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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

1. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community cover

2. The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

by Fritjof Capra, Ugo Mattei

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World cover

3. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

by Michael Lewis

The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1, Fascicle 1: MMIX -- A RISC Computer for the New Millennium cover

4. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1, Fascicle 1: MMIX -- A RISC Computer for the New Millennium

by Donald Ervin Knuth

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Edmund Morris's Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy Bundle: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, and Colonel Roosevelt cover

5. Edmund Morris's Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy Bundle: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, and Colonel Roosevelt

by Edmund Morris

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The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965 cover

6. The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965

by William Manchester, Paul Reid

Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones cover

7. Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones

by Carlin A. Barton

Curves and Surfaces for CAGD, Fourth Edition: A Practical Guide (Computer Science and Scientific Computing) cover

8. Curves and Surfaces for CAGD, Fourth Edition: A Practical Guide (Computer Science and Scientific Computing)

by Gerald E. Farin

Nurbs: From Projective Geometry to Practical Use, 2nd Edition cover

9. Nurbs: From Projective Geometry to Practical Use, 2nd Edition

by Gerald Farin

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

10. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Robert C. Martin

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Time and Space: Second Edition cover

11. Time and Space: Second Edition

by Barry Dainton

Understanding Physics (Motion, Sound, and Heat / Light, Magnetism, and Electricity / The Electron, Proton, and Neutron) cover

12. Understanding Physics (Motion, Sound, and Heat / Light, Magnetism, and Electricity / The Electron, Proton, and Neutron)

by Isaac Asimov

Rising Sun cover

13. Rising Sun

by Michael Crichton

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism cover

14. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang

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Left of Boom: How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda cover

15. Left of Boom: How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda

by Douglas Laux

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction cover

16. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

by Philip Eyrikson Tetlock, Dan Gardner

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Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? cover

17. Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

by Philip E. Tetlock

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Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1 cover

18. Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1

by Isaac Asimov

The Complete Stories, Vol. 2 cover

19. The Complete Stories, Vol. 2

by Isaac Asimov

Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind (MIT Press) cover

20. Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind (MIT Press)

by Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, Reginald B. Adams, Jr.

Comedy by the Numbers: The 169 Secrets of Humor and Popularity cover

21. Comedy by the Numbers: The 169 Secrets of Humor and Popularity

by Eric Hoffman, Gary Rudoren

Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory cover

22. Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory

by Stoyan Sarg

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Color Management & Quality Output: Working with Color from Camera to Display to Print: (The Digital Imaging Masters Series) cover

23. Color Management & Quality Output: Working with Color from Camera to Display to Print: (The Digital Imaging Masters Series)

by Tom Ashe

Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace (2nd Edition) cover

24. Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace (2nd Edition)

by Dan Margulis

Crude Interventions: The United States, Oil and the New World (Dis)Order cover

25. Crude Interventions: The United States, Oil and the New World (Dis)Order

by Garry Leech

Jewels of Stringology cover

26. Jewels of Stringology

by Maxime Crochemore, Wojciech Rytter

Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

27. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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Grunch of Giants cover

28. Grunch of Giants

by Richard Buckminster Fuller

Modern Monetary Theory and Practice: An Introductory Text cover

29. Modern Monetary Theory and Practice: An Introductory Text

by W. Mitchell

War In The Shadows: The Guerrilla In History cover

30. War In The Shadows: The Guerrilla In History

by Robert B. Asprey

AWS System Administration cover

31. AWS System Administration

by Mike Ryan, Federico Lucifredi

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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger cover

32. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson

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In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters cover

33. In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

34. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers cover

35. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz

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

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

by John L. Gustafson

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