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1. The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan
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2. Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
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3. Lifetime Conversation Guide
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4. The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 1
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5. The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Vol. 3
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6. No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (American Empire Project)
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7. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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8. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
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9. Game Theory and Strategy (New Mathematical Library, No. 36)
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10. The Art of Hard Conversations: Biblical Tools for the Tough Talks That Matter
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11. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
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12. How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be
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13. What's Wrong with China
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14. The Gun
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15. The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
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16. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
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17. Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History
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18. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think
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19. Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology
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20. The Compound Effect
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21. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))
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22. Become What You Are
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23. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
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24. Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
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25. Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
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26. America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History Of Taverns And Saloons, Speakeasies And Grog Shops
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27. The Trauma Myth: The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children--and Its Aftermath
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28. Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business 3/E
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29. The Science of Interstellar
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30. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
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31. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
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32. Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire"
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33. A Modern Method for Guitar - Volumes 1, 2, 3 Complete
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34. The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell
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35. Finite and Infinite Games
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36. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
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37. It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences
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38. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
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39. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
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40. Mathematics Handbook for Science and Engineering
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41. The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life
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42. Master and Margarita: A Critical Companion (AATSEEL)
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43. The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!
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44. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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45. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking
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46. The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law
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47. Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success
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48. The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
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49. A Tour of the Calculus
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50. An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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51. Visual Group Theory (MAA Problem Book Series)
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52. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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53. The Ashley Book of Knots
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54. Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
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55. The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
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56. Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication
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57. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
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58. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
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59. Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
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60. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
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61. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
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62. Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For
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63. What's Your Future Worth?: Using Present Value to Make Better Decisions
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64. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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65. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
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66. Leonardo's Lost Robots
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67. On Bullshit
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68. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules
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69. The Pragmatic Programmer: journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
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70. I Am a Strange Loop
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71. The Armed Forces Officer: Edition of 1950
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72. Silent Invasion: China's Influence in Australia
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73. Practical UNIX and Internet Security
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74. The Answer: How to start a relationship and make it last
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75. The Art of SQL
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76. Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
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77. 507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and Devices (Dover Science Books)
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78. Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics
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79. Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
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80. Basic Mathematics
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81. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters
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82. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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83. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
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84. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
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85. Playing with Infinity: Mathematical Explorations and Excursions
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86. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
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87. Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing (3rd Edition)
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88. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
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89. Borrow: The American Way of Debt
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90. Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
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91. Willing Accomplices: How KGB Covert Influence Agents Created Political Correctness and Destroyed America
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92. Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
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93. Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
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94. Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think (The MIT Press)
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95. Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, 5th Edition
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96. Harmony and Theory: Essential Concepts Series (Essential Concepts (Musicians Institute).)
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97. Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business
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98. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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99. How Will You Measure Your Life?
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100. Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
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