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Elements of Distributed Computing cover

30. Elements of Distributed Computing

by Vijay K. Garg

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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization cover

31. How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

by Franklin Foer

The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment cover

32. The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment

by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success cover

33. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

by Carol S. Dweck

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Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism cover

34. Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism

by Sareen S. Gropper, Jack L. Smith

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The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field cover

35. The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field

by Jacques Hadamard

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Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions: A Catologue of Modern Engineering Paradigms cover

36. Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions: A Catologue of Modern Engineering Paradigms

by Peter DeGrace, Leslie Hulet Stahl

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

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

by Guy Deutscher

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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion cover

38. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

by Gary Webb

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage cover

39. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing

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The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain cover

40. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain

by John E. Sarno

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Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, Revised and Expanded Edition cover

41. Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, Revised and Expanded Edition

by Walter Kaufmann

A Kierkegaard Anthology cover

42. A Kierkegaard Anthology

by Søren Kierkegaard

Universe cover

43. Universe

by Roger Freedman, Robert Geller, William J. Kaufmann

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us cover

44. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

by Daniel H. Pink

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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard cover

45. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

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The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It cover

46. The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

by Kelly McGonigal

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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business cover

47. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

by Charles Duhigg

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Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One cover

48. Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

by Dr. Joe Dispenza

Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life cover

49. Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

by Spencer Johnson

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Asperger's Syndrome and Mindfulness: Taking Refuge in the Buddha cover

50. Asperger's Syndrome and Mindfulness: Taking Refuge in the Buddha

by Chris Mitchell

Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition cover

51. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition

by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore

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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles cover

52. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

by Steven Pressfield

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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age cover

53. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

by Paul Graham

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