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1. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
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2. Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Term Sheets & Valuations (Bigwig Briefs)
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3. Nexus: Nexus Arc Book 1
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4. Safe Is Not an Option
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5. Incandescence
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6. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
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7. Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation, 2nd Edition
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8. An Introduction to Database Systems (8th Edition)
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9. Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
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10. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition)
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11. Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU
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12. Book of Proof
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13. Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
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14. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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15. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
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16. Zoned Out: Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land Use
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17. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
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18. Digital Fundamentals (10th Edition)
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19. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
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20. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
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21. The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition
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22. A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation
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23. By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember
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24. Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
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25. The Mac is Not a Typewriter, 2nd Edition
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26. The Pc is not a typewriter
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27. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
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28. Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols (2nd Edition)
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29. The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)
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30. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques for Building Intelligent Systems
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31. Scala for Machine Learning
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32. Why Aren't More Women in Science?: Top Researchers Debate the Evidence
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33. Physically Based Rendering, Third Edition: From Theory to Implementation
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34. Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price
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35. The Vertical World of Yosemite: A Collection of Writings and Photographs on Rock Climbing in Yosemite
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36. The Art of Profitability
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37. The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million
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38. 3D Game Engine Architecture: Engineering Real-Time Applications with Wild Magic (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3d Technology)
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39. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
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40. Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
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41. The Mathematical Experience
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42. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
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43. The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
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44. Discrete Mathematics with Applications
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45. Bayes' Rule: A Tutorial Introduction to Bayesian Analysis
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46. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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47. Comedy Writing for Late-Night TV: How to Write Monologue Jokes, Desk Pieces, Sketches, Parodies, Audience Pieces, Remotes, and Other Short-Form Comedy
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48. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
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49. When Google Met WikiLeaks
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50. Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation
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51. Elixir in Action
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52. Short Calculus: The Original Edition of “A First Course in Calculus” (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
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53. The Art of Electronics
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54. The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
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55. RESTful Web Clients
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56. Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation--and Positive Strategies for Change
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57. Sparse Distributed Memory (MIT Press)
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58. Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps -- And What We Can Do About It
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59. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
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60. Make: Analog Synthesizers
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61. Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion
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62. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
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63. Mayo Clinic Family Health Book
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64. The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
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65. Build APIs You Won't Hate: Everyone and their dog wants an API, so you should probably learn how to build them
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66. Infinite Distraction (Theory Redux)
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67. The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
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68. The Oxygen Revolution: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: The Groundbreaking New Treatment for Stroke, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Arthritis, Autism, Learning Disabilities and More
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69. Learning from Data
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70. Ogilvy on Advertising
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71. Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)
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72. Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them
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73. The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
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74. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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75. The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain
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76. Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming
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77. Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way
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78. The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide
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79. The Healthy Programmer: Get Fit, Feel Better, and Keep Coding (Pragmatic Programmers)
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80. Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus-Advanced 3D Graphics and Rasterization (Other Sams)
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81. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
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82. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
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83. Organic Chemistry, 9th Edition
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84. Advanced Organic Chemistry, Part A: Structure and Mechanisms
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85. Algorithms in C, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching (3rd Edition) (Pts. 1-4)
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86. Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (Tempus)
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87. Flights of Fantasy: Programming 3d Video Games in C++/Book and Disk
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88. Programming Collective Intelligence
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89. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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90. Apollo: The Race to the Moon
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91. The Killing Zone, Second Edition: How & Why Pilots Die
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92. Calculus Made Easy
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93. Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook, Revised Edition
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94. Large-Scale C++ Software Design
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95. SQL Design Patterns: Expert Guide to SQL Programming (IT In-Focus series) (Volume 4)
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96. Applied Microsoft® .NET Framework Programming (Developer Reference)
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97. The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition)
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98. TensorFlow For Machine Intelligence: A hands-on introduction to learning algorithms
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99. Algebraic Geometry (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
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100. The Powerhouse: America, China, and the Great Battery War
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