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

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

by Alan Watts

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Graphics Gems cover

2. Graphics Gems

by Andrew S. Glassner

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No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 cover

3. No Way Down: Life and Death on K2

by Graham Bowley

Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence cover

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

by Karen Armstrong

Revenue Management: Hard-Core Tactics for Market Domination cover

5. Revenue Management: Hard-Core Tactics for Market Domination

by Robert G. Cross

The Art of Profitability cover

6. The Art of Profitability

by Adrian Slywotzky

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International) cover

7. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)

by 村上春樹

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

8. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Vintage)

by Roger Penrose

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

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

by John J. Ratey

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How to See Color and Paint It cover

10. How to See Color and Paint It

by Arthur Stern

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

11. 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

12. Van Gogh: The Life

by Steven Naifeh

Meditations (Penguin Great Ideas) cover

13. Meditations (Penguin Great Ideas)

by Marcus Aurelius

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Longing to Know cover

14. Longing to Know

by Esther Lightcap Meek

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

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

by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh

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A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles cover

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

by Thomas Sowell

Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength by Steven Low (2011-11-12) cover

17. Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength by Steven Low (2011-11-12)

by Steven Low

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

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

by William B. Irvine

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The New Geography Of Jobs cover

19. The New Geography Of Jobs

by Enrico Moretti

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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update cover

20. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

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

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Choose Yourself! cover

21. Choose Yourself!

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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre cover

22. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

by Keith Johnstone

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

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

by Les Fehmi

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

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

by Jonathan Rauch

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing cover

25. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

by Burton G Malkiel

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End cover

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

by Atul Gawande

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

27. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman

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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much cover

28. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

by Sendhil Mullainathan

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

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

by 村上春樹

Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes cover

30. Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes

by Charles Seife

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

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

by Rob Walling

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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

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

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

by Jon Krakauer

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

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

by Maurice Herzog

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

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

by Ed Viesturs

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

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

by Gordon Bethune

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

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

by Simon Sinek

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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success cover

38. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

by Carol S. Dweck

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

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

by Cooper, Alan

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

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

by Marcus Aurelius

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Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality cover

41. Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

by Edward Frenkel

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

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

by Steven Farr

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Pulse: Understanding the Vital Signs of Your Business cover

43. Pulse: Understanding the Vital Signs of Your Business

by Frank Coker

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

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

by Tom Shroder

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Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions cover

45. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

46. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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

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

by Jeffrey O. Bennett

Nine Kinds Of Naked: A Wildly Entertaining Surreal Comedy – Funny Satire Exploring Chaos Theory cover

48. Nine Kinds Of Naked: A Wildly Entertaining Surreal Comedy – Funny Satire Exploring Chaos Theory

by Tony Vigorito

Still Life with Woodpecker: A Novel cover

49. Still Life with Woodpecker: A Novel

by Tom Robbins

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

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

by Wilson, William J., Richard P. Taub

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

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

by M. J. DeMarco

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501 French Verbs (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) (French and English Edition) cover

52. 501 French Verbs (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) (French and English Edition)

by Christopher Kendris, Theodore Kendris

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

53. 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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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

54. 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 James H. Fowler

Inside the As/400: Featuring the As/400E Series cover

55. Inside the As/400: Featuring the As/400E Series

by Soltis, Frank G

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On Creativity (Routledge Classics) cover

56. On Creativity (Routledge Classics)

by David Bohm

3D Game Programming for Kids: Create Interactive Worlds with JavaScript cover

57. 3D Game Programming for Kids: Create Interactive Worlds with JavaScript

by Chris Strom

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

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

by Gary William Flake

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

59. 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

Programming Game AI by Example: . cover

60. Programming Game AI by Example: .

by Mat Buckland

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Category Theory (Oxford Logic Guides) cover

61. Category Theory (Oxford Logic Guides)

by Steve Awodey

Artificial Intelligence for Games cover

62. Artificial Intelligence for Games

by Ian Millington

The Fractal Geometry of Nature cover

63. The Fractal Geometry of Nature

by Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Josep Maria Llosa, Josep Maria Llosa

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

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

65. 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

66. Behavioral Mathematics for Game AI (Applied Mathematics)

by Dave Mark

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

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

by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Andrea Montero Cusset

The Circle cover

68. The Circle

by Dave Eggers

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

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

by Michael Treacy

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The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York cover

70. The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York

by Matthew Goodman

Introduction to the Personal Software Process cover

71. Introduction to the Personal Software Process

by Watts S. Humphrey

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

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

by Eric Evans

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

73. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition cover

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

by Eric S. Raymond, E RAYMOND, Raymond, Eric Raymond

Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming cover

75. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming

by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi

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The Soul of A New Machine cover

76. The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder

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Code cover

77. Code

by Charles Petzold

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Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling cover

78. Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling

by Allen B. Downey

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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