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How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else cover

1. How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

by Michael Gates Gill

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Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not Bust - And How You Can Profit from It: How to Build Wealth in Today's Expanding Real Estate Market cover

2. Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not Bust - And How You Can Profit from It: How to Build Wealth in Today's Expanding Real Estate Market

by David Lereah

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The C Programming Language cover

3. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values cover

5. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig

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Exterior Analysis: Using Applications of Differential Forms cover

6. Exterior Analysis: Using Applications of Differential Forms

by Erdoğan S. Șuhubi

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Studies in Nonlinearity) cover

7. Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Studies in Nonlinearity)

by Steven H. Strogatz

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Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition cover

8. Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition

by Jason Gregory

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Dynamical Systems and Fractals: Computer Graphics Experiments with Pascal cover

9. Dynamical Systems and Fractals: Computer Graphics Experiments with Pascal

by Karl-Heinz Becker, Michael Dörfler

Fractals: Images of Chaos (Penguin Press Science) cover

10. Fractals: Images of Chaos (Penguin Press Science)

by Hans Lauwerier, Hendrik Adolf Lauwerier

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Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming cover

11. Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming

by Jason R. Briggs

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Keys to Great Writing cover

12. Keys to Great Writing

by Stephen Wilbers

The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction cover

13. The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction

by Matthew B. Crawford

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion cover

14. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt

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Legionnaire: An Englishman in the French Foreign Legion cover

15. Legionnaire: An Englishman in the French Foreign Legion

by Simon Murray

Logic and Design, Revised: In Art, Science, And Mathematics cover

16. Logic and Design, Revised: In Art, Science, And Mathematics

by Krome Barratt

Your Inner Will: Finding Personal Strength in Critical Times cover

17. Your Inner Will: Finding Personal Strength in Critical Times

by Piero Ferrucci

The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates cover

18. The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

by Frans De Waal

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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

19. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B Irvine

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

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

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Patience with God: The Story of Zacchaeus Continuing In Us cover

21. Patience with God: The Story of Zacchaeus Continuing In Us

by Tomas Halik

The Motivation Hacker cover

22. The Motivation Hacker

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Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior cover

23. Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior

by Chogyam Trungpa, Carolyn Rose Gimian

Clojure Programming cover

24. Clojure Programming

by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, Christophe Grand

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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? cover

25. The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

by Jared Diamond

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Lincoln for President: An Underdog's Path to the 1860 Republican Nomination cover

26. Lincoln for President: An Underdog's Path to the 1860 Republican Nomination

by Timothy S. Good

Time Management for System Administrators cover

27. Time Management for System Administrators

by Tom Limoncelli

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On Intelligence cover

28. On Intelligence

by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee

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

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

by Sheldon S. Wolin

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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media cover

30. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky

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The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding : The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revised cover

31. The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding : The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revised

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

32. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty cover

33. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

by David Kadavy

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Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead cover

34. Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

by Laszlo Bock

Expert C# Business Objects (Books for Professionals by Professionals) cover

35. Expert C# Business Objects (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

by Rockford Lhotka

Expert C# 2008 Business Objects (Expert's Voice in .NET) cover

36. Expert C# 2008 Business Objects (Expert's Voice in .NET)

by Rockford Lhotka

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

37. 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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