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Comedy Writing for Late-Night TV: How to Write Monologue Jokes, Desk Pieces, Sketches, Parodies, Audience Pieces, Remotes, and Other Short-Form Comedy cover

1. Comedy Writing for Late-Night TV: How to Write Monologue Jokes, Desk Pieces, Sketches, Parodies, Audience Pieces, Remotes, and Other Short-Form Comedy

by Joe Toplyn

Type-driven Development with Idris cover

2. Type-driven Development with Idris

by Edwin Brady

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention cover

3. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

by Manning Marable

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Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty cover

4. Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty

by Robert Kanigel

Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness cover

5. Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness

by Greg Bottoms

The Bhagavad Gita (Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality) cover

6. The Bhagavad Gita (Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality)

by Eknath Easwaran

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The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers cover

7. The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers

by Arno Ilgner

The Ellimist Chronicles (Animorphs) cover

8. The Ellimist Chronicles (Animorphs)

by Katherine Applegate

Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

9. Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Daphne Koller, Nir Friedman

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

10. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School cover

11. Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School

by Philip Delves Broughton

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The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer cover

12. The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer

by Georges Ifrah

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Smart Pricing: How Google, Priceline, and Leading Businesses Use Pricing Innovation for Profitability cover

13. Smart Pricing: How Google, Priceline, and Leading Businesses Use Pricing Innovation for Profitability

by Jagmohan Raju, Jagmohan Singh Raju, Z. John Zhang

Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence (4th Edition) (International Computer Science Series) cover

14. Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence (4th Edition) (International Computer Science Series)

by Ivan Bratko

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Functional Programming in Scala cover

15. Functional Programming in Scala

by Paul Chiusano, Rúnar Bjarnason

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Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism cover

16. Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism

by Richard D. Wolff

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Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East (6 Volume Set) cover

17. Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East (6 Volume Set)

by Baird Thomas Spalding

Chosen by God cover

18. Chosen by God

by R. C. Sproul

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

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

by Steven Pressfield

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Scala Cookbook cover

20. Scala Cookbook

by Alvin Alexander

ECCE ROMANI LEVEL 1 STUDENT EDITION HARDCOVER 2005C cover

21. ECCE ROMANI LEVEL 1 STUDENT EDITION HARDCOVER 2005C

by Jane Hall

Mikhail and Margarita: A Novel cover

22. Mikhail and Margarita: A Novel

by Julie Lekstrom Himes

Bomber Command (Zenith Military Classics) cover

23. Bomber Command (Zenith Military Classics)

by Max Hastings Sir, Max Hastings

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Bomber Command cover

24. Bomber Command

by Max Hastings

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't cover

25. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

by Jim Collins

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Deep Learning cover

26. Deep Learning

by Adam Gibson, Josh Patterson

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

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

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Introduction to the Art of Programming Using Scala (Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing) cover

28. Introduction to the Art of Programming Using Scala (Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing)

by Mark C. Lewis

DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA: EVOLUTION AND THE MEANINGS OF LIFE cover

29. DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA: EVOLUTION AND THE MEANINGS OF LIFE

by Daniel C. Dennett

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street cover

30. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

by John Brooks

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Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam cover

31. Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam

by H. R. McMaster

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions cover

32. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

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Basic Economics cover

33. Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell

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Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup cover

34. Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup

by Bill Aulet

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National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe cover

35. National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe

by Roy A. Gallant

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

36. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products cover

37. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal

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Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing cover

38. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

by Christopher Manning, Hinrich Schutze

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Natural Language Processing with Python: Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit cover

39. Natural Language Processing with Python: Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit

by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper

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Digital Computer Electronics cover

40. Digital Computer Electronics

by Malvino

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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It cover

41. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

by Gary Taubes

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Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming cover

42. Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming

by Marijn Haverbeke

JavaScript and JQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development cover

43. JavaScript and JQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development

by Jon Duckett

Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

44. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind cover

45. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

by Jack Trout, Al Ries

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