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A Traveler's Guide to Mars cover

1. A Traveler's Guide to Mars

by William K. Hartmann

Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom cover

2. Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom

by John Hollway, Ronald M. Gauthier

Remain Free: A Memoir cover

3. Remain Free: A Memoir

by Gautam Narula

Seveneves cover

4. Seveneves

by Neal Stephenson

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Spin cover

5. Spin

by Robert Charles Wilson

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

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

by Susan Cain

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Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude cover

7. Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

by Robert Baer

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Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend cover

8. Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend

by Paul Feyerabend

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community cover

9. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

by Robert D. Putnam

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Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace cover

10. Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace

by Dan Margulis

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Out of Error: Further Essays on Critical Rationalism cover

11. Out of Error: Further Essays on Critical Rationalism

by David W. Miller

SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

12. SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Bill Karwin

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Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications (with MyEducationLab) Value Package (includes SPSS 16.0 Student Version for Windows) cover

13. Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications (with MyEducationLab) Value Package (includes SPSS 16.0 Student Version for Windows)

Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age cover

14. Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

by Robert N. Bellah

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Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

15. Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Joe Celko

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A User's Guide to Measure Theoretic Probability (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics) cover

16. A User's Guide to Measure Theoretic Probability (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics)

by David Pollard

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An Introduction to Stochastic Differential Equations cover

17. An Introduction to Stochastic Differential Equations

by Lawrence C. Evans

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests cover

18. Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

by Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce

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Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women cover

19. Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women

by Arlene August Burns

Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall cover

20. Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall

by Jeremy Bernstein

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Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB cover

21. Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB

by Rod Johnson

The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture cover

22. The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture

by Ishmael Jones

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The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense cover

23. The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

by John Ralston Saul

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Visible Speech (Asian Interactions and Comparisons) cover

24. Visible Speech (Asian Interactions and Comparisons)

by John DeFrancis

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Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy cover

25. Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy

by John DeFrancis

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Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning cover

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

by J. Marshall Unger

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The Linux Command Line cover

27. The Linux Command Line

by William E. Shotts, Jr.

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A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George cover

28. A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George

by Kelly Carlin

On Bullshit cover

29. On Bullshit

by Harry G. Frankfurt

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Profit First: A Simple System to Transform Any Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine. cover

30. Profit First: A Simple System to Transform Any Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine.

by Mike Michalowicz

Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia cover

31. Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia

by Gregory Benford

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The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time cover

32. The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time

by Jimena Canales

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (Software Studies) cover

33. 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (Software Studies)

by Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass

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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections on Sixty and Beyond cover

34. Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections on Sixty and Beyond

by Larry McMurtry

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It cover

35. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

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L'ÃƒÂªtre contre l'avoir cover

36. L'ÃƒÂªtre contre l'avoir

by Francis Cousin

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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners cover

37. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners

by Al Sweigart

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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal cover

38. The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

by James E. Loehr, Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz

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