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Magic Beans: 150 Delicious Recipes Featuring Nature's Low-Fat Nutrient-Rich, Disease-Fighting Powerhouse cover

1. Magic Beans: 150 Delicious Recipes Featuring Nature's Low-Fat Nutrient-Rich, Disease-Fighting Powerhouse

by Patti Bazel Geil

Handwriting of the Twentieth Century cover

2. Handwriting of the Twentieth Century

by Rosemary Sassoon

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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran cover

3. The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran

by Andrew Scott Cooper

The Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics cover

4. The Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics

by Jakow Trachtenberg

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The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies) cover

5. The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies)

by Jimmy Maher

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Ecotopia cover

6. Ecotopia

by Ernest Callenbach

Word Up! How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs (And Everything You Build from Them) cover

7. Word Up! How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs (And Everything You Build from Them)

by Marcia Riefer Johnston, Scott Abel

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

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

by Sheldon S. Wolin

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Maintainable JavaScript cover

9. Maintainable JavaScript

by Nicholas Zakas

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Known Unknowns cover

10. Known Unknowns

by Charles Saatchi

The Naked Eye cover

11. The Naked Eye

by Charles Saatchi

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies cover

12. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

by Bryan Douglas Caplan

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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

13. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup

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14. "Dow, 30,000 by 2008" Why It's Different This Time - Second Printing

by Robert Zuccaro

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Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market cover

15. Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market

by James K. Glassman, Kevin A. Hassett

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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference cover

16. Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference

by William MacAskill

The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

17. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Don Norman

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Safe as Houses? a Historical Analysis of Property Prices cover

18. Safe as Houses? a Historical Analysis of Property Prices

by Neil Monnery

Whose Justice? Which Rationality? cover

19. Whose Justice? Which Rationality?

by Alasdair C. MacIntyre

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After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition cover

20. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition

by Alasdair C. MacIntyre

Curry Easy cover

21. Curry Easy

by Madhur Jaffrey

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto cover

22. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

by Michael Pollan

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Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origins, Development and Current State cover

23. Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origins, Development and Current State

by Brian Snowdon

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer cover

24. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Giant Book of Strange but True Sports Stories cover

25. Giant Book of Strange but True Sports Stories

by Howard Liss

Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization cover

26. Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization

by Graham Hancock

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Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness 25th Anniversary Edition cover

27. Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness 25th Anniversary Edition

by Robert K. Greenleaf

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The Fun of Programming (Cornerstones of Computing) cover

28. The Fun of Programming (Cornerstones of Computing)

by Jeremy Gibbons, Oege De Moor

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself cover

29. The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

by Daniel J. Boorstin

Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur cover

30. Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

by Derek Sivers