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The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations cover

1. The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

by Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts cover

2. 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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Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought cover

3. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought

by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Fluid Analogies Research Group

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

4. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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Soft Currency Economics II: The Origin of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT - Modern Monetary Theory) (Volume 1) cover

5. Soft Currency Economics II: The Origin of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT - Modern Monetary Theory) (Volume 1)

by Warren Mosler

Plentiful Energy: The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor: The complex history of a simple reactor technology, with emphasis on its scientific bases for non-specialists cover

6. Plentiful Energy: The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor: The complex history of a simple reactor technology, with emphasis on its scientific bases for non-specialists

by Charles E. Till, Yoon Il Chang

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Beginning Chinese Reader (Beginning Chinese Reader, Part I) cover

7. Beginning Chinese Reader (Beginning Chinese Reader, Part I)

by John DeFrancis, Chia-yee Yung Teng, Chih-sheng Yung

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PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance cover

8. PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance

by Gregory Smith

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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War cover

9. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

by Robert Coram

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Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality? (Canto Classics) cover

10. Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality? (Canto Classics)

by Alastair Rae

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win cover

11. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

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A FORTRAN Coloring Book cover

12. A FORTRAN Coloring Book

All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis cover

13. All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

by Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera

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Introducing Elixir cover

14. Introducing Elixir

by Simon St. Laurent, J. David Eisenberg

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Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C cover

15. Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C

by Lincoln Stein, Doug MacEachern

The Fluoride Deception cover

16. The Fluoride Deception

by Christopher Bryson

The Theory of Critical Phenomena: An Introduction to the Renormalization Group (Oxford Science Publications) cover

17. The Theory of Critical Phenomena: An Introduction to the Renormalization Group (Oxford Science Publications)

by James Binney, J.J. Binney, N. J. Dowrick, A. J. Fisher, M. E. J. Newman, N.J. Dowrick, A.J. Fisher, M.E.J. Newman, J. J. Binney

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Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics (Cambridge Lecture Notes in Physics) cover

18. Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics (Cambridge Lecture Notes in Physics)

by John Cardy

Lectures On Phase Transitions And The Renormalization Group (Frontiers in Physics) cover

19. Lectures On Phase Transitions And The Renormalization Group (Frontiers in Physics)

by Nigel Goldenfeld

Renormalization: An Introduction to Renormalization, the Renormalization Group and the Operator-Product Expansion (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics) cover

20. Renormalization: An Introduction to Renormalization, the Renormalization Group and the Operator-Product Expansion (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

by John Clements Collins

Renormalization Methods: A Guide For Beginners cover

21. Renormalization Methods: A Guide For Beginners

by William David McComb

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Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality cover

22. Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality

by Lewis C. Epstein

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Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP cover

23. Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP

by Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson, Steve Vinoski

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Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People 1492-1995 cover

24. Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People 1492-1995

by Robert Debs Heinl, Nancy Gordon Heinl, Michael Heinl

An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases cover

25. An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases

by Moises Velasquez-Manoff

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The Evening Star: Venus Observed cover

26. The Evening Star: Venus Observed

by Henry S. F. Cooper

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Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge : Cyberpunk, Virtual Reality, Wetware, Designer Aphrodisiacs, Artificial Life, Techno-Erotic Paganism, an cover

27. Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge : Cyberpunk, Virtual Reality, Wetware, Designer Aphrodisiacs, Artificial Life, Techno-Erotic Paganism, an

by R. U. Sirius

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency cover

28. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

by Tom DeMarco

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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

29. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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The Deadline: A Novel about Project Management cover

30. The Deadline: A Novel about Project Management

by Tom DeMarco

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies cover

31. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee

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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master cover

32. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

by Andy Hunt, David Thomas, Dave Thomas, David . Thomas

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Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving cover

33. Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving

by V. Anton Spraul

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How to Solve It by Computer (Prentice-Hall International Series in Computer Science) cover

34. How to Solve It by Computer (Prentice-Hall International Series in Computer Science)

by R. G. Dromey

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