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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

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

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

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

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

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

by Yanis Varoufakis

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

8. 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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How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System cover

9. How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System

by Wolfgang Streeck

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

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

by Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland

What is Quantum Mechanics? A Physics Adventure - Second Edition cover

11. What is Quantum Mechanics? A Physics Adventure - Second Edition

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Free to Choose: A Personal Statement cover

12. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman

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The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation cover

13. The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation

by Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston

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

14. 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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Commodore: A Company on the Edge cover

15. Commodore: A Company on the Edge

by Brian Bagnall

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Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup cover

16. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

by Rob Walling

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What They Teach You at Harvard Business School: My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism cover

17. What They Teach You at Harvard Business School: My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism

by Philip Delves Broughton

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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws cover

18. The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws

by Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto

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

19. 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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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The Day After World War III cover

21. The Day After World War III

by Edward Zuckerman

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

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

by Scott Rosenberg

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

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

by Terence Parr

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The Effective Manager cover

24. The Effective Manager

by Mark Horstman

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

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

by Steve House, Scott Johnston

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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

26. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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June, 2004 cover

27. June, 2004

by Laurence W. Britt

Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy cover

28. Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

by Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian

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

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

by David Flanagan

Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation cover

30. Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation

by R. G. Loeliger

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Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises cover

31. Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

by Timothy F. Geithner

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

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

by Gabriel Wyner

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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) cover

33. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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

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

by Joshua Foer

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

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

by David Allen

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

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

by Jeffrey K. Liker

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The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog cover

37. The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog

by Ed Krol, Michael Kosta Loukides

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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information cover

38. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

by Edward R. Tufte

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Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses cover

39. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses

by Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa

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

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

by John Ralston Saul

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

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

by Robert L.. Ashenhurst

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The Non-Designer's Design Book (4th Edition) cover

42. The Non-Designer's Design Book (4th Edition)

by Robin Williams

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The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition) cover

43. The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition)

by Robin Williams

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer cover

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

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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The Way of Zen cover

45. The Way of Zen

by Alan Watts

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The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series) cover

46. The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Robert C. Martin

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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

47. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Robert C. Martin

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Test Driven Development: By Example cover

48. Test Driven Development: By Example

by Kent Beck

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

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

by Bernard J. Baars

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New Product Development: Design and Analysis cover

50. New Product Development: Design and Analysis

by Ronald Eugene Kmetovicz

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

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

by Jean-Paul Sartre

Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories cover

52. 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 cover

53. Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Emil Frankl

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Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery) cover

54. Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery)

by Charles Platt

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Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition cover

55. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition

by Paul Scherz, Simon Monk

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The Art of Electronics cover

56. The Art of Electronics

by The Wikipedians

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

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

by Thomas C. Hayes, Paul Horowitz

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

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

by Charles Platt

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