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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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Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life cover

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

10. 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

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

by Lance Flavell
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A Whirlwind Tour of Python cover

12. A Whirlwind Tour of Python

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The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding cover

13. The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding

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

14. Effective Modern C++

by Scott Meyers
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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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Make Your Own Neural Network cover

16. Make Your Own Neural Network

by Tariq Rashid
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life cover

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

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

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

by Tom Standage
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The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated cover

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

by Judith Rich Harris
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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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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition (Springer Series in Statistics) cover

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

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

23. 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

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

by John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal
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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques for Building Intelligent Systems cover

25. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques for Building Intelligent Systems

by Aurélien Géron
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Markov Logic: An Interface Layer for Artificial Intelligence (Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) cover

26. Markov Logic: An Interface Layer for Artificial Intelligence (Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)

by Pedro Domingos, Daniel Lowd
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Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP: Implement Robust, Fault-Tolerant Systems cover

27. Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP: Implement Robust, Fault-Tolerant Systems

by Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson, Steve Vinoski
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Elements of Programming cover

28. Elements of Programming

by Alexander A. Stepanov, Paul McJones
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The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) cover

29. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)

by Leland Wilkinson
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Scala for Machine Learning cover

30. Scala for Machine Learning

by Patrick R. Nicolas
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A First Course in Network Theory cover

31. A First Course in Network Theory

by Ernesto Estrada, Philip Knight
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The Gene: An Intimate History cover

32. The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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On Bullshit cover

33. On Bullshit

by Harry G. Frankfurt
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Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) cover

34. Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

by George Varghese
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Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists cover

35. Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists

by Noson S. Yanofsky, Mirco A. Mannucci
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles cover

36. 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

37. 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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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

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

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

39. 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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Guide to NumPy: 2nd Edition cover

40. Guide to NumPy: 2nd Edition

by Travis Oliphant
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies cover

41. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond
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Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult cover

42. Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult

by Dayal Patterson
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

43. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppmann
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The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

44. The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
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Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem cover

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

by Diana Price
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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

46. JavaScript: The Good Parts

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