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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. cover

1. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

by Ron Chernow

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The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book cover

2. The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book

by Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Tīfāshī

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The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer cover

3. The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer

by Georges Ifrah

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Squaring the Circle: Geometry in Art and Architecture cover

4. Squaring the Circle: Geometry in Art and Architecture

by Paul Calter

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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) cover

5. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

by Elinor Ostrom

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Free Market Environmentalism cover

6. Free Market Environmentalism

by T. Anderson, Donald R. Leal

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage cover

7. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

by Cliff Stoll

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The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet cover

8. The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet

by David Kahn

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Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life cover

9. Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life

by Christian Allen, Wolfgang Lutz

The Ancient Engineers: An Astonishing Look Back at the Ancient Wonders of the World and Their Creators cover

10. The Ancient Engineers: An Astonishing Look Back at the Ancient Wonders of the World and Their Creators

by L. Sprague De Camp

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Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition cover

11. Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition

by Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz

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Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade cover

12. Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

by Adam Minter

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Five Lectures in Complex Analysis (Contemporary Mathematics) cover

13. Five Lectures in Complex Analysis (Contemporary Mathematics)

by Winter School on Complex Analysis and Operator Theory (2nd 2008 Sevilla, Spain)

1. The Myth of the Genius Programmer cover

14. 1. The Myth of the Genius Programmer

by Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman

Lore of Running, 4th Edition cover

15. Lore of Running, 4th Edition

by Timothy Noakes

Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature cover

16. Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature

by Eric J. Chaisson, Eric Chaisson

Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time! cover

17. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!

by Conrad Barski

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Infinitesimal Calculus (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

18. Infinitesimal Calculus (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by James M. Henle, Eugene M. Kleinberg

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Calculus Made Easy cover

19. Calculus Made Easy

by Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner

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The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 cover

20. The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390

by Samuel Pegge, Samuel Pegge, Multiple Contributors, University of Leeds Library, American Institute of Wine & Food

The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939 : How the Nazis Won over the Hearts and Minds ofa Nation cover

21. The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939 : How the Nazis Won over the Hearts and Minds ofa Nation

by Richard J. Evans

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22. Hitler"s Willing Executioners; Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

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23. The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich

by Ian Kershaw

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die cover

24. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

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The Wiz Biz cover

25. The Wiz Biz

by Cook

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much cover

26. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

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Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition cover

27. Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition

by Irving Chernev

Build Up Your Chess 1: The Fundamentals (Yusupov's Chess School) cover

28. Build Up Your Chess 1: The Fundamentals (Yusupov's Chess School)

by Artur Yusupov

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

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

by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson

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This Will Make You Smarter cover

30. This Will Make You Smarter

by John Brockman

Journey by Moonlight (Pushkin Paper) cover

31. Journey by Moonlight (Pushkin Paper)

by Antal Szerb

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition cover

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

by Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang

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

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

by Mike Ryan, Federico Lucifredi

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When the Clyde Ran Red cover

34. When the Clyde Ran Red

by Maggie Craig

The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Algorithms and Data Structures series) cover

35. The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Algorithms and Data Structures series)

by Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss

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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean cover

36. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean

by Susan Casey

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Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present, Second Edition cover

37. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present, Second Edition

by Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron

Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival cover

38. Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival

by Peter Stark

The Postmortal cover

39. The Postmortal

by Drew Magary

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Ready Player One: A Novel cover

40. Ready Player One: A Novel

by Ernest Cline

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Think Stats cover

41. Think Stats

by Allen B. Downey

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Programming Google App Engine with Python cover

42. Programming Google App Engine with Python

by Dan Sanderson

Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) cover

43. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev

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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964 cover

44. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964

by William Manchester

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Primitive Mythology (The Masks of God) cover

45. Primitive Mythology (The Masks of God)

by Joseph Campbell

Maximum Entropy and Ecology: A Theory of Abundance, Distribution, and Energetics (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution) cover

46. Maximum Entropy and Ecology: A Theory of Abundance, Distribution, and Energetics (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)

by John Harte

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

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

by Michael Lopp

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