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Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It cover

1. Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It

by Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor Jr., Stuart Taylor

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Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison cover

2. Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison

by Michael Daly

A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market cover

3. A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market

by John Allen Paulos

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Quantitative Value, + Web Site: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors cover

4. Quantitative Value, + Web Site: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors

by Wesley R. Gray, Tobias E. Carlisle

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Jackass Investing: Don't do it. Profit from it. cover

5. Jackass Investing: Don't do it. Profit from it.

by Michael Dever

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Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards cover

6. Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards

by Antti Ilmanen

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Consider Your Options: Get the Most from Your Equity Compensation cover

7. Consider Your Options: Get the Most from Your Equity Compensation

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Case Study Research: Design and Methods (Applied Social Research Methods) cover

8. Case Study Research: Design and Methods (Applied Social Research Methods)

by Robert K. Yin

Mindfulness in Plain English cover

9. Mindfulness in Plain English

by Bhante Henepola Gunarantana

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Zen in the Art of Archery cover

10. Zen in the Art of Archery

by Eugen Herrigel

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The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk cover

11. The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk

by William Bernstein

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind cover

12. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

by Shunryū Suzuki

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Functional JavaScript cover

13. Functional JavaScript

by Michael Fogus

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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion cover

14. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

by Sam Harris

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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry cover

15. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

by Jon Ronson

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

16. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima cover

17. Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima

by James A. Mahaffey

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Space Shuttle Operator's Manual, Revised Edition cover

18. Space Shuttle Operator's Manual, Revised Edition

by Kerry Mark Joëls, Gregory P. Kennedy, David Larkin

Cusp cover

19. Cusp

by Robert A. Metzger

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books) cover

20. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books)

by Norman Doidge

Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline cover

21. Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline

by Mary Shaw, David Garlan

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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace cover

22. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

by Ricardo Semler

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Patterns in Nature cover

23. Patterns in Nature

by Peter S. Stevens

Breaking the Mishap Chain: Human Factors Lessons Learned from Aerospace Accidents and Incidents in Research, Flight Test, and Development (NASA Aeronoutics Book) cover

24. Breaking the Mishap Chain: Human Factors Lessons Learned from Aerospace Accidents and Incidents in Research, Flight Test, and Development (NASA Aeronoutics Book)

by Peter W. Merlin, Gregg A. Bendrick

A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core cover

25. A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core

by Enrico Perla, Massimiliano Oldani

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Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages) cover

26. Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages)

by Josef W. Meri

Java Concurrency in Practice cover

27. Java Concurrency in Practice

by Brian Goetz

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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

28. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System cover

29. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

by Paul Fussell

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Cryptography: A New Dimension in Computer Data Security--A Guide for the Design and Implementation of Secure Systems cover

30. Cryptography: A New Dimension in Computer Data Security--A Guide for the Design and Implementation of Secure Systems

by Carl H. Meyer, Stephen M. Matyas

Digital Design and Computer Architecture, Second Edition cover

31. Digital Design and Computer Architecture, Second Edition

by David Money Harris, Sarah L. Harris

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Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 cover

32. Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7

by Aaron Reed

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Meet Your Happy Chemicals: Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, Serotonin cover

33. Meet Your Happy Chemicals: Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, Serotonin

by Loretta Graziano Breuning

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Computer Organization and Design, Fifth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

34. Computer Organization and Design, Fifth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

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Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to Stay Up Late (Bedtime Math Series) cover

35. Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to Stay Up Late (Bedtime Math Series)

by Laura Overdeck

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How to Acquire Clients: Powerful Techniques for the Successful Practitioner cover

36. How to Acquire Clients: Powerful Techniques for the Successful Practitioner

by Alan Weiss

Purely Functional Data Structures cover

37. Purely Functional Data Structures

by Chris Okasaki

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Gilgamesh: A New English Version cover

38. Gilgamesh: A New English Version

by Stephen Mitchell, Mitchell, Stephen

The Literature of Ancient Sumer cover

39. The Literature of Ancient Sumer

by Jeremy A. Black

Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms cover

40. Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

by Miriam Lichtheim

From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia cover

41. From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia

by Benjamin Read Foster

The Princeton Companion to Mathematics cover

42. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader

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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) cover

43. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)

by George Polya

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To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others cover

44. To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

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Learning Spark cover

45. Learning Spark

by Mark Hamstra, Holden Karau, Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Patrick Wendell

How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition cover

46. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition

by Daniel J. Velleman

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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love cover

47. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport

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The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience cover

48. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

by Francisco J. Varela

How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

49. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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Ogilvy on Advertising cover

50. Ogilvy on Advertising

by David Ogilvy

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Lord Chesterfield's Letters (Oxford World's Classics) cover

51. Lord Chesterfield's Letters (Oxford World's Classics)

by Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield

Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja cover

52. Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja

by John Resig, Bear Bibeault

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New Sales. Simplified.: The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development cover

53. New Sales. Simplified.: The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development

by Mike Weinberg

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A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) cover

54. A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

by Barbara A. Oakley

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The Peripheral cover

55. The Peripheral

by William Gibson

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River of Gods cover

56. River of Gods

by Ian McDonald