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1. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
by David Kadavy
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2. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts
by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier
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3. Algorithms Unlocked (Mit Press)
by Thomas H. Cormen
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4. The Hindus: An Alternative History
by Wendy Doniger
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5. The World's Writing Systems
by William Bright, Peter T. Daniels
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6. Algorithms in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
by George T. Heineman
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7. Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD, 2nd Edition
by Michael W. Lucas
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8. Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell: Techniques for Multicore and Multithreaded Programming
by Simon Marlow
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9. Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook
by Nishant Shukla
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10. RESTful Web Services Cookbook: Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity
by Subbu Allamaraju, Subrahmanyam Allamaraju
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11. RESTful Web APIs: Services for a Changing World
by Leonard Richardson, Michael Amundsen, Sam Ruby
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12. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
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13. Inside the Company: CIA Diary
by Philip Agee
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14. Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master On The Fundamentals Of Intelligence Gathering For A Free World
by Allen Dulles
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15. Pot Shards: Fragments of a Life Lived in CIA, the White House, and the Two Koreas
by Donald P. Gregg
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16. Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by Joe Celko
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17. War is a Racket: The Profit Motive Behind Warfare
by Smedley Butler
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18. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
by Blaine Harden
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19. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
by Don Norman
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20. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
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21. 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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22. Lions' Commentary on Unix
by John Lions
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23. Graph Design for the Eye and Mind
by Stephen M. Kosslyn
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24. Time Management for System Administrators
by Tom Limoncelli
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25. Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
by Robert Baer
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26. Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy
by Lowenthal, Mark M.
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27. Thinking Functionally with Haskell
by Richard Bird
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28. I CAN BE AN ACTRESS/
by Susan Marenco
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29. The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis
by Paul Simon
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30. Surreptitious Software: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection
by Christian Collberg
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31. Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us
by Duncan J. Watts
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32. Falar...Ler...Escrever...Portugues Exercicios: Um Curso Para Estrangeiros (Portuguese Edition)
by Emma Eberlein Lima, Samira Abirad Iunes
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33. Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar: A Practical Guide (Modern Grammars)
by John Whitlam
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34. Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars)
by Yip, Po-ching, Yip Po-Ching, Don Rimmington
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35. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language
by Ted Gioia
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36. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
by Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum
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37. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar
by Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson
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38. The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow – A Practical Pricing Strategy Framework
by Rafi Mohammed
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39. Twisted Network Programming Essentials, 2nd Edition
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40. The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed
by Mark Divine
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41. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
by D. T. Max
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42. Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
by Henry Petroski
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43. Design Paradigms
by Henry Petroski
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44. Training Kit (Exam 70-461) Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (MCSA) (Microsoft Press Training Kit)
by Ron Talmage
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45. MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers
by Charles Bell, Mats Kindahl, Lars Thalmann
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46. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Step by Step (Step by Step Developer)
by Patrick LeBlanc
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47. Training Kit (Exam 70-462) Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases (MCSA) (Microsoft Press Training Kit)
by Orin Thomas
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48. My Brief History (Deckle Edge) Hardcover
by Stephen Hawking
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49. The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
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50. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1)
by Rob Walling
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51. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
by Sheldon S. Wolin
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