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The Safe Hiring Manual: The Complete Guide to Employment Screening Background Checks for Employers, Recruiters, and Jobseekers cover

1. The Safe Hiring Manual: The Complete Guide to Employment Screening Background Checks for Employers, Recruiters, and Jobseekers

by Lester S. Rosen

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language cover

2. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

by Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum

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A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (General Grammar) cover

3. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (General Grammar)

by Randolph Quirk

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Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars) cover

4. Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars)

by Po-ching Yip

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The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

5. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

6. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser

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The Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier: How to Solve the Mysteries of Weak Writing cover

7. The Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier: How to Solve the Mysteries of Weak Writing

by Bonnie Trenga

Art of Plain Talk cover

8. Art of Plain Talk

by Rudolf Flesch

Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

9. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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The Space Elevator: A Revolutionary Earth-to-Space Transportation System cover

10. The Space Elevator: A Revolutionary Earth-to-Space Transportation System

by Bradley C. Edwards, Eric A. Westling

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The Secret Chief Revealed cover

11. The Secret Chief Revealed

by Myron J. Stolaroff

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Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down cover

12. Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

by J. E. Gordon

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Visible Speech (Asian Interactions and Comparisons) cover

13. Visible Speech (Asian Interactions and Comparisons)

by John DeFrancis

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Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning cover

14. Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning

by J. Marshall Unger

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Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy cover

15. Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy

by John DeFrancis

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The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books) cover

16. The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books)

by Frank O'Brien

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A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates cover

17. A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

by Rand Corporation

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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human cover

18. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

by Richard W. Wrangham

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The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach cover

19. The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach

by Christof Koch

Algorithms in C++, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structure, Sorting, Searching, Third Edition cover

20. Algorithms in C++, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structure, Sorting, Searching, Third Edition

by Robert Sedgewick

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Algorithms in Java, Part 5: Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition) (Pt.5) cover

21. Algorithms in Java, Part 5: Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition) (Pt.5)

by Robert Sedgewick

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Algorithms in C++ Part 5: Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition) (Pt.5) cover

22. Algorithms in C++ Part 5: Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition) (Pt.5)

by Robert Sedgewick

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Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job cover

23. Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job

by John Mongan, Eric Giguère, Noah Kindler

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

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

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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

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

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

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Ace the Programming Interview: 160 Questions and Answers for Success cover

26. Ace the Programming Interview: 160 Questions and Answers for Success

by Edward Guiness

Algorithms in Java, Parts 1-4 (3rd Edition) (Pts.1-4) cover

27. Algorithms in Java, Parts 1-4 (3rd Edition) (Pts.1-4)

by Robert Sedgewick

Saturn V Flight Manual cover

28. Saturn V Flight Manual

by Nasa

Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War cover

29. Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War

by Robert K. Massie

The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life cover

30. The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life

by Robert Trivers

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Seven American Deaths and Disasters cover

31. Seven American Deaths and Disasters

by Kenneth Goldsmith

The Cartoon Guide to Calculus (Cartoon Guide Series) cover

32. The Cartoon Guide to Calculus (Cartoon Guide Series)

by Larry Gonick

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The User's Guide to the Human Mind: Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy, Anxious, and Neurotic and What We Can Do about It cover

33. The User's Guide to the Human Mind: Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy, Anxious, and Neurotic and What We Can Do about It

by Shawn T. Smith

Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide cover

34. Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide

by Jeffrey E. Young, Janet S. Klosko, Marjorie E. Weishaar

If the Buddha Got Stuck: A Handbook for Change on a Spiritual Path cover

35. If the Buddha Got Stuck: A Handbook for Change on a Spiritual Path

by Charlotte Kasl

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) cover

36. Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

by Steven C. Hayes, Spencer Xavier Smith

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Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety cover

37. Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety

by Kelly G. Wilson

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Getting Unstuck in ACT: A Clinician's Guide to Overcoming Common Obstacles in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy cover

38. Getting Unstuck in ACT: A Clinician's Guide to Overcoming Common Obstacles in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

by Russ Harris

Inside the As/400 cover

39. Inside the As/400

by Frank G. Soltis

Diaspora: A Novel cover

40. Diaspora: A Novel

by Greg Egan

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Object Thinking (Developer Reference) cover

41. Object Thinking (Developer Reference)

by David West

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42. MC68000: Assembly Language and Systems Programming (College)

by William Ford, William R. Topp

Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age cover

43. Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age

by Kenneth Goldsmith

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 cover

44. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

by Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace

The Wisdom of Crowds cover

45. The Wisdom of Crowds

by James Surowiecki

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Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis cover

46. Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis

by Richards J. Heuer, Randolph H. Pherson

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature cover

47. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker, Victor Bevine, Roc Filella Escolà, ʻImanuʾel Loṭem

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The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts cover

48. The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts

by Gary D. Chapman