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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber cover

1. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

by Mike Isaac

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, 2nd Edition cover

2. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, 2nd Edition

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Small Wonder: The Amazing Story of the Volkswagen Beetle cover

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

by Walter Henry Nelson

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

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

by Bo Burlingham

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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

Get Programming with Haskell cover

6. Get Programming with Haskell

by Will Kurt

Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life cover

7. Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

by Nick Lane

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One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey ',The Kid', Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player cover

8. One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey ',The Kid', Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player

by Nolan Dalla, Peter Alson

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

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

by Suzanne Humphries, Roman Bystrianyk

Cellular Automata And Complexity: Collected Papers cover

10. Cellular Automata And Complexity: Collected Papers

by Stephen Wolfram

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

11. 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

12. Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance

by Perry Mehrling

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

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

14. 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

Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon cover

15. Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon

by Jim Paul

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA cover

16. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

by Tim Weiner

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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

17. 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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Data Structures: A Pseudocode Approach with C cover

18. Data Structures: A Pseudocode Approach with C

by Richard F. Gilberg, Behrouz A. Forouzan

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

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

by Om Swami

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Breaking Robert's Rules: The New Way to Run Your Meeting, Build Consensus, and Get Results cover

20. Breaking Robert's Rules: The New Way to Run Your Meeting, Build Consensus, and Get Results

by Lawrence Susskind, Jeffrey L. Cruikshank

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

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

by Lawrence Susskind, Sarah McKearnen, Jennifer Thomas-Larmer

Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals cover

22. Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

by Robert Pirsig

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How to Lie with Statistics cover

23. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff

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Driven to Kill: Vehicles as Weapons cover

24. Driven to Kill: Vehicles as Weapons

by J. Peter Rothe

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny cover

25. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

by Robert Wright

The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates cover

26. The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates

by Peter T. Leeson

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

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

by Ann Blair

Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science cover

28. Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science

by Richard Yeo

Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy cover

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

by Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake

Derren Brown Tricks Of Mind cover

30. Derren Brown Tricks Of Mind

by Derren Brown

On Dialogue (Routledge Classics) cover

31. On Dialogue (Routledge Classics)

by David Bohm

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Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition cover

32. 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

33. 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

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

by Avinash Kaushik

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Roberta's Rules of Order: Sail Through Meetings for Stellar Results Without the Gavel cover

35. Roberta's Rules of Order: Sail Through Meetings for Stellar Results Without the Gavel

by Alice Collier Cochran

Windows Kernel Programming cover

36. Windows Kernel Programming

by Pavel Yosifovich

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

37. 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 cover

38. Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics

by Gary Chartrand, Albert D. Polimeni, Ping Zhang

Discrete Mathematics with Applications cover

39. Discrete Mathematics with Applications

by Susanna S. Epp

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Data Structures and Algorithms: Concepts, Techniques and Applications cover

40. Data Structures and Algorithms: Concepts, Techniques and Applications