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The Forever War cover

1. The Forever War

by Dexter Filkins

TCP/IP Sockets in C: Practical Guide for Programmers (Morgan Kaufmann Practical Guides) cover

2. TCP/IP Sockets in C: Practical Guide for Programmers (Morgan Kaufmann Practical Guides)

by Michael J. Donahoo, Kenneth L. Calvert

The Hills of Chianti: The Story of a Tuscan Winemaking Family, in Seven Bottles cover

3. The Hills of Chianti: The Story of a Tuscan Winemaking Family, in Seven Bottles

by Piero Antinori

All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School cover

4. All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School

by Thomas A. Garrity

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Build Your Own Transistor Radios: A Hobbyist's Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits cover

5. Build Your Own Transistor Radios: A Hobbyist's Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits

by Ronald Quan

Vedanta Treatise - The Eternities cover

6. Vedanta Treatise - The Eternities

by Avula Parthasarathy

Graphics and Visualization: Principles & Algorithms cover

7. Graphics and Visualization: Principles & Algorithms

by T. Theoharis, Georgios Papaioannou, Nikolaos Platis, Nicholas M. Patrikalakis

Digital Design and Computer Architecture cover

8. Digital Design and Computer Architecture

by David Money Harris, Sarah L. Harris

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Purely Functional Data Structures (Volume 0) cover

9. Purely Functional Data Structures (Volume 0)

by Chris Okasaki

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Modern Operating Systems cover

10. Modern Operating Systems

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos

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Electronic Principles with Simulation CD cover

11. Electronic Principles with Simulation CD

by Albert Paul Malvino, David J. Bates

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built cover

12. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

by Stewart Brand

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A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice (Oxford Studies in Music Theory) cover

13. A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice (Oxford Studies in Music Theory)

by Dmitri Tymoczko

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Electronic Components: A Complete Reference for Project Builders cover

14. Electronic Components: A Complete Reference for Project Builders

by Delton T. Horn

The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation cover

15. The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation

by Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson

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SPIN Selling cover

16. SPIN Selling

by Neil Rackham

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Practical Electronics for Inventors cover

17. Practical Electronics for Inventors

by Paul Scherz, Simon Monk

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

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

by Thomas C. Hayes, Paul Horowitz

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

19. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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

by Rob Walling

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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

21. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel

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PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance cover

22. PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance

by Gregory Smith

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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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C++ Today cover

24. C++ Today

The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life cover

25. The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

by Timothy Ferriss

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Code cover

26. Code

by Charles Petzold

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Learning OpenCV 3 cover

27. Learning OpenCV 3

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger cover

28. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson

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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age cover

29. The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

by James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg, Lord William Rees-Mogg

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century cover

30. Capital in the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas Piketty

A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II cover

31. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II

by Gerhard L. Weinberg

Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments cover

32. Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments

by Dr John C Lilly

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging cover

33. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

by Sebastian Junger

Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest cover

34. Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest

by Gerard Degroot

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier cover

35. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Glaeser

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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention cover

36. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy cover

37. The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

by Stanisław Lem

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Flying Saucers : A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies cover

38. Flying Saucers : A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies

by C. G. Jung

Doodles, Dances & Ditties: A Trauma-informed Somatosensory Handbook cover

39. Doodles, Dances & Ditties: A Trauma-informed Somatosensory Handbook

by Mollie Hiebert, Jennifer Platt, Kendra Schpok, Jessica Whitesel

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 cover

40. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

by Christopher Clark

Compiler Construction (International Computer Science Series) cover

41. Compiler Construction (International Computer Science Series)

by Niklaus Wirth

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma cover

42. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel A. Van der Kolk

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The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn t What It Used to Be cover

43. The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn t What It Used to Be

by Moisés Naím