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Do the Work cover

1. Do the Work

by Steven Pressfield

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business cover

2. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

by Charles Duhigg

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First Things First: Understand Why So Often Our First Things Aren't First cover

3. First Things First: Understand Why So Often Our First Things Aren't First

Flash Boys cover

4. Flash Boys

by Michael Lewis

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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles cover

5. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

by Steven Pressfield

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SQL and Relational Theory cover

6. SQL and Relational Theory

by C. Date

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The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Algorithms and Data Structures series) cover

7. The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Algorithms and Data Structures series)

by Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss

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Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications cover

8. Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications

by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, Tadayoshi Kohno

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Game Theory: A Critical Introduction cover

9. Game Theory: A Critical Introduction

by Shaun Hargreaves Heap, Yanis Varoufakis

Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing (MIT Press) cover

10. Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing (MIT Press)

by Vaclav Smil

Gifted Lives: What Happens when Gifted Children Grow Up cover

11. Gifted Lives: What Happens when Gifted Children Grow Up

by Joan Freeman

Sears and Zemansky's University Physics (10th Edition) cover

12. Sears and Zemansky's University Physics (10th Edition)

by Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts cover

13. 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

by Kevlin Henney

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The Definition of Standard ML - Revised cover

14. The Definition of Standard ML - Revised

by Robin Milner

21st Century C cover

15. 21st Century C

by Ben Klemens

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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia cover

16. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

by Peter Pomerantsev

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Photography (11th Edition) cover

17. Photography (11th Edition)

by Barbara London, Jim Stone, John Upton

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

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

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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Clojure Programming cover

19. Clojure Programming

by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, Christophe Grand

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Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More (Culture of Enterprise) cover

20. Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More (Culture of Enterprise)

by John Medaille

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Time Chart of World History: A Histomap of Peoples and Nations for 4,000 Years cover

21. Time Chart of World History: A Histomap of Peoples and Nations for 4,000 Years

by John B. Sparks

The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor cover

22. The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor

by John McPhee

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Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

23. Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Michael T. Nygard

R Graphics Cookbook cover

24. R Graphics Cookbook

by Winston Chang

BASIC Computer Games: Microcomputer Edition cover

25. BASIC Computer Games: Microcomputer Edition

by David H. Ahl

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Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press) cover

26. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)

by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi

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Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) cover

27. Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)

by Jon Louis Bentley

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Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space cover

28. Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space

by Jan Gehl

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

29. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking cover

30. The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking

by Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird

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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It cover

31. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

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