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The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction cover

1. The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction

by Matthew B. Crawford

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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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An Island to Oneself cover

3. An Island to Oneself

by Tom Neale

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Life and Death in Shanghai cover

4. Life and Death in Shanghai

by Cheng Nien

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

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

by Robert C. Martin

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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

100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present cover

7. 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present

by Paul K. Davis

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

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

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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

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

by John Abrams

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

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

by Robert Coram

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Introduction to Graph Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

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

by Richard J. Trudeau

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A Logical Approach to Discrete Math (Texts and Monographs in Computer Science) cover

12. A Logical Approach to Discrete Math (Texts and Monographs in Computer Science)

by David Gries, Fred B. Schneider

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

13. 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

14. Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK

by John W. McCormick, Peter C. Chapin

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

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

by Cal Newport

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

16. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

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Introduction to Evolutionary Computing (Natural Computing Series) cover

17. Introduction to Evolutionary Computing (Natural Computing Series)

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

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

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

by Douglas W. Hubbard

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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

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

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

by Raymond Bradley, Norman Swartz

Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (MIT Press) cover

21. Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (MIT Press)

by Sanjoy Mahajan

The Three-Body Problem cover

22. The Three-Body Problem

by Cixin Liu

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

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

by Aurélien Géron

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The Evening Star: Venus Observed cover

24. The Evening Star: Venus Observed

by Henry S. F. Cooper

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

25. Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

by Jon Birger

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

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

by Gordon Laing

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27. 2: The Political Writings: "Political Regime" and "Summary of Plato's Laws" (Agora Editions)

by Alfarabi

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

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

by Scott Rosenberg

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How to Think About Analysis cover

29. How to Think About Analysis

by Lara Alcock

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Linear Algebra: Step by Step cover

30. Linear Algebra: Step by Step

by Kuldeep Singh

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Discrete Mathematics with Applications cover

31. Discrete Mathematics with Applications

by Susanna S. Epp

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

32. Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (3rd Edition) (Featured Titles for Transition to Advanced Mathematics)

by Gary Chartrand, Albert D. Polimeni, Ping Zhang

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

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

by Nancy Rodgers

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

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

by Raffi Grinberg

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Abstract Algebra: A Student-Friendly Approach cover

35. Abstract Algebra: A Student-Friendly Approach

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

Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction cover

36. Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction

by Edward A. Scheinerman

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

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

by Jonathan Weiner

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Just a Second cover

38. Just a Second

by Steve Jenkins

The Saga of Eric the Viking (Puffin Books) cover

39. The Saga of Eric the Viking (Puffin Books)

by Terry Jones

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This Is Not My Hat cover

40. This Is Not My Hat

by Jon Klassen

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I Want My Hat Back cover

41. I Want My Hat Back

by Jon Klassen

If cover

42. If

by David J. Smith

Sam and Dave Dig a Hole cover

43. Sam and Dave Dig a Hole

by Mac Barnett

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

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

by Rachel Ignotofsky

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The Awesome Body Book cover

45. The Awesome Body Book

by Adam Frost

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

46. 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

47. Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches

by Peter R. Grant

How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter, New Edition cover

48. How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter, New Edition

by Sherwin B. Nuland

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

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

by Bryan Caplan

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

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

by Deborah Heiligman

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

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

by Laura Overdeck

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Time Management for System Administrators cover

52. Time Management for System Administrators

by Tom Limoncelli

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

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

by Morgan D. Jones

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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules cover

54. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

by Steve McConnell

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

55. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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

56. 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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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) cover

57. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

by Jez Humble

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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature cover

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

by Steven Pinker, Victor Bevine, Roc Filella Escolà, ʻImanuʾel Loṭem

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

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

by Richard J. Haier

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

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

by Nicholas Wade

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) cover

61. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Managing The Professional Service Firm cover

62. Managing The Professional Service Firm

by David H. Maister

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Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution cover

63. Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution

by Brent Berlin, Paul Kay

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

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

by Thomas W. Hazlett

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

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

by Willard N. Ander, Neil Z. Stern

Nuclear Disaster in the Urals cover

66. Nuclear Disaster in the Urals

by Zhores Medvedev