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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life cover

1. The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

by Nick Lane

Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? cover

2. Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?

by Nancy Stepan

Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words cover

3. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

by Randall Munroe

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success cover

4. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

by Carol S. Dweck

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Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open: Future buildings, vehicles, products and equipment - made efficiently and made with less new material (without the hot air) cover

5. Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open: Future buildings, vehicles, products and equipment - made efficiently and made with less new material (without the hot air)

by Julian M. Allwood, Jonathan M. Cullen, Mark A. Carruth

Being Nixon: A Man Divided cover

6. Being Nixon: A Man Divided

by Evan Thomas

The Road to Character cover

7. The Road to Character

by David Brooks

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger cover

8. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson

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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention cover

9. The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention

by William Rosen

Code Complete cover

10. Code Complete

by Steve McConnell

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Virtuous Violence cover

11. Virtuous Violence

by Alan Page Fiske, Tage Shakti Rai

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition cover

12. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition

by Robert M. Sapolsky

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Arrest-Proof Yourself cover

13. Arrest-Proof Yourself

by Dale Carson, Wes Denham

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The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD: An 8-Step Program for Strengthening Attention, Managing Emotions, and Achieving Your Goals cover

14. The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD: An 8-Step Program for Strengthening Attention, Managing Emotions, and Achieving Your Goals

by Lidia Zylowska, Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.

Crystallizing Public Opinion cover

15. Crystallizing Public Opinion

by Edward L. Bernays

Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend cover

16. Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend

by Mitchell Zuckoff

Botnets: The Killer Web Applications cover

17. Botnets: The Killer Web Applications

by Craig A. Schiller

The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health cover

18. The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health

by Justin Sonnenburg, Erica Sonnenburg

Understanding Scientific Reasoning cover

19. Understanding Scientific Reasoning

by Ronald N. Giere, John Bickle, Robert F. Mauldin

The Aristotle Adventure: A Guide to the Greek, Arabic, & Latin Scholars Who Transmitted Aristotle's Logic to the Renaissance cover

20. The Aristotle Adventure: A Guide to the Greek, Arabic, & Latin Scholars Who Transmitted Aristotle's Logic to the Renaissance

by Burgess Laughlin

Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction cover

21. Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

by Samir Okasha

How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease cover

22. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

by Michael Greger, Gene Stone

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All of Nonparametric Statistics (Springer Texts in Statistics) cover

23. All of Nonparametric Statistics (Springer Texts in Statistics)

by Larry Wasserman

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power cover

24. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

by Daniel Yergin

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What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow... And 36 Other Key Financial Measures cover

25. What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow... And 36 Other Key Financial Measures

by Frank Gallinelli

A Tour of C++ (C++ In Depth SERIES) cover

26. A Tour of C++ (C++ In Depth SERIES)

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) cover

27. Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)

by Alexander Rosenberg

Philosophy of Science: Volume 1, From Problem to Theory (History of Ideas Series) cover

28. Philosophy of Science: Volume 1, From Problem to Theory (History of Ideas Series)

by Mario Bunge

Philosophy of Science: Volume 2, From Explanation to Justification (Science and Technology Studies) cover

29. Philosophy of Science: Volume 2, From Explanation to Justification (Science and Technology Studies)

by Mario Bunge

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind cover

30. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

by Julian Jaynes

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Echopraxia (Firefall, 2) cover

31. Echopraxia (Firefall, 2)

by Peter Watts

Compiling with Continuations cover

32. Compiling with Continuations

by Andrew W. Appel

Meditations on First Philosophy: with Selections from the Objections and Replies (Oxford World's Classics) cover

33. Meditations on First Philosophy: with Selections from the Objections and Replies (Oxford World's Classics)

by René Descartes

The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare (Modern Library Science) cover

34. The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare (Modern Library Science)

by Henri Poincare

The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There cover

35. The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There

by Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D., Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn

Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) cover

36. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)

by Liping Ma

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Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy cover

37. Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

by Chris Hayes

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Programming Game AI by Example: . cover

38. Programming Game AI by Example: .

by Mat Buckland

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Commodore: A Company on the Edge cover

39. Commodore: A Company on the Edge

by Brian Bagnall

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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air cover

40. Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

by David J. C. MacKay

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The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer cover

41. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

by Charles J. Murray

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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language cover

42. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

by Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

43. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

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The Tragedy of Great Power Politics cover

44. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

by John J. Mearsheimer

The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must cover

45. The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must

by Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner

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Red Plenty cover

46. Red Plenty

by Francis Spufford

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Superintelligence cover

47. Superintelligence

by Nick Bostrom

The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest cover

48. The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest

by Dan Buettner

100 Suns cover

49. 100 Suns

by Michael Light

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies cover

50. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

by Bibek Debroy

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How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 House Plants that Purify Your Home or Office cover

51. How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 House Plants that Purify Your Home or Office

by B. C. Wolverton

The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite cover

52. The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite

by David A. Kessler

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Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) – Google's Proven Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Guide cover

53. Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) – Google's Proven Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Guide

by Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

54. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock

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An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

55. An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Greg Michaelson

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Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems cover

56. Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems

by David J. Agans

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