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It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences cover

1. It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences

by June Casagrande

Mathematics Handbook for Science and Engineering cover

2. Mathematics Handbook for Science and Engineering

by Lennart Rade, Bertil Westergren

The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

3. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto

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Building Tools with GitHub cover

4. Building Tools with GitHub

by Chris Dawson, Ben Straub

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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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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

6. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

7. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business cover

8. Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business

by Kenneth Roman, Joel Raphaelson

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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work cover

9. It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

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Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work) cover

10. Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work)

by Joshua Spodek

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Winners: And How They Succeed cover

11. Winners: And How They Succeed

by Alastair Campbell

Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science cover

12. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science

by Philip N. Klein

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Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces cover

13. Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces

by Roy Peter Clark

The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing) cover

14. The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing)

by Kees Doets, Jan Eijck

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Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot (Reprint ed.) cover

15. Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot (Reprint ed.)

by James B. Stockdale

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In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives cover

16. In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

by Steven Levy

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Bugging In and Bugging Out cover

17. Bugging In and Bugging Out

by David E Crossley

How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

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

by Natalie Sidner, Lawrence Krubner

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Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome cover

19. Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome

by Nessa Carey

Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline cover

20. Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

by Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson

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How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers cover

21. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

by Sönke Ahrens

Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb cover

22. Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb

by Mike Davis

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The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt cover

23. The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt

by Robert I. Sutton

Medical Nihilism cover

24. Medical Nihilism

by Jacob Stegenga

Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development cover

25. Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff

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The Rust Programming Language cover

26. The Rust Programming Language

by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols

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Pensees (Penguin Classics) cover

27. Pensees (Penguin Classics)

by Blaise Pascal

The Terminal Man cover

28. The Terminal Man

by Alfred Mehran, Andrew Donkin

It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, 10th Anniversary Edition cover

29. It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, 10th Anniversary Edition

by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

Shut Out: How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession and Crippled Our Economy (Mercatus Center at George Mason University) cover

30. Shut Out: How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession and Crippled Our Economy (Mercatus Center at George Mason University)

by Kevin Erdmann

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The Gene: An Intimate History cover

31. The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease cover

32. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

by Michael Greger, Gene Stone

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Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power cover

33. Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

by Howard W. French

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

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

by Jimmy Moore, Jason Fung

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Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future cover

35. Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

by Ian Morris

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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth cover

36. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares

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The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

37. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

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