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Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict cover

1. Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

by Tsultrim Allione

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Molvania: A Land Untouched By Modern Dentistry (Jetlag Travel Guide) cover

2. Molvania: A Land Untouched By Modern Dentistry (Jetlag Travel Guide)

by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Rob Sitch

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business cover

3. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business

by Clayton M. Christensen

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The Speed of Dark cover

4. The Speed of Dark

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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) cover

5. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

by Tom Vanderbilt

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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date cover

6. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date

by Robert X. Cringely

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Software Engineering (9th Edition) cover

7. Software Engineering (9th Edition)

by Ian Sommerville

Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About it cover

8. Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About it

by Simon Singh

THE CODE BOOK: THE SECRET HISTORY OF CODES AND CODE-BREAKING cover

9. THE CODE BOOK: THE SECRET HISTORY OF CODES AND CODE-BREAKING

by Simon Singh

Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem cover

10. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

by Simon Singh

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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World cover

11. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier

Rebels Against The Future: The Luddites And Their War On The Industrial Revolution: Lessons For The Computer Age cover

12. Rebels Against The Future: The Luddites And Their War On The Industrial Revolution: Lessons For The Computer Age

by Kirkpatrick Sale

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

13. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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Geometric Concepts in Islamic Art cover

14. Geometric Concepts in Islamic Art

by Issam El-Said, Ayşe Parman

A Stainless Steel Rat is Born (Stainless Steel Rat Series) cover

15. A Stainless Steel Rat is Born (Stainless Steel Rat Series)

by Harry Harrison, Harry Harrison

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) cover

16. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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Everyone Needs a Mentor cover

17. Everyone Needs a Mentor

by David Clutterbuck

Four Days with Dr. Deming: A Strategy for Modern Methods of Management cover

18. Four Days with Dr. Deming: A Strategy for Modern Methods of Management

by William J. Latzko, William Edwards Deming, David M. Saunders

We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Revised) cover

19. We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Revised)

by David Lewis

Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy, Second Edition cover

20. Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy, Second Edition

by Masaaki Imai

Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life cover

21. Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

by Spencer Johnson

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Across Realtime cover

22. Across Realtime

by Vernor Vinge

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering cover

23. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

by Robert L. Glass

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Programmers at Work cover

24. Programmers at Work

by Susan Lammers

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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

25. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel

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Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy cover

26. Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy

by Micah Zenko

The End of Error: Unum Computing (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science) cover

27. The End of Error: Unum Computing (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science)

by John L. Gustafson

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The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission cover

28. The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission

by Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, Joji Watanuki

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Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism cover

29. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism

by Sheldon S. Wolin

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