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How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life cover

1. How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life

by J. J. Luna

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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

2. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff

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The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design cover

3. The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design

by Brenda Laurel, S. Joy Mountford

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The Doors of Perception: Heaven and Hell (Thinking Classics) cover

4. The Doors of Perception: Heaven and Hell (Thinking Classics)

by Aldous Huxley

Test Driven Development: By Example cover

5. Test Driven Development: By Example

by Kent Beck

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test cover

6. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

by Tom Wolfe

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

7. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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The Algorithm Design Manual cover

8. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena

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The Joy of Clojure cover

9. The Joy of Clojure

by Michael Fogus, Chris Houser

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

10. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford

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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition cover

11. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition

by Steve McConnell

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Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications cover

12. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

by Toby Segaran

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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) cover

13. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press)

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

14. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

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Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV cover

15. Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV

by Kurt Demaagd, Anthony Oliver, Nathan Oostendorp, Katherine Scott

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Blitzcat cover

16. Blitzcat

by Robert Westall

Hallucinations cover

17. Hallucinations

by Oliver Sacks

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Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

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

by Sheldon Jay Axler

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Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission cover

19. Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission

by Richard H. Graham

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software cover

20. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

by Eric Evans

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Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation--and Positive Strategies for Change cover

21. Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation--and Positive Strategies for Change

by Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever

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Learning OpenCV cover

22. Learning OpenCV

by Gary Bradski, Adrian Kaehler

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests cover

23. Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

by Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce

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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day cover

24. Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day

by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven

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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist cover

25. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson

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Secure Coding in C and C++ (2nd Edition) (SEI Series in Software Engineering) cover

26. Secure Coding in C and C++ (2nd Edition) (SEI Series in Software Engineering)

by Robert C. Seacord

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C Style: Standards and Guidelines : Defining Programming Standards for Professional C Programmers cover

27. C Style: Standards and Guidelines : Defining Programming Standards for Professional C Programmers

by David Straker

C Traps and Pitfalls cover

28. C Traps and Pitfalls

by Andrew Koenig

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The CERT C Secure Coding Standard cover

29. The CERT C Secure Coding Standard

by Robert C. Seacord

In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters cover

30. In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters

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Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach cover

31. Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach

by Alejandro Serrano Mena

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Understanding Analysis (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

32. Understanding Analysis (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Stephen Abbott

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Matrix Computations (Johns Hopkins Studies in Mathematical Sciences)(3rd Edition) cover

33. Matrix Computations (Johns Hopkins Studies in Mathematical Sciences)(3rd Edition)

by Gene H. Golub

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PHP: The Good Parts cover

34. PHP: The Good Parts

by Peter MacIntyre

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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking cover

35. Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

by Douglas Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander

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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter) cover

36. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

by Steve Krug

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Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy cover

37. Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

by Chris Hayes

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The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator (5th Edition) cover

38. The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator (5th Edition)

by Leigh L. Thompson

In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World cover

39. In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World

by Ian Stewart

Seventeen Equations That Changed the World cover

40. Seventeen Equations That Changed the World

by Ian Stewart

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else cover

41. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

by Hernando De Soto

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Transfer of Learning, Volume .: Cognition and Instruction (Educational Psychology) cover

42. Transfer of Learning, Volume .: Cognition and Instruction (Educational Psychology)

by Robert E. Haskell

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Global Catastrophic Risks cover

43. Global Catastrophic Risks

by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic

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Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games cover

44. Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games

by Austin Grossman

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Mastering Your Hidden Self: A Guide to the Huna Way (Quest Book) cover

45. Mastering Your Hidden Self: A Guide to the Huna Way (Quest Book)

by Serge King

Geometric Algebra for Computer Science (Revised Edition): An Object-Oriented Approach to Geometry (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) cover

46. Geometric Algebra for Computer Science (Revised Edition): An Object-Oriented Approach to Geometry (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)

by Leo Dorst, Daniel Fontijne, Stephen Mann

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Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) cover

47. Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)

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The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education cover

48. The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education

by Grace Llewellyn

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The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves cover

49. The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

by Annie Murphy Paul

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Beginning SQL cover

50. Beginning SQL

by Paul Wilton, John Colby

Database Systems: The Complete Book (2nd Edition) cover

51. Database Systems: The Complete Book (2nd Edition)

by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom

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Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

52. Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Joe Celko

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Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (2nd Edition) (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) cover

53. Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (2nd Edition) (Big Nerd Ranch Guides)

by Aaron Hillegass, Mikey Ward

Candide: Bilingual Edition: English-French (English and French Edition) cover

54. Candide: Bilingual Edition: English-French (English and French Edition)

by Voltaire

C++ How to Program (8th Edition) cover

55. C++ How to Program (8th Edition)

by Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel