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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date cover

1. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date

by Robert X. Cringely

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Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them cover

2. Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them

by Cynthia Shapiro

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Blood Memory cover

3. Blood Memory

Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition (Principles of Neural Science (Kandel)) cover

4. Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition (Principles of Neural Science (Kandel))

by Eric R. Kandel

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The C Programming Language cover

5. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

6. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

7. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser

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AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis cover

8. AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis

by William J. Brown

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Influx cover

9. Influx

by Daniel Suarez

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Story CD: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting cover

10. Story CD: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

by Robert McKee

Functional Programming in Scala cover

11. Functional Programming in Scala

by Paul Chiusano, Rúnar Bjarnason

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The Curry Secret: How to Cook Real Indian Restaurant Meals at Home cover

12. The Curry Secret: How to Cook Real Indian Restaurant Meals at Home

by Kris Dhillon

The New Curry Secret: Mouthwatering Indian Restaurant Dishes to Cook at Home cover

13. The New Curry Secret: Mouthwatering Indian Restaurant Dishes to Cook at Home

by Kris Dhillon

Man's Search for Meaning cover

14. Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Emil Frankl

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Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition) cover

15. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)

by Josef Müller-Brockmann

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Typographie: A Manual of Design cover

16. Typographie: A Manual of Design

by Emil Ruder

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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us cover

17. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

by Michael Moss

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It's the Way You Say It: Becoming Articulate, Well-spoken, and Clear cover

18. It's the Way You Say It: Becoming Articulate, Well-spoken, and Clear

by Carol A. Fleming

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

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

by William B Irvine

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

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

by Steve Krug

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The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience cover

21. The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience

by van Duyne (Douglas K.), James A. Landay, Jason I. Hong

Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education cover

22. Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education

by Murray Sperber

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger cover

23. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson

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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate cover

24. Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

by Rose George

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Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade cover

25. Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

by Adam Minter

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The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence cover

26. The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

by Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson

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The Book Thief cover

27. The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food cover

28. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

by Jennifer B. Lee

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Software Runaways: Monumental Software Disasters cover

29. Software Runaways: Monumental Software Disasters

by Robert L. Glass

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Why Does College Cost So Much? cover

30. Why Does College Cost So Much?

by Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman

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Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter cover

31. Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter

by Steven Johnson

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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) cover

32. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press)

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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Mind-Body Health and Stress Tolerance cover

33. Mind-Body Health and Stress Tolerance

by David Jameson

Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century cover

34. Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century

by O. B. Hardison

The Fall of the Faculty cover

35. The Fall of the Faculty

by Benjamin Ginsberg

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Self Help for Your Nerves: Learn to Relax and Enjoy Life Again by Overcoming Stress and Fear cover

36. Self Help for Your Nerves: Learn to Relax and Enjoy Life Again by Overcoming Stress and Fear

by Claire Weekes