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The Old Way of Seeing: How Architecture Lost Its Magic - And How to Get It Back cover

1. The Old Way of Seeing: How Architecture Lost Its Magic - And How to Get It Back

by Jonathan Hale

From Bauhaus to Our House cover

2. From Bauhaus to Our House

by Tom Wolfe

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The Timeless Way of Building cover

3. The Timeless Way of Building

by Christopher Alexander

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The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics cover

4. The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics

by Leonard Susskind, George Hrabovsky

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Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum cover

5. Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

by Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman

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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It cover

6. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

by Gary Taubes

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Replay cover

7. Replay

by Ken Grimwood

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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century cover

8. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

by Steven Pinker

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

9. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser

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Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese I - Workbook (English and Japanese Edition) cover

10. Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese I - Workbook (English and Japanese Edition)

by 坂野永理

GENKI I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese [With CDROM] (Japanese Edition) (English and Japanese Edition) cover

11. GENKI I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese [With CDROM] (Japanese Edition) (English and Japanese Edition)

by 坂野永理, 池田庸子, 大野裕

Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

12. Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by John L. Hennessy

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Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) cover

13. Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition)

by Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams

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RESTful Web Services Cookbook cover

14. RESTful Web Services Cookbook

by Subbu Allamaraju, Subrahmanyam Allamaraju

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Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision cover

15. Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision

by Milan Sonka, Vaclav Hlavac, Roger Boyle

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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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer cover

17. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer

by Sydney Padua

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General Relativity for Mathematicians (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

18. General Relativity for Mathematicians (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Rainer Kurt Sachs, Hongxi Wu

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

19. 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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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book) cover

20. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

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A Hatful of Seuss: Five Favorite Dr. Seuss Stories: Horton Hears A Who! / If I Ran the Zoo / Sneetches / Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book / Bartholomew and the Oobleck cover

21. A Hatful of Seuss: Five Favorite Dr. Seuss Stories: Horton Hears A Who! / If I Ran the Zoo / Sneetches / Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book / Bartholomew and the Oobleck

by Mary Pope Osborne

Six by Seuss: A Treasury of Dr. Seuss Classics cover

22. Six by Seuss: A Treasury of Dr. Seuss Classics

by Dr. Seuss

Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP cover

23. Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP

by Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson, Steve Vinoski

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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master cover

24. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

by Andy Hunt, David Thomas, Dave Thomas, David . Thomas

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Feynman Lectures On Computation cover

25. Feynman Lectures On Computation

by Richard Phillips Feynman

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

26. Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job cover

27. Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job

by John Mongan, Eric Giguère, Noah Kindler

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation cover

28. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

by Lynne Truss

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A Practical Introduction to Computer Vision with OpenCV (Wiley-IS&T Series in Imaging Science and Technology) cover

29. A Practical Introduction to Computer Vision with OpenCV (Wiley-IS&T Series in Imaging Science and Technology)

by Kenneth Dawson-Howe

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires cover

30. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu

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The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business cover

31. The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

by Josh Kaufman

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Perdido Street Station cover

32. Perdido Street Station

by China Miéville

The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life cover

33. The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life

by Robert Becker, Gary Selden

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Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail cover

34. Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail

by Dave Arnold

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35. A. P. L.: The Language and Its Usage (Prentice-Hall series in automatic computation)

by Raymond Peter Polivka, Sandra Pakin

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Sur/petition: Creating Value Monopolies When Everyone Else is Merely Competing cover

36. Sur/petition: Creating Value Monopolies When Everyone Else is Merely Competing

by Edward De Bono

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

37. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B Irvine

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Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide (Monographs in Computer Science) cover

38. Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide (Monographs in Computer Science)

by Dick Grune

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Siddhartha cover

39. Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

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Minds, Brains and Machines (Mind Matters) cover

40. Minds, Brains and Machines (Mind Matters)

by Geoffrey Brown

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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) cover

41. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

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The Ghost in the Atom: A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics (Canto) cover

42. The Ghost in the Atom: A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics (Canto)

by P. C. W. Davies, Julian R. Brown

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone cover

43. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone

by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality cover

44. Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality

The Connection Machine (Artificial Intelligence) cover

45. The Connection Machine (Artificial Intelligence)

by W. Daniel Hillis

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Seeing in the Dark : How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe cover

46. Seeing in the Dark : How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe

by Timothy Ferris

Programming in Scala: Updated for Scala 2.12 cover

47. Programming in Scala: Updated for Scala 2.12

by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, Bill Venners

Fruit: Edible, Inedible, Incredible cover

48. Fruit: Edible, Inedible, Incredible

by Wolfgang Stuppy

Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics (Monographs in Computer Science) cover

49. Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics (Monographs in Computer Science)

by Edsger W. Dijkstra, Carel S. Scholten

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Imaginary Cities cover

50. Imaginary Cities

by Darran Anderson

Huygens and Barrow, Newton and Hooke: Pioneers in mathematical analysis and catastrophe theory from evolvents to quasicrystals cover

51. Huygens and Barrow, Newton and Hooke: Pioneers in mathematical analysis and catastrophe theory from evolvents to quasicrystals

by Vladimir I. Arnold

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs cover

52. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

by Johann Hari

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Doing Bayesian Data Analysis, Second Edition: A Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan cover

53. Doing Bayesian Data Analysis, Second Edition: A Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan

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Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World cover

54. Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World

by Peter Chapman

Addiction Is a Choice cover

55. Addiction Is a Choice

by Jeffrey A. Schaler

The Solidarity Struggle: How People of Color Succeed and Fail at Showing Up for Each Other in the Fight for Freedom cover

56. The Solidarity Struggle: How People of Color Succeed and Fail at Showing Up for Each Other in the Fight for Freedom

by Mia McKenzie

Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science cover

57. Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science

by Dani Rodrik

The Puzzle of Modern Economics: Science or Ideology? cover

58. The Puzzle of Modern Economics: Science or Ideology?

by Roger E. Backhouse

Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) cover

59. Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)

by Alexander Rosenberg

The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community cover

60. The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community

by Stephen A. Marglin

The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions cover

61. The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions

by Gurbaksh Chahal

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind cover

62. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

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Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway cover

63. Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway

by Dan Gardner

The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe (Science Masters) cover

64. The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe (Science Masters)

by Paul Davies

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High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic cover

65. High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic

by Howard W. Johnson, Martin Graham

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Getting Started in Electronics cover

66. Getting Started in Electronics

by Forrest M. Mims

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Art Power cover

67. Art Power

by Boris Groĭs

REST API Design Rulebook cover

68. REST API Design Rulebook

by Mark Masse

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Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach (Upper Level Economics Titles) cover

69. Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach (Upper Level Economics Titles)

by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook cover

70. Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook

by Brahm

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The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science cover

71. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science

by Culadasa (John Yates Ph D ), Matthew Immergut, Jeremy Graves

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The Art of Electronics cover

72. The Art of Electronics

by The Wikipedians

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