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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

1. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner
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Dreamland cover

2. Dreamland

by Sam Quinones, Neil Hellegers
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The Design of the UNIX Operating System cover

3. The Design of the UNIX Operating System

by Maurice J. Bach
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Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide cover

4. Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide

by Chris Horrocks
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Functional Programming in Scala cover

5. Functional Programming in Scala

by Paul Chiusano, Rúnar Bjarnason
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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding cover

6. The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding

by Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela
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Pyramid cover

7. Pyramid

by David Macaulay
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Pure Mathematics for Beginners: A Rigorous Introduction to Logic, Set Theory, Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, Real Analysis, Topology, Complex Analysis, and Linear Algebra cover

8. Pure Mathematics for Beginners: A Rigorous Introduction to Logic, Set Theory, Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, Real Analysis, Topology, Complex Analysis, and Linear Algebra

by Steve Warner
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The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning cover

9. The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning

by Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Richard A. Ferri, Laura F. Dogu
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The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing cover

10. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

by Mel Lindauer, Taylor Larimore, Michael LeBoeuf
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The Renderman Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics cover

11. The Renderman Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics

by Steve Upstill
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The Fourth Phase of Water : Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor cover

12. The Fourth Phase of Water : Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor

by Gerald H. Pollack
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A Random Walk down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing cover

13. A Random Walk down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing

by Burton Gordon Malkiel
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The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing cover

14. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

by Mel Lindauer, Taylor Larimore, Michael LeBoeuf
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Land of Lisp cover

15. Land of Lisp

by Conrad Barski
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Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (Artificial Intelligence) cover

16. Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (Artificial Intelligence)

by Harold Abelson, Andrea Disessa
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The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes cover

17. The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild cover

18. The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild

by Thomas D. Seeley
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The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual cover

19. The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual

by Ward Farnsworth
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Introduction To Evolutionary Informatics cover

20. Introduction To Evolutionary Informatics

by Robert Jackson Marks (II), William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert
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Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason cover

21. Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason

by Dave Rolsky, Ken Williams
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Algorithms and Data Structures cover

22. Algorithms and Data Structures

by Niklaus Wirth
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Algorithms in Bioinformatics: A Practical Introduction (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series) cover

23. Algorithms in Bioinformatics: A Practical Introduction (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series)

by Wing-Kin Sung
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Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition cover

24. Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition

by Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, Linda Lamb
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Mastering Vim cover

25. Mastering Vim

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Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager cover

26. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

by Michael Lopp
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