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Dorito Effect : Why All Food Is Becoming Junk Food - and What We Can Do about It cover

1. Dorito Effect : Why All Food Is Becoming Junk Food - and What We Can Do about It

by Mark Schatzker

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

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

by Martin Maiden, Cecilia Robustelli

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

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

by Denise De Rôme

A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (General Grammar) cover

4. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (General Grammar)

by Randolph Quirk

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Modern Italian Grammar: A Practical Guide (Modern Grammars) cover

5. Modern Italian Grammar: A Practical Guide (Modern Grammars)

by Anna Proudfoot, Francesco Cardo

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language cover

6. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

by Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum

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Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air cover

7. Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air

by David J. C. MacKay

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The Elements of Style (4th Edition) cover

8. The Elements of Style (4th Edition)

by William Strunk

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

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

by Oren Klaff

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

10. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser

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Free to Choose: A Personal Statement cover

11. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman

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The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2) cover

12. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2)

by Friedrich August Hayek

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Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set) cover

13. Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set)

by Dave Jacke, Eric Toensmeier

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

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

by Jared M. Diamond

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Sex From Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules cover

15. Sex From Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules

by Sarah Mirk

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

16. 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

17. 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

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

by Jared M. Diamond

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Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability cover

19. Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability

by David Holmgren

Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

20. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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Consciousness and the Social Brain cover

21. Consciousness and the Social Brain

by Michael S. A. Graziano

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The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization cover

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

by Bryan Ward-Perkins

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Database System Implementation cover

23. Database System Implementation

by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom

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Missions, methodes, techniques speciales des services secrets au 21e siecle (French Edition) cover

24. Missions, methodes, techniques speciales des services secrets au 21e siecle (French Edition)

by Lieutenant-Colonel X., Jacques Léger

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The Gutenberg Galaxy cover

25. The Gutenberg Galaxy

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

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Laws of Media: The New Science cover

26. Laws of Media: The New Science

by Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan

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

27. Perception, Cognition, and Decision Training:The Quiet Eye in Act

by Joan N. Vickers

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

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

by Paul J. Nahin

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

29. 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

30. Mindset: Awareness in Sport

by Jackie Reardon, Hans Dekkers

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

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

by Helge Kragh

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

Understanding Digital Signal Processing (3rd Edition) cover

33. Understanding Digital Signal Processing (3rd Edition)

by Richard G. Lyons

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Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory cover

34. Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory

by Stoyan Sarg

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

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

by Russell Roberts

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

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

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Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War cover

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

by Peter Warren Singer, August Cole

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Making Software cover

38. Making Software

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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

39. 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

40. 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

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

by Terrence William Deacon

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The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction cover

42. The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction

by Matthew B. Crawford

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Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain cover

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

by Dana Suskind, Beth Suskind, Leslie Lewinter-Suskind

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

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

by Blake J. Harris

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Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto cover

45. Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

by Stewart Brand

Kitchen Disco cover

46. Kitchen Disco

by Clare Foges

Codermetrics cover

47. Codermetrics

by Jonathan Alexander

Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000 cover

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

by Isaac Asimov, Jean Marc Côte