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CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems cover

1. CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems

by Lea Verou

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Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition) cover

2. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)

by Josef Müller-Brockmann

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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition cover

3. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

by Steve Krug

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Assholes: A Theory cover

4. Assholes: A Theory

by Aaron James

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Total Frat Move cover

5. Total Frat Move

by W. R. Bolen

The Permanent Portfolio: Harry Browne's Long-Term Investment Strategy cover

6. The Permanent Portfolio: Harry Browne's Long-Term Investment Strategy

by Craig Rowland, J. M. Lawson

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The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence & Japan's Computer Challenge to the World cover

7. The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence & Japan's Computer Challenge to the World

by Edward A. Feigenbaum, Pamela McCorduck

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New Cathedrals: Politics and Media in the History of Stadium Construction (Sports and Entertainment) cover

8. New Cathedrals: Politics and Media in the History of Stadium Construction (Sports and Entertainment)

by Robert C. Trumpbour

Head First HTML and CSS cover

9. Head First HTML and CSS

by Elisabeth Robson, Eric Freeman

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet cover

10. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon

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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal cover

11. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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Building Microservices cover

12. Building Microservices

by Sam Newman

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C Programming in 12 Easy Lessons cover

13. C Programming in 12 Easy Lessons

by Greg M. Perry

Web Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery Set cover

14. Web Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery Set

by Jon Duckett

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Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World cover

15. Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World

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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State cover

16. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

by Glenn Greenwald

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Dropping Acid: The Reflux Diet Cookbook & Cure cover

17. Dropping Acid: The Reflux Diet Cookbook & Cure

by Jamie A. Koufman, Jordan Stern, Mark Michel Bauer

3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated cover

18. 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated

by Donald E. Knuth

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Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Lecture Notes) cover

19. Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Lecture Notes)

by Donald Ervin Knuth

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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape cover

20. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

by James Howard Kunstler

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From Bauhaus to Our House cover

21. From Bauhaus to Our House

by Tom Wolfe

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The Inventions of Daedalus; A Compendium of Plausible Schemes cover

22. The Inventions of Daedalus; A Compendium of Plausible Schemes

by David E. H. Jones

The Further Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes cover

23. The Further Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes

by David E. H. Jones

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 cover

24. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003

by William Blum

Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way cover

25. Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way

by Lars Mytting

Snow Crash cover

26. Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

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Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism cover

27. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism

by Sheldon S. Wolin

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National Security and Double Government cover

28. National Security and Double Government

by Michael J. Glennon

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