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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives cover

1. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

by Jesse Eisinger

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Getting Started in Electronics cover

2. Getting Started in Electronics

by Forrest M. Mims

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Head First JavaScript Programming: A Brain-Friendly Guide cover

3. Head First JavaScript Programming: A Brain-Friendly Guide

by Eric T. Freeman, Elisabeth Robson

The Cartoon Guide to Calculus (Cartoon Guide Series) cover

4. The Cartoon Guide to Calculus (Cartoon Guide Series)

by Larry Gonick

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21st Century C cover

5. 21st Century C

by Ben Klemens

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So What?: How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience cover

6. So What?: How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience

by Mark Magnacca

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The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Second printing with new preface and appendix (Harvard Economic Studies) cover

7. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Second printing with new preface and appendix (Harvard Economic Studies)

by Mancur Olson

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Lightweight Django cover

8. Lightweight Django

by Julia Elman, Mark Lavin

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Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people cover

9. Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people

by Aditya Y. Bhargava

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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power cover

10. The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

by Joel Bakan

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Three LTD Stirling Engines You Can Build Without a Machine Shop: An Illustrated Guide cover

11. Three LTD Stirling Engines You Can Build Without a Machine Shop: An Illustrated Guide

by Jim R. Larsen

30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans cover

12. 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans

by Karl Pillemer, Ph.D.

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic cover

13. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

by Sam Quinones

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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition) cover

14. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)

by Alfred V. Aho

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The Cryptoclub: Using Mathematics to Make and Break Secret Codes cover

15. The Cryptoclub: Using Mathematics to Make and Break Secret Codes

by Janet Beissinger, Vera Pless

Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (Special Edition) cover

16. Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (Special Edition)

by Michael Abrash

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Rubicon cover

17. Rubicon

by Tom Holland

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Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style cover

18. Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style

by Virginia Tufte

A Moscow Math Circle: Week-by-Week Problem Sets (MSRI Mathematical Circles Library) cover

19. A Moscow Math Circle: Week-by-Week Problem Sets (MSRI Mathematical Circles Library)

by Sergey Dorichenko

The Great Deception: Can the European Union survive? - EU Referendum Edition cover

20. The Great Deception: Can the European Union survive? - EU Referendum Edition

by Christopher Booker, Richard North

BeOS Bible, The cover

21. BeOS Bible, The

by Scot Hacker, Henry Bortman, Chris Herborth

Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists cover

22. Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists

by Edward Scheinerman

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The Coming of the Third Reich cover

23. The Coming of the Third Reich

by Richard J. Evans

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Professional JavaScript for Web Developers cover

24. Professional JavaScript for Web Developers

by Nicholas C. Zakas

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Global Catastrophic Risks cover

25. Global Catastrophic Risks

by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic

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Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty cover

26. Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty

by Gerd Gigerenzer

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A Book of Silence cover

27. A Book of Silence

by Sara Maitland

A Book of Silence. Sara Maitland cover

28. A Book of Silence. Sara Maitland

by Sara Maitland

The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City cover

29. The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

by Alan Ehrenhalt

Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them cover

30. Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them

by Steve Peters

Calculus On Manifolds: A Modern Approach To Classical Theorems Of Advanced Calculus cover

31. Calculus On Manifolds: A Modern Approach To Classical Theorems Of Advanced Calculus

by Michael Spivak

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The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology) cover

32. The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)

by Richard J. Haier

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Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security cover

33. Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security

by Christopher Cooper, Robert Block