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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber cover

1. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

by Mike Isaac

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Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

2. Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Joe Celko

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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance cover

3. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

by W. Timothy Gallwey

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Small Wonder: The Amazing Story of the Volkswagen Beetle cover

4. Small Wonder: The Amazing Story of the Volkswagen Beetle

by Walter Henry Nelson

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control cover

5. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

by Stephen Kinzer

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Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th-Anniversary Edition cover

6. Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th-Anniversary Edition

by Bo Burlingham

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Get Programming with Haskell cover

7. Get Programming with Haskell

by Will Kurt

A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market cover

8. A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

by Edward O. Thorp

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Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance cover

9. Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance

by Perry Mehrling

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Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History cover

10. Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History

by Suzanne Humphries, Roman Bystrianyk

Cellular Automata And Complexity: Collected Papers cover

11. Cellular Automata And Complexity: Collected Papers

by Stephen Wolfram

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The gospel of selfless action, or, The Gita according to Gandhi: Translation of the original in Gujarati, with an additional introduction and commentary (English and Sanskrit Edition) cover

12. The gospel of selfless action, or, The Gita according to Gandhi: Translation of the original in Gujarati, with an additional introduction and commentary (English and Sanskrit Edition)

by Mahatma Gandhi, Mahadev Haribhai Desai

Boys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution cover

13. Boys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution

by Jonathan Abrams

Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon cover

14. Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon

by Jim Paul

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA cover

15. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

by Tim Weiner

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A Million Thoughts: Learn All About Meditation from a Himalayan Mystic cover

16. A Million Thoughts: Learn All About Meditation from a Himalayan Mystic

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Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality cover

17. Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality

by Bill Kilday

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The Consensus Building Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Reaching Agreement cover

18. The Consensus Building Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Reaching Agreement

by Lawrence Susskind, Sarah McKearnan, Jennifer Thomas-Larmer, Sarah McKearnen, Jennifer Thomas-Lamar

Driven to Kill: Vehicles as Weapons cover

19. Driven to Kill: Vehicles as Weapons

by J. Peter Rothe

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Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals cover

20. Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

by Robert Pirsig

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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny cover

21. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

by Robert Wright

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The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates cover

22. The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates

by Peter T. Leeson

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How to Lie with Statistics cover

23. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff

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Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science cover

24. Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science

by Richard Yeo

Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age cover

25. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age

by Ann Blair

Tricks of the Mind [Paperback] cover

26. Tricks of the Mind [Paperback]

by Derren Brown

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On Dialogue (Routledge Classics) (Volume 76) cover

27. On Dialogue (Routledge Classics) (Volume 76)

by David Bohm

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Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy cover

28. Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

by Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake

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Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition cover

29. Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition

by B.R. Ambedkar

Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of Josh Harris and The Great Dotcom Swindle cover

30. Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of Josh Harris and The Great Dotcom Swindle

by Andrew Smith

Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity cover

31. Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity

by Avinash Kaushik

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Windows Kernel Programming cover

32. Windows Kernel Programming

by Pavel Yosifovich

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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

33. 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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Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (4th Edition) cover

34. Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (4th Edition)

by Gary Chartrand, Albert D. Polimeni, Ping Zhang

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Discrete Mathematics with Applications cover

35. Discrete Mathematics with Applications

by Susanna S. Epp

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