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Interest Rate Swaps and Their Derivatives: A Practitioner's Guide cover

1. Interest Rate Swaps and Their Derivatives: A Practitioner's Guide

by Amir Sadr

Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition (Principles of Neural Science (Kandel)) cover

2. Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition (Principles of Neural Science (Kandel))

by Eric R. Kandel

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Cartoon Animation (Collector's Series) cover

3. Cartoon Animation (Collector's Series)

by Preston Blair

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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism cover

4. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

by Edward E. Baptist

Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (Early American Studies) cover

5. Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (Early American Studies)

by Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman

Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators cover

6. Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators

by Patrick M. Lencioni

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Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning cover

7. Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration cover

8. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

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The Deming Management Method cover

9. The Deming Management Method

by Mary Walton

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business cover

10. Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

by Rana Foroohar

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication (with featured article

11. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication (with featured article "The Necessary Art of Persuasion," by Jay A. Conger)

by Harvard Business Review

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

12. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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The Wal-Mart Triumph: Inside the World's #1 Company cover

13. The Wal-Mart Triumph: Inside the World's #1 Company

by Robert Slater

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article

14. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen)

by Harvard Business Review, Peter F. Drucker, Clayton M. Christensen, Daniel Goleman

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The Art of Facilitation: The Essentials for Leading Great Meetings and Creating Group Synergy cover

15. The Art of Facilitation: The Essentials for Leading Great Meetings and Creating Group Synergy

by Dale Hunter

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Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business cover

16. Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business

by Patrick M. Lencioni

The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (Collins Business Essentials) cover

17. The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (Collins Business Essentials)

by Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith

Guerilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business cover

18. 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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Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization: Fundamentals and Applications (Topics in Chemical Engineering) cover

19. Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization: Fundamentals and Applications (Topics in Chemical Engineering)

by Christodoulos A. Floudas

Marketing Management (14th Edition) cover

20. Marketing Management (14th Edition)

by Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller

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Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win cover

21. Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win

by Jack D. Schwager

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Market Wizards, Updated: Interviews With Top Traders cover

22. Market Wizards, Updated: Interviews With Top Traders

by Jack D. Schwager

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Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners cover

23. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

by Larry Harris

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The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders cover

24. The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders

by Jack D. Schwager

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The Sound Reinforcement Handbook cover

25. The Sound Reinforcement Handbook

by Gary Davis, Gary D. Davis

Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice cover

26. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice

by James D. Foley

Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C (2nd Edition) cover

27. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C (2nd Edition)

by James D. Foley

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Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation cover

28. Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation

by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys, Wenzel Jakob

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Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition cover

29. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition

by Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman

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Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition) cover

30. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition)

by John F. Hughes

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Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Twentieth Edition (Vol.1 & Vol.2) cover

31. 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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Rhoton's Cranial Anatomy and Surgical Approaches cover

32. Rhoton's Cranial Anatomy and Surgical Approaches

by Albert L. Rhoton Jr MD

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition cover

33. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition

by W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago

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Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition) cover

34. Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition)

by W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, Andrew M. Rudoff

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Lectures on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics - 2nd Edition cover

35. Lectures on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics - 2nd Edition

by Marco Taboga

Data Matching: Concepts and Techniques for Record Linkage, Entity Resolution, and Duplicate Detection (Data-Centric Systems and Applications) cover

36. Data Matching: Concepts and Techniques for Record Linkage, Entity Resolution, and Duplicate Detection (Data-Centric Systems and Applications)

by Peter Christen

The Art of Electronics cover

37. The Art of Electronics

by The Wikipedians

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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition (Springer Series in Statistics) cover

38. The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition (Springer Series in Statistics)

by Jerome Friedman, Robert Tibshirani

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Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning) cover

39. Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

by Kevin P. Murphy

Applied Logistic Regression (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) cover

40. Applied Logistic Regression (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

by David W. Hosmer, Jr., Stanley Lemeshow

Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development cover

41. Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development

by Xuedong Huang, Alejandro Acero, Hsiao-Wuen Hon

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Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition (Language, Speech, and Communication) cover

42. Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition (Language, Speech, and Communication)

by Frederick Jelinek

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning) cover

43. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

by Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto

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

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

by Christopher M. Bishop

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Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning) cover

45. Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

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Introduction to Linear Algebra, Fifth Edition cover

46. Introduction to Linear Algebra, Fifth Edition

by Gilbert Strang

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The C Programming Language cover

47. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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Lisp in Small Pieces cover

48. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec

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Generative Programming: Methods, Tools, and Applications cover

49. Generative Programming: Methods, Tools, and Applications

by Krzysztof Czarnecki, Ulrich Eisenecker

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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp cover

50. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp

by Peter Norvig

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The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel XXL (Multilingual Edition) cover

51. The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel XXL (Multilingual Edition)

by Rainer Willmann, Julia Voss

Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits and Gates to C and Beyond cover

52. Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits and Gates to C and Beyond

by Yale N. Patt, Sanjay J. Patel

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The Personalized Diet: The Pioneering Program to Lose Weight and Prevent Disease cover

53. The Personalized Diet: The Pioneering Program to Lose Weight and Prevent Disease

by Eran Segal, Eran Elinav

Linear Regression Analysis cover

54. Linear Regression Analysis

by George A. F. Seber, Alan J. Lee

Essential COM cover

55. Essential COM

by Don Box

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56. Cultural Marxism and Political Sociology (SAGE Library of Social Research)

by Richard R. Weiner

Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach cover

57. Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach

by Robert M. Clark

The 48 Laws of Power cover

58. The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

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Shared Source CLI Essentials cover

59. Shared Source CLI Essentials

by David Stutz, Ted Neward, Geoff Shilling

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence cover

60. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

by Michael Pollan

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Great at Work: How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More cover

61. Great at Work: How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More

by Morten T. Hansen

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet cover

62. Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

by Mark Lynas

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution cover

63. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

by Terence McKenna

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Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society cover

64. Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

by Eric A. Posner, Eric Glen Weyl

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Cooking with Chocolate: Essential Recipes and Techniques cover

65. Cooking with Chocolate: Essential Recipes and Techniques

by Frederic Bau

The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others cover

66. The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others

by Tali Sharot

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Programming Python cover

67. Programming Python

by Mark Lutz

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The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man cover

68. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

by John Perkins

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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics cover

69. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

by Tim Marshall

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Gödel's Proof cover

70. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman

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Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK cover

71. Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK

by John W. McCormick, Peter C. Chapin

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Japan's Longest Day cover

72. Japan's Longest Day

by Bungei Shunjū Senshi Kenkyūkai, Pacific War Research Society

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The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Revised Reprint cover

73. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Revised Reprint

by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit

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New Horizons in Geometry (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions) cover

74. New Horizons in Geometry (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions)

by Tom M. Apostol, Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian

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How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

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

by Natalie Sidner, Lawrence Krubner

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Edingbuggers vs. Weegies: Why Edingburgh is Slightly Superior to Glasgow / Weegies vs. Edingbuggers: Why Glasgow Smiles Better Than Edingburgh cover

76. Edingbuggers vs. Weegies: Why Edingburgh is Slightly Superior to Glasgow / Weegies vs. Edingbuggers: Why Glasgow Smiles Better Than Edingburgh

by Ian Black

Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care cover

77. Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care

by Charles Silver, David A. Hyman

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The Ethics of Liberty cover

78. The Ethics of Liberty

by Murray N. Rothbard

Real-Time Collision Detection (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3-D Technology) cover

79. Real-Time Collision Detection (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3-D Technology)

by Christer Ericson

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Game Engine Architecture, Third Edition cover

80. Game Engine Architecture, Third Edition

by Jason Gregory

Sex and the Origins of Death cover

81. Sex and the Origins of Death

by William R. Clark

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Interactive Programming Environments cover

82. Interactive Programming Environments

by David R. Barstow, Howard E. Shrobe, Erik Sandewall

The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) cover

83. The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

by Noam Wasserman

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Building Embedded Systems: Programmable Hardware cover

84. Building Embedded Systems: Programmable Hardware

by Changyi Gu

Professional Embedded ARM Development cover

85. Professional Embedded ARM Development

by James A. Langbridge

Gravitation cover

86. Gravitation

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

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The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) cover

87. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)

by Leland Wilkinson

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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard cover

88. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

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Mushrooms Demystified cover

89. Mushrooms Demystified

by David Arora

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Everyone Poops (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) cover

90. Everyone Poops (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

by Taro Gomi

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