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Britain's War Machine cover

1. Britain's War Machine

by David Edgerton

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Lisp in Small Pieces cover

2. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec

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Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace: A Memoir cover

3. Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace: A Memoir

by Michael Morton

Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception cover

4. Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception

by Pamela Meyer

The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' cover

5. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

by Professor Sidney Dekker

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The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking cover

6. The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking

by Jeff Hertzberg, M.D., Zoë François

Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs cover

7. Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs

by Lauren A. Rivera

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The Conscience of a Liberal cover

8. The Conscience of a Liberal

by Paul Krugman

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Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War cover

9. Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War

by John Ellis

Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

10. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel

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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition cover

11. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition

by Betty Edwards

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American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World cover

12. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World

by David E. Stannard

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain cover

13. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

by David Eagleman

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Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development cover

14. Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development

by George E. Vaillant

Debunking Economics - Revised and Expanded Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned? cover

15. Debunking Economics - Revised and Expanded Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

by Steve Keen

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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 cover

16. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

by David McCullough

Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition cover

17. Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition

by Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, Werner Rothengatter

Information Hiding Techniques for Steganography and Digital Watermarking cover

18. Information Hiding Techniques for Steganography and Digital Watermarking

by Stefan Katzenbeisser, Fabien A. P. Petitcolas

The Pot and How to Use It: The Mystery and Romance of the Rice Cooker cover

19. The Pot and How to Use It: The Mystery and Romance of the Rice Cooker

by Roger Ebert

Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False cover

20. Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False

by Thomas Nagel

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What Darwin Got Wrong cover

21. What Darwin Got Wrong

by Jerry Fodor, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park cover

22. Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park

by Peter Nabokov, Lawrence L. Loendorf

Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia cover

23. Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia

by Stephen Bodio

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship cover

24. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship

by Ben Horowitz

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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality cover

25. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

by Max Tegmark

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future cover

26. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide cover

27. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

by David Flanagan

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Third-Party JavaScript cover

28. Third-Party JavaScript

by Ben Vinegar, Anton Kovalyov

The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations cover

29. The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations

by Robert L. Cross, Andrew Parker

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War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier cover

30. War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

by Smedley Darlington Butler

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