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Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow cover

1. Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow

by Joshua Spodek

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How to win friends and influence people cover

2. How to win friends and influence people

by Dale Carnegie

Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller cover

3. Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

by Donella Meadows

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Distributed TensorFlow cover

4. Distributed TensorFlow

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

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

by Robert Coram

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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) cover

6. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)

by George Polya

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Schaum's Outline of Discrete Mathematics, Revised Third Edition cover

7. Schaum's Outline of Discrete Mathematics, Revised Third Edition

by Seymour Lipschutz

Software Tools in Pascal cover

8. Software Tools in Pascal

by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger

Etudes for Programmers cover

9. Etudes for Programmers

by Charles Wetherell

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Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement (Columbia Business School Publishing) cover

10. Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement (Columbia Business School Publishing)

by William Duggan

Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time cover

11. Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

by Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion cover

12. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt

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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature cover

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

by Steven Pinker

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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century cover

14. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

by Jessica Bruder

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - and Why It Matters cover

15. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - and Why It Matters

by B.R. Myers

Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness (Cognitive Science Series) cover

16. Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness (Cognitive Science Series)

by Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK cover

17. Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK

by John W. McCormick, Peter C. Chapin

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Spam Nation cover

18. Spam Nation

The Timeless Way of Building cover

19. The Timeless Way of Building

by Christopher Alexander

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Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft cover

20. Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft

by David Bank

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Filters Against Folly: How To Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent cover

21. Filters Against Folly: How To Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent

by Garrett Hardin

Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

22. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary

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Convict Conditioning: How to Bust Free of All Weaknessâ€”Using the Lost Secrets of Supreme Survival Strength cover

23. Convict Conditioning: How to Bust Free of All Weaknessâ€”Using the Lost Secrets of Supreme Survival Strength

by Paul Wade

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How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

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

by Lawrence Krubner, Natalie Sidner

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Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life cover

25. Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life

by John B. Arden

People's Republic of China 4-Minute Exercise Plan cover

26. People's Republic of China 4-Minute Exercise Plan

by Maxwell Leo Howell

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow cover

27. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow

by Aurélien Géron

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Son Rise: The Miracle Continues cover

28. Son Rise: The Miracle Continues

by Barry Neil Kaufman

Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It cover

29. Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It

by Brian De Haaff

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams cover

30. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

by Matthew Walker

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Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening (Music / Culture) cover

31. Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening (Music / Culture)

by Christopher Small

BeagleBone Robotic Projects: Create complex and exciting robotic projects with the BeagleBone Blue cover

32. BeagleBone Robotic Projects: Create complex and exciting robotic projects with the BeagleBone Blue

by Richard Grimmett

The Russian Revolution: A New History cover

33. The Russian Revolution: A New History

by Sean McMeekin

Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa cover

34. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

by Dambisa Moyo

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The Blue Death: The Intriguing Past and Present Danger of the Water You Drink – John Snow, Deadly Cholera Epidemics, and Catastrophic Hazards cover

35. The Blue Death: The Intriguing Past and Present Danger of the Water You Drink – John Snow, Deadly Cholera Epidemics, and Catastrophic Hazards

by Robert D. Morris

Code cover

36. Code

by Charles Petzold

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The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club cover

37. The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club

by Peter Hook

The Hidden Injuries of Class cover

38. The Hidden Injuries of Class

by Richard Sennett, Jonathan Cobb

The Art of Problem Solving, Vol. 1: The Basics cover

39. The Art of Problem Solving, Vol. 1: The Basics

by Sandor Lehoczky, Richard Rusczyk

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Geometry cover

40. Geometry

by Ray C. Jurgensen, Richard G. Brown, John W. Jurgensen

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win cover

41. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

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Winning through Intimidation: How to Be the Victor, Not the Victim, in Business and in Life cover

42. Winning through Intimidation: How to Be the Victor, Not the Victim, in Business and in Life

by Robert Ringer

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade cover

43. Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

by Robert Cialdini

Legitimation Crisis cover

44. Legitimation Crisis

by Juergen Habermas

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics cover

45. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

by Henry Hazlitt

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