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1. The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
by Kelly McGonigal
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2. Digital Design: With an Introduction to the Verilog HDL
by M. Morris Mano, Michael D. Ciletti
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3. Code
by Charles Petzold
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4. Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? (Richard Scarry's Busy World)
by Richard Scarry
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5. The Works: Anatomy of a City
by Kate Ascher
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6. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (Ruhlman's Ratios)
by Michael Ruhlman
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7. C Programming: A Modern Approach
by Kim N. King
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8. The Voynich Manuscript: Full Color Photographic Edition
by Yavar Ismayilov
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9. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication (with featured article "The Necessary Art of Persuasion," by Jay A. Conger)
by Harvard Business Review
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10. The Art of Facilitation: The Essentials for Leading Great Meetings and Creating Group Synergy
by Dale Hunter
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11. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
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12. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition
by Patrick M. Lencioni
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13. Closure: The Definitive Guide
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14. Unlimited Power : The New Science Of Personal Achievement
by Tony Robbins
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15. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition
by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
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16. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by Charles Duhigg
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17. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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18. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman
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19. Proofs from THE BOOK
by Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler
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20. The Spark in the Machine: How the Science of Acupuncture Explains the Mysteries of Western Medicine
by Daniel Keown
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21. Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc
by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
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22. Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
by Sheila Bair
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23. Statistics in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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24. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
by Christopher M. Bishop
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25. Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law
by Robert A. Kagan
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26. On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work
by Scott Huler
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27. Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten: A Personal Story of Medical Testing of Army Volunteers
by James S. Ketchum
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28. Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design
by Richard Bird
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29. Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms? when My Lab Tests Are Normal: a Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Hashimoto's Disease and Hypothyroidism
by Datis Kharrazian
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30. The Secret Chief Revealed
by Myron J. Stolaroff
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31. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition
by Jon Erickson
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32. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, 10th Anniversary Edition
by John Taylor Gatto
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33. ARM System Developer's Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
by Andrew Sloss, Dominic Symes, Chris Wright
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34. The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies
by Ryszard Legutko
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35. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)
by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev
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36. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
by Rob Fitzpatrick
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37. DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences
by Rick Strassman MD
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38. The Voynich Manuscript
by Raymond Clemens, Deborah E. Harkness, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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39. And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
by Genrikh Saulovich Alʹtshuller
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40. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
by Jennifer B. Lee
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41. Pgp: Source Code and Internals
by Philip R. Zimmermann
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42. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
by J. Adam Tooze
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43. On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse
by Aristotle
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44. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition
by Lawrence Weschler
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45. Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures
by Tyler Cowen
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46. Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
by David Michaels
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47. Self-Directed Behavior: Self-Modification for Personal Adjustment
by David L. Watson, Roland G. Tharp
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48. Meetings with Remarkable Trees
by Thomas Pakenham
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49. Remarkable Trees of the World
by Thomas Pakenham
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50. Merchants of Deception: An Insider's Chilling Look at the Worldwide, Multi Billion dollar Conspiracy of lies that is Amway and its Motivational Organizations
by Eric Scheibeler
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51. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
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52. The Russia I Believe In: The Memoirs of Samuel N. Harper 1902 to 1941
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53. The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It, Centennial Edition
by Daniel Carter Beard
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54. The Dangerous Book for Boys
by Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden
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55. Mathematical Understanding of Nature: Essays on Amazing Physical Phenomena and Their Understanding by Mathematicians
by V. I. Arnold
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56. Computer Lib/Dream Machines, Revised Edition
by Theodor H. Nelson
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57. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought
by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Fluid Analogies Research Group
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58. In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind
by Bernard J. Baars
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59. Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders
by Warren Buffett
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