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Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War cover

1. Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War

by Tom Wheeler

Linear Algebra (2nd Edition) cover

2. Linear Algebra (2nd Edition)

by Kenneth Hoffman, Ray Alden Kunze

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything cover

3. Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything

by David Bellos

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How to Study as a Mathematics Major cover

4. How to Study as a Mathematics Major

by Lara Alcock

How to Think Like a Mathematician: A Companion to Undergraduate Mathematics cover

5. How to Think Like a Mathematician: A Companion to Undergraduate Mathematics

by Kevin Houston

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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking cover

6. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

by Jordan Ellenberg

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3D Math Primer For Graphics and Game Development (Wordware Game Math Library) cover

7. 3D Math Primer For Graphics and Game Development (Wordware Game Math Library)

by Fletcher Dunn, Ian Parberry

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On Numbers and Games cover

8. On Numbers and Games

by John H. Conway

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Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition) cover

9. Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition)

by Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik

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Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) cover

10. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev

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Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications Seventh Edition cover

11. Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications Seventh Edition

by Kenneth Rosen

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Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences cover

12. Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences

by Mary L. Boas, Mary Layne Boas

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Who Is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure 2nd Edition cover

13. Who Is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure 2nd Edition

by Transnational College of Lex

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Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (3rd Edition) (Featured Titles for Transition to Advanced Mathematics) cover

14. Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (3rd Edition) (Featured Titles for Transition to Advanced Mathematics)

by Gary Chartrand, Albert D. Polimeni, Ping Zhang

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The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity cover

15. The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

by Steven Henry Strogatz

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The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There cover

16. The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There

by Sinclair McKay

The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, Cognition, and Society) cover

17. The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, Cognition, and Society)

by Stephen Thomas Ziliak, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

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Garner's Modern American Usage cover

18. Garner's Modern American Usage

by Bryan Garner

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High Performance MySQL cover

19. High Performance MySQL

by Jeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling

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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies cover

20. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies

by Charles Perrow

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High Performance Python cover

21. High Performance Python

by Micha Gorelick, Ian Ozsvald

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The Manga Guide to Databases cover

22. The Manga Guide to Databases

by Mana Takahashi, Shoko Azuma, Co Ltd Trend

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Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State cover

23. Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State

by William H. Janeway

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Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market cover

24. Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market

by Scott Patterson

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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety cover

25. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser

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The Design and Evolution of C++ cover

26. The Design and Evolution of C++

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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The Third Reich at War cover

27. The Third Reich at War

by Richard J. Evans

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The Third Reich in Power cover

28. The Third Reich in Power

by Richard J. Evans

The Coming of the Third Reich cover

29. The Coming of the Third Reich

by Richard J. Evans

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The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund cover

30. The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund

by William H. Tucker

The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism cover

31. The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism

by Stefan Kühl

Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction (Science and Society Series) cover

32. Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction (Science and Society Series)

by John P. Jackson, Nadine M. Weidman

Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become cover

33. Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become

by Peter Morville

Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things cover

34. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

by Don Norman

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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

35. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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AWS System Administration: Best Practices for Sysadmins in the Amazon Cloud cover

36. AWS System Administration: Best Practices for Sysadmins in the Amazon Cloud

by Mike Ryan, Federico Lucifredi

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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy cover

37. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

by David D. Burns

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The modern cook's manual cover

38. The modern cook's manual

by Lynda Brown

Power of Events The: An Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed Enterprise Systems (paperback) cover

39. Power of Events The: An Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed Enterprise Systems (paperback)

by David Luckham

Event Processing in Action cover

40. Event Processing in Action

by Opher Etzion, Peter Niblett

Critical Chain Project Management (Artech House Technology Management and Professional Development Library) cover

41. Critical Chain Project Management (Artech House Technology Management and Professional Development Library)

by Lawrence P. Leach

The Works: Anatomy of a City cover

42. The Works: Anatomy of a City

by Kate Ascher

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Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests cover

43. Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

by Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce

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Effective Cycling (MIT Press) cover

44. Effective Cycling (MIT Press)

by John Forester

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Kill Decision cover

45. Kill Decision

by Daniel Suarez

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Effective Modern C++ cover

46. Effective Modern C++

by Scott Meyers

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The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Revised and Updated Edition cover

47. The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Revised and Updated Edition

by Stanislas Dehaene

Notes to a Software Team Leader: Growing Self Organizing Teams cover

48. Notes to a Software Team Leader: Growing Self Organizing Teams

by Roy Osherove

Mindful Work: How Meditation Is Changing Business from the Inside Out cover

49. Mindful Work: How Meditation Is Changing Business from the Inside Out

by David Gelles (Business journalist)

RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) cover

50. RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

by Michael Hartl, Aurelius Prochazka

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