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Natural Language Processing Recipes: Unlocking Text Data with Machine Learning and Deep Learning using Python cover

1. Natural Language Processing Recipes: Unlocking Text Data with Machine Learning and Deep Learning using Python

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The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why cover

2. The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why

by Arthur Benjamin

Counterexamples in Analysis cover

3. Counterexamples in Analysis

by Bernard R. Gelbaum, John M. H. Olmsted

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UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record cover

4. UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record

by Leslie Kean

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

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

by Jesse Eisinger

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Freebsd Mastery: Advanced Zfs cover

6. Freebsd Mastery: Advanced Zfs

by Michael Lucas, Allan Jude

FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS cover

7. FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS

by Michael Warren Lucas, Allan Jude

No bullshit guide to linear algebra cover

8. No bullshit guide to linear algebra

by Ivan Savov

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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices about Giving Back cover

9. Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices about Giving Back

by William MacAskill

Linear Algebra, 4th Edition cover

10. Linear Algebra, 4th Edition

by Stephen H. Friedberg, Arnold J. Insel, Lawrence E. Spence

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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America cover

11. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

by Daniel J. Boorstin

Migrations And Cultures: A World View cover

12. Migrations And Cultures: A World View

by Thomas Sowell

The Missing Risk Premium: Why Low Volatility Investing Works cover

13. The Missing Risk Premium: Why Low Volatility Investing Works

by Eric G. Falkenstein

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It cover

14. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

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The Revolution Of Nihilism: Warning To The West cover

15. The Revolution Of Nihilism: Warning To The West

by Hermann Rauschning

The Citizen's Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century cover

16. The Citizen's Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century

by Joseph R. Blasi, Richard Barry Freeman, Douglas Kruse

The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth cover

17. The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth

by Eric Ries

iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library) cover

18. iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library)

by Marcel Weiher

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Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture cover

19. Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture

by Juliet B. Schor

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Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller cover

20. Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

by Donella Meadows

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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update cover

21. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

by Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows

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O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training cover

22. O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training

by Jerry D. Peek

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Cricket Liu cover

23. Cricket Liu

The Water Knife cover

24. The Water Knife

by Paolo Bacigalupi

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Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea cover

25. Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea

by Jang Jin-sung

Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite cover

26. Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite

by Suki Kim

Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME): An Introduction cover

27. Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME): An Introduction

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A Language Older Than Words cover

28. A Language Older Than Words

by Derrick Jensen

Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind cover

29. Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

by Andy Clark

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Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet cover

30. Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet

by Ugo Bardi

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad cover

31. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad

by Fareed Zakaria

On Democracy (With a New Preface and Two New Chapters by Ian Shapiro) cover

32. On Democracy (With a New Preface and Two New Chapters by Ian Shapiro)

by Robert A. Dahl, Ian Shapiro

Democracy and Its Critics cover

33. Democracy and Its Critics

by Robert Alan Dahl

Models of Democracy, 3rd Edition cover

34. Models of Democracy, 3rd Edition

by David Held

The Good Book of Human Nature: An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible cover

35. The Good Book of Human Nature: An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible

by Carel van Schaik, Kai Michel

Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum cover

36. Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum

by Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman

Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum cover

37. Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

by Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman

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Classical Mechanics cover

38. Classical Mechanics

by Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole, John L. Safko

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Fluent Python cover

39. Fluent Python

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The Manager's Path cover

40. The Manager's Path

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IPv6 Core Protocols Implementation (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) cover

41. IPv6 Core Protocols Implementation (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

by Qing Li, Tatuya Jinmei, Keiichi Shima

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think cover

42. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think

by Bryan Caplan

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