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The World Beyond Your Head cover

1. The World Beyond Your Head

by Matthew B. Crawford

Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, 2nd Edition cover

2. Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, 2nd Edition

by Eliot Coleman

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Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series) cover

3. Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Robert C. Martin

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An Island to Oneself cover

4. An Island to Oneself

by Tom Neale

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Life and Death in Shanghai cover

5. Life and Death in Shanghai

by Cheng Nien

What Your Contractor Can't Tell You: The Essential Guide to Building and Renovating cover

6. What Your Contractor Can't Tell You: The Essential Guide to Building and Renovating

by Amy Johnston

Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place, 2nd Edition cover

7. Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place, 2nd Edition

by John Abrams

The Three-Body Problem cover

8. The Three-Body Problem

by Cixin Liu

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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War cover

9. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

by Robert Coram

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

10. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present cover

11. 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present

by Paul K. Davis

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Introduction to Graph Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

12. Introduction to Graph Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Richard J. Trudeau

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A Logical Approach to Discrete Math cover

13. A Logical Approach to Discrete Math

by David Gries, Fred B. Schneider

The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work cover

14. The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work

by Gary Klein

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Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK cover

15. Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK

by John W. McCormick, Peter C. Chapin

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How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success cover

16. How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success

by Julie Lythcott-Haims

Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving cover

17. Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving

by Sanjoy Mahajan

Possible Worlds: An Introduction to Logic and Its Philosophy (English and German Edition) cover

18. Possible Worlds: An Introduction to Logic and Its Philosophy (English and German Edition)

by Raymond Bradley, Norman Swartz

The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity (Mit Press) cover

19. The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity (Mit Press)

by Sanjoy Mahajan

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business cover

20. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

by Douglas W. Hubbard

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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win cover

21. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

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Caffeine Blues: Wake Up to the Hidden Dangers of America's #1 Drug cover

22. Caffeine Blues: Wake Up to the Hidden Dangers of America's #1 Drug

by Stephen Cherniske

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World cover

23. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport

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

24. 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 Evolutionary Computing (Natural Computing) cover

25. Introduction to Evolutionary Computing (Natural Computing)

by A.E. Eiben, J.E. Smith

The Political Writings:

26. The Political Writings: "Political Regime" and "Summary of Plato's Laws" (Agora Editions)

by Alfarabi

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement cover

27. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox

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Date-Onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game cover

28. Date-Onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

by Jon Birger

Digital Retro: The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer cover

29. Digital Retro: The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer

by Gordon Laing

The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving cover

30. The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving

by Morgan D. Jones

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature cover

31. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker

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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software cover

32. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

by Scott Rosenberg

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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time cover

33. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

by Jonathan Weiner

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How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches (Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology) cover

34. How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches (Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology)

by Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant

Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches cover

35. Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches

by Peter R. Grant

Learning to Reason: An Introduction to Logic, Sets, and Relations cover

36. Learning to Reason: An Introduction to Logic, Sets, and Relations

by Nancy Rodgers

Abstract Algebra: A Student-Friendly Approach cover

37. Abstract Algebra: A Student-Friendly Approach

by Laura L. Dos Reis, Anthony J. Dos Reis

Discrete Mathematics with Applications cover

38. Discrete Mathematics with Applications

by Susanna S. Epp

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Linear Algebra: Step by Step cover

39. Linear Algebra: Step by Step

by Kuldeep Singh

The Real Analysis Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Understand Proofs (Princeton Lifesaver Study Guides) cover

40. The Real Analysis Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Understand Proofs (Princeton Lifesaver Study Guides)

by Raffi Grinberg

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Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (3rd Edition) cover

41. Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (3rd Edition)

by Gary Chartrand, Albert D. Polimeni, Ping Zhang

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Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction cover

42. Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction

by Edward A. Scheinerman

How to Think About Analysis cover

43. How to Think About Analysis

by Lara Alcock

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Stay Awhile and Listen: Book I Legendary Edition: How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire cover

44. Stay Awhile and Listen: Book I Legendary Edition: How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire

by David L. Craddock

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The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money cover

45. The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money

by Bryan Caplan

Time Management for System Administrators cover

46. Time Management for System Administrators

by Tom Limoncelli

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Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to Stay Up Late (Bedtime Math Series) cover

47. Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to Stay Up Late (Bedtime Math Series)

by Laura Overdeck

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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World cover

48. Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

by Rachel Ignotofsky

The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos cover

49. The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos

by Deborah Heiligman

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Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution cover

50. Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution

by Brent Berlin, Paul Kay

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series) cover

51. Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Michael C. Feathers

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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules cover

52. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

by Steve McConnell

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

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

by Richard J. Haier

Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors cover

54. Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

by Nicholas Wade

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Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies cover

55. Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

by Geoffrey B. West

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience cover

56. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Managing The Professional Service Firm cover

57. Managing The Professional Service Firm

by David H. Maister

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Nuclear Disaster in the Urals cover

58. Nuclear Disaster in the Urals

by Zhores Medvedev

Winning At Retail: Developing a Sustained Model for Retail Success cover

59. Winning At Retail: Developing a Sustained Model for Retail Success

by Willard N. Ander, Neil Z. Stern

The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone cover

60. The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone

by Thomas W. Hazlett

Cradles of Eminence: Childhoods of More Than 700 Famous Men and Women cover

61. Cradles of Eminence: Childhoods of More Than 700 Famous Men and Women

by Victor Goertzel, Mildred George Goertzel, Ted George Goertzel, Ariel Hansen