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Graphics Gems cover

1. Graphics Gems

by Andrew S. Glassner

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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence cover

2. Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

by Karen Armstrong

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Revenue Management cover

3. Revenue Management

by Robert G. Cross

The Art of Profitability cover

4. The Art of Profitability

by Adrian Slywotzky

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel cover

5. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

by Haruki Murakami

Secret Knowledge (New and Expanded Edition): Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters cover

6. Secret Knowledge (New and Expanded Edition): Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters

by David Hockney

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Van Gogh: The Life cover

7. Van Gogh: The Life

by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

How to See Color and Paint It cover

8. How to See Color and Paint It

by Arthur Stern

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The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe cover

9. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

by Roger Penrose

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The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership cover

10. The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh

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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

11. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey

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A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles cover

12. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

by Thomas Sowell

Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength cover

13. Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength

by Steven Low

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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

14. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B Irvine

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Functional Programming in Scala cover

15. Functional Programming in Scala

by Paul Chiusano, Rúnar Bjarnason

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Meditations (Penguin Great Ideas) cover

16. Meditations (Penguin Great Ideas)

by Marcus Aurelius

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The Power of Habit (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) cover

17. The Power of Habit (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

by Charles Duhigg

The New Geography of Jobs cover

18. The New Geography of Jobs

by Enrico Moretti

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The Open-Focus Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body cover

19. The Open-Focus Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body

by Les Fehmi, Jim Robbins

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Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition cover

20. Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition

by Jonathan Rauch

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are cover

21. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

by Alan Watts

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End cover

22. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

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Longing to Know cover

23. Longing to Know

by Esther L. Meek, Esther Lightcap Meek

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

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

by Rob Walling

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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity cover

25. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

by Alan Cooper

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The Power of Habit cover

26. The Power of Habit

by Charles Duhigg

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel cover

27. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel

by Haruki Murakami

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success cover

28. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

by Carol S. Dweck

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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update cover

29. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

by Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows

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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action cover

30. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

by Simon Sinek

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From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback cover

31. From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback

by Gordon Bethune

Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season cover

32. Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

by Nick Heil

No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 cover

33. No Way Down: Life and Death on K2

by Graham Bowley

The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak cover

34. The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak

by Ed Viesturs, David Roberts

Annapurna: The First Conquest Of An 8,000-Meter Peak cover

35. Annapurna: The First Conquest Of An 8,000-Meter Peak

by Maurice Herzog

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster cover

36. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

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The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations cover

37. The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal cover

38. Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal

by Tom Shroder

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Pulse: Understanding the Vital Signs of Your Business cover

39. Pulse: Understanding the Vital Signs of Your Business

by Frank Coker

Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality cover

40. Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

by Edward Frenkel

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

41. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

42. Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Richard W. Hamming

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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre cover

43. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

by Keith Johnstone

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Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap cover

44. Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap

by Teach For America, Steven Farr

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Nine Kinds of Naked cover

45. Nine Kinds of Naked

by Tony Vigorito

Still Life with Woodpecker cover

46. Still Life with Woodpecker

by Tom Robbins

There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America cover

47. There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America

by William Julius Wilson, Richard P. Taub

The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime. cover

48. The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime.

by M. J. DeMarco

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

49. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) cover

50. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)

by Liping Ma

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501 French Verbs: with CD-ROM (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) cover

51. 501 French Verbs: with CD-ROM (Barron's Foreign Language Guides)

by Christopher Kendris, Theodore Kendris

What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter cover

52. What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter

by Jeffrey Bennett

Inside the AS/400: Second Edition cover

53. Inside the AS/400: Second Edition

by Frank G. Soltis

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On Creativity (Routledge Classics) cover

54. On Creativity (Routledge Classics)

by David Bohm

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3D Game Programming for Kids: Create Interactive Worlds with JavaScript (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

55. 3D Game Programming for Kids: Create Interactive Worlds with JavaScript (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Chris Strom

The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation cover

56. The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation

by Gary William Flake

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For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge Of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics cover

57. For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge Of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics

by Walter Lewin

Category Theory (Oxford Logic Guides) cover

58. Category Theory (Oxford Logic Guides)

by Steve Awodey

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Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives -- How Your Friends' Friends' Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do cover

59. Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives -- How Your Friends' Friends' Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do

by Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler

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Artificial Intelligence for Games cover

60. Artificial Intelligence for Games

by Ian Millington, John Funge

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The Fractal Geometry of Nature cover

61. The Fractal Geometry of Nature

by Benoit B. Mandelbrot

I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World cover

62. I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World

by Trevor Paglen

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Programming Game AI By Example (Wordware Game Developers Library) cover

63. Programming Game AI By Example (Wordware Game Developers Library)

by Mat Buckland

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Living Low Carb: Controlled-Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss cover

64. Living Low Carb: Controlled-Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss

by Jonny Bowden

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Behavioral Mathematics for Game AI (Applied Mathematics) cover

65. Behavioral Mathematics for Game AI (Applied Mathematics)

by Dave Mark

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything cover

66. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

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The Circle cover

67. The Circle

by Dave Eggers

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The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market cover

68. The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market

by Michael Treacy

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Introduction to the Personal Software Process cover

69. Introduction to the Personal Software Process

by Watts S. Humphrey

The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition cover

70. The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition

by Eric S. Raymond

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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software cover

71. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

by Eric Evans

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

72. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppmann

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Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press) cover

73. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)

by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi

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Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling cover

74. Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling

by Allen Downey

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

75. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box cover

76. Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box

by Syngress

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The Soul of A New Machine cover

77. The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder

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Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground cover

78. Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground

by Kevin Poulsen

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War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier cover

79. War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

by Smedley Darlington Butler

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