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Aesthetic-Usability Effect cover

1. Aesthetic-Usability Effect

by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler

JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

2. JavaScript: The Good Parts

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

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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty cover

3. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

by David Kadavy

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Algorithms Unlocked (MIT Press) cover

4. Algorithms Unlocked (MIT Press)

by Thomas H. Cormen

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The Hindus: An Alternative History cover

5. The Hindus: An Alternative History

by Wendy Doniger

The World's Writing Systems cover

6. The World's Writing Systems

by Peter T. Daniels, William Bright

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Algorithms in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) cover

7. Algorithms in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))

by George T. Heineman

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Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD, 2nd Edition cover

8. Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD, 2nd Edition

by Michael W. Lucas

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Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell: Techniques for Multicore and Multithreaded Programming cover

9. Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell: Techniques for Multicore and Multithreaded Programming

by Simon Marlow

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Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook cover

10. Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook

by Nishant Shukla

RESTful Web APIs cover

11. RESTful Web APIs

by Leonard Richardson, Michael Amundsen, Mike Amundsen, Sam Ruby

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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature cover

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

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

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The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World cover

13. The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World

by Allen Dulles

Pot Shards: Fragments of a Life Lived in CIA, the White House, and the Two Koreas cover

14. Pot Shards: Fragments of a Life Lived in CIA, the White House, and the Two Koreas

by Donald P. Gregg

War is a Racket: The Profit Motive Behind Warfare cover

15. War is a Racket: The Profit Motive Behind Warfare

by Smedley Butler

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Inside the Company: CIA Diary cover

16. Inside the Company: CIA Diary

by Philip Agee

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Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

17. Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Joe Celko

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Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things cover

18. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

by Don Norman

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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

19. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Don Norman

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The Other Brain: The Scientific and Medical Breakthroughs That Will Heal Our Brains and Revolutionize Our Health cover

20. The Other Brain: The Scientific and Medical Breakthroughs That Will Heal Our Brains and Revolutionize Our Health

by R. Douglas Fields

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Time Management for System Administrators cover

21. Time Management for System Administrators

by Tom Limoncelli

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Lions' Commentary on Unix cover

22. Lions' Commentary on Unix

by John Lions

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Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, 5th Edition cover

23. Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, 5th Edition

by Mark M. Lowenthal

Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude cover

24. Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

by Robert Baer

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Graph Design for the Eye and Mind cover

25. Graph Design for the Eye and Mind

by Stephen M. Kosslyn

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Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry (MIT Press) cover

26. Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry (MIT Press)

by David G. Messerschmitt, Clemens Szyperski

Thinking Functionally with Haskell cover

27. Thinking Functionally with Haskell

by Richard Bird

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I Can Be an Actress/I Can Be a Computer Engineer (Barbie) (Deluxe Pictureback) cover

28. I Can Be an Actress/I Can Be a Computer Engineer (Barbie) (Deluxe Pictureback)

by Susan Marenco

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29. The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis

by Paul Simon

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Visual Thinking for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) cover

30. Visual Thinking for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)

by Colin Ware

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Surreptitious Software: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection cover

31. Surreptitious Software: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection

by Christian Collberg, Jasvir Nagra

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Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us cover

32. Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us

by Duncan J. Watts

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Falar...Ler...Escrever...Portugues Exercicios: Um Curso Para Estrangeiros (Portuguese Edition) cover

33. Falar...Ler...Escrever...Portugues Exercicios: Um Curso Para Estrangeiros (Portuguese Edition)

by Emma Eberlein O. F. Lima, Samira Abirad Iunes

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language cover

34. 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

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

by Randolph Quirk

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Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar: A Practical Guide (Modern Grammars) cover

36. Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar: A Practical Guide (Modern Grammars)

by John Whitlam

Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars) cover

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

by Po-ching Yip

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Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar cover

38. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar

by Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson

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The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow cover

39. The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow

by Rafi Mohammed

Robespierre, reviens ! cover

40. Robespierre, reviens !

by Alexis Corbière, Laurent Maffeïs

Job Reconnaissance cover

41. Job Reconnaissance

by Josh More

Twisted Network Programming Essentials cover

42. Twisted Network Programming Essentials

by Abe Fettig, Glyph Lefkowitz

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The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed cover

43. The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed

by Mark Divine, Allyson Edelhertz Machate

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace cover

44. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

by D. T. Max

Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing cover

45. Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing

by Henry Petroski

Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering cover

46. Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering

by Henry Petroski

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The God Delusion cover

47. The God Delusion

by Richard Dawkins

My Brief History (Deckle Edge) Hardcover cover

48. My Brief History (Deckle Edge) Hardcover

by Stephen Hawking

Training Kit (Exam 70-462) Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases (MCSA) (Microsoft Press Training Kit) cover

49. Training Kit (Exam 70-462) Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases (MCSA) (Microsoft Press Training Kit)

by Orin Thomas, Peter Ward, Bob Taylor

MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers cover

50. MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers

by Charles Bell, Mats Kindahl, Lars Thalmann

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Training Kit (Exam 70-461) Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (MCSA) (Microsoft Press Training Kit) cover

51. Training Kit (Exam 70-461) Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (MCSA) (Microsoft Press Training Kit)

by Itzik Ben-Gan, Dejan Sarka, Ron Talmage

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Step by Step (Step by Step Developer) cover

52. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Step by Step (Step by Step Developer)

by Patrick Leblanc

Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup cover

53. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

by Rob Walling

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Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism cover

54. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism

by Sheldon S. Wolin

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