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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

1. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

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

by Charles Petzold

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Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think cover

3. Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think

by Dennis Greenberger

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Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design cover

4. Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design

by Richard Bird

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Operating System Concepts with Java cover

5. Operating System Concepts with Java

by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time cover

6. Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

by Brian Tracy

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C# 5.0 in a Nutshell cover

7. C# 5.0 in a Nutshell

by Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari

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The Soul of A New Machine cover

8. The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder

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Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West cover

9. Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West

by Len Ackland

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Fundamentals of Aerodynamics cover

10. Fundamentals of Aerodynamics

by John Anderson

Self-Discipline in 10 days: How To Go From Thinking to Doing cover

11. Self-Discipline in 10 days: How To Go From Thinking to Doing

by Theodore Bryant

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Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits and Gates to C and Beyond cover

12. Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits and Gates to C and Beyond

by Yale N. Patt, Sanjay J. Patel

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

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

by Steven Pressfield

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

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

by W. Richard Stevens, Gary R. Wright

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Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition cover

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

by W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago

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Physically Based Rendering, Second Edition: From Theory to Implementation cover

16. Physically Based Rendering, Second Edition: From Theory to Implementation

by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys

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A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know cover

17. A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know

by David A. Moss

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Real World OCaml cover

18. Real World OCaml

by Jason Hickey, Anil Madhavapeddy, Yaron Minsky

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Real World Haskell cover

19. Real World Haskell

by Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Don Stewart

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns cover

20. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

by John C. Bogle

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The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society cover

21. The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society

by Eric D. Beinhocker

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Adaptive Enterprise: Creating and Leading Sense-And-Respond Organizations cover

22. Adaptive Enterprise: Creating and Leading Sense-And-Respond Organizations

by Stephan H. Haeckel

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Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press) cover

23. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)

by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi

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The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction cover

24. The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction

by William E. Shotts, Jr.

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The Linux Command Line cover

25. The Linux Command Line

by William E. Shotts, Jr.

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Foundations of Databases: The Logical Level cover

26. Foundations of Databases: The Logical Level

by Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, Victor Vianu

Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False cover

27. Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False

by Thomas Nagel

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The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism cover

28. The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism

by Thomas Frank

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The Advent of the Algorithm: The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer cover

29. The Advent of the Algorithm: The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer

by David Berlinski

Version Control by Example cover

30. Version Control by Example

by Eric Sink

Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers cover

31. Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers

by Dan O'Sullivan

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

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

by Annie Murphy Paul

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Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) cover

33. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)

by Liping Ma

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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality cover

34. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

by Max Tegmark

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Effective Perl Programming: Ways to Write Better, More Idiomatic Perl (2nd Edition) (Effective Software Development Series) cover

35. Effective Perl Programming: Ways to Write Better, More Idiomatic Perl (2nd Edition) (Effective Software Development Series)

by Joseph N. Hall, Joshua McAdams, Brian D. Foy

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Why Can't You Just Give Me The Number? An Executive's Guide to Using Probabilistic Thinking to Manage Risk and to Make Better Decisions cover

36. Why Can't You Just Give Me The Number? An Executive's Guide to Using Probabilistic Thinking to Manage Risk and to Make Better Decisions

by Patrick Leach

Minimal Perl: For Unix and Linux People cover

37. Minimal Perl: For Unix and Linux People

by Tim Maher

Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

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

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Gilbert Law Summaries on Contracts cover

39. Gilbert Law Summaries on Contracts

by Melvin Aron Eisenberg

Contracts (Emanuel Law Outline) cover

40. Contracts (Emanuel Law Outline)

by Steven Emanuel