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1. The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen Hawking
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2. Stealing the Corner Office: The Winning Career Strategies They'll Never Teach You in Business School
by Brendan Reid
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3. Algebra 1: An Incremental Development, 3rd Edition (Saxon Algebra 1)
by John H. Saxon
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4. My Little Big Math Book
by Lars Ronnback, M.D., Ph.D.
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5. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by Tim Wu
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6. Kids Shenanigans: Great Things to Do That Mom and Dad Will Just Barely Approve Of/Book and Whoopie Cushion
by Klutz Press
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7. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
by Seymour A. Papert
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8. The Ultimate Paper Airplane: With Step-by Step Instructions for Seven Different Models
by Richard Kline
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9. Against Intellectual Monopoly
by Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine
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10. Introduction to Logic Circuits & Logic Design with VHDL
by Brock J. LaMeres
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11. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
by Jesse Eisinger
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12. Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy
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13. Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
by Simon Sinek
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14. Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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15. Bebop to the Boolean Boogie, Third Edition: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics
by Clive Maxfield
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16. The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems (Humongous Books)
by W. Michael Kelley
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17. 3,000 Solved Problems in Linear Algebra
by Seymour Lipschutz
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18. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
by G. Pascal Zachary
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19. Head First Design Patterns
by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
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20. The Negative (Ansel Adams Photography)
by Ansel Adams
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21. Exercises in Programming Style
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22. Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Lecture Notes)
by Donald Ervin Knuth
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23. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition
by Paul Scherz, Simon Monk
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24. Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course
by Thomas C. Hayes, Paul Horowitz
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25. Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy (Business and Public Policy)
by Edward T. Walker
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26. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
by Kim Zetter
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27. Run for Something: A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself
by Amanda Litman
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28. Interest Rate Swaps and Their Derivatives: A Practitioner's Guide
by Amir Sadr
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29. Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
by Paul Allen
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30. The Knight Who Said No!
by Lucy Rowland
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31. Nine Open Arms
by Benny Lindelauf, John Nieuwenhuizen
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32. Mr Birdsnest and the House Next Door
by Julia Donaldson
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33. My Little Book of Big Freedoms: The Human Rights Act in Pictures
by Chris Riddell, Amnesty International
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34. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by Joshua Foer
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35. The Art of Electronics
by The Wikipedians
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36. More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded (Popular Culture and Philosophy)
by William Irwin
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37. The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful
by Michael Ellsberg
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38. Optimal Cupid: Mastering the Hidden Logic of OkCupid
by Christopher McKinlay
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39. Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (Early American Studies)
by Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman
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40. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
by Edward E. Baptist
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41. Discriminants, Resultants, and Multidimensional Determinants (Modern Birkhäuser Classics)
by Israel M. Gelfand, Mikhail Kapranov, Andrei Zelevinsky
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42. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
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43. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
by Steve McConnell
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44. The Deming Management Method
by Mary Walton
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45. The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (Collins Business Essentials)
by Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith
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46. Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators
by Patrick M. Lencioni
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47. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication (with featured article "The Necessary Art of Persuasion," by Jay A. Conger)
by Harvard Business Review
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48. Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
by Patrick M. Lencioni
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49. The Wal-Mart Triumph: Inside the World's #1 Company
by Robert Slater
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50. Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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51. Guerilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business
by Jay Conrad Levinson, Jeannie Levinson, Amy Levinson
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52. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
by James Gleick
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53. Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
by Dan Lyons
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54. Hotwired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites
by Jeffrey Veen
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55. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
by Michael Pillsbury
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56. Schaum's Outline of Precalculus, 3rd Edition: 738 Solved Problems + 30 Videos (Schaum's Outlines)
by Fred Safier
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57. The Oasis of Now: Selected Poems (Lannan Translations Selection Series)
by Suhrāb Sipihrī
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58. NASA Hubble Space Telescope - 1990 onwards (including all upgrades): An insight into the history, development, collaboration, construction and role of ... space telescope (Owners' Workshop Manual)
by Dr. David Baker
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59. Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization: Fundamentals and Applications (Topics in Chemical Engineering)
by Christodoulos A. Floudas
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60. Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)
by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
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61. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
by Michael Lopp
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62. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
by Michael Lewis
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63. Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
by M.E. Thomas
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64. Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
by Dr. Alan Walker
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65. Feedback Control for Computer Systems
by Philipp K. Janert
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66. The London Eye Mystery
by Siobhan Dowd
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67. The Guggenheim Mystery
by Robin Stevens, Siobhan Dowd
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68. The Explorer
by Katherine Rundell
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69. Marketing Management (14th Edition)
by Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller
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70. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
by Michael A. Hiltzik
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71. Physically Based Rendering, Third Edition: From Theory to Implementation
by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys, Wenzel Jakob
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72. Drucker’s Lost Art of Management: Peter Drucker’s Timeless Vision for Building Effective Organizations
by Joseph A. Maciariello, Karen Linkletter
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73. Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win
by Jack D. Schwager
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74. Market Wizards, Updated: Interviews With Top Traders
by Jack D. Schwager
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75. The Odyssey
by Homer
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76. The Sound Reinforcement Handbook
by Gary Davis, Gary D. Davis
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77. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition
by Betty Edwards
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78. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
by Eric Evans
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79. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C (2nd Edition)
by James D. Foley
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80. Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation
by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys, Wenzel Jakob
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81. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
by James D. Foley
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82. Rhoton's Cranial Anatomy and Surgical Approaches
by Albert L. Rhoton Jr MD
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83. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Twentieth Edition (Vol.1 & Vol.2)
by J. Larry Jameson, Anthony S. Fauci, Dennis L. Kasper, Stephen L. Hauser, Dan L. Longo, Joseph Loscalzo
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84. Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
by Rob Delaney
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85. Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
by David Michaels
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86. Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
by Gary Shteyngart
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87. Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition)
by W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, Andrew M. Rudoff
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88. Programming Game AI by Example (Wordware Game Developers Library)
by Mat Buckland
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89. UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Edition)
by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Ben Whaley, Trent Hein
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90. The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
by Brad Stone
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91. SimCity 2000: Power, Politics, and Planning: Revised Edition (Secrets of the Games)
by Nick Dargahi, Michael Bremer
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92. The Tassajara Bread Book
by Edward Espe Brown
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93. Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
by Rana Foroohar
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94. How Long Will South Africa Survive?: The Looming Crisis
by R.W. Johnson
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95. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
by Mancur Olson
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96. Black Rednecks and White Liberals
by Thomas Sowell
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97. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins
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98. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
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99. Making 8-bit Arcade Games in C
by Steven Hugg
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100. Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by Rachel Love Nuwer
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