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On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas) cover

1. On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)

by Seneca
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The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created cover

2. The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created

by William Bernstein
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The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses cover

3. The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses

by Jesse Schell
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The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

4. The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
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The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition cover

5. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

by Thomas E. Pearsall
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In cover

6. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton
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Man's Search for Meaning cover

7. Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Emil Frankl
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds cover

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

by Michael Lewis
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

9. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Routledge Classics) cover

10. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Routledge Classics)

by Herbert Marcuse
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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section:

11. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech cover

12. World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

by Franklin Foer
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Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon cover

13. Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon

by James Harford
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How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

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

by Natalie Sidner, Lawrence Krubner
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The Rookie's Guide to Options; 2nd edition: The Beginner's Handbook of Trading Equity Options cover

15. The Rookie's Guide to Options; 2nd edition: The Beginner's Handbook of Trading Equity Options

by Mark D. Wolfinger
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa cover

16. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

by E.B. Sledge
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100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present cover

17. 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present

by Paul K. Davis
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany cover

18. The Four Steps to the Epiphany

by Steve Blank
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

19. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
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How Asia Works cover

20. How Asia Works

by Joe Studwell
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Professional JavaScript for Web Developers cover

21. Professional JavaScript for Web Developers

by Nicholas C. Zakas
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

22. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays cover

23. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

by David Foster Wallace
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Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, Pars I: Familia Romana (Latin Edition) cover

24. Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, Pars I: Familia Romana (Latin Edition)

by Hans Henning Oerberg
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Wheelock's Latin, 7th Edition (The Wheelock's Latin Series) cover

25. Wheelock's Latin, 7th Edition (The Wheelock's Latin Series)

by Richard A. LaFleur
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Reinventing Organizations cover

26. Reinventing Organizations

by Frederic Laloux
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Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein's True Creator cover

27. Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein's True Creator

by Scott D. De Hart
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The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein cover

28. The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein

by John Lauritsen
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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

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

by Don Norman
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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) cover

30. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)

by Susan Weinschenk
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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) cover

31. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition)

by Steve Krug
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right cover

32. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

by Jane Mayer
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The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa cover

33. The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa

by Adam Roberts
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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist cover

34. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson
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