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Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation cover

1. Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation

by William A. Fischel
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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

2. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup
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Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System cover

3. Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System

by Ezekiel Emanuel
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking cover

4. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain
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Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society cover

5. Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society

by Bruno Latour
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Neuromorphic Photonics cover

6. Neuromorphic Photonics

by Paul R. Prucnal, Bhavin J. Shastri
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Fluent Python cover

7. Fluent Python

by Luciano Ramalho
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Red Plenty cover

8. Red Plenty

by Francis Spufford
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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

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

by Harvey Silverglate
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Beginning Blender: Open Source 3D Modeling, Animation, and Game Design cover

10. Beginning Blender: Open Source 3D Modeling, Animation, and Game Design

by Lance Flavell
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A Whirlwind Tour of Python cover

11. A Whirlwind Tour of Python

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The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding cover

12. The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding

by Al Ries, Laura Ries
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Effective Modern C++ cover

13. Effective Modern C++

by Scott Meyers
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Make Your Own Neural Network cover

14. Make Your Own Neural Network

by Tariq Rashid
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition) cover

15. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)

by Stuart Jonathan Russell, Peter Norvig, Ernest Davis
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life cover

16. The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

by Nick Lane
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Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State cover

17. Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State

by Richard L. Miller
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The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated cover

18. The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated

by Judith Rich Harris
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers cover

19. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

by Tom Standage
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Principles of Biomedical Informatics, Second Edition cover

20. Principles of Biomedical Informatics, Second Edition

by Ira J. Kalet
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An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics) cover

21. An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)

by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani
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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition (Springer Series in Statistics) cover

22. The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition (Springer Series in Statistics)

by Jerome Friedman, Robert Tibshirani
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Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia cover

23. Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia

by Egor Timurovich Gaĭdar
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

24. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
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The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Book & CD) cover

25. The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Book & CD)

by John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal
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The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries cover

26. The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries

by Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan
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The Gene: An Intimate History cover

27. The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Learning Logic cover

28. Learning Logic

by William Lane Craig
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On Bullshit cover

29. On Bullshit

by Harry G. Frankfurt
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Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster cover

30. Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster

by Andrew Leatherbarrow
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles cover

31. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

by Steven Pressfield
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) cover

32. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Robert J. Gordon
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Engineering General Intelligence, Part 1: A Path to Advanced AGI via Embodied Learning and Cognitive Synergy (Atlantis Thinking Machines) cover

33. Engineering General Intelligence, Part 1: A Path to Advanced AGI via Embodied Learning and Cognitive Synergy (Atlantis Thinking Machines)

by Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin, Nil Geisweiller
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Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis cover

34. Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis

by Barry Mazur, William Stein
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia cover

35. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

by Peter Pomerantsev
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Guide to NumPy: 2nd Edition cover

36. Guide to NumPy: 2nd Edition

by Travis Oliphant
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Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult cover

37. Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult

by Dayal Patterson
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

38. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppmann
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Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem cover

39. Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem

by Diana Price
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Not So Obvious: An Introduction to Patent Law and Strategy cover

40. Not So Obvious: An Introduction to Patent Law and Strategy

by Jeffrey Schox
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 cover

41. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

by Brian Fagan
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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

42. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford
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