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Flight: My Life in Mission Control cover

1. Flight: My Life in Mission Control

by Christopher C. Kraft

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Cooking for Geeks, 2nd Edition cover

2. Cooking for Geeks, 2nd Edition

Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies) cover

3. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)

by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost

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Atari Inc.: Business is Fun cover

4. Atari Inc.: Business is Fun

by Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel

Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond cover

5. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

by Gene Kranz

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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys cover

6. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys

by Michael Collins

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Apollo 13 cover

7. Apollo 13

by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger

The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space cover

8. The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space

by Eugene Cernan, Donald A. Davis

Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space cover

9. Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space

by John W. Young, James R. Hansen

We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves cover

10. We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves

by Scott M. Carpenter, Gordon L. Cooper, John H. Glenn, Virgil I. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Alan B. Shepard, Donald K. Slayton

Calculus (MindTap Course List) cover

11. Calculus (MindTap Course List)

by James Stewart

Prey cover

12. Prey

by Michael Crichton

Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment cover

13. Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment

by Dorothea Lange

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing cover

14. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

by Burton G Malkiel

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Why Don't We Learn from History? cover

15. Why Don't We Learn from History?

by B. H. Liddell Hart, Giles Laurén

Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life cover

16. Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

by Nick Lane

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life cover

17. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

by Mark Manson

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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution cover

18. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

by L. Hunter Lovins, Amory Lovins, Paul Hawken

How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease cover

19. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

by Michael Greger, Gene Stone

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Exploring Expect cover

20. Exploring Expect

by Don Libes

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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

21. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey

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80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower cover

22. 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower

by Matt Fitzgerald

Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians (Graduate Studies in Mathematics Volume 95) cover

23. Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians (Graduate Studies in Mathematics Volume 95)

by Leon Armenovich Takhtadzhi͡an

Quantum Theory for Mathematicians (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 267) cover

24. Quantum Theory for Mathematicians (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 267)

by Brian C. Hall

Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model cover

25. Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model

by Matthew D. Schwartz

Inside Interesting Integrals: A Collection of Sneaky Tricks, Sly Substitutions, and Numerous Other Stupendously Clever, Awesomely Wicked, and ... (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics) cover

26. Inside Interesting Integrals: A Collection of Sneaky Tricks, Sly Substitutions, and Numerous Other Stupendously Clever, Awesomely Wicked, and ... (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)

by Paul J. Nahin

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas cover

27. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

by Seymour A. Papert

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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

28. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner

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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

29. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock

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Regular Algebra and Finite Machines (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

30. Regular Algebra and Finite Machines (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by John Horton Conway

Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour cover

31. Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour

by Susan Perrow

J. S. Bach, Volume One (Dover Books On Music: Composers) cover

32. J. S. Bach, Volume One (Dover Books On Music: Composers)

by Albert Schweitzer, Ernest Newman

Windows Internals: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more, Part 1 (Developer Reference) cover

33. Windows Internals: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more, Part 1 (Developer Reference)

by Pavel Yosifovich, Mark E. Russinovich, Alex Ionescu, David A. Solomon

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High Output Management cover

34. High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove

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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation cover

35. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner

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Seinlanguage cover

36. Seinlanguage

by Jerry Seinfeld

AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis cover

37. AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis

by William J. Brown

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Pupniks: The Story of Two Space Dogs cover

38. Pupniks: The Story of Two Space Dogs

by S. Ruth Lubka

Habitable Planets for Man cover

39. Habitable Planets for Man

by Stephen H. Dole

Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition cover

40. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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Discrete Mathematics with Applications cover

41. Discrete Mathematics with Applications

by Susanna S. Epp

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Algorithms Unlocked (Mit Press) cover

42. Algorithms Unlocked (Mit Press)

by Thomas H. Cormen

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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series) cover

43. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)

by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck

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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

44. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

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Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time cover

45. Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

by Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz

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Logic Design and Verification Using SystemVerilog (Revised) cover

46. Logic Design and Verification Using SystemVerilog (Revised)

by Donald Thomas

How the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society cover

47. How the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society

by C. John Sommerville

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JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts cover

48. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier

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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy cover

49. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

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