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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy cover

2. The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy

by Mervyn A. King

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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion cover

3. Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

by Paul Bloom

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Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring cover

4. Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring

by Stephen Few

Civilization: The West and the Rest cover

5. Civilization: The West and the Rest

by Niall Ferguson

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The Wolf of Wall Street cover

6. The Wolf of Wall Street

by Jordan Belfort

A Guide to Better Movement: The Science and Practice of Moving With More Skill And Less Pain cover

7. A Guide to Better Movement: The Science and Practice of Moving With More Skill And Less Pain

by Todd Hargrove

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism cover

8. Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang

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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism cover

9. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang

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Windows++: Writing Reusable Windows Code in C++ (Andrew Schulman Programming Series) cover

10. Windows++: Writing Reusable Windows Code in C++ (Andrew Schulman Programming Series)

by Paul DiLascia

Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 1st Edition cover

11. Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 1st Edition

by Martin Kleppmann

Bamn: Outlaw Manifestos and Ephemera, 1965-70 cover

12. Bamn: Outlaw Manifestos and Ephemera, 1965-70

by Peter Stansill, David Zane Mairowitz

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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers cover

13. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence cover

14. Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

by Bryan Burrough

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Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation) cover

15. Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation)

by Niklaus Wirth

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Programming Internet Email cover

16. Programming Internet Email

by Dave Wood, David Wood

Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript (Effective Software Development Series) cover

17. Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript (Effective Software Development Series)

by David Herman

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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas cover

18. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

by Seymour A. Papert

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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right cover

19. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

by Arlie Russell Hochschild

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The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change cover

20. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

by Camille Fournier

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Verified Functional Programming in Agda (Acm Books) cover

21. Verified Functional Programming in Agda (Acm Books)

by Aaron Stump

JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

22. JavaScript: The Good Parts

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

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High Output Management cover

23. High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove

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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software cover

24. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

by Eric Evans

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Implementing Domain-Driven Design cover

25. Implementing Domain-Driven Design

by Vaughn Vernon

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Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach cover

26. Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

by Tom DeMarco

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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

27. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal cover

28. Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal

by Jack Ewing, Joel Richards

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The Enlightened Sex Manual: Sexual Skills for the Superior Lover cover

29. The Enlightened Sex Manual: Sexual Skills for the Superior Lover

by David Deida

Even Faster Web Sites cover

30. Even Faster Web Sites

by Steve Souders

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High Performance Browser Networking cover

31. High Performance Browser Networking

by Ilya Grigorik

High Performance Web Sites cover

32. High Performance Web Sites

by Steve Souders

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Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think cover

33. Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think

by Dennis Greenberger

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How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty cover

34. How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty

by Harry Browne

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StoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue | Transform Your Life cover

35. StoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue | Transform Your Life

by Lyssa Danehy deHart