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The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain cover

1. The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain

by Daniel Gardner

Think Perl 6 cover

2. Think Perl 6

by Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen Downey

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

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

by Charles Petzold

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Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History cover

4. Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History

by Scott Andrew Selby, Greg Campbell

Designing Active Server Pages cover

5. Designing Active Server Pages

by Scott Mitchell

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Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems cover

6. Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems

by Miro Samek

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

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

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs cover

8. Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs

by Neal D. Barnard

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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

9. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott

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Tripping over the Truth The Metabolic Theory of Cancer cover

10. Tripping over the Truth The Metabolic Theory of Cancer

by Travis Christofferson

Confessions of a Public Speaker (English and English Edition) cover

11. Confessions of a Public Speaker (English and English Edition)

by Scott Berkun

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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

12. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom cover

13. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

by Jonathan Haidt

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A Book of Abstract Algebra: Second Edition (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

14. A Book of Abstract Algebra: Second Edition (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Charles C Pinter

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The Kerbal Player's Guide cover

15. The Kerbal Player's Guide

by Jon Manning, Tim Nugent, Alasdair Allan, Paul Fenwick, Paris Buttfield-Addison

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How to Buy Stocks cover

16. How to Buy Stocks

by Louis Engel

Reliable Software Through Composite Design cover

17. Reliable Software Through Composite Design

by Glenford J. Myers

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen cover

18. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

by Christopher McDougall

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Janesville: An American Story cover

19. Janesville: An American Story

by Amy Goldstein

The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era cover

20. The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era

by Jeremy Rifkin

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich cover

21. Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich

by Kevin Phillips

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Programming Phoenix 1.3: Productive |> Reliable |> Fast cover

22. Programming Phoenix 1.3: Productive |> Reliable |> Fast

by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, Jose Valim

Island cover

23. Island

by Aldous Huxley

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

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

by Nick Lane

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The Saga of Eric the Viking (Puffin Books) cover

25. The Saga of Eric the Viking (Puffin Books)

by Terry Jones

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Expert F# 4.0 cover

26. Expert F# 4.0

by Don Syme, Adam Granicz, Antonio Cisternino

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

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

by Jared M. Diamond

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Algorithmic Puzzles cover

28. Algorithmic Puzzles

by Anany Levitin, Maria Levitin

Introduction to Analytic Number Theory cover

29. Introduction to Analytic Number Theory

by Tom M. Apostol

Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press) cover

30. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)

by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi

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Algebraic Geometry for Scientists and Engineers (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs) cover

31. Algebraic Geometry for Scientists and Engineers (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs)

by Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar

Debugging Applications (DV-MPS Programming) cover

32. Debugging Applications (DV-MPS Programming)

by John Robbins

Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships cover

33. Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships

by Daniel Goleman

Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination cover

34. Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination

by Adam Lashinsky

Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders cover

35. Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders

by Warren Buffett

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Tools of Titans cover

36. Tools of Titans

by Timothy Ferriss

Eco-computer: Impact of Global Intelligence cover

37. Eco-computer: Impact of Global Intelligence

by Geoffrey Leslie Simons

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Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition cover

38. Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition

by Keith Daniel Cooper, Linda Torczon

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