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The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance: And Other Real Laws that Human Beings Actually Dreamed Up cover

1. The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance: And Other Real Laws that Human Beings Actually Dreamed Up

by Kevin Underhill

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Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide cover

2. Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide

by Alex Reinhart

Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython cover

3. Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython

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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them cover

4. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

by Joshua Greene

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If Truth Be Told: A Monk's Memoir cover

5. If Truth Be Told: A Monk's Memoir

by Om Swami

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In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing, 2nd Edition cover

6. In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing, 2nd Edition

by Walter Murch

Cognitive Capitalism cover

7. Cognitive Capitalism

by Yann Moulier-Boutang

Functional JavaScript cover

8. Functional JavaScript

by Michael Fogus

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Blender Foundations: The Essential Guide to Learning Blender 2.6 cover

9. Blender Foundations: The Essential Guide to Learning Blender 2.6

by Roland Hess

Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications cover

10. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

by Toby Segaran

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Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television, Updated and Expanded cover

11. Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television, Updated and Expanded

by Joel Brinkley

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The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb cover

12. The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb

by Robert Serber

The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable cover

13. The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

by James Owen Weatherall

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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk cover

14. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

by Peter L. Bernstein

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Mastering Machine Learning With scikit-learn cover

15. Mastering Machine Learning With scikit-learn

by Gavin Hackeling

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition) cover

16. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)

by Stuart Jonathan Russell, Peter Norvig, Ernest Davis

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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy cover

17. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

by David D. Burns

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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe cover

18. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

by George Dyson

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Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd Edition) cover

19. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd Edition)

by Randal E. Bryant, David R. O'Hallaron

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Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time cover

20. Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time

by Theodore Sider

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

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

by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys

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Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning cover

22. Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning

by J. Marshall Unger

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Visible Speech (Asian Interactions and Comparisons) cover

23. Visible Speech (Asian Interactions and Comparisons)

by John DeFrancis

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Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy cover

24. Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy

by John DeFrancis

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Machine Learning in Python: Essential Techniques for Predictive Analysis cover

25. Machine Learning in Python: Essential Techniques for Predictive Analysis

by Michael Bowles

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The Lighthouse Stevensons cover

26. The Lighthouse Stevensons

by Bella Bathurst, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Pantheon Graphic Novels) cover

27. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Pantheon Graphic Novels)

by Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon Graphic Novels) cover

28. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon Graphic Novels)

by Marjane Satrapi

The Comeback: How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power And Influence cover

29. The Comeback: How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power And Influence

by John Ralston Saul

A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada cover

30. A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada

by John Ralston Saul

C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software cover

31. C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software

by David R. Hanson

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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies cover

32. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

by Nick Bostrom

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Introduction to Machine Learning with Python cover

33. Introduction to Machine Learning with Python

by Andreas C. Müller, Sarah Guido

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