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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It cover

1. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

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Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students cover

2. Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

by Ellen Lupton

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The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting cover

3. The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting

by Jimmy Moore, Jason Fung

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The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir cover

4. The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir

by Thomas Dolby

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It cover

5. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World cover

6. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

7. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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Kelly: More Than My Share of It All cover

8. Kelly: More Than My Share of It All

by Clarence L. Johnson

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Shark Bait: The

9. Shark Bait: The "Misadventures" of an Oceanic Ferry Pilot

by James A. Creighton

Inside the Windows NT File System cover

10. Inside the Windows NT File System

by Helen Custer

Coaching Run-And-Shoot Football cover

11. Coaching Run-And-Shoot Football

by Al Black

Salt: A World History cover

12. Salt: A World History

by Mark Kurlansky

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A Vertical Empire: The History of the UK Rocket and Space Programme 1950-1971 cover

13. A Vertical Empire: The History of the UK Rocket and Space Programme 1950-1971

by C. N. Hill

PC Intern: System Programming : The Encyclopedia of DOS Programming Know How (Developer's Series/Book and Disk) cover

14. PC Intern: System Programming : The Encyclopedia of DOS Programming Know How (Developer's Series/Book and Disk)

by Michael Tischer

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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition) cover

15. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)

by Stuart Jonathan Russell, Peter Norvig, Ernest Davis

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The Road Chose Me Volume 1: Two years and 40,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina cover

16. The Road Chose Me Volume 1: Two years and 40,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina

by Dan Grec

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Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (Tempus) cover

17. Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (Tempus)

by Susan Lammers

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Notes on Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

18. Notes on Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Yiannis Moschovakis

The Art of Electronics cover

19. The Art of Electronics

by The Wikipedians

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Gravitation cover

20. Gravitation

by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler

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Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times cover

21. Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times

by Lucy Lethbridge

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In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power (Dispatch Books) cover

22. In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power (Dispatch Books)

by Alfred W. McCoy

The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child (Sears Parenting Library) cover

23. The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child (Sears Parenting Library)

by Robert W. Sears

Inconsistency Robustness (Studies in Logic) cover

24. Inconsistency Robustness (Studies in Logic)

by Carl Hewitt, John Woods

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The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms: Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lion's Mane, and Maitake Mushrooms at Home cover

25. The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms: Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lion's Mane, and Maitake Mushrooms at Home

by Stephen Russell

A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia cover

26. A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia

by Blaine Harden

Mindfulness, 25th anniversary edition (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) cover

27. Mindfulness, 25th anniversary edition (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

by Ellen J. Langer

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Air Vagabonds: Oceans, Airmen, and a Quest for Adventure cover

28. Air Vagabonds: Oceans, Airmen, and a Quest for Adventure

by Anthony J. Vallone

The Japanese Arts and Self-Cultivation cover

29. The Japanese Arts and Self-Cultivation

by Robert Edgar Carter

The Discipline of Delusion: How Secular Ideas Became the New Idolatry cover

30. The Discipline of Delusion: How Secular Ideas Became the New Idolatry

by Jerry Bangert

Learning Python cover

31. Learning Python

by Mark Lutz

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Pro ASP.NET Core MVC 2 cover

32. Pro ASP.NET Core MVC 2

by Adam Freeman

Human Universals cover

33. Human Universals

by Donald Brown

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Learn to Program, Second Edition (The Facets of Ruby Series) cover

34. Learn to Program, Second Edition (The Facets of Ruby Series)

by Chris Pine

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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind cover

35. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

by Jack Trout, Al Ries

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