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1. On Constitutional Disobedience (Inalienable Rights)
by Louis Michael Seidman
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2. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
by William Thorndike
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3. Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People
by Thomas Gregor
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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
by Tom Wheeler
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5. Persecution and the Art of Writing
by Leo Strauss
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6. VHDL Implimentation of a 16-bit microprocessor: Digital design using FPGAs
by Piratla Uma Sathyakam
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7. Book with No Pictures
by B. J. Novak
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8. Press Here
by Herve Tullet
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9. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
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10. Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father
by Roy Lewis
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11. A Traveler's Guide to Mars
by William K. Hartmann
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12. Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
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13. Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy
by Peter Drahos, John Braithwaite
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14. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck
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15. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
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16. Blood Memory
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17. Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
by Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown
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18. Do the Work
by Steven Pressfield
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19. Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
by Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles van Marrewijk
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20. Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
by Bo Burlingham
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21. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
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22. The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance: And Other Real Laws that Human Beings Actually Dreamed Up
by Kevin Underhill
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23. The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
by Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom
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24. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
by Michael Pollan
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25. Rainbows End
by Vernor Vinge
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26. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)
by Vernor Vinge
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27. Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age
by Michael Wolff
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28. Schaum's 3,000 Solved Problems in Calculus (Schaum's Outlines)
by Elliott Mendelson
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29. The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition
by Steven Spear
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30. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
by Peter M. Senge
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31. Perl Best Practices
by Damian Conway
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32. Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide
by Alex Reinhart
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33. Little Black Classics Box Set (Penguin Little Black Classics)
by Various
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34. Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User's Guide
by Emil Pascarelli, M.D., Deborah Quilter
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35. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
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36. Not for Bread Alone
by Konosuke Matsushita
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37. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
by Ryan Holiday
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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)
by Lee Drutman
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39. Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA (Politics and Society in Modern America)
by Benjamin C. Waterhouse
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40. Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
by Lawrence Lessig
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41. Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)
by Sandi Metz
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42. Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials
by Allison Randal, Dan Sugalski, Leopold Tötsch
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43. Quicken WillMaker Plus 2015 Edition: Book & Software Kit
by Nolo (Firm)
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44. The Ultimate Financial Plan: Balancing Your Money and Life
by Jim Stovall, Tim Maurer
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45. Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom
by John Hollway, Ronald M. Gauthier
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46. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson
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47. Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition (Principles of Neural Science (Kandel))
by Eric R. Kandel
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48. Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations
by Karl Eugene Wiegers
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49. The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
by William Rosen
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50. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
by Matt Ridley
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51. The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done
by Ph.D. Steel, Piers
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52. Anarchy, State, and Utopia
by Robert Nozick
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53. A Theory of Justice
by John Rawls
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54. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
by Michael Lopp
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55. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
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56. The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense
by Suzette Haden Elgin
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57. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
by Greg Grandin
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58. In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters
by Merrill R. Chapman
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59. Linear Algebra (2nd Edition)
by Kenneth Hoffman, Ray Alden Kunze
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60. From GSM to LTE-Advanced: An Introduction to Mobile Networks and Mobile Broadband
by Martin Sauter
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61. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
by Thomas E. Pearsall
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62. Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others
by Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman
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63. The Magic Moving Picture Book
by Bliss, Sands and Company Staff
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64. Calumet "K"
by Samuel Merwin, Henry Kitchell Webster
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65. Programming Rust
by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff
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66. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
by Radley Balko
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67. Remain Free: A Memoir
by Gautam Narula
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68. The AWK Programming Language
by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger
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69. Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
by Gordon MacKenzie
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70. Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
by Hugh MacLeod
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71. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
by Larry Harris
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72. The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
by Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros
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73. The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg: Clearcutting and the Struggle for Sustainable Forestry in the Northern Rockies
by Frederick H Swanson
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74. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
by Jim Collins
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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
by David Bellos
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77. Lisp in Small Pieces
by Christian Queinnec
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78. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
by Jordan Ellenberg
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79. How to Study as a Mathematics Major
by Lara Alcock
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80. How to Think Like a Mathematician: A Companion to Undergraduate Mathematics
by Kevin Houston
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81. Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Global Rise of Organized Crime
by Michael Woodiwiss
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82. 3D Math Primer For Graphics and Game Development (Wordware Game Math Library)
by Fletcher Dunn, Ian Parberry
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83. On Numbers and Games
by John H. Conway
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84. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
by Paul Fussell
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85. First Things First: Understand Why So Often Our First Things Aren't First
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86. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by Charles Duhigg
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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
by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
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88. Remote: Office Not Required
by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
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89. Readings in Database Systems (MIT Press)
by Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker
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90. High Performance Web Sites
by Steve Souders
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91. Even Faster Web Sites
by Steve Souders
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92. Enemies: A History of the FBI
by Tim Weiner
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93. Accelerando (Singularity)
by Charles Stross
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94. In Defense of Globalization: With a New Afterword
by Jagdish Bhagwati
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95. An Introduction to Category Theory
by Harold Simmons
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96. Crafting A Compiler
by Charles N. Fischer, Ronald Kaplan Cytron, Richard Joseph LeBlanc
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97. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought
by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Fluid Analogies Research Group
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98. The Unix System (International Computer Science Series)
by S. R. Bourne
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99. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael M. Lewis
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100. 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang
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