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1. Quantum Measurement
by Vladimir B. Braginsky, Farid Ya Khalili
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2. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
by Robert Jackall
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3. Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American Business Icon
by Richard S. Tedlow
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4. Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
by Andrew S. Grove
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5. The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
by Michael S. Malone
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6. Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing (MIT Press)
by Paul Dourish, Genevieve Bell
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7. Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American
by Richard S. Tedlow
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8. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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9. Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich
by Peter Schweizer
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10. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
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11. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
by Gene Kranz
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12. Dance Me to the End of Love (Art & Poetry)
by Leonard Cohen
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13. Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation
by Steven Muchnick
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14. Diaspora: A Novel
by Greg Egan
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15. UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition
by Evi Nemeth
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16. Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company
by Tim Jackson
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17. Jack of Shadows (Rediscovered Classics)
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18. Doing Grammar
by Max Morenberg
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19. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition
by Peter Bevelin
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20. Introduction to Hilbert Space and the Theory of Spectral Multiplicity
by Paul R. Halmos
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21. Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces
by Paul Richard Halmos
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22. Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (Artificial Intelligence)
by Harold Abelson, Andrea Disessa
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23. Atari Inc.: Business is Fun
by Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel
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24. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)
by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost
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25. Data Structures and Algorithms
by Alfred V. Aho, John E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey D. Ullman
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26. The Old Way of Seeing: How Architecture Lost Its Magic - And How to Get It Back
by Jonathan Hale
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27. The Timeless Way of Building
by Christopher Alexander
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28. Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
by John W. Young, James R. Hansen
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29. We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves
by Scott M. Carpenter, Gordon L. Cooper, John H. Glenn, Virgil I. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Alan B. Shepard, Donald K. Slayton
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30. Apollo 13
by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
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31. The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space
by Eugene Cernan, Donald A. Davis
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32. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys
by Michael Collins
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33. Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters: (HSK Levels 1 -3) A Revolutionary New Way to Learn and Remember the 800 Most Basic Chinese Characters
by Alison Matthews, Laurence Matthews
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34. Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale
by William A. Sethares
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35. Cooking for Geeks
by Jeff Potter
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36. The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking
by Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschäppeler, Philip Earnhart
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37. Newtonian Casino
by Thomas A. Bass
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38. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
by Jeff Speck
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39. An Oral-Formulaic Study of the Qur'an
by Andrew G. Bannister
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40. Cities for People
by Jan Gehl
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41. Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory: A Complete Self-Study Course for All Musicians (Book & 2 CDs)
by Andrew Surmani, Karen Farnum Surmani, Morton Manus
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42. Calculus with Differential Equations (9th Edition)
by Dale E. Varberg, Edwin Joseph Purcell, Steven E. Rigdon
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43. Flight: My Life in Mission Control
by Christopher C. Kraft
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44. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling
by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross
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45. All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School
by Thomas A. Garrity
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46. The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal (Kodansha Globe)
by Desmond Morris
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47. Electronic Principles
by Albert Paul Malvino, Dr., David J. Bates
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48. VLSI Test Principles and Architectures: Design for Testability (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Systems on Silicon)
by Laung-Terng Wang, Cheng-Wen Wu (EE Ph. D.), Xiaoqing Wen
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49. Comprehensive Functional Verification: The Complete Industry Cycle (Systems on Silicon)
by Bruce Wile, John Goss, Wolfgang Roesner
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50. Digital Design with RTL Design, VHDL, and Verilog
by Frank Vahid
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51. Digital Systems Engineering
by William J. Dally, John W. Poulton
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52. 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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53. A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
by Andrew Chaikin
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54. Introduction to 64 Bit Assembly Programming for Linux and OS X: Third Edition - for Linux and OS X
by Ray Seyfarth
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55. Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win
by Jack D. Schwager
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56. The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
by Leonard Susskind, George Hrabovsky
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57. Calculus
by Michael Spivak
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58. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
by Gary Taubes
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59. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
by Mark Manson
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60. Creation: Life and How to Make It
by Steve Grand
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61. 68000 Family Assembly Language Programming
by Alan Clements
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62. 6502 Assembly Language Programming
by Lance A. Leventhal
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63. The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1)
by Hunter S. Thompson
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64. The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
by Hunter S. Thompson
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65. Napoleon (Signet Classics)
by Felix Markham
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66. In Search Of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost In Newton's Clockwork Universe
by Richard Baum, William Sheehan
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67. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by Robert J. Gordon
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68. Windows and How to Work Them
by David Pogue
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69. Proxima
by Stephen Baxter
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70. Lisp in Small Pieces
by Christian Queinnec
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71. Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, Revised Edition
by Edward Luttwak
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72. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
by Tim Marshall
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73. Linear Algebra, With Applications (Sixth Edition)
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74. Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
by Dorothea Lange
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75. The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications
by Michal Zalewski
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76. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
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77. Against Method
by Paul Feyerabend
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78. The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
by Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong
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79. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
by William Zinsser
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80. Falling Over Backwards
by Arun Shourie
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81. Computer Lib/Dream Machines, Revised Edition
by Theodor H. Nelson
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82. The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy (War and Peace Library)
by Peter Dale Scott
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83. Deep Learning: A Practitioner's Approach
by Adam Gibson, Josh Patterson
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84. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, 3rd Edition: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
by Marshall B. Rosenberg
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85. Beyond the Galaxy: How Humanity Looked Beyond Our Milky Way and Discovered the Entire Universe
by Ethan Siegel
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86. Amiga Read Only Memory Kernel Reference Manual: Libraries and Devices (Amiga technical reference series)
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87. Amiga Hardware Reference Manual (Amiga technical reference series)
by Commodore-Amiga, Inc
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88. CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems
by Lea Verou
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89. The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
by Aaron Swartz
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90. Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street
by Fred Schwed, Jr.
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91. The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism
by Hernando De Soto
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92. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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93. Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald
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94. The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer
by Seymour Papert
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95. The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
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96. The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy (Economic Controversies)
by Yanis Varoufakis
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97. Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers (Dover Transportation)
by Fred Howard
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98. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by John J. Ratey
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99. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
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100. Cloud Architecture Patterns
by Bill Wilder
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