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Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism cover

1. Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism

by Richard D. Wolff

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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. cover

2. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

by Ron Chernow

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Bayes' Rule: A Tutorial Introduction to Bayesian Analysis cover

3. Bayes' Rule: A Tutorial Introduction to Bayesian Analysis

by James V. Stone

When Google Met WikiLeaks cover

4. When Google Met WikiLeaks

by Julian Assange

Mayo Clinic Family Health Book cover

5. Mayo Clinic Family Health Book

by Mayo Clinic

Thinking in Systems: A Primer cover

6. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

by Donella Meadows

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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

7. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran

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Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook, Revised Edition cover

8. Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook, Revised Edition

by David Werner

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing cover

9. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

by Marie Kondo

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Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship cover

10. Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

by Sherry Argov

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy cover

11. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

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Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition cover

12. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition

by Peter Bevelin

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Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know cover

13. Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know

by Jim Camp

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Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington Are Dashed in Oakland; Or, Why It's Amazing that Federal Programs Work at All, This Being a Saga ... Morals on a Foundation (Oakland Project) cover

14. Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington Are Dashed in Oakland; Or, Why It's Amazing that Federal Programs Work at All, This Being a Saga ... Morals on a Foundation (Oakland Project)

by Jeffrey L. Pressman, Aaron Wildavsky

Hardware Design Guide for Microsoft Windows 95: A Practical Guide for Developing Plug and Play PCs and Peripherals (Microsoft Professional Editions) cover

15. Hardware Design Guide for Microsoft Windows 95: A Practical Guide for Developing Plug and Play PCs and Peripherals (Microsoft Professional Editions)

by Microsoft Corporation

PC 97 Hardware Design Guide: With CD (Microsoft Professional Editions) cover

16. PC 97 Hardware Design Guide: With CD (Microsoft Professional Editions)

Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists, MyStatLab Update with MyStatLab plus Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (9th Edition) cover

17. Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists, MyStatLab Update with MyStatLab plus Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (9th Edition)

by Ronald E. Walpole, Raymond Myers, Keying Ye, Sharon L. Myers

The Art of Reading Minds cover

18. The Art of Reading Minds

by Henrik Fexeus

Python for Data Analysis cover

19. Python for Data Analysis

by Wes McKinney

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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't cover

20. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't

by Nate Silver

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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Customers cover

21. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Customers

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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4. Encoding and Evolution cover

22. 4. Encoding and Evolution

by Martin Kleppmann

It's Raining Cats and Dogs: An Autism Spectrum Guide to the Confusing World of Idioms, Metaphors and Everyday Expressions cover

23. It's Raining Cats and Dogs: An Autism Spectrum Guide to the Confusing World of Idioms, Metaphors and Everyday Expressions

by Michael Barton

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You Must Bring a Hat cover

24. You Must Bring a Hat

by Simon Philip

Logic cover

25. Logic

by Paul Tomassi

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

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

by Michael Woodiwiss

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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street cover

27. Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

by William Poundstone

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Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive cover

28. Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive

by Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, Robert Cialdini

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The Little Engine That Could (Original Classic Edition) cover

29. The Little Engine That Could (Original Classic Edition)

by Watty Piper

The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works cover

30. The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works

by Henry A. Waxman, Joshua Green

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The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small cover

31. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small

by John Gall

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Fail Safe cover

32. Fail Safe

by Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age cover

33. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman

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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety cover

34. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser

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Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health cover

35. Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health

by Denise Minger

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The Secret Chief Revealed cover

36. The Secret Chief Revealed

by Myron J. Stolaroff

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The Earl of Louisiana cover

37. The Earl of Louisiana

by Abbott Joseph Liebling

Computer Organization and Design ARM Edition: The Hardware Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

38. Computer Organization and Design ARM Edition: The Hardware Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

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Structured Computer Organization (6th Edition) cover

39. Structured Computer Organization (6th Edition)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Todd Austin

Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (Modern Library Paperbacks) cover

40. Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (Modern Library Paperbacks)

by David Remnick

The Professor and the Madman cover

41. The Professor and the Madman

by Simon Winchester

Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life cover

42. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

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