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1. Code
by Charles Petzold
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2. All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School
by Thomas A. Garrity
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3. Introduction to Hilbert Space and the Theory of Spectral Multiplicity
by Paul R. Halmos
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4. Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces
by Paul Richard Halmos
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5. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner
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6. Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More (Culture of Enterprise)
by John Medaille
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7. Napoleon (Signet Classics)
by Felix Markham
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8. The Sirens of Titan: A Novel
by Kurt Vonnegut
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9. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by Jonathan Haidt
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10. Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
by Richard C. Carrier
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11. How Google Works
by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
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12. Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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13. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
by Greg McKeown
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14. Principles of Biostatistics (with CD-ROM)
by Kimberlee Gauvreau
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15. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
by Roger Lowenstein
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16. Following the Trend: Diversified Managed Futures Trading (Wiley Trading)
by Andreas F. Clenow
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17. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
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18. The Ghosts Of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms
by Connie Barlow
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19. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
by Harvey Silverglate
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20. Python for Data Analysis, 2nd Edition
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21. The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
by James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg, Lord William Rees-Mogg
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22. The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
by Diane Ravitch
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23. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering (Studies in Nonlinearity)
by Steven H. Strogatz, Steven Strogatz, Steven H. Strogatz
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24. Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving
by V. Anton Spraul
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25. The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
by Steven Henry Strogatz
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26. The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Oxford Landmark Science)
by Penguin Penguin India
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27. The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World
by Amit Goswami
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28. Functional Programming Application and Implementation
by R. D. Tennent
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29. Lisp
by Patrick Henry Winston, Berthold Horn
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30. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
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31. Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem
by Jonathan Shear
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32. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
by Edward Glaeser
Read 20 comments
33. The Audio Programming Book
by Richard Boulanger, Victor Lazzarini
Read 1 comment
34. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)
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35. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
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36. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence)
by Stuart Jonathan Russell, Peter Norvig, Ernest Davis
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37. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed.
by Edward R. Tufte
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38. An Introduction to Robot Programming: Programming Sumo Robots with the MRK-1
by Eric Ryan Harrison
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39. Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
by Nick Bilton
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40. The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition
by Bjarne Stroustrup
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41. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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42. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
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43. Walking the High-Tech High Wire: The Technical Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Successful Enterprise
by David Adamson
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44. The Art of War
by Sunzi
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45. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964
by William Manchester
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46. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)
by Steve McConnell
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47. The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
by Joanne L. Goodwin
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48. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
by Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels
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49. The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy
by Zachary Roth
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50. Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy
by David Daley
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51. How To DJ Properly
by Frank Broughton, Bill Brewster
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52. The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi
by Aram Roston
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53. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
by Tom DeMarco
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54. English Grammar for Students of German: The Study Guide for Those Learning German
by Cecile Zorach
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55. English Grammar for Students of Spanish
by Emily Spinelli
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56. A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka
by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, Susan Urbanek Linville
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57. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
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58. How the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society
by C. John Sommerville
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59. War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare
by Robert Taber
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60. Light on Yoga: The Classic Guide to Yoga by the World's Foremost Author
by B. K. S. Iyengar
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