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By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember cover

1. By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember

by Ted Hughes

Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Globalization of Organized Crime cover

2. Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Globalization of Organized Crime

by Michael Woodiwiss

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Apollo: The Race to the Moon cover

3. Apollo: The Race to the Moon

by Charles A. Murray, Catherine Bly Cox

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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future cover

4. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

by Ashlee Vance

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Implementing SSL / TLS Using Cryptography and PKI cover

5. Implementing SSL / TLS Using Cryptography and PKI

by Joshua Davies

Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time! cover

6. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!

by Conrad Barski

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The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology cover

7. The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology

by William Mougayar

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The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed cover

8. The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed

by John McPhee

Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science cover

9. Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science

by Alice Domurat Dreger

Learning SaltStack - Second Edition cover

10. Learning SaltStack - Second Edition

by Colton Myers

Ansible for DevOps: Server and configuration management for humans cover

11. Ansible for DevOps: Server and configuration management for humans

by Jeff Geerling

Modern Linux Administration: How to Become a Cutting-Edge Linux Administrator cover

12. Modern Linux Administration: How to Become a Cutting-Edge Linux Administrator

by Sam R. Alapati

Learning Puppet 4: A Guide to Configuration Management and Automation cover

13. Learning Puppet 4: A Guide to Configuration Management and Automation

by Jo Rhett

Introductory Techniques for 3-D Computer Vision cover

14. Introductory Techniques for 3-D Computer Vision

by Emanuele Trucco, Alessandro Verri

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Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition cover

15. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition

by Jon Erickson

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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science cover

16. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

by Norman Doidge

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Learning OpenCV 3: Computer Vision in C++ with the OpenCV Library cover

17. Learning OpenCV 3: Computer Vision in C++ with the OpenCV Library

by Adrian Kaehler, Gary R. Bradski

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

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

by Charles Petzold

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Jutland: An Analysis of the Fighting cover

19. Jutland: An Analysis of the Fighting

by N. J. M. Campbell

Effective Monitoring and Alerting: For Web Operations cover

20. Effective Monitoring and Alerting: For Web Operations

by Slawek Ligus

How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know cover

21. How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know

by Brian Ward

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Amazon Web Services in Action cover

22. Amazon Web Services in Action

by Michael Wittig, Andreas Wittig

How Will You Measure Your Life? cover

23. How Will You Measure Your Life?

by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon

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The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics cover

24. The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics

by Rod Hill

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Sleep: Redefine Your Rest, for Success in Work, Sport and Life cover

25. Sleep: Redefine Your Rest, for Success in Work, Sport and Life

by Nick Littlehales

The Dog Wars: How the Border Collie Battled the American Kennel Club cover

26. The Dog Wars: How the Border Collie Battled the American Kennel Club

by Donald McCaig, Outrun Press

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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? cover

27. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

by Frans de Waal

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Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Sloan Technology Series) cover

28. Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Sloan Technology Series)

by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson

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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter) cover

29. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

by Steve Krug

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Creativity For Sale: How I Made $1,000,000 Wearing T-Shirts And How You Can Turn Your Passion Into Profit, Too cover

30. Creativity For Sale: How I Made $1,000,000 Wearing T-Shirts And How You Can Turn Your Passion Into Profit, Too

by Jason Surfrapp

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition cover

31. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition

by Steve McConnell

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The Sex and the Office: Women, Men, and the Sex Partition That's Dividing the Workplace cover

32. The Sex and the Office: Women, Men, and the Sex Partition That's Dividing the Workplace

by Kim Elsesser

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Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code cover

33. Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code

by Yevgeniy Brikman

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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies) cover

34. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)

by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost

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Lisp in Small Pieces cover

35. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec

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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap cover

36. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

by Stephanie Coontz

Mastering Bitcoin cover

37. Mastering Bitcoin

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules cover

38. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

by Steve McConnell

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Vulkan Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning Vulkan (OpenGL) cover

39. Vulkan Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning Vulkan (OpenGL)

by Graham Sellers, John M. Kessenich

Programming Rust cover

40. Programming Rust

by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff

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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story cover

41. Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

by Jim Holt

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Networking for Systems Administrators (IT Mastery) (Volume 5) cover

42. Networking for Systems Administrators (IT Mastery) (Volume 5)

by Michael Lucas

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Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age cover

43. Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age

by Matthew Brzezinski

The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2 cover

44. The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2

by Tom Limoncelli, Thomas Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup, Christina J. Hogan

Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet cover

45. Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet

by Tim Jackson

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Effective awk Programming cover

46. Effective awk Programming

by Arnold Robbins

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Puppet 4.10 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition cover

47. Puppet 4.10 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

by John Arundel

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Speaking Secrets of the Masters: The Personal Techniques Used by 22 of the World's Top Professional Speakers cover

48. Speaking Secrets of the Masters: The Personal Techniques Used by 22 of the World's Top Professional Speakers

by Speakers Roundtable, Cavett Robert, Ken Blanchard, Charlie Plumb, Jim Newman, Herb True, Don Hutson, Daniel Burrus, Ty Boyd, Tony Alessandra, Jim Cathcart, Nido Qubein, Naomi Rhode, Charlie Jones, Tom Winninger, Jim Tunney, Patricia Fripp, Art Holst, Danny Cox, Allan Hurst, Bill Gove, Brian S. Tracy, Ira Hayes

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

49. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority cover

50. The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority

by John H. Walton, Brent Sandy

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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within cover

51. The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

by Stephen Fry

Mastering OpenCV 3 - Second Edition cover

52. Mastering OpenCV 3 - Second Edition

by Daniel Lélis Baggio, Shervin Emami, David Millan Escriva, Khvedchenia Ievgen, Jason Saragih, Roy Shilkrot

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Learning OpenCV cover

53. Learning OpenCV

by Gary Bradski, Adrian Kaehler

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals cover

54. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

by Michael Pollan

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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) cover

55. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

by Jez Humble

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