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Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way cover

1. Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way

by Steven Pressfield

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Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now cover

2. Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now

by Jane B. Burka, Lenora M. Yuen

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Mapping the Mind cover

3. Mapping the Mind

by Rita Carter, Christopher D. Frith

Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets cover

4. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

by Peter Van der Linden

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Write Now: A Complete Self-teaching Program for Better Handwriting cover

5. Write Now: A Complete Self-teaching Program for Better Handwriting

by Barbara Getty, Inga Dubay

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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read cover

6. How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

by Pierre Bayard

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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood cover

7. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

by James Gleick

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The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing cover

8. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

by Mel Lindauer, Taylor Larimore, Michael LeBoeuf

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Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory cover

9. Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory

by George Gamow

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The Biafra Story: The Making of an African Legend cover

10. The Biafra Story: The Making of an African Legend

by Frederick Forsyth

Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality cover

11. Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality

by Neal Gabler

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Third Edition cover

12. The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Third Edition

by Warren Buffett

Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications cover

13. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

by Toby Segaran

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This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly cover

14. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff

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Executive Functions: What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Evolved cover

15. Executive Functions: What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Evolved

by Russell A. Barkley

Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy cover

16. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy

by Henry George

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition cover

17. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

by Thomas S. Kuhn

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The Kautiliya Arthasastra (3 Vols.) (vol.1 in Sanskrit, vols. 2 & 3 in English) (Pt. 1-3) cover

18. The Kautiliya Arthasastra (3 Vols.) (vol.1 in Sanskrit, vols. 2 & 3 in English) (Pt. 1-3)

by Kautalya, R. P. Kangle

The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit cover

19. The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit

by Bruce Alexander

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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure) cover

20. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure)

by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein

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Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften) (v. 290) cover

21. Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften) (v. 290)

by John Conway, Neil J. A. Sloane

Radar Handbook, Third Edition cover

22. Radar Handbook, Third Edition

by Merrill I Skolnik

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Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions cover

23. Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions

by Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf

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The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction cover

24. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

by Alan Jacobs

The Arthashastra (Penguin classics) cover

25. The Arthashastra (Penguin classics)

by Kauṭalya

Japan's Longest Day cover

26. Japan's Longest Day

by Bungei Shunjū Senshi Kenkyūkai, Pacific War Research Society

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El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency cover

27. El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

by Ioan Grillo

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Mastering Bitcoin cover

28. Mastering Bitcoin

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking cover

29. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain

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Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 3) cover

30. Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 3)

by Robin Hobb

Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes--and What We Can Learn from Them cover

31. Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes--and What We Can Learn from Them

by Mark McClusky

The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe) cover

32. The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)

by Umberto Eco

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Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else cover

33. Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

by Geoff Colvin

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Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering (Studies in Nonlinearity) cover

34. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering (Studies in Nonlinearity)

by Steven H. Strogatz, Steven Strogatz, Steven H. Strogatz

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The Breakthrough: The Race for the Superconductor cover

35. The Breakthrough: The Race for the Superconductor

by Robert M. Hazen

Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Oxford Paperbacks) cover

36. Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Oxford Paperbacks)

by Morris Kline

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The Algorithm Design Manual cover

37. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena

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Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement cover

38. Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

by Thomas Szasz

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