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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

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Thinking in Systems: A Primer cover

3. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

by Donella Meadows

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

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

by Robert Coram

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

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

by Seymour Lipschutz

Software Tools in Pascal cover

6. Software Tools in Pascal

by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger

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Etudes for Programmers cover

7. Etudes for Programmers

by Charles Wetherell

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

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

by George Polya

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

9. 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

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

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

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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective cover

11. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

by Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman

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

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

by William Duggan

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

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

by B.R. Myers

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

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

by Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

The Timeless Way of Building cover

16. The Timeless Way of Building

by Christopher Alexander

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Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime―from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door cover

17. Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime―from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door

How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

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

by Natalie Sidner, Lawrence Krubner

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

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

by Garrett Hardin

How Apollo Flew to the Moon (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration) cover

20. How Apollo Flew to the Moon (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

by W. David Woods

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

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

by John B. Arden

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

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

by Aurélien Géron

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

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

by Maxwell Leo Howell

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

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

by Matthew Walker

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

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

by David Bank

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The Russian Revolution: A New History cover

26. The Russian Revolution: A New History

by Sean McMeekin

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

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

by G. Pascal Zachary

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

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

by Brian De Haaff

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) cover

29. A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

by Barbara A. Oakley

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

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

by Dambisa Moyo

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BeagleBone Robotic Projects - Second Edition: Build and control robots that walk, swim, roll, and fly cover

31. BeagleBone Robotic Projects - Second Edition: Build and control robots that walk, swim, roll, and fly

by Richard Grimmett

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

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

by Charles Petzold

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The Blue Death: The Intriguing Past and Present Danger of the Water You Drink cover

33. The Blue Death: The Intriguing Past and Present Danger of the Water You Drink

by Robert D. Morris

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

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

by Christopher Small

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The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club cover

35. The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club

by Peter Hook

Adaptive Code via C#: Class and Interface Design, Design Patterns, and SOLID Principles (Developer Reference) cover

36. Adaptive Code via C#: Class and Interface Design, Design Patterns, and SOLID Principles (Developer Reference)

by Gary McLean Hall

The Hidden Injuries of Class cover

37. The Hidden Injuries of Class

by Richard Sennett, Jonathan Cobb

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

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

by Sandor Lehoczky, Richard Rusczyk

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Geometry cover

39. Geometry

by Israel M. Gelfand, Tatiana Alekseyevskaya (Gelfand)

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

40. 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

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

by Robert Ringer

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Legitimation Crisis cover

42. Legitimation Crisis

by Juergen Habermas

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

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

by Henry Hazlitt

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Son Rise: The Miracle Continues cover

44. Son Rise: The Miracle Continues

by Barry Neil Kaufman