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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City cover

1. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

by Greg Grandin

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The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg: Clearcutting and the Struggle for Sustainable Forestry in the Northern Rockies cover

2. The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg: Clearcutting and the Struggle for Sustainable Forestry in the Northern Rockies

by Frederick H Swanson

Even Faster Web Sites cover

3. Even Faster Web Sites

by Steve Souders

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High Performance Web Sites cover

4. High Performance Web Sites

by Steve Souders

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The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing cover

5. The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing

by John Perry

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Permaculture: A Designers' Manual cover

6. Permaculture: A Designers' Manual

by B. C. Mollison

The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability cover

7. The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability

by William W. Lewis

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies cover

8. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

by Nick Bostrom

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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning cover

9. SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

by Grant Fritchey

The Way Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology cover

10. The Way Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology

by Bibliographisches Institut

Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science cover

11. Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science

by Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jürgens, Dietmar Saupe

You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures cover

12. You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures

by Kyle Simpson

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A History of Technology: Volume 1: From Early Times to Fall of Ancient Empires cover

13. A History of Technology: Volume 1: From Early Times to Fall of Ancient Empires

by Charles Singer, Trevor Illtyd Williams

Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty cover

14. Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

by Roy F. Baumeister

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The Linux Command Line cover

15. The Linux Command Line

by William E. Shotts, Jr.

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Arrest-Proof Yourself cover

16. Arrest-Proof Yourself

by Dale Carson, Wes Denham

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A Game As Old As Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption cover

17. A Game As Old As Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption

by Steven Hiatt

Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change, 2nd Edition cover

18. Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change, 2nd Edition

by Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman

Building Scientific Apparatus cover

19. Building Scientific Apparatus

by John H. Moore, Christopher C. Davis, Michael A. Coplan, Sandra C. Greer

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Algorithmic Architecture cover

20. Algorithmic Architecture

by Kostas Terzidis

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling cover

21. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling

by Arlie Russell Hochschild

The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.) cover

22. The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.)

by Edward Abbey

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness cover

23. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

by Edward Abbey

Procedures in Experimental Physics cover

24. Procedures in Experimental Physics

by John Strong

Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics cover

25. Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics

by Kevin M. Dunn

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The Way Things Work cover

26. The Way Things Work

by David Macaulay, Neil Ardley

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book cover

27. The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book

by Peter Finn, Petra Couvée

Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking cover

28. Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking

by Nathan Myhrvold

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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It cover

29. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

by Gary Taubes

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

30. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

31. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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

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

by Steven Pressfield

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Lectures on Literature cover

33. Lectures on Literature

by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, John Updike

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Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition) cover

34. Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition)

by Henry S. Warren

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Sound Systems: Design and Optimization: Modern Techniques and Tools for Sound System Design and Alignment cover

35. Sound Systems: Design and Optimization: Modern Techniques and Tools for Sound System Design and Alignment

by Bob McCarthy

The World of Null-A cover

36. The World of Null-A

by A. E. van Vogt, Alfred Elton Van Vogt

Market Wizards cover

37. Market Wizards

by Jack D. Schwager

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Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom cover

38. Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom

by Van K. Tharp

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator cover

39. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

by Edwin Lef?vre

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A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market cover

40. A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market

by John Allen Paulos

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Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea cover

41. Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

by Mark Blyth

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Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems, + Website: A Trader's Journey From Data Mining to Monte Carlo Simulation to Live Trading (Wiley Trading) cover

42. Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems, + Website: A Trader's Journey From Data Mining to Monte Carlo Simulation to Live Trading (Wiley Trading)

by Kevin Davey

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past) cover

43. The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past)

by Cixin Liu

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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre cover

44. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

by Keith Johnstone

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Structural Stability And Morphogenesis (Advanced Books Classics) cover

45. Structural Stability And Morphogenesis (Advanced Books Classics)

by Rene Thom

A New Kind of Science cover

46. A New Kind of Science

by Stephen Wolfram

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Realm of Racket: Learn to Program, One Game at a Time! cover

47. Realm of Racket: Learn to Program, One Game at a Time!

by Matthias Felleisen, David Van Horn, Conrad Barski, Northeastern University Students

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Hello World!: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners cover

48. Hello World!: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners

by Warren Sande, Carter Sande

The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

49. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

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Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time! cover

50. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!

by Conrad Barski

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Fearless at Work: Timeless Teachings for Awakening Confidence, Resilience, and Creativity in the Face of Life's Demands cover

51. Fearless at Work: Timeless Teachings for Awakening Confidence, Resilience, and Creativity in the Face of Life's Demands

by Michael Carroll

Awake at Work: 35 Practical Buddhist Principles for Discovering Clarity and Balance in the Midst of Work's Chaos cover

52. Awake at Work: 35 Practical Buddhist Principles for Discovering Clarity and Balance in the Midst of Work's Chaos

by Michael Carroll