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How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

1. How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps

by Lawrence Krubner, Natalie Sidner

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Volume 2: Trends in European Television (Communication) cover

2. Volume 2: Trends in European Television (Communication)

by Conseil de l'Europe,

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America cover

3. The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

by Frances FitzGerald

How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants cover

4. How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants

by David Rees

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Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK cover

5. Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK

by John W. McCormick, Peter C. Chapin

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Distributed TensorFlow cover

6. Distributed TensorFlow

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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

7. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Krste Asanović

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Say Good Night To Insomnia cover

8. Say Good Night To Insomnia

by Gregg D. Jacobs

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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart cover

9. Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart

by Rachel Botsman

Digital Image Warping (Systems) cover

10. Digital Image Warping (Systems)

by George Wolberg

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition cover

11. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition

by Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator cover

12. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

by Edwin Lefèvre

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Martin Gardner s Mathematical Games: The Entire Collection of His Scientific American Columns cover

13. Martin Gardner s Mathematical Games: The Entire Collection of His Scientific American Columns

by Martin Gardner

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The Romantic Economist: Imagination in Economics cover

14. The Romantic Economist: Imagination in Economics

by Richard Bronk

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Programming Rust cover

15. Programming Rust

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The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution cover

16. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending

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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage cover

17. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage

by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Lawrence Drew

大図解九龍城 cover

18. 大図解九龍城

by 可児弘明

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A Short History of Nearly Everything cover

19. A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson

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Inside Windows Debugging (Developer Reference) cover

20. Inside Windows Debugging (Developer Reference)

by Tarik Soulami

Red Rising cover

21. Red Rising

by Pierce Brown

Peak cover

22. Peak

by Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool

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Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors (Techstars) cover

23. Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors (Techstars)

by Brad Feld, Mahendra Ramsinghani

Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain cover

24. Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Principles: Life and Work cover

25. Principles: Life and Work

by Ray Dalio

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Dark Matter: A Novel cover

26. Dark Matter: A Novel

by Blake Crouch

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers cover

27. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

by Mary Roach

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Absolutely on Music: Conversations cover

28. Absolutely on Music: Conversations

by Seiji Ozawa, Haruki Murakami

The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully cover

29. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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The Complete Persepolis cover

30. The Complete Persepolis

by Marjane Satrapi

Leonardo da Vinci cover

31. Leonardo da Vinci

by Walter Isaacson

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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth cover

32. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares

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

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

by Cal Newport

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