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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams cover

1. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

by Matthew Walker

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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit cover

2. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

by Barry Estabrook

Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory cover

3. Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory

by Avner Ash, Robert Gross

Deception: How Clinton Sold America Out to the Chinese Military cover

4. Deception: How Clinton Sold America Out to the Chinese Military

by Charles Robinson Smith

Divide & Quit cover

5. Divide & Quit

by Penderel Moon, Mark Tully

Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time! cover

6. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!

by Conrad Barski

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Human Space Flight: Mission Patch Handbook cover

7. Human Space Flight: Mission Patch Handbook

by Aerographics

Design and Analysis of Experiments with R (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science) cover

8. Design and Analysis of Experiments with R (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)

by John Lawson

Essential COM cover

9. Essential COM

by Don Box

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Inside Com cover

10. Inside Com

by Dale Rogerson

Multi-armed Bandit Allocation Indices cover

11. Multi-armed Bandit Allocation Indices

by John Gittins, Kevin Glazebrook, Richard Weber

Programming the Semantic Web cover

12. Programming the Semantic Web

Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design cover

13. Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design

by Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores

The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law cover

14. The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law

by Ward Farnsworth

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Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China cover

15. Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China

by Alec Ash

Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines cover

16. Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines

by David H. Freedman

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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents cover

17. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

by Lindsay C. Gibson

Political Theory and Modernity (Ideas) cover

18. Political Theory and Modernity (Ideas)

by William Connolly

Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex cover

19. Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex

by Rupert Darwall

Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution cover

20. Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution

by William M. Baum

Behavior Modification: What It Is and How To Do It cover

21. Behavior Modification: What It Is and How To Do It

by Garry Martin, Joseph J. Pear

Shackleton's Boat Journey cover

22. Shackleton's Boat Journey

by Frank Arthur Worsley

Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness cover

23. Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

by Anne Harrington

The Curse of the High IQ cover

24. The Curse of the High IQ

by Aaron Clarey

100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present cover

25. 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present

by Paul K. Davis

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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate cover

26. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein