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

1. 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

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

by Thomas P. Hughes

Game Programming Patterns cover

3. Game Programming Patterns

by Robert Nystrom

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Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition cover

4. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition

by Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman

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3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development, 2nd Edition cover

5. 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development, 2nd Edition

by Fletcher Dunn, Ian Parberry

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

6. 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

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

by Henry M. Paulson Jr.

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DAEMON cover

8. DAEMON

by Daniel Suarez

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

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

by Charles G. Nelson

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

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

by Don Watkins, Yaron Brook

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

11. 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

12. 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

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

by Charles J. Murray

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No Place to Hide cover

14. No Place to Hide

by Robert O'Harrow

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

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

by Don Norman

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

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

by Tom Plate

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

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

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Threat Modeling: Designing for Security cover

18. Threat Modeling: Designing for Security

by Adam Shostack

Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea cover

19. Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

by Steven Callahan

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

Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes, and Biology (MIT Press) cover

21. Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes, and Biology (MIT Press)

by Keith Evan Green

How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk cover

22. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk

by Douglas W. Hubbard, Richard Seiersen

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

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

by Smedley Darlington Butler

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Modernist Bread cover

24. Modernist Bread

by Nathan Myhrvold, Francisco J. Migoya

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

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

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

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

by John Curry, Sue Laflin-Barker

Playing at the World cover

28. Playing at the World

by Jon Peterson

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

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

by Dava Sobel

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

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

by William Bernstein

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On The Shoulders Of Giants cover

31. On The Shoulders Of Giants

by Stephen Hawking

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry cover

32. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Concurrency in Go: Tools and Techniques for Developers cover

33. Concurrency in Go: Tools and Techniques for Developers

by Katherine Cox-Buday

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

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

by Pino Aprile

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

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The Arabs: A History cover

36. The Arabs: A History

by Eugene Rogan

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Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies cover

37. Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

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The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

38. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto

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Thoughtful Machine Learning: A Test-Driven Approach cover

39. Thoughtful Machine Learning: A Test-Driven Approach

by Matthew Kirk

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

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

by Aurélien Géron

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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. Mueller, Sarah Guido

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

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

by Drew Conway, John White

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition) cover

43. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)

by Stuart Jonathan Russell, Peter Norvig, Ernest Davis

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