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1. Against Intellectual Monopoly
by Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine
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2. The Ultimate Paper Airplane: With Step-by Step Instructions for Seven Different Models
by Richard Kline
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3. 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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4. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
by Seymour A. Papert
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5. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by Tim Wu
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6. Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
by Paul Allen
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7. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
by G. Pascal Zachary
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8. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
by Jesse Eisinger
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9. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
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10. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
by Robert B. Cialdini
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11. The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems
by W. Michael Kelley
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12. 3,000 Solved Problems in Linear Algebra
by Seymour Lipschutz
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13. Schaum's 3,000 Solved Problems in Calculus (Schaum's Outlines)
by Elliott Mendelson
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14. Head First Design Patterns
by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
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15. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
by Kim Zetter
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16. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
by M. Mitchell Waldrop
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17. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition
by Paul Scherz, Simon Monk
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18. Exercises in Programming Style
by Cristina Videira Lopes
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19. Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Volume 136) (Lecture Notes)
by Donald Ervin Knuth
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20. Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable
by Seth Fletcher
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21. The Site Reliability Workbook
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22. 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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23. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
by Michael Lopp
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24. The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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25. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
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26. The Art of Electronics
by Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill
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27. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
by Steve McConnell
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28. Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
by Dan Lyons
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29. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
by John F. Hughes
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30. Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
by Kevin P. Murphy
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31. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
by Michael A. Hiltzik
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32. The View from Flyover Country
by Sarah Kendzior
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33. Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
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34. 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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35. Lisp in Small Pieces
by Christian Queinnec
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36. Quantum Computing Since Democritus
by Scott Aaronson
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37. Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by Ian Stewart
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38. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by Anand Giridharadas
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39. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition
by Betty Edwards
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40. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
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41. Brief Answers to the Big Questions
by Stephen Hawking
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42. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
by Michael Lewis
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43. Gödel's Proof
by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman
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44. Xunzi: The Complete Text
by Xunzi
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45. Psychology and Space
by Yuri Gagarin, Vladimir Lebedev
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46. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
by Steve Krug
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47. Black Rednecks and White Liberals
by Thomas Sowell
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48. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
by Erving Goffman
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49. Hands-On Programming with R
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50. The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
by Vladimir Nabokov
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51. sendmail, 4th Edition
by Bryan Costales, Claus Assmann, George Jansen, Gregory Shapiro
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52. Programming Rust
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53. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
by Nir Eyal
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54. An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by Greg Michaelson
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55. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker
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56. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
by Alfie Kohn
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57. Perl Best Practices
by Damian Conway
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58. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
by Peter Seibel
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59. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader
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60. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)
by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev
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61. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
by Peter Norvig
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62. The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works
by Shinzen Young
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63. Team Geek
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64. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
by Scott Rosenberg
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65. New Foundations for Classical Mechanics (Fundamental Theories of Physics, 99)
by David Hestenes
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66. Building Scalable Web Sites
by Cal Henderson
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67. The state of Jupyter
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68. New computational paradigms for computer music
by Gérard Assayag
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69. Experimental Methods in RF Design Classic Reprint Edition
by Wes Hayward, Rick Campbell, Bob Larkin
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70. Logic: Techniques of Formal Reasoning
by Donald Kalish, Richard Montague, Gary Mar
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71. Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition
by Everett M. Rogers
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72. Introduction to Linear Algebra (Gilbert Strang, 2)
by Gilbert Strang
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73. The Secrets Behind Great One-on-One Meetings
by Esther Schindler
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74. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi
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75. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
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76. The Angular Tutorial: Learn Front-End Development and Automated Testing with Angular
by Adam Morgan
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77. Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC
by Peter Norton, John Socha
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78. Algorithmic Trading and DMA: An introduction to direct access trading strategies
by Barry Johnson
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79. The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern World
by Mary Bond
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80. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
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81. Code
by Charles Petzold
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82. How will the GDPR impact machine learning?
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83. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
by John E. Sarno
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84. Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services
by Kim Goodwin
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85. The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
by Thomas Ligotti
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86. Essential Cell Biology
by Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Karen Hopkin, Alexander D. Johnson, Julian Lewis, Keith Roberts
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87. Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
by Anthony De Mello
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88. Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux)
by Nick Srnicek
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89. 21st Century C, 2nd Edition
by Ben Klemens
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90. For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
by Sarah Rose
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91. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by Robert M. Sapolsky
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92. Secret Sauce: The Ultimate Growth Hacking Guide
by Austen Allred, Vin Clancy
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93. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
by Steven Pressfield
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94. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It―A Guide to Starting a Business in a Productive and Successful Way
by Michael E. Gerber
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95. The Machinery of Life
by David S. Goodsell
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96. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber
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97. Looting Greece: A New Financial Imperialism Emerges
by Jack Rasmus
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98. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
by Marc Levinson
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99. Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
by Peter D. Norton
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100. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness
by John Yates, Matthew Immergut, Jeremy Graves
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