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Zoned Out: Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land Use cover

1. Zoned Out: Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land Use

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 M. Diamond

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

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

by Eric Evans

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

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

by William Kent, Steve Hoberman

Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets cover

5. 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

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

by Sherry Turkle

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

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

by Thomas A. Garrity

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Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Seventh Edition: A Comprehensive Guide cover

8. Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Seventh Edition: A Comprehensive Guide

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

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Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms cover

9. Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms

by James O. Coplien

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

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

by Jack Cashill

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11. Ecstasy and the Dance Culture

by Nicholas Saunders

Secure Coding in C and C++ (2nd Edition) (SEI Series in Software Engineering) cover

12. Secure Coding in C and C++ (2nd Edition) (SEI Series in Software Engineering)

by Robert C. Seacord

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

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

by Dmitri Sotnikov

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

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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

Time Will Run Back cover

17. Time Will Run Back

by Henry Hazlitt

Leonardo da Vinci cover

18. Leonardo da Vinci

by Walter Isaacson

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

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

by Howard Moon

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

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

by Christian Rudder

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

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

by Cathy O'Neil

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

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

by Robert Bazell

Type Hybrid: Typography in Multilingual Design cover

23. Type Hybrid: Typography in Multilingual Design

by Viction:workshop

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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

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

by Jean M. Twenge, W. Keith Campbell

Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists cover

30. Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists

by Michael Hutchinson

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

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

by Edward Ludwig Glaeser

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

32. 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

33. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

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

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