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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition cover

1. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey

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Why Aren't More Women in Science?: Top Researchers Debate the Evidence cover

2. Why Aren't More Women in Science?: Top Researchers Debate the Evidence

by Stephen J. Ceci, Wendy Melissa Williams

Beginning Portable Shell Scripting: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in Open Source) cover

3. Beginning Portable Shell Scripting: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

by Peter Seebach

SVG Animations cover

4. SVG Animations

by Sarah Drasner

Algorithms in C, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching (3rd Edition) (Pts. 1-4) cover

5. Algorithms in C, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching (3rd Edition) (Pts. 1-4)

by Robert Sedgewick

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Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design cover

6. Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design

by Diomidis Spinellis, Georgios Gousios

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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

7. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B Irvine

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Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure cover

8. Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure

by Kelsey Hightower, Brendan Burns, Joe Beda

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Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays, The cover

9. Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays, The

by Martin Heidegger

The Technological Society cover

10. The Technological Society

by Jacques Ellul

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Purely Functional Data Structures cover

11. Purely Functional Data Structures

by Chris Okasaki

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The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy cover

12. The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts cover

13. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

by Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

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The Attention Merchants: How Our Time and Attention Are Gathered and Sold cover

14. The Attention Merchants: How Our Time and Attention Are Gathered and Sold

by Tim Wu

Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men: Searching Through Scotland For A Border Collie cover

15. Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men: Searching Through Scotland For A Border Collie

by Donald McCaig

Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914 (General Military) cover

16. Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914 (General Military)

by Prit Buttar

Kubernetes: Up and Running cover

17. Kubernetes: Up and Running

by Kelsey Hightower, Brendan Burns, Joe Beda

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Human Nature: The Categorial Framework cover

18. Human Nature: The Categorial Framework

by P. M. S. Hacker

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The Intellectual Powers: A Study of Human Nature cover

19. The Intellectual Powers: A Study of Human Nature

by P. M. S. Hacker

What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World cover

20. What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World

by Tina Seelig

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Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success cover

21. Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

by Brad Stulberg, Steve Magness

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Symmetry and the Monster: The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics cover

22. Symmetry and the Monster: The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics

by Mark Ronan

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World cover

23. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport

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Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript: Bringing classic computing approaches to the Web cover

24. Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript: Bringing classic computing approaches to the Web

by Michael McMillan

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

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

by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

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Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier cover

26. Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier

by Ali Almossawi

The Essential Marcus Aurelius (Tarcher Cornerstone Editions) cover

27. The Essential Marcus Aurelius (Tarcher Cornerstone Editions)

by Jacob Needleman, John Piazza

Leading cover

28. Leading

by Alex Ferguson, Michael Moritz

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information cover

29. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

by Edward R. Tufte

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Data Visualization with JavaScript cover

30. Data Visualization with JavaScript

by Stephen A. Thomas

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Designing Interactions (MIT Press) cover

31. Designing Interactions (MIT Press)

by Bill Moggridge

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The Design of Everyday Things cover

32. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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If They Only Knew cover

33. If They Only Knew

by Joanie Laurer, Chyna, Michael Angeli