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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking cover

1. Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

by Douglas Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander

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Python Crash Course: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming cover

2. Python Crash Course: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming

by Eric Matthes

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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier cover

3. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Ludwig Glaeser

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Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991 cover

4. Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991

by Richard Edward DeLeon

Hibernate Search by Example cover

5. Hibernate Search by Example

by Steve Perkins

Tragic Design cover

6. Tragic Design

by Jonathan Shariat, Cynthia Savard Saucier

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How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business cover

7. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

by Douglas W. Hubbard

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How to Find Fulfilling Work (The School of Life) cover

8. How to Find Fulfilling Work (The School of Life)

by Roman Krznaric

Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era cover

9. Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era

by Stephen Kotkin

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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

10. Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Andrew Hunt

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Zero Bugs and Program Faster cover

11. Zero Bugs and Program Faster

by Kate Thompson

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Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West cover

12. Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West

by Walid Phares

Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization cover

13. Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

by Nicholson Baker

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A Modern Introduction to Linear Algebra cover

14. A Modern Introduction to Linear Algebra

Linear Algebra 4th Edition cover

15. Linear Algebra 4th Edition

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Averting 'The Final Failure': John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) cover

16. Averting 'The Final Failure': John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)

by Sheldon M. Stern

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The City & The City (Random House Reader's Circle) cover

17. The City & The City (Random House Reader's Circle)

by China Miéville

Introduction to Linear Algebra, Third Edition cover

18. Introduction to Linear Algebra, Third Edition

by Gilbert Strang

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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide cover

19. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide

by Gary J. Bass

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Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life cover

20. Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life

by Martin A. Nowak

Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics) cover

21. Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics)

by Peter Ferdinand Drucker

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Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form cover

22. Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form

by Madison Smartt Bell

Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (Studies in Philosophy) cover

23. Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (Studies in Philosophy)

by Nick Bostrom

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us cover

24. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

by Seth Godin

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Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals cover

25. Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals

by Saul Alinsky

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Linear Algebra with Applications, 4th Edition cover

26. Linear Algebra with Applications, 4th Edition

by Otto Bretscher

Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design cover

27. Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design

by Richard Bird

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future cover

28. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

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Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap cover

29. Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap

by Teach For America, Steven Farr

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The Art of Unit Testing: with examples in C# cover

30. The Art of Unit Testing: with examples in C#

by Roy Osherove

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C# in Depth, 3rd Edition cover

31. C# in Depth, 3rd Edition

by Jon Skeet

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Purely Functional Data Structures cover

32. Purely Functional Data Structures

by Chris Okasaki

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The Undercover Economist, Revised and Updated Edition: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor - and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! cover

33. The Undercover Economist, Revised and Updated Edition: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor - and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!

by Tim Harford

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Examples & Explanations: Contracts, Sixth Edition cover

34. Examples & Explanations: Contracts, Sixth Edition

by Brian A. Blum

100 Suns cover

35. 100 Suns

by Michael Light

Linear Algebra Through Geometry (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

36. Linear Algebra Through Geometry (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Thomas Banchoff, John Wermer

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Advanced Linear Algebra (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Vol. 135) cover

37. Advanced Linear Algebra (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Vol. 135)

by Steven Roman

Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science cover

38. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science

by Philip N. Klein

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Linear Algebra: Gateway to Mathematics cover

39. Linear Algebra: Gateway to Mathematics

by Robert Messer

Linear Algebra: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

40. Linear Algebra: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Robert J. Valenza

Becoming a Supple Leopard 2nd Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance cover

41. Becoming a Supple Leopard 2nd Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance

by Kelly Starrett, Glen Cordoza

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Biology cover

42. Biology

by Peter H. Raven, George B. Johnson, Susan R. Singer, Jonathan B. Losos

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Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems cover

43. Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It cover

44. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

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Beautiful Architecture cover

45. Beautiful Architecture

by Diomidis Spinellis, Georgios Gousios

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Beautiful Code cover

46. Beautiful Code

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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