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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air cover

1. Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

by David J. C. MacKay

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On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication cover

2. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication

by William Zinsser

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Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal cover

3. Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal

by Oren Klaff

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The Elements of Style (4th Edition) cover

4. The Elements of Style (4th Edition)

by William Strunk

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Soluzioni: A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian (Routledge Concise Grammars) (Italian Edition) cover

5. Soluzioni: A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian (Routledge Concise Grammars) (Italian Edition)

by Denise De Rôme

A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian (Routledge Reference Grammars) cover

6. A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian (Routledge Reference Grammars)

by Martin Maiden, Cecilia Robustelli

A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language cover

7. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language

by Ted Gioia

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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language cover

8. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

by Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum

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Modern Italian Grammar (Modern Grammars) cover

9. Modern Italian Grammar (Modern Grammars)

by Anna Proudfoot, Francesco Cardo

The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization cover

10. The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

by Bryan Ward-Perkins

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

11. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

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The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics) cover

12. The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics)

by Masanobu Fukuoka

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition cover

13. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

by Jared Diamond

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Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability cover

14. Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability

by David Holmgren

Sex from Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules (Real World) cover

15. Sex from Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules (Real World)

by Sarah Mirk

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies cover

16. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond

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Consciousness and the Social Brain cover

17. Consciousness and the Social Brain

by Michael S. A. Graziano

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Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set) cover

18. Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set)

by Dave Jacke, Eric Toensmeier

Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

19. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman

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A New Kind of Science cover

20. A New Kind of Science

by Stephen Wolfram

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Perception, Cognition, and Decision Training: The Quiet Eye in Action cover

21. Perception, Cognition, and Decision Training: The Quiet Eye in Action

by Joan N. Vickers

Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age cover

22. Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age

by Paul J. Nahin

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Laws of Media: The New Science cover

23. Laws of Media: The New Science

by Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan

The Gutenberg Galaxy cover

24. The Gutenberg Galaxy

by Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand

Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology cover

25. Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology

by Helge Kragh

The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance cover

26. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

by W. Timothy Gallwey

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Mindset: Awareness in Sport cover

27. Mindset: Awareness in Sport

by Jackie Reardon, Hans Dekkers

The Worst Journey in the World cover

28. The Worst Journey in the World

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance cover

29. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

by Henry Petroski

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Understanding Digital Signal Processing cover

30. Understanding Digital Signal Processing

by Richard G. Lyons

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Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War cover

31. Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

by Peter Warren Singer, August Cole

How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age cover

32. How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age

by Theodore Schick, Jr., Lewis Vaughn

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Making Software cover

33. Making Software

by Andrew Oram, Greg Wilson

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The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity cover

34. The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity

by Russell Roberts

Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory cover

35. Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory

by Stoyan Sarg

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Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan cover

36. Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan

by John K. Kruschke

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American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment cover

37. American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment

by Sasha Abramsky

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time cover

38. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

by Dava Sobel

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The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain cover

39. The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

by Terrence William Deacon

Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain cover

40. Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain

by Dana Suskind, Beth Suskind, Leslie Lewinter-Suskind

Teach Like A Champion 3.0 cover

41. Teach Like A Champion 3.0

by Doug Lemov

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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation cover

42. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

by Blake J. Harris

Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto cover

43. Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

by Stewart Brand

Codermetrics cover

44. Codermetrics

Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000 cover

45. Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000

by Isaac Asimov, Jean Marc Côte