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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 cover

1. 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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Systemic Shock cover

2. Systemic Shock

by Dean Ing

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

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

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters cover

4. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

by Richard Rumelt

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The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry cover

5. The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry

by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos

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Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy cover

6. Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy

by Joan Magretta

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If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice cover

7. If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice

by C. Jackson Grayson, Carla O'dell

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On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition cover

8. On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition

by Michael E. Porter

Working Knowledge cover

9. Working Knowledge

by Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak

The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment cover

10. The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment

by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton

Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance cover

11. Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

by Michael E. Porter

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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant cover

12. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

by W. Chan Kim

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The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market cover

13. The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market

by Michael Treacy

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The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action cover

14. The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action

by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton

The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value With Customers cover

15. The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value With Customers

by C. K Prahalad

Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know cover

16. Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know

by Nancy M. Dixon, Nancy M. Dixon

Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors cover

17. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors

by Michael E. Porter

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Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes cover

18. Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes

by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton

Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life cover

19. Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life

by Barry Oshry

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Thinking in Systems: A Primer cover

20. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

by Donella Meadows

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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials) cover

21. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)

by Peter F. Drucker

Confessions of an Advertising Man cover

22. Confessions of an Advertising Man

by David Ogilvy

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Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity cover

23. Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity

by Avinash Kaushik

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The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (Collins Business Essentials) cover

24. The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (Collins Business Essentials)

by Peter F. Drucker

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This is Lean: Resolving the Efficiency Paradox cover

25. This is Lean: Resolving the Efficiency Paradox

by Niklas Modig, Pär Åhlström

Inside the Minds: Leading Chief Technology Officers: CTOs from GE, Novell, Boeing, BMC, BEA, Peoplesoft & More on the Future of Technology cover

26. Inside the Minds: Leading Chief Technology Officers: CTOs from GE, Novell, Boeing, BMC, BEA, Peoplesoft & More on the Future of Technology

by Aspatore Books, Ron Moritz, Dwight Gibbs, Warwick Ford

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Mobile MBA: 112 Skills to Take You Further, Faster cover

27. Mobile MBA: 112 Skills to Take You Further, Faster

by Jo Owen

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Team Geek cover

28. Team Geek

by Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman

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Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance cover

29. Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance

by Jane Gleeson-white

The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

30. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto

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Growing Public: Volume 1, The Story: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century cover

31. Growing Public: Volume 1, The Story: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century

by Peter H. Lindert

Full Stack Web Development with Backbone.js cover

32. Full Stack Web Development with Backbone.js

by Patrick Mulder

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't cover

33. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

by Jim Collins

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Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices For Django 1.6 cover

34. Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices For Django 1.6

by Daniel Greenfeld, Audrey Roy

sed & awk cover

35. sed & awk

by Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins

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Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager cover

36. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

by Michael Lopp

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The C Programming Language cover

37. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945 cover

38. The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945

by R. J. Overy

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition) cover

39. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)

by Alfred V. Aho

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How To Survive In An Organization cover

40. How To Survive In An Organization

by James J. Heaphey

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier cover

41. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Ludwig Glaeser

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Managing cover

42. Managing

by Henry Mintzberg

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers cover

43. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz

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Commodore: A Company on the Edge cover

44. Commodore: A Company on the Edge

by Brian Bagnall

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The Home Computer Wars: An Insider's Account of Commodore and Jack Tramiel cover

45. The Home Computer Wars: An Insider's Account of Commodore and Jack Tramiel

by Michael S. Tomczyk

Geeks Bearing Gifts cover

46. Geeks Bearing Gifts

by Ted Nelson

The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer cover

47. The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer

by Georges Ifrah

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Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age cover

48. Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Mike Hally

A History of Computing Technology, 2nd Edition cover

49. A History of Computing Technology, 2nd Edition

by Michael R. Williams

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Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design cover

50. Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design

by C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara

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Elements of Programming Interviews: The Insiders' Guide cover

51. Elements of Programming Interviews: The Insiders' Guide

by Adnan Aziz, Tsung-Hsien Lee, Amit Prakash

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The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations cover

52. The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations

by Jacob Soll

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Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript (Effective Software Development Series) cover

53. Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript (Effective Software Development Series)

by David Herman

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

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

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Professional JavaScript for Web Developers cover

55. Professional JavaScript for Web Developers

by Nicholas C. Zakas

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How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets cover

56. How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

by Felix Dennis

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World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17 cover

57. World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17

by G. Edward Griffin

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Laetrile Case Histories; The Richardson Cancer Clinic Experience cover

58. Laetrile Case Histories; The Richardson Cancer Clinic Experience

by John A. Richardson, Patricia Griffin