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Keep It Simple: The Early Design Years of Apple cover

1. Keep It Simple: The Early Design Years of Apple

by Hartmut Esslinger

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Dance Me to the End of Love (Art & Poetry) cover

2. Dance Me to the End of Love (Art & Poetry)

by Leonard Cohen

Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight cover

3. Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight

by John W. Foreman

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Language Processing with Perl and Prolog: Theories, Implementation, and Application (Cognitive Technologies) cover

4. Language Processing with Perl and Prolog: Theories, Implementation, and Application (Cognitive Technologies)

by Pierre M. Nugues

Scala for Machine Learning cover

5. Scala for Machine Learning

by Patrick R. Nicolas

Two years of the U.S. Digital Service cover

6. Two years of the U.S. Digital Service

Introduction to Machine Learning with Python cover

7. Introduction to Machine Learning with Python

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The Diversity Myth : Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus cover

8. The Diversity Myth : Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus

by David O. Sacks, Peter A. Thiel

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities cover

9. The Death and Life of Great American Cities

by Jane Jacobs

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The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton cover

10. The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton

by William Edward Leuchtenburg

Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

11. Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Richard W. Hamming

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The Real Toy Story: Inside the Ruthless Battle for America's Youngest Consumers cover

12. The Real Toy Story: Inside the Ruthless Battle for America's Youngest Consumers

by Eric Clark

I'm Working While They're Sleeping: Time Zone Separation Challenges and Solutions cover

13. I'm Working While They're Sleeping: Time Zone Separation Challenges and Solutions

by Erran Carmel, J. Alberto Espinosa

Natural Language Processing with Python: Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit cover

14. Natural Language Processing with Python: Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit

by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper

Salt: A World History cover

15. Salt: A World History

by Mark Kurlansky

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The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death cover

16. The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death

by Dick Teresi

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Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear cover

17. Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear

by Jan Bondeson

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution cover

18. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

by Francis Fukuyama

Docker in Practice cover

19. Docker in Practice

by Ian Miell, Aidan Hobson Sayers

DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World (The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. ... Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy) cover

20. DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World (The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. ... Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy)

by David Kinkela

My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson cover

21. My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson

by Milton H Erickson

The Structure of Magic, Vol. 1: A Book About Language and Therapy cover

22. The Structure of Magic, Vol. 1: A Book About Language and Therapy

by Richard Bandler, John Grinder

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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi cover

23. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

by William Dalrymple

The Society of Mind cover

24. The Society of Mind

by Marvin Minsky

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Appledesign: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group cover

25. Appledesign: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group

by Paul Kunkel

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow cover

26. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow

by Aurélien Géron

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Learning Perl, 3rd Edition cover

27. Learning Perl, 3rd Edition

by Tom Phoenix, Randal Schwartz

Arrest-Proof Yourself cover

28. Arrest-Proof Yourself

by Dale Carson, Wes Denham

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The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done cover

29. The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done

by Peter F. Drucker

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software cover

30. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

by Eric Evans

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Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World cover

31. Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World

by Daniel Hannan

The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics cover

32. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China cover

33. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

by Evan Osnos

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Kundalini -- An Untold Story: A Himalayan Mystic's Insight into the Power of Kundalini and Chakra Sadhana cover

34. Kundalini -- An Untold Story: A Himalayan Mystic's Insight into the Power of Kundalini and Chakra Sadhana

by Om Swami

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Decolonising the Mind cover

35. Decolonising the Mind

Emotions Revealed, Second Edition cover

36. Emotions Revealed, Second Edition

by Paul Ekman

The Radical King (King Legacy) cover

37. The Radical King (King Legacy)

by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The 48 Laws of Power cover

38. The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

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The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. cover

39. The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

by William F. Pepper

Someone Like You cover

40. Someone Like You

by Roald Dahl

Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History cover

41. Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History

by Hampton Sides

Peak cover

42. Peak

by Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool

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The Year without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work cover

43. The Year without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work

by Scott Berkun

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Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

44. Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Johanna Rothman

Computer: A History of the Information Machine (The Sloan Technology Series) cover

45. Computer: A History of the Information Machine (The Sloan Technology Series)

by Martin Campbell-Kelly, William Aspray, Nathan Ensmenger, Jeffrey R. Yost

How to Lie with Statistics cover

46. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff

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