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Anarchy, State, and Utopia cover

1. Anarchy, State, and Utopia

by Robert Nozick

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68000 Family Assembly Language Programming cover

2. 68000 Family Assembly Language Programming

by Alan Clements

6502 Assembly Language Programming cover

3. 6502 Assembly Language Programming

by Lance A. Leventhal

Lisp in Small Pieces cover

4. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec

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Churchill & Secret Service cover

5. Churchill & Secret Service

by David Stafford

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Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of Natural Abundance cover

6. Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of Natural Abundance

by Donald Worster

What the Luck?: The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives cover

7. What the Luck?: The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives

by Gary Smith

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future cover

8. Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

by Joi Ito, Jeff Howe

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) cover

9. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Robert J. Gordon

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The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy (Economic Controversies) cover

10. The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy (Economic Controversies)

by Yanis Varoufakis

The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future cover

11. The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation cover

12. The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation

by Achaan Chah

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Free to Choose: A Personal Statement cover

13. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman

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What Is Quantum Mechanics?: A Physics Adventure cover

14. What Is Quantum Mechanics?: A Physics Adventure

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel cover

15. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel

by Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland

Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies) cover

16. Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies)

by Robert R. Locke, J.-C. Spender

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Growing Up with Lucy: How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps cover

17. Growing Up with Lucy: How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps

by Peter M. Kellett

Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1) cover

18. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1)

by Rob Walling

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Commodore: A Company on the Edge cover

19. Commodore: A Company on the Edge

by Brian Bagnall

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Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

20. Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Kevin P. Murphy

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

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

by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon

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Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West cover

22. Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

by John Ralston Saul

The Day After World War III cover

23. The Day After World War III

by Edward Zuckerman

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The Effective Manager cover

24. The Effective Manager

by Mark Horstman

JavaScript Pocket Reference: Activate Your Web Pages (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) cover

25. JavaScript Pocket Reference: Activate Your Web Pages (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))

by David Flanagan

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) cover

26. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

27. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software cover

28. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

by Scott Rosenberg

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Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation cover

29. Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation

by R. G. Loeliger

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Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete cover

30. Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete

by Steve House, Scott Johnston

Language Implementation Patterns: Create Your Own Domain-Specific and General Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

31. Language Implementation Patterns: Create Your Own Domain-Specific and General Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Terence Parr

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June, 2004 cover

32. June, 2004

by Laurence W. Britt

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises cover

33. Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

by Timothy F. Geithner

Bourinot's Rules of Order: A Manual on the Practices and Usages of the House of Commons of Canada and on the Procedure at Public Assemblies, Including Meetings of Shareholders cover

34. Bourinot's Rules of Order: A Manual on the Practices and Usages of the House of Commons of Canada and on the Procedure at Public Assemblies, Including Meetings of Shareholders

by Geoffrey Stanford

How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

35. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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The Way of Zen cover

36. The Way of Zen

by Alan Watts

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The Economics of Software Quality cover

37. The Economics of Software Quality

by Capers Jones, Olivier Bonsignour

Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition cover

38. Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer cover

39. The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer

by Jeffrey K. Liker

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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything cover

40. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

by Joshua Foer

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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It cover

41. Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It

by Gabriel Wyner

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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity cover

42. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen

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New Product Development: Design and Analysis cover

43. New Product Development: Design and Analysis

by Ronald Eugene Kmetovicz

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed. cover

44. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed.

by Edward R. Tufte

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer cover

45. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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ACM Turing Award Lectures: The First Twenty Years 1966-1985 cover

46. ACM Turing Award Lectures: The First Twenty Years 1966-1985

by Robert L.. Ashenhurst

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Non-Designer's Design Book, The cover

47. Non-Designer's Design Book, The

by Robin Williams

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Test Driven Development: By Example (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck)) cover

48. Test Driven Development: By Example (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck))

by Kent Beck

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The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers cover

49. The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

by Robert C. Martin

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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

50. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock

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In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind cover

51. In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind

by Bernard J. Baars

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Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate cover

52. Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate

by Jean-Paul Sartre

Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories cover

53. Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories

by Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles van Marrewijk

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Man's Search for Meaning (OLD EDITION/OUT OF PRINT) cover

54. Man's Search for Meaning (OLD EDITION/OUT OF PRINT)

by Viktor Emil Frankl

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Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course cover

55. Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course

by Thomas C. Hayes, Paul Horowitz

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The SPIN Selling Fieldbook: Practical Tools, Methods, Exercises, and Resources cover

56. The SPIN Selling Fieldbook: Practical Tools, Methods, Exercises, and Resources

by Neil Rackham

Make: More Electronics: Journey Deep Into the World of Logic Chips, Amplifiers, Sensors, and Randomicity cover

57. Make: More Electronics: Journey Deep Into the World of Logic Chips, Amplifiers, Sensors, and Randomicity

by Charles Platt

Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition cover

58. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition

by Paul Scherz, Simon Monk

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Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery) cover

59. Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery)

by Charles Platt

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The Art of Electronics cover

60. The Art of Electronics

by Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill

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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth cover

61. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares

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