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101. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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102. The Sale of a Lifetime: How the Great Bubble Burst of 2017-2019 Can Make You Rich
by Harry S. Dent, Jr.
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103. The Underachiever's Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great
by Ray Bennett
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104. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
by Martin Kleppmann
Read 35 comments
105. High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication
by Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko
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106. MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers
by Charles Bell, Mats Kindahl, Lars Thalmann
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107. PostgreSQL 9 High Availability Cookbook
by Shaun
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108. Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Rules for C and C++ Programming (Unix/C)
by Allen I. Holub
Read 1 comment
109. Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition)
by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull
Read 11 comments
110. Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap (Complete 7 Book Series)
by David J. Gingery
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111. Getting Started in Electronics
by Forrest M. Mims
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112. Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
by Dan Millman
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113. Andrew Carnegie
by David Nasaw
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114. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
by Charles R. Morris
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115. Learning TensorFlow
by Tom Hope, Yehezkel S. Resheff, Itay Lieder
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116. Deep Learning: A Practitioner's Approach
by Adam Gibson, Josh Patterson
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117. Gestatten: Elite
by Julia Friedrichs
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118. Who Owns the Sky?: Our Common Assets And The Future Of Capitalism
by Peter Barnes
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119. Konz
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120. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
by Jesse Eisinger
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121. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
by Tim Wu
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122. The Road to Hell
by Michael Maren
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123. The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
by Angus Deaton
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124. The Science of Interstellar
by Kip Thorne
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125. Algorithms (4th Edition)
by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
Read 7 comments
126. On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
by William Zinsser
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127. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
by Marie Kondo
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128. Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
by Sherry Argov
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129. The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy
by Mervyn A. King
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130. Python in a Nutshell, Second Edition (In a Nutshell)
by Alex Martelli
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131. The Great Telecom Meltdown
by Fred R. Goldstein
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132. Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
by Timur Kuran
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133. Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life
by Jim Benson, Tonianne DeMaria Barry
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134. Calculus Success in 20 Minutes a Day
by Mark A. McKibben
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135. Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
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136. Toolmaker Koan
by John McLoughlin
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137. How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants
by David Rees
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138. PHP and MySQL by Example
by Ellie Quigley, Marko Gargenta
Read 1 comment
139. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition
by Peter Bevelin
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140. Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
by Karen Ho
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141. Beginning Portable Shell Scripting: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
by Peter Seebach
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142. SVG Animations
by Sarah Drasner
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143. 21st Century C
by Ben Klemens
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144. Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Fourth Edition
by Steve Marschner, Peter Shirley
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145. The Shoelace Book: A Mathematical Guide to the Best (And Worst) Ways to Lace Your Shoes (Mathematical World)
by Burkard Polster
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146. Introduction to Linear Algebra, Third Edition
by Gilbert Strang
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147. Linear Algebra: A Modern Introduction (with CD-ROM) (Available Titles CengageNOW)
by David Poole
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148. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 3rd Updated Edition (Book & CD-ROM)
by David C. Lay
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149. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
by Marc Reisner
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150. An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions
by Peter J. Eccles
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151. Mathematics for the Nonmathematician
by Morris Kline
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152. Mathematics for the Million: How to Master the Magic of Numbers
by Lancelot Hogben
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153. Working Effectively with Legacy Code
by Michael C. Feathers
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154. Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
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155. Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
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156. Calendrical Calculations
by Nachum Dershowitz, Edward M. Reingold
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157. The AWK Programming Language
by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger
Read 5 comments
158. Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know
by Jim Camp
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159. Behind Human Error
by David D. Woods, Sidney Dekker, Richard Cook
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160. What is DNA? A Biology Adventure
by Transnational College of Lex
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161. Who Is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure 2nd Edition
by Transnational College of Lex
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162. What is Quantum Mechanics? A Physics Adventure - Second Edition
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163. Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington Are Dashed in Oakland; Or, Why It's Amazing that Federal Programs Work at All, This Being a Saga ... Morals on a Foundation (Oakland Project)
by Jeffrey L. Pressman, Aaron Wildavsky
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164. Algorithms in C, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching (3rd Edition) (Pts. 1-4)
by Robert Sedgewick
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165. Volume 2: Trends in European Television (Communication)
by Conseil de l'Europe,
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166. No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller
by Harry Markopolos
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167. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
by Matthew B. Crawford
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168. PC 97 Hardware Design Guide: With CD (Microsoft Professional Editions)
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169. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner
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170. Hardware Design Guide for Microsoft Windows 95: A Practical Guide for Developing Plug and Play PCs and Peripherals (Microsoft Professional Editions)
by Microsoft Corporation
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171. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd Edition)
by Randal E. Bryant, David R. O'Hallaron
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172. Head First JavaScript Programming: A Brain-Friendly Guide
by Eric T. Freeman, Elisabeth Robson
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173. Python for Data Analysis
by Wes McKinney
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174. Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties, Fourth Edition: Advanced SQL Programming (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by Joe Celko
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175. The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
by James E. Loehr, Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
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176. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by Kevin Kelly
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177. Designing Web Graphics.3 (3rd Edition)
by Lynda Weinman
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178. Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP
by Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson, Steve Vinoski
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179. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition
by Steve McConnell
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180. Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America
by Donald Trump
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181. Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC
by Peter Norton, John Socha
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182. The Art of the Snowflake: A Photographic Album
by Kenneth Libbrecht
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183. Build Your Own Flight Sim in C++: Programming a 3d Flight Simulator Using Oop
by Michael Radtke, Christopher Lampton
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184. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat
by Richard Phillips Feynman
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185. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty (History of Communication)
by Alex Carey
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186. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
by Alex Epstein
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187. Flask Web Development
by Miguel Grinberg
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188. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
by Peter Gray
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189. Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All Around Us
by Oscar E. Fernandez
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190. Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation
by Patrick Bond
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191. The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably
by Thomas T. Nagle, John E. Hogan (Ph. D.)
Read 7 comments
192. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Read 22 comments
193. Counterexamples in Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by Bernard R. Gelbaum, John M. H. Olmsted
Read 5 comments
194. Hack and HHVM
by Owen Yamauchi
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195. The Cartoon Guide to Calculus (Cartoon Guide Series)
by Larry Gonick
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196. Game Programming Patterns
by Robert Nystrom
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197. Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design (2nd Edition)
by Michael James Hernandez
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198. The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why
by Arthur Benjamin
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199. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber
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200. The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist
by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)
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