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Readings in Database Systems (MIT Press) cover

1. Readings in Database Systems (MIT Press)

by Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker

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The Art of Readable Code cover

2. The Art of Readable Code

by Dustin Boswell, Trevor Foucher

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth cover

3. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

by R. Buckminster Fuller

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I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography cover

4. I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography

by P.R. Halmos

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Misteaks. . . and how to find them before the teacher does. . .: A Calculus Supplement, 3rd Edition cover

5. Misteaks. . . and how to find them before the teacher does. . .: A Calculus Supplement, 3rd Edition

by Barry Cipra

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

6. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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Adventures of a Mathematician cover

7. Adventures of a Mathematician

by S. M. Ulam, Stanislaw M. Ulam

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Cartoon History of the Universe Volumes 1-7 cover

8. Cartoon History of the Universe Volumes 1-7

by Larry Gonick

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Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution cover

9. Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution

by Fred Vogelstein

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End cover

10. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

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The Art of the Metaobject Protocol cover

11. The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

by Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow

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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences cover

12. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

by John Allen Paulos

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Memories of the Future (New York Review Books Classics) cover

13. Memories of the Future (New York Review Books Classics)

by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change cover

14. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

by Stephen R. Covey, Sean Covey

Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw - By the Man Who Did It cover

15. Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw - By the Man Who Did It

by Tsutomo Shimomura, John Markoff

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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures As the World's Most Wanted Hacker cover

16. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures As the World's Most Wanted Hacker

by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, Steve Wozniak

Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us cover

17. Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us

by Duncan J. Watts

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A Brief History of Time cover

18. A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking

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Brian Eno: His Music And The Vertical Color Of Sound cover

19. Brian Eno: His Music And The Vertical Color Of Sound

by Eric Enno Tamm

Storia delle terre e dei luoghi leggendari cover

20. Storia delle terre e dei luoghi leggendari

by Umberto Eco

Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity cover

21. Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity

by Elaine Pagels

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

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

by William Zinsser

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The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism cover

23. The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

by Jeremy Rifkin

Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health cover

24. Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health

by Thomas Hanna

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Flask Web Development: Developing Web Applications with Python cover

25. Flask Web Development: Developing Web Applications with Python

by Miguel Grinberg

Practical Django Projects (Expert's Voice in Web Development) cover

26. Practical Django Projects (Expert's Voice in Web Development)

by James Bennett

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Elementary Number Theory (5th Edition) cover

27. Elementary Number Theory (5th Edition)

by Kenneth H. Rosen

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition cover

28. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition

by Steven Levy

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The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma cover

29. The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma

by Annie Rogers