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Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User's Guide cover

1. Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User's Guide

by Emil Pascarelli, M.D., Deborah Quilter

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Calumet

2. Calumet "K"

by Samuel Merwin, Henry Kitchell Webster

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

3. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

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Discrete Mathematics: Elementary and Beyond (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

4. Discrete Mathematics: Elementary and Beyond (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by L. Lovász, J. Pelikán, K. Vesztergombi

Notes on Introductory Combinatorics (Modern Birkhäuser Classics) cover

5. Notes on Introductory Combinatorics (Modern Birkhäuser Classics)

by George Pólya, Robert E. Tarjan, Donald R. Woods

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century cover

6. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

by Steven Pinker

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The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way cover

7. The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

by Amanda Ripley

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The Feature Film Distribution Deal: A Critical Analysis of the Single Most Important Film Industry Agreement cover

8. The Feature Film Distribution Deal: A Critical Analysis of the Single Most Important Film Industry Agreement

by John W. Cones

The Producer's Business Handbook: The Roadmap for the Balanced Film Producer (American Film Market Presents) cover

9. The Producer's Business Handbook: The Roadmap for the Balanced Film Producer (American Film Market Presents)

by John J. Lee (Jr.), Anne Marie Gillen

Open Wide: How Hollywood Box Office Became a National Obsession cover

10. Open Wide: How Hollywood Box Office Became a National Obsession

by Dade Hayes

What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite cover

11. What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

by David DiSalvo

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You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself cover

12. You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself

by David McRaney

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Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America cover

13. Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America

by David M. Kennedy

The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland, 1939-1940 cover

14. The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland, 1939-1940

by Eloise Engle, Eloise Paananen, Lauri Paananen

Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within (Book + CD set) cover

15. Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within (Book + CD set)

by Kenny Werner

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The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life — Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process cover

16. The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life — Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process

by Thomas M. Sterner

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The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves cover

17. The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

by Annie Murphy Paul

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SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys cover

18. SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys

by Michael Lucas

Category Theory (Oxford Logic Guides) cover

19. Category Theory (Oxford Logic Guides)

by Steve Awodey

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The Art of Electronics Student Manual cover

20. The Art of Electronics Student Manual

by Thomas C. Hayes, Paul Horowitz

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Musical Applications of Microprocessors cover

21. Musical Applications of Microprocessors

by Hal Chamberlin

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Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists (Foundations of Computing) cover

22. Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists (Foundations of Computing)

by Benjamin C. Pierce

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Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery) cover

23. Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery)

by Charles Platt

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Practical Electronics for Inventors, Third Edition cover

24. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Third Edition

by Paul Scherz, Simon Monk

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The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View cover

25. The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View

by Richard Tarnas

The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History cover

26. The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History

by Eric Homberger

Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers (MSRI Mathematical Circles Library) cover

27. Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers (MSRI Mathematical Circles Library)

by Aleksandr Kalmanovich Zvonkin

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer cover

28. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Light cover

29. Light

by M. John Harrison

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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art cover

30. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

by Donald N. Thompson, Don Thompson

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Physically Based Rendering, Second Edition: From Theory to Implementation cover

31. Physically Based Rendering, Second Edition: From Theory to Implementation

by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

32. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Advanced Global Illumination, Second Edition cover

33. Advanced Global Illumination, Second Edition

by Philip Dutre, Kavita Bala, Philippe Bekaert

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II cover

34. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

by Keith Lowe

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Year Zero: A History of 1945 (Ala Notable Books for Adults) cover

35. Year Zero: A History of 1945 (Ala Notable Books for Adults)

by Ian Buruma

The Footnote: A Curious History cover

36. The Footnote: A Curious History

by Anthony Grafton

FPGA Prototyping by VHDL Examples: Xilinx Spartan-3 Version cover

37. FPGA Prototyping by VHDL Examples: Xilinx Spartan-3 Version

by Pong P. Chu

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Heisenberg's War: The Secret History Of The German Bomb cover

38. Heisenberg's War: The Secret History Of The German Bomb

by Thomas Powers

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Analyzing Baseball Data with R (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series) cover

39. Analyzing Baseball Data with R (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series)

by Max Marchi, Jim Albert

Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming cover

40. Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming

by Jason R. Briggs

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Think Python cover

41. Think Python

by Allen Downey

Introducing iOS 8 cover

42. Introducing iOS 8

by Steve Derico

Negotiating Your Salary: How To Make $1000 a Minute cover

43. Negotiating Your Salary: How To Make $1000 a Minute

by Jack Chapman

Spin Control cover

44. Spin Control

by Chris Moriarty

Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data cover

45. Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

by Charles Wheelan

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Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests cover

46. Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests

by Jeffrey Rubin, Dana Chisnell

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition cover

47. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

by Steve Krug

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Computer Networks (5th Edition) cover

48. Computer Networks (5th Edition)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, David Wetherall

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