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

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

by William Rosen

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

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

by Marc Levinson

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't cover

3. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

by Jim Collins

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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition cover

4. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition

by Steve McConnell

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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition cover

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

by Robert M. Sapolsky

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Arrest-Proof Yourself cover

6. Arrest-Proof Yourself

by Dale Carson, Wes Denham

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

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

by Mitchell Zuckoff

Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships cover

8. Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships

by Alan Page Fiske, Tage Shakti Rai

Botnets: The Killer Web App cover

9. Botnets: The Killer Web App

by Craig A. Schiller

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

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

by Burgess Laughlin

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

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

by David A. Kessler

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Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction cover

12. Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

by Samir Okasha

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

13. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Robert C. Martin

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

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

All of Nonparametric Statistics (Springer Texts in Statistics) cover

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

by Larry Wasserman

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Moving mountains: or, The Art of Letting Others See Things Your Way cover

16. Moving mountains: or, The Art of Letting Others See Things Your Way

by H. M. Boettinger

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17. The Internet White Pages/1994

by James S. McBride, Seth Godin

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

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

by Frank Gallinelli

Compiling with Continuations cover

19. Compiling with Continuations

by Andrew W. Appel

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

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

by Daniel Yergin

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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

21. 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

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

22. 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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Programming Game AI By Example (Wordware Game Developers Library) cover

23. Programming Game AI By Example (Wordware Game Developers Library)

by Mat Buckland

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Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy cover

24. Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

by Chris Hayes

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Commodore: A Company on the Edge cover

25. Commodore: A Company on the Edge

by Brian Bagnall

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Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air cover

26. 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

27. 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

28. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

by Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum

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

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

by Robert Zubrin

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The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition) cover

30. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)

by John J. Mearsheimer

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

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

by Steven Pinker

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

32. A Tour of C++ (C++ In-Depth)

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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Red Plenty cover

33. Red Plenty

by Francis Spufford

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

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

by Dan Buettner

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies cover

35. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

by Nick Bostrom

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100 Suns: 1945-1962 cover

36. 100 Suns: 1945-1962

by Michael Light

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

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

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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East cover

38. Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

by Scott Anderson

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

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

by B. C. Wolverton

Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) cover

40. Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)

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

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

by Greg Michaelson

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