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The New Geography of Jobs cover

1. The New Geography of Jobs

by Enrico Moretti

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The Mezzanine cover

2. The Mezzanine

by Nicholson Baker

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter) cover

3. 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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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

4. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Don Norman

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Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology) cover

5. Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)

by Peter D. Norton

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Drug Wars: How Big Pharma Raises Prices and Keeps Generics off the Market cover

6. Drug Wars: How Big Pharma Raises Prices and Keeps Generics off the Market

by Robin Feldman, Evan Frondorf

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Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels cover

7. Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels

by Chotzinoff Anne Grossman, Lisa Grossman Thomas

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The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition) cover

8. The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition)

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil, Robert N. M. Watson

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Hostage cover

9. Hostage

by Guy Delisle

Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen cover

10. Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

by James Suzman

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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) cover

11. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)

by Christopher M. Bishop

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Machine Learning cover

12. Machine Learning

by Robert J. Schalkoff

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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy cover

13. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy

by Henry George

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21st Century C cover

14. 21st Century C

by Ben Klemens

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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1 cover

15. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1

by Karl Marx

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C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd Edition cover

16. C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd Edition

by Kim N. King

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The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: New International Edition cover

17. The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: New International Edition

by Thomas T. Nagle, John E. Hogan, Joseph Zale

Vietnam: A History cover

18. Vietnam: A History

by Stanley Karnow

Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia cover

19. Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia

by John Dickie

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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity cover

20. Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

by Kim Scott

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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History cover

21. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

by John M. Barry

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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition cover

22. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition

by Oliver Sacks

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The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 cover

23. The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900

by Stephen M. Stigler

Being Mortal Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End cover

24. Being Mortal Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

Pair Programming Illuminated cover

25. Pair Programming Illuminated

by Laurie Williams, Robert R. Kessler

A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates cover

26. A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

by Rand Corporation

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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date cover

27. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date

by Robert X. Cringely

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Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance (Spectre) cover

28. Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance (Spectre)

by Peter Linebaugh

Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight cover

29. Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight

by John W. Foreman

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Windows Internals, Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more (7th Edition) cover

30. Windows Internals, Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more (7th Edition)

by Pavel Yosifovich, Mark E. Russinovich, Alex Ionescu, David A. Solomon

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The Boron Letters cover

31. The Boron Letters

by Gary Halbert, Bond Halbert

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A Tour of C++ (C++ In-Depth Series) cover

32. A Tour of C++ (C++ In-Depth Series)

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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Computer Science Distilled: Learn the Art of Solving Computational Problems cover

33. Computer Science Distilled: Learn the Art of Solving Computational Problems

by Wladston Ferreira Filho, Raimondo Pictet

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

34. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew

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Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us cover

35. Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us

by Will Storr