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1. Flight: My Life in Mission Control
by Christopher C. Kraft
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2. Cooking for Geeks, 2nd Edition
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3. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)
by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost
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4. Atari Inc.: Business is Fun
by Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel
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5. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
by Gene Kranz
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6. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys
by Michael Collins
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7. Apollo 13
by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
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8. The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space
by Eugene Cernan, Donald A. Davis
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9. Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
by John W. Young, James R. Hansen
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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
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11. Calculus (MindTap Course List)
by James Stewart
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12. Prey
by Michael Crichton
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13. Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
by Dorothea Lange
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14. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
by Burton G Malkiel
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15. Why Don't We Learn from History?
by B. H. Liddell Hart, Giles Laurén
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16. Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
by Nick Lane
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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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18. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by L. Hunter Lovins, Amory Lovins, Paul Hawken
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19. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
by Michael Greger, Gene Stone
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20. Exploring Expect
by Don Libes
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21. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by John J. Ratey
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22. 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower
by Matt Fitzgerald
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23. Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians (Graduate Studies in Mathematics Volume 95)
by Leon Armenovich Takhtadzhi͡an
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24. Quantum Theory for Mathematicians (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 267)
by Brian C. Hall
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25. Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model
by Matthew D. Schwartz
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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
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27. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
by Seymour A. Papert
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28. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
by David Kushner
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29. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock
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30. Regular Algebra and Finite Machines (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by John Horton Conway
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31. Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour
by Susan Perrow
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32. J. S. Bach, Volume One (Dover Books On Music: Composers)
by Albert Schweitzer, Ernest Newman
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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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34. High Output Management
by Andrew S. Grove
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35. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner
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36. Seinlanguage
by Jerry Seinfeld
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37. AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis
by William J. Brown
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38. Pupniks: The Story of Two Space Dogs
by S. Ruth Lubka
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39. Habitable Planets for Man
by Stephen H. Dole
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40. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition
by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
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41. Discrete Mathematics with Applications
by Susanna S. Epp
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42. Algorithms Unlocked (Mit Press)
by Thomas H. Cormen
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43. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck
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44. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
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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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46. Logic Design and Verification Using SystemVerilog (Revised)
by Donald Thomas
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47. How the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society
by C. John Sommerville
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48. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts
by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier
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49. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
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