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The Cycles Of American History: Updated Edition―A Political Historian's Reflection on Two Centuries of Pragmatism vs Idealism cover

1. The Cycles Of American History: Updated Edition―A Political Historian's Reflection on Two Centuries of Pragmatism vs Idealism

by Arthur Meier Schlesinger

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

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

by Jesse Eisinger

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Generations cover

3. Generations

by Neil Howe, William Strauss

Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality cover

4. Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality

by Don Watkins, Yaron Brook

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Life on a Little Known Planet: A Biologist's View of Insects and Their World cover

5. Life on a Little Known Planet: A Biologist's View of Insects and Their World

by Howard Ensign Evans

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Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 (Softshell Books) cover

6. Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 (Softshell Books)

by Thomas Parke Hughes

No Place to Hide cover

7. No Place to Hide

by Robert O'Harrow

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

8. 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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Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower cover

9. Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

by Henry M. Paulson Jr.

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DAEMON cover

10. DAEMON

by Daniel Suarez

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Systems Programming With Modula-3 (Prentice Hall Series in Innovative Technology) cover

11. Systems Programming With Modula-3 (Prentice Hall Series in Innovative Technology)

by Charles G. Nelson

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age cover

12. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Michael A. Hiltzik

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The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear cover

13. The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear

by Petr Beckmann

The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer cover

14. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

by Charles J. Murray

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Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things cover

15. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East (Cambridge Military Histories) cover

16. Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East (Cambridge Military Histories)

by David Stahel

Threat Modeling: Designing for Security cover

17. Threat Modeling: Designing for Security

by Adam Shostack

Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea cover

18. Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

by Steven Callahan

Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew: Citizen Singapore: How to Build a Nation (Conversations with Giants of Asia) cover

19. Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew: Citizen Singapore: How to Build a Nation (Conversations with Giants of Asia)

by Tom Plate

The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery cover

20. The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery

by Jeremy Silman

War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier cover

21. War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

by Smedley Darlington Butler

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How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk cover

22. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk

by Douglas W. Hubbard, Richard Seiersen

Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes, and Biology cover

23. Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes, and Biology

by Keith Evan Green

Sue Laflin-Barker's Start Ancient Wargaming Using Dba 3.0 cover

24. Sue Laflin-Barker's Start Ancient Wargaming Using Dba 3.0

by John Curry, Sue Laflin-Barker

Modernist Cuisine. The Art and Science of Cooking cover

25. Modernist Cuisine. The Art and Science of Cooking

by Nathan Myhrvold

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Modernist Bread cover

26. Modernist Bread

by Nathan Myhrvold, Francisco J. Migoya

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Construction Cost Indices: HUD Section 202 and 811 Supportive Housing Programs cover

27. Construction Cost Indices: HUD Section 202 and 811 Supportive Housing Programs

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time cover

28. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

by Dava Sobel

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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley cover

29. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

by Antonio Garcia Martinez

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Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures, from Chess to Role-Playing Games cover

30. Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures, from Chess to Role-Playing Games

by Jon Peterson

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The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio cover

31. The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio

by William Bernstein

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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry cover

32. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

by Neil deGrasse Tyson

On The Shoulders Of Giants cover

33. On The Shoulders Of Giants

by Stephen Hawking

The Arabs: A History cover

34. The Arabs: A History

by Eugene Rogan

Understanding Software: Max Kanat-Alexander on simplicity, coding, and how to suck less as a programmer cover

35. Understanding Software: Max Kanat-Alexander on simplicity, coding, and how to suck less as a programmer

by Max Kanat-Alexander

Terroni: All That Has Been Done to Ensure that the Italians of the South Became

36. Terroni: All That Has Been Done to Ensure that the Italians of the South Became "Southerners" (VIA Folios)

by Pino Aprile

The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

37. The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto

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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems cover

38. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems

by Aurélien Géron

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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence) cover

39. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence)

by Stuart Jonathan Russell, Peter Norvig, Ernest Davis

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Machine Learning for Hackers: Case Studies and Algorithms to Get You Started cover

40. Machine Learning for Hackers: Case Studies and Algorithms to Get You Started

by Drew Conway, John White

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Introduction to Machine Learning with Python: A Guide for Data Scientists cover

41. Introduction to Machine Learning with Python: A Guide for Data Scientists

by Andreas C. Müller, Sarah Guido

Thoughtful Machine Learning: A Test-Driven Approach cover

42. Thoughtful Machine Learning: A Test-Driven Approach

by Matthew Kirk