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Quantum Measurement cover

1. Quantum Measurement

by Vladimir B. Braginsky, Farid Ya Khalili

Rip-Off! The Scandalous Inside Story of the Management Consulting Money Machine cover

2. Rip-Off! The Scandalous Inside Story of the Management Consulting Money Machine

by David Craig

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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes cover

3. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

by Alfie Kohn

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Mastering Bitcoin cover

4. Mastering Bitcoin

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

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The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain cover

5. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain

by John E. Sarno

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Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up cover

6. Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up

by Joel N. Shurkin

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Slow Burn: Burn Fat Faster By Exercising Slower cover

7. Slow Burn: Burn Fat Faster By Exercising Slower

by Stu Mittleman, Katherine Callan

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American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson cover

8. American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson

by Peter Kurth

A Method of Programming cover

9. A Method of Programming

by Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, W. H. J. Feijen

Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research (Analytical Methods for Social Research) cover

10. Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research (Analytical Methods for Social Research)

by Stephen L. Morgan, Christopher Winship

Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models cover

11. Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models

by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill

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Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices) cover

12. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)

by Steve McConnell

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Zero Bugs and Program Faster cover

13. Zero Bugs and Program Faster

by Kate Thompson

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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

14. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup

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The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War cover

15. The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War

by Eileen Welsome

The AWK Programming Language cover

16. The AWK Programming Language

by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger

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Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus (Fourth Edition) cover

17. Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus (Fourth Edition)

by Harry Moritz Schey

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A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations cover

18. A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations

by Daniel Fleisch

Software Project Survival Guide (Developer Best Practices) cover

19. Software Project Survival Guide (Developer Best Practices)

by Steve McConnell

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Debugging the Development Process: Practical Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates, and Building Solid Teams cover

20. Debugging the Development Process: Practical Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates, and Building Solid Teams

by Steve Maguire

The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders cover

21. The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders

by John E. Sarno

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Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection cover

22. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

by John E. Sarno

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Efficient Secure Two-Party Protocols: Techniques and Constructions (Information Security and Cryptography) cover

23. Efficient Secure Two-Party Protocols: Techniques and Constructions (Information Security and Cryptography)

by Carmit Hazay, Yehuda Lindell

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective cover

24. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

by Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman

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What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People cover

25. What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People

by Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins

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Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap -- and What Women Can Do About It cover

26. Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap -- and What Women Can Do About It

by Warren Farrell

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A Prickly Affair: The Charm of the Hedgehog cover

27. A Prickly Affair: The Charm of the Hedgehog

by Hugh Warwick

Hedgehogs (The British Natural History Collection) cover

28. Hedgehogs (The British Natural History Collection)

by Pat Morris

The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence cover

29. The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

by Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson

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Robopocalypse: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) cover

30. Robopocalypse: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Daniel H. Wilson

Are You a Stock or a Bond?: Identify Your Own Human Capital for a Secure Financial Future, Updated and Revised cover

31. Are You a Stock or a Bond?: Identify Your Own Human Capital for a Secure Financial Future, Updated and Revised

by Moshe Arye Milevsky

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Gin: A Global History (Reaktion Books - Edible) cover

32. Gin: A Global History (Reaktion Books - Edible)

by Lesley Jacobs Solmonson

Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World cover

33. Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World

by Daniel Hannan

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Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change cover

34. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change

by Louis V. Gerstner

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Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot (Reprint ed.) cover

35. Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot (Reprint ed.)

by James B. Stockdale

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Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream cover

36. Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream

by Adam W. Shepard

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The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist cover

37. The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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Stumbling on Happiness cover

38. Stumbling on Happiness

by Daniel Todd Gilbert

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Venice (Wonders of Man Series) cover

39. Venice (Wonders of Man Series)

by John H. Davis

Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript cover

40. Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript

by Michael McMillan

Java Concurrency in Practice cover

41. Java Concurrency in Practice

by Brian Goetz

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The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission cover

42. The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission

by Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, Joji Watanuki

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