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1. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
by Alan Watts
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2. Graphics Gems
by Andrew S. Glassner
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3. No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
by Graham Bowley
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4. Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
by Karen Armstrong
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5. Revenue Management: Hard-Core Tactics for Market Domination
by Robert G. Cross
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6. The Art of Profitability
by Adrian Slywotzky
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7. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
by 村上春樹
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8. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Vintage)
by Roger Penrose
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9. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by John J. Ratey
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10. How to See Color and Paint It
by Arthur Stern
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11. Secret Knowledge (New and Expanded Edition): Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
by David Hockney
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12. Van Gogh: The Life
by Steven Naifeh
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13. Meditations (Penguin Great Ideas)
by Marcus Aurelius
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14. Longing to Know
by Esther Lightcap Meek
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15. The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
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16. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
by Thomas Sowell
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17. Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength by Steven Low (2011-11-12)
by Steven Low
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18. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
by William B. Irvine
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19. The New Geography Of Jobs
by Enrico Moretti
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20. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
by Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows
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21. Choose Yourself!
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22. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
by Keith Johnstone
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23. The Open-Focus Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body
by Les Fehmi
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24. Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition
by Jonathan Rauch
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25. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
by Burton G Malkiel
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26. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
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27. Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman
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28. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
by Sendhil Mullainathan
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29. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel
by 村上春樹
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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
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31. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1)
by Rob Walling
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32. Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
by Nick Heil
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33. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
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34. Annapurna: The First Conquest Of An 8,000-Meter Peak
by Maurice Herzog
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35. The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
by Ed Viesturs
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36. From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback
by Gordon Bethune
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37. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
by Simon Sinek
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38. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
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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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40. The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
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41. Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
by Edward Frenkel
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42. Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap
by Steven Farr
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43. Pulse: Understanding the Vital Signs of Your Business
by Frank Coker
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44. Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal
by Tom Shroder
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45. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
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46. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
by Robert B. Cialdini
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47. What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter
by Jeffrey O. Bennett
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48. Nine Kinds Of Naked: A Wildly Entertaining Surreal Comedy – Funny Satire Exploring Chaos Theory
by Tony Vigorito
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49. Still Life with Woodpecker: A Novel
by Tom Robbins
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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
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51. The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime
by M. J. DeMarco
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52. 501 French Verbs (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) (French and English Edition)
by Christopher Kendris, Theodore Kendris
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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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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
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55. Inside the As/400: Featuring the As/400E Series
by Soltis, Frank G
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56. On Creativity (Routledge Classics)
by David Bohm
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57. 3D Game Programming for Kids: Create Interactive Worlds with JavaScript
by Chris Strom
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58. The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
by Gary William Flake
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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
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60. Programming Game AI by Example: .
by Mat Buckland
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61. Category Theory (Oxford Logic Guides)
by Steve Awodey
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62. Artificial Intelligence for Games
by Ian Millington
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63. The Fractal Geometry of Nature
by Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Josep Maria Llosa, Josep Maria Llosa
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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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65. Living Low Carb: Controlled-Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss
by Jonny Bowden
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66. Behavioral Mathematics for Game AI (Applied Mathematics)
by Dave Mark
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67. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Andrea Montero Cusset
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68. The Circle
by Dave Eggers
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69. The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market
by Michael Treacy
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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
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71. Introduction to the Personal Software Process
by Watts S. Humphrey
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72. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
by Eric Evans
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73. Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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74. The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition
by Eric S. Raymond, E RAYMOND, Raymond, Eric Raymond
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75. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi
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76. The Soul of A New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
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77. Code
by Charles Petzold
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78. Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling
by Allen B. Downey
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79. War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
by Smedley Darlington Butler
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