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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work cover

1. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

by Mason Currey

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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

2. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

3. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup

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Classic Shell Scripting cover

4. Classic Shell Scripting

by Arnold Robbins, Nelson H. F. Beebe

Chrysler's Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation cover

5. Chrysler's Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation

by Steve Lehto

The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History cover

6. The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History

by David Hackett Fischer

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The Acoustical Foundations of Music (Second Edition) cover

7. The Acoustical Foundations of Music (Second Edition)

by John Backus

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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power cover

8. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

by Daniel Yergin

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Modernist Cuisine at Home cover

9. Modernist Cuisine at Home

by Nathan Myhrvold

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Loudspeaker Design Cookbook cover

10. Loudspeaker Design Cookbook

by Vance Dickason

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Master Handbook of Acoustics cover

11. Master Handbook of Acoustics

by F. Alton Everest, Ken C. Pohlmann

Acoustics: Sound Fields and Transducers cover

12. Acoustics: Sound Fields and Transducers

by Leo Leroy Beranek, Tim Mellow

Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners cover

13. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

by Larry Harris

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The File: A Personal History cover

14. The File: A Personal History

by Timothy Garton Ash

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The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run-or Ruin-an Economy cover

15. The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run-or Ruin-an Economy

by Tim Harford

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The Undercover Economist cover

16. The Undercover Economist

by Tim Harford

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The Mathematical Theory of Communication cover

17. The Mathematical Theory of Communication

by Claude E Shannon, Warren Weaver

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What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought cover

18. What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

by Keith E. Stanovich

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Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error cover

19. Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error

by Steven Michael Casey

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Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War cover

20. Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War

by Frances Stonor Saunders

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Reinventing the Wheel: A Story of Genius, Innovation, and Grand Ambition cover

21. Reinventing the Wheel: A Story of Genius, Innovation, and Grand Ambition

by Steve Kemper

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

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

by Felix Dennis

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Tales From the Woods: (with audio CD) cover

23. Tales From the Woods: (with audio CD)

by Felix Dennis

AWS System Administration: Best Practices for Sysadmins in the Amazon Cloud cover

24. AWS System Administration: Best Practices for Sysadmins in the Amazon Cloud

by Mike Ryan, Federico Lucifredi

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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self cover

25. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

by Thomas Metzinger

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THEE PSYCHICK BIBLE: Thee Apocryphal Scriptures ov Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Thee Third Mind ov Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth cover

26. THEE PSYCHICK BIBLE: Thee Apocryphal Scriptures ov Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Thee Third Mind ov Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth

by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

Theory of Fun for Game Design cover

27. Theory of Fun for Game Design

by Raph Koster

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Taming C++: Pattern Classes and Persistence for Large Projects cover

28. Taming C++: Pattern Classes and Persistence for Large Projects

by Jiri Soukup

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Flash Boys cover

29. Flash Boys

by Michael Lewis

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C++ Network Programming, Volume 2: Systematic Reuse with ACE and Frameworks cover

30. C++ Network Programming, Volume 2: Systematic Reuse with ACE and Frameworks

by Douglas C. Schmidt, Stephen D. Huston

C++ Network Programming, Volume I: Mastering Complexity with ACE and Patterns cover

31. C++ Network Programming, Volume I: Mastering Complexity with ACE and Patterns

by Douglas C. Schmidt

Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250 cover

32. Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250

by Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art and Architecture Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins

Is God a Vegetarian?: Christianity, Vegetarianism, and Animal Rights cover

33. Is God a Vegetarian?: Christianity, Vegetarianism, and Animal Rights

by Richard A. Young

Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty cover

34. Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty

by Gary Chartier, Charles W. Johnson

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The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland (and How They Got It) cover

35. The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland (and How They Got It)

by Andy Wightman

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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, Cognition, and Society) cover

36. The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, Cognition, and Society)

by Stephen Thomas Ziliak, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind cover

37. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

by Shunryū Suzuki

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Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week cover

38. Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week

by John Little, Doug McGuff

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The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism cover

39. The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

by David D. Friedman

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The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State cover

40. The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State

by Bruce L. Benson

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TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

41. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Kevin R. Fall, W. Richard Stevens

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TCP/IP Illustrated: v. 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP and the Unix Domain Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

42. TCP/IP Illustrated: v. 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP and the Unix Domain Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by W. Richard Stevens, Gary R. Wright

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

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

by W. Richard Stevens, Gary R. Wright

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Effective Java (2nd Edition) cover

44. Effective Java (2nd Edition)

by Joshua Bloch

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

45. JavaScript: The Good Parts

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

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Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions cover

46. Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions

by Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf

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Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume One (6th Edition) cover

47. Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume One (6th Edition)

by Douglas Comer

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

48. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) cover

49. Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

by Sandi Metz

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The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public cover

50. The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public

by Lynn Stout

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How to Kill Yourself cover

51. How to Kill Yourself

by C. V. Hunt

Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship) cover

52. Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship)

by Yogananda (Paramahansa), Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz