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Kids Shenanigans: Great Things to Do That Mom and Dad Will Just Barely Approve Of/Book and Whoopie Cushion cover

1. Kids Shenanigans: Great Things to Do That Mom and Dad Will Just Barely Approve Of/Book and Whoopie Cushion

by Klutz Press

The Ultimate Paper Airplane: With Step-by Step Instructions for Seven Different Models cover

2. The Ultimate Paper Airplane: With Step-by Step Instructions for Seven Different Models

by Richard Kline

Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft cover

3. Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft

by Paul Allen

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The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) cover

4. The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated cover

5. The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

by Vladimir Nabokov

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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

6. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel

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Component-Based Software Engineering: Putting the Pieces Together cover

7. Component-Based Software Engineering: Putting the Pieces Together

by George T. Heineman, William T. Councill

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Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (2nd Edition) cover

8. Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (2nd Edition)

by Clemens Szyperski, Dominik Gruntz, Stephan Murer

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Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal cover

9. Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal

by Oren Klaff

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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic cover

10. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

by Mike Duncan

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Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story cover

11. Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story

by Jerry Weissman

Effectual Entrepreneurship cover

12. Effectual Entrepreneurship

by Stuart Read, Saras D. Sarasvathy, Nick Dew, Robert Wiltbank

Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week cover

13. Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week

by John Little, Doug McGuff

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Funded: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Your First Round cover

14. Funded: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Your First Round

by Katherine Hague

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Planet Germany (German Edition) cover

15. Planet Germany (German Edition)

by Eric T. Hansen

Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Finding and Using the World's Information cover

16. Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Finding and Using the World's Information

by Rael Dornfest, Paul Bausch, Tara Calishain

Practical Self Sufficiency cover

17. Practical Self Sufficiency

by Dick Strawbridge, James Strawbridge

Way of the Wolf: Straight Line Selling: Master the Art of Persuasion, Influence, and Success cover

18. Way of the Wolf: Straight Line Selling: Master the Art of Persuasion, Influence, and Success

by Jordan Belfort

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

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

by Cal Newport

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Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well cover

20. Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

by Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen

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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen cover

21. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

by Christopher McDougall

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Realm of Racket: Learn to Program, One Game at a Time! cover

22. Realm of Racket: Learn to Program, One Game at a Time!

by Matthias Felleisen, David Van Horn, Conrad Barski, Northeastern University Students

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Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials cover

23. Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials

by Malcolm Harris

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism cover

24. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

by James W. Loewen

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

25. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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Quaternions for Computer Graphics cover

26. Quaternions for Computer Graphics

by John Vince

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Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations cover

27. Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations

by Arundhati Roy, John Cusack

How I Wish I'd Taught Maths: Lessons learned from research, conversations with experts, and 12 years of mistakes cover

28. How I Wish I'd Taught Maths: Lessons learned from research, conversations with experts, and 12 years of mistakes

by Craig Barton

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think cover

29. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund

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Bomber Command (Zenith Military Classics) cover

30. Bomber Command (Zenith Military Classics)

by Max Hastings Sir, Max Hastings

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The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small cover

31. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small

by John Gall

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Materials Selection in Mechanical Design cover

32. Materials Selection in Mechanical Design

by Michael F. Ashby

To Sail Beyond the Sunset cover

33. To Sail Beyond the Sunset

by Robert Anson Heinlein

Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates cover

34. Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates

by David Wootton

How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto cover

35. How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto

by Tom Hodgkinson

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Republic, Lost: Version 2.0 cover

36. Republic, Lost: Version 2.0

by Lawrence Lessig

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Behold!!! the Protong cover

37. Behold!!! the Protong

by Stanislav Szukalski, Glenn Bray, Robert Williams

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The Earth Care Manual: A Permaculture Handbook for Britain and Other Temperate Climates cover

38. The Earth Care Manual: A Permaculture Handbook for Britain and Other Temperate Climates

by Patrick Whitefield

Growing Green: Organic Techniques for a Sustainable Future cover

39. Growing Green: Organic Techniques for a Sustainable Future

by Jenny Hall, Iain Tolhurst

Naive Lie Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

40. Naive Lie Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by John Stillwell

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Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm cover

41. Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm

by Isabella Tree

The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics cover

42. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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