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Zoned Out cover

1. Zoned Out

by Jonathan C. Levine

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition cover

2. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

by Jared Diamond

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Data and Reality: A Timeless Perspective on Perceiving and Managing Information in Our Imprecise World, 3rd Edition cover

3. Data and Reality: A Timeless Perspective on Perceiving and Managing Information in Our Imprecise World, 3rd Edition

by William Kent, Steve Hoberman

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

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

by Eric Evans

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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

5. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey

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Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets cover

6. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

by Peter Van der Linden

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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age cover

7. Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

by Sherry Turkle

Mathematical Methods for Physicists: A Comprehensive Guide cover

8. Mathematical Methods for Physicists: A Comprehensive Guide

by George Brown Arfken, George B. Arfken, Hans J. Weber, Frank E. Harris

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All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School cover

9. All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School

by Thomas A. Garrity

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Web Development with Clojure: Build Bulletproof Web Apps with Less Code cover

10. Web Development with Clojure: Build Bulletproof Web Apps with Less Code

by Dmitri Sotnikov

TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy cover

11. TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy

by Jack Cashill

Secure Coding in C and C++ (SEI Series in Software Engineering) cover

12. Secure Coding in C and C++ (SEI Series in Software Engineering)

by Robert C. Seacord

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Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms cover

13. Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms

by James O. Coplien

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life (Science and Fiction) cover

14. If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life (Science and Fiction)

by Stephen Webb

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life cover

15. If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

by Stephen Webb

Death in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook (Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World) cover

16. Death in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook (Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World)

by Valerie M. Hope

Soviet SST: The Techno-Politics Of The Tupolev-144 cover

17. Soviet SST: The Techno-Politics Of The Tupolev-144

by Howard Moon

Leonardo da Vinci cover

18. Leonardo da Vinci

by Walter Isaacson

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Civilization: The West and the Rest cover

19. Civilization: The West and the Rest

by Niall Ferguson

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth cover

20. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares

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Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves cover

21. Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

by Christian Rudder

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Mastering ENVY/Developer (SIGS: Advances in Object Technology, Series Number 22) cover

22. Mastering ENVY/Developer (SIGS: Advances in Object Technology, Series Number 22)

by Joseph Pelrine, Alan Knight, Adrian Cho

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy cover

23. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil

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Type Hybrid: Typography in Multilingual Design cover

24. Type Hybrid: Typography in Multilingual Design

by Viction:workshop

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 cover

25. Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

by Charles Murray

People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts cover

26. People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts

by Robert Bolton

All Politics Is Local: and Other Rules of the Game cover

27. All Politics Is Local: and Other Rules of the Game

by Tip O'Neill, Gary Hymel

iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us cover

28. iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

by Jean M. Twenge

Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before cover

29. Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before

by Jean M. Twenge

The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement cover

30. The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement

by Jean M. Twenge, W. Keith Campbell

Her-2: The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer cover

31. Her-2: The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer

by Robert Bazell

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier cover

32. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Glaeser

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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) cover

33. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)

by Clayton M. Christensen

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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master cover

34. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

by Andy Hunt, David Thomas, Dave Thomas, David . Thomas

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