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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty cover

1. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

by David Kadavy

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JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts cover

2. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier

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Algorithms Unlocked (Mit Press) cover

3. Algorithms Unlocked (Mit Press)

by Thomas H. Cormen

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The Hindus: An Alternative History cover

4. The Hindus: An Alternative History

by Wendy Doniger

The World's Writing Systems cover

5. The World's Writing Systems

by William Bright, Peter T. Daniels

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

6. 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

7. 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

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

by Simon Marlow

Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook cover

9. Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook

by Nishant Shukla

RESTful Web Services Cookbook: Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity cover

10. RESTful Web Services Cookbook: Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity

by Subbu Allamaraju, Subrahmanyam Allamaraju

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RESTful Web APIs: Services for a Changing World cover

11. RESTful Web APIs: Services for a Changing World

by Leonard Richardson, Michael 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

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Inside the Company: CIA Diary cover

13. Inside the Company: CIA Diary

by Philip Agee

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Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master On The Fundamentals Of Intelligence Gathering For A Free World cover

14. 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

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

by Donald P. Gregg

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

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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War is a Racket: The Profit Motive Behind Warfare cover

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

by Smedley Butler

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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West cover

18. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

by Blaine Harden

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

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

by Donald A. Norman

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

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

by R. Douglas Fields

Lions' Commentary on Unix cover

22. Lions' Commentary on Unix

by John Lions

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Graph Design for the Eye and Mind cover

23. Graph Design for the Eye and Mind

by Stephen M. Kosslyn

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Time Management for System Administrators cover

24. Time Management for System Administrators

by Tom Limoncelli

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

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

by Robert Baer

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Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy cover

26. Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy

by Lowenthal, Mark M.

Thinking Functionally with Haskell cover

27. Thinking Functionally with Haskell

by Richard Bird

I CAN BE AN ACTRESS/ cover

28. I CAN BE AN ACTRESS/

by Susan Marenco

The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis cover

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

by Paul Simon

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

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

by Christian Collberg

Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us cover

31. 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

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

by Emma Eberlein Lima, Samira Abirad Iunes

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

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

by John Whitlam

Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars) cover

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

by Yip, Po-ching, Yip Po-Ching, Don Rimmington

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A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language cover

35. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language

by Ted Gioia

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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language cover

36. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

by Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum

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Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar cover

37. 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 – A Practical Pricing Strategy Framework cover

38. The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow – A Practical Pricing Strategy Framework

by Rafi Mohammed

Twisted Network Programming Essentials, 2nd Edition cover

39. Twisted Network Programming Essentials, 2nd Edition

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

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

by Mark Divine

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

41. 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

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

by Henry Petroski

Design Paradigms cover

43. Design Paradigms

by Henry Petroski

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

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

by Ron Talmage

MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers cover

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

by Charles Bell, Mats Kindahl, Lars Thalmann

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

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

by Patrick LeBlanc

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

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

by Orin Thomas

My Brief History (Deckle Edge) Hardcover cover

48. My Brief History (Deckle Edge) Hardcover

by Stephen Hawking

The God Delusion cover

49. The God Delusion

by Richard Dawkins

Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1) cover

50. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1)

by Rob Walling

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

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

by Sheldon S. Wolin

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