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1. On Constitutional Disobedience (Inalienable Rights)
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2. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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3. Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People
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4. Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
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5. Persecution and the Art of Writing
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6. VHDL Implimentation of a 16-bit microprocessor: Digital design using FPGAs
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7. Book with No Pictures
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8. Press Here
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9. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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10. Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father
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11. A Traveler's Guide to Mars
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12. Ways of Seeing
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13. Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy
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14. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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15. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
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16. Blood Memory
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17. Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
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18. Do the Work
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19. Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
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20. Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
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21. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
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22. The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance: And Other Real Laws that Human Beings Actually Dreamed Up
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23. The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
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24. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
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25. Rainbows End
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26. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)
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27. Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age
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28. Schaum's 3,000 Solved Problems in Calculus (Schaum's Outlines)
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29. The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition
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30. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
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31. Perl Best Practices
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32. Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide
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33. Little Black Classics Box Set (Penguin Little Black Classics)
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34. Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User's Guide
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35. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
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36. Not for Bread Alone
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37. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
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38. The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)
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39. Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA (Politics and Society in Modern America)
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40. Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
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41. Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)
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42. Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials
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43. Quicken WillMaker Plus 2015 Edition: Book & Software Kit
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44. The Ultimate Financial Plan: Balancing Your Money and Life
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45. Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom
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46. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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47. Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition (Principles of Neural Science (Kandel))
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48. Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations
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49. The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
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50. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
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51. The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done
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52. Anarchy, State, and Utopia
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53. A Theory of Justice
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54. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
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55. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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56. The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense
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57. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
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58. In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters
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59. Linear Algebra (2nd Edition)
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60. From GSM to LTE-Advanced: An Introduction to Mobile Networks and Mobile Broadband
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61. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
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62. Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others
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63. The Magic Moving Picture Book
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64. Calumet "K"
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65. Programming Rust
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66. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
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67. Remain Free: A Memoir
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68. The AWK Programming Language
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69. Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
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70. Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
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71. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
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72. The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
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73. The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg: Clearcutting and the Struggle for Sustainable Forestry in the Northern Rockies
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74. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
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75. Mapping Big Data
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76. Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
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77. Lisp in Small Pieces
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78. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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79. How to Study as a Mathematics Major
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80. How to Think Like a Mathematician: A Companion to Undergraduate Mathematics
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81. Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Global Rise of Organized Crime
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82. 3D Math Primer For Graphics and Game Development (Wordware Game Math Library)
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83. On Numbers and Games
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84. First Things First: Understand Why So Often Our First Things Aren't First
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85. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
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86. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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87. The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul
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88. Remote: Office Not Required
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89. Readings in Database Systems (MIT Press)
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90. Even Faster Web Sites
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91. High Performance Web Sites
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92. Enemies: A History of the FBI
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93. Accelerando (Singularity)
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94. An Introduction to Category Theory
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95. Crafting A Compiler
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96. In Defense of Globalization: With a New Afterword
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97. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought
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98. The Unix System (International Computer Science Series)
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99. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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100. 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism
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