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Atari Inc.: Business is Fun cover

1. Atari Inc.: Business is Fun

by Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel

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

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

by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost

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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys cover

3. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys

by Michael Collins

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Apollo 13 cover

4. Apollo 13

by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger

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

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

by John W. Young, James R. Hansen

We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves cover

6. 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

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

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

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

by Gene Kranz

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Cooking for Geeks cover

9. Cooking for Geeks

by Jeff Potter

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Flight: My Life in Mission Control cover

10. Flight: My Life in Mission Control

by Christopher C. Kraft

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Calculus cover

11. Calculus

by Michael Spivak

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

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

by Dorothea Lange

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

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

by Mark Manson

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

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

by Nick Lane

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Exploring Expect cover

15. Exploring Expect

by Don Libes

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

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

by John J. Ratey

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Prey cover

17. Prey

by Michael Crichton

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Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja cover

18. Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja

by John Resig, Bear Bibeault

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Quantum Theory for Mathematicians (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

19. Quantum Theory for Mathematicians (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Brian C. Hall

Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model cover

20. Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model

by Matthew D. Schwartz

Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians (Graduate Studies in Mathematics) cover

21. Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians (Graduate Studies in Mathematics)

by Leon Armenovich Takhtadzhi͡an

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas cover

22. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

by Seymour A. Papert

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

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

by John Horton Conway

J. S. Bach (Vol 1) cover

24. J. S. Bach (Vol 1)

by Albert Schweitzer, Ernest Newman

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

25. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Robert C. Martin

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Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition cover

26. Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage cover

27. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing

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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street cover

28. Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

by William Poundstone

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

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

by David Kushner

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

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

by Jon Gertner

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Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation cover

31. Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation

by William A. Fischel

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Seinlanguage cover

32. Seinlanguage

by Jerry Seinfeld

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

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

by William J. Brown

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Habitable Planets for Man cover

34. Habitable Planets for Man

by Stephen H. Dole

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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code cover

35. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck

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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

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

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

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Discrete Mathematics with Applications cover

37. Discrete Mathematics with Applications

by Susanna S. Epp

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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) cover

38. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press)

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

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Algorithms Unlocked (MIT Press) cover

39. Algorithms Unlocked (MIT Press)

by Thomas H. Cormen

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

40. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford

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

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

by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

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