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Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology cover

1. Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology

by James R. Chiles

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A Tour of the Calculus cover

2. A Tour of the Calculus

by David Berlinski

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Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) cover

3. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev

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Playing with Infinity: Mathematical Explorations and Excursions cover

4. Playing with Infinity: Mathematical Explorations and Excursions

by R¢zsa Pter

No bullshit guide to math and physics cover

5. No bullshit guide to math and physics

by Ivan Savov

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No bullshit guide to linear algebra cover

6. No bullshit guide to linear algebra

by Ivan Savov

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Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach (Second Edition) (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

7. Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach (Second Edition) (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Morris Kline

Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

8. Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Ian Stewart

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

9. Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Richard W. Hamming

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Mathematician's Delight (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

10. Mathematician's Delight (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by W. W. Sawyer

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Mathematics and the Physical World (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

11. Mathematics and the Physical World (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Morris Kline

Mathematics, Queen and Servant of Science cover

12. Mathematics, Queen and Servant of Science

by Eric Temple Bell

Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics cover

13. Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics

by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands

Who Is Fourier?: A Mathematical Adventure cover

14. Who Is Fourier?: A Mathematical Adventure

by Transnational College of Lex

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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist cover

15. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson

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Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

16. Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Richard W. Hamming, Richard Wesley Hamming

Number Theory and Its History (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

17. Number Theory and Its History (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Oystein Ore

Arithmetic cover

18. Arithmetic

by Paul Lockhart

Feynman Lectures On Computation (Frontiers in Physics) cover

19. Feynman Lectures On Computation (Frontiers in Physics)

by Richard Phillips Feynman

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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers (Collins Business Essentials) cover

20. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers (Collins Business Essentials)

by Geoffrey A. Moore

All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference (Springer Texts in Statistics) cover

21. All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference (Springer Texts in Statistics)

by Larry Wasserman

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How Asia Works cover

22. How Asia Works

by Joe Studwell

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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World cover

23. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

by David Epstein

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Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences cover

24. Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences

by Mary L. Boas

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Oliver Byrne. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid (Bibliotheca Universalis) (Multilingual Edition) cover

25. Oliver Byrne. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid (Bibliotheca Universalis) (Multilingual Edition)

by Oliver Byrne, Werner Oechslin

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Algebra: Chapter 0 (Graduate Studies in Mathematics) cover

26. Algebra: Chapter 0 (Graduate Studies in Mathematics)

by Paolo Aluffi

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The Mouse and the Motorcycle cover

27. The Mouse and the Motorcycle

by Beverly Cleary

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation cover

28. Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

by Daniel J. Siegel, MD

Database Management Systems, 3rd Edition cover

29. Database Management Systems, 3rd Edition

by Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke

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Truth in Translation: Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament cover

30. Truth in Translation: Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament

by Jason BeDuhn

Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World cover

31. Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World

by Cheri Smith

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business cover

32. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

by Douglas W. Hubbard

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The Calculus Tutoring Book cover

33. The Calculus Tutoring Book

by Carol Ash, Robert B. Ash

Borges: Selected Non-Fictions cover

34. Borges: Selected Non-Fictions

by Jorge Luis Borges

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UNIX: A History and a Memoir cover

35. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

by Brian W. Kernighan

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Numbers In The Dark cover

36. Numbers In The Dark

by Italo Calvino

Introduction to Natural Language Processing (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

37. Introduction to Natural Language Processing (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Jacob Eisenstein

The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) cover

38. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

by K. Anders Ericsson, Robert R. Hoffman, Aaron Kozbelt, A. Mark Williams

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Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property cover

39. Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

by Ron Paul

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow cover

40. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

by Yuval Noah Harari

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We have been harmonised cover

41. We have been harmonised

by Kai Strittmatter

Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism) cover

42. Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism)

by Per Faxneld

Game-Theoretic Foundations for Probability and Finance (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) cover

43. Game-Theoretic Foundations for Probability and Finance (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

by Glenn Shafer, Vladimir Vovk

I Will Teach You To Be Rich cover

44. I Will Teach You To Be Rich

by Ramit Sethi

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Mathematics for the Nonmathematician cover

45. Mathematics for the Nonmathematician

by Morris Kline

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