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C Primer Plus (Developer's Library) cover

1. C Primer Plus (Developer's Library)

by Stephen Prata

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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment cover

2. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

by Robert Wright

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Trauma Myth: The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children-and Its Aftermath cover

3. Trauma Myth: The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children-and Its Aftermath

by Susan Clancy

The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America cover

4. The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America

by Ernest Freeberg

Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow cover

5. Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow

by Joshua Spodek

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Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success cover

6. Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success

by James Persse

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Focused and Fearless: A Meditator's Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity cover

7. Focused and Fearless: A Meditator's Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity

by Shaila Catherine

Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook cover

8. Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook

by Brahm

8 Minute Meditation Expanded: Quiet Your Mind. Change Your Life. cover

9. 8 Minute Meditation Expanded: Quiet Your Mind. Change Your Life.

by Victor Davich

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Thrawn (Star Wars) (Star Wars: Thrawn) cover

10. Thrawn (Star Wars) (Star Wars: Thrawn)

by Timothy Zahn

C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

11. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey To Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) cover

12. The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey To Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

by David Hurst Thomas, Andrew Hunt

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Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality – The Essential Application's Creation Story from Keyhole cover

13. Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality – The Essential Application's Creation Story from Keyhole

by Bill Kilday

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Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump cover

14. Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump

by Jerome R. Corsi

An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series) cover

15. An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series)

by Uri Alon

Internal Family Systems Therapy (The Guilford Family Therapy Series) cover

16. Internal Family Systems Therapy (The Guilford Family Therapy Series)

by Richard C. Schwartz

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) cover

17. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)

by Kip S Thorne

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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World cover

18. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

by J. Adam Tooze

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SQL Antipatterns cover

19. SQL Antipatterns

by Bill Karwin

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Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work cover

20. Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

by Alex Petrov

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The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World cover

21. The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World

by Steven L. Kent

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Unix Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers cover

22. Unix Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers

by Curt Schimmel

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Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices cover

23. Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices

by George Varghese

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See MIPS Run (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

24. See MIPS Run (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by Dominic Sweetman

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Advanced UNIX Programming cover

25. Advanced UNIX Programming

by Marc J. Rochkind

Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced To Plain Common Sense (Revised Edition) cover

26. Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced To Plain Common Sense (Revised Edition)

by Arieh Ben-Naim

WHISTLE AS YOU GO The Story of the Kiwi Concert Party and Terry Vaughan cover

27. WHISTLE AS YOU GO The Story of the Kiwi Concert Party and Terry Vaughan

by Terry Vaughan

Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War cover

28. Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

by Susan Southard

The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History cover

29. The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History

by Leo Braudy

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Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models cover

30. Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

by Gabriel Weinberg, Lauren McCann

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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes cover

31. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

by Alfie Kohn

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The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change cover

32. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

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CustomerCentric Selling, Second Edition cover

33. CustomerCentric Selling, Second Edition

by Michael T. Bosworth, John R. Holland, Frank Visgatis

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Experimental Researches in Electricity; Volume 2 cover

34. Experimental Researches in Electricity; Volume 2

by Michael Faraday