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

1. 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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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams cover

2. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

by Matthew Walker

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Exercises in Programming Style cover

3. Exercises in Programming Style

by Cristina Videira Lopes

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Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Volume 136) (Lecture Notes) cover

4. Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Volume 136) (Lecture Notes)

by Donald Ervin Knuth

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Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable cover

5. Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable

by Seth Fletcher

Drucker’s Lost Art of Management: Peter Drucker’s Timeless Vision for Building Effective Organizations cover

6. Drucker’s Lost Art of Management: Peter Drucker’s Timeless Vision for Building Effective Organizations

by Joseph A. Maciariello, Karen Linkletter

The View from Flyover Country cover

7. The View from Flyover Country

by Sarah Kendzior

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World cover

8. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

by Anand Giridharadas

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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds cover

9. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

by Michael Lewis

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Brief Answers to the Big Questions cover

10. Brief Answers to the Big Questions

by Stephen Hawking

Psychology and Space cover

11. Psychology and Space

by Yuri Gagarin, Vladimir Lebedev

How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

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

by Lawrence Krubner, Natalie Sidner

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The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works cover

13. The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works

by Shinzen Young

The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine cover

14. The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine

by Gregg Olsen

A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics cover

15. A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics

by Jeremy Kun

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Count Girls In: Empowering Girls to Combine Any Interests with STEM to Open Up a World of Opportunity cover

16. Count Girls In: Empowering Girls to Combine Any Interests with STEM to Open Up a World of Opportunity

by Karen Panetta, Katianne Williams

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School cover

17. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

by Kathleen Flinn

Neural Networks and Qualitative Physics: A Viability Approach cover

18. Neural Networks and Qualitative Physics: A Viability Approach

by Jean-Pierre Aubin

Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook cover

19. Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook

by Jay Cummings

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Analyzing and Visualizing Data with F# cover

20. Analyzing and Visualizing Data with F#

How the States Got Their Shapes: An Entertaining New York Times Bestseller on American Borders and Geographic History cover

21. How the States Got Their Shapes: An Entertaining New York Times Bestseller on American Borders and Geographic History

by Mark Stein

Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller cover

22. Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

by Donella Meadows

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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt cover

23. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

by Toby Wilkinson

The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd (Lean Marketing Series) cover

24. The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd (Lean Marketing Series)

by Allan Dib

Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time cover

25. Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

by Jeffrey Pfeffer

Works of Love: A Philosophy of Existence―How Love Saves Us from Isolation (Harper Perennial Modern Thought) cover

26. Works of Love: A Philosophy of Existence―How Love Saves Us from Isolation (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)

by Soren Kierkegaard

Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons – A Portrait of the JPL Founder: Genius, Rocketry, and the Occult cover

27. Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons – A Portrait of the JPL Founder: Genius, Rocketry, and the Occult

by George Pendle

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Once-A-Month Cooking, Revised Edition: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day cover

28. Once-A-Month Cooking, Revised Edition: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day

by Mimi Wilson, Mary Beth Lagerborg

Digital Design and Computer Architecture cover

29. Digital Design and Computer Architecture

by David Money Harris, Sarah L. Harris

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The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam cover

30. The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam

by Jerry Lembcke

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

31. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel

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Molecular Cell Biology cover

32. Molecular Cell Biology

by Harvey F. Lodish

John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World cover

33. John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World

by Jason Louv

Oliver Byrne. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid (Bibliotheca Universalis) (Multilingual Edition) cover

34. Oliver Byrne. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid (Bibliotheca Universalis) (Multilingual Edition)

by Oliver Byrne, Werner Oechslin

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Code Complete cover

35. Code Complete

by Steve McConnell

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The Jungle: The Powerful Exposé of Labor Abuse in America's Meatpacking Industry (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels) cover

36. The Jungle: The Powerful Exposé of Labor Abuse in America's Meatpacking Industry (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)

by Upton Sinclair

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

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

by Jimmy Moore, Jason Fung

Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons cover

38. Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons

by John Carter

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Coyote America cover

39. Coyote America

by Dan Flores

Backup & Recovery cover

40. Backup & Recovery

by W. Curtis Preston

The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain cover

41. The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain

by Nick Chater

Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts: Essentials for Buy-Side and Sell-Side Analysts cover

42. Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts: Essentials for Buy-Side and Sell-Side Analysts

by James Valentine