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Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU cover

1. Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU

by Wendy Kaminer

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

2. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare) cover

3. Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)

by Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan

Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty (History of Communication) cover

4. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty (History of Communication)

by Alex Carey

You Have the Right to Remain Innocent cover

5. You Have the Right to Remain Innocent

by James J. Duane

The Architecture Of Open Source Applications, Volume Ii cover

6. The Architecture Of Open Source Applications, Volume Ii

by Amy Brown, Greg Wilson

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

7. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

8. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel

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The Architecture Of Open Source Applications cover

9. The Architecture Of Open Source Applications

by Amy Brown, Greg Wilson

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The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems cover

10. The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems

by Bryan D. Jones, Frank R. Baumgartner

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) cover

11. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)

by Hannah Arendt

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The Productive Programmer (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) cover

12. The Productive Programmer (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

by Neal Ford

From Impossible To Inevitable: How Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue cover

13. From Impossible To Inevitable: How Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue

by Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin

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The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse cover

14. The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

by Brian William Cowan

Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front cover

15. Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front

by Joel Salatin

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Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist cover

16. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

by Roger Lowenstein

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Site Reliability Engineering cover

17. Site Reliability Engineering

by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy

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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics cover

18. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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The Power of When: Discover Your Chronotype--and the Best Time to Eat Lunch, Ask for a Raise, Have Sex, Write a Novel, Take Your Meds, and More cover

19. The Power of When: Discover Your Chronotype--and the Best Time to Eat Lunch, Ask for a Raise, Have Sex, Write a Novel, Take Your Meds, and More

by Michael Breus

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition) cover

20. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire cover

21. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

by James Wallace, Jim Erickson

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Hydrometrical observations and experiments in the brewery. cover

22. Hydrometrical observations and experiments in the brewery.

Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street cover

23. Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street

by Fred Schwed, Jr.

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Clash of Eagles: The Clash of Eagles Trilogy Book I cover

24. Clash of Eagles: The Clash of Eagles Trilogy Book I

by Alan Smale

Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach cover

25. Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach

by Dandridge M. Malone

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

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

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns cover

27. The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns

by Joseph T. Glatthaar

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life cover

28. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

by Mark Manson

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The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness cover

29. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness

by John Yates, Matthew Immergut, Jeremy Graves

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How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets cover

30. How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

by Felix Dennis

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The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine cover

31. The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine

by Miko Peled

Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism cover

32. Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism

by Richard D. Wolff

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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality cover

33. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

by Max Tegmark

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Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development (Neural Network Modeling and Connectionism) cover

34. Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development (Neural Network Modeling and Connectionism)

by Jeffrey L. Elman

Contact cover

35. Contact

by Carl Sagan

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse) (Volume 1) cover

36. We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse) (Volume 1)

by Dennis E. Taylor

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People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful cover

37. People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful

by Dale Partridge

Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega cover

38. Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega

by Gregory Chaitin

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Inconsistent Mathematics (Mathematics and Its Applications) cover

39. Inconsistent Mathematics (Mathematics and Its Applications)

by C.E. Mortensen

Programming the Network with Perl cover

40. Programming the Network with Perl

by Paul Barry

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

41. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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Java 9 Modularity cover

42. Java 9 Modularity

by Sander Mak, Paul Bakker

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Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference cover

43. Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference

by Judea Pearl

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Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas cover

44. Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas

by Steven Poole

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The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission cover

45. The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission

by Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, Joji Watanuki

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Computers and the imagination: Visual adventures beyond the edge cover

46. Computers and the imagination: Visual adventures beyond the edge

by Clifford A. Pickover

Methods of Logic cover

47. Methods of Logic

by Willard Van Orman Quine

Star Trek The Next Generation: Technical Manual cover

48. Star Trek The Next Generation: Technical Manual

by Rick Sternbach, Michael Okuda

Essentials of RF and Microwave Grounding (Artech House Microwave Library) cover

49. Essentials of RF and Microwave Grounding (Artech House Microwave Library)

by Eric Holzman

The Pity Of War: Explaining World War I cover

50. The Pity Of War: Explaining World War I

by Niall Ferguson

Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science cover

51. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science

by Philip N. Klein

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The Go Programming Language (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

52. The Go Programming Language (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Alan A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan

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