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The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man cover

1. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

by John Perkins

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Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow cover

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

by Joshua Spodek

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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective cover

3. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

by Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman

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The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership cover

4. The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh

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Principles: Life and Work cover

5. Principles: Life and Work

by Ray Dalio

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't cover

6. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

by Jim Collins

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Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't cover

7. Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't

by Jeffrey Pfeffer

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The Manager's Path cover

8. The Manager's Path

by Camille Fournier

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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

9. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

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Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For cover

10. Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For

by Jonathan Raymond

Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules cover

11. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules

by L. David Marquet

The Armed Forces Officer: Edition of 1950 cover

12. The Armed Forces Officer: Edition of 1950

by United States. Department of Defense, Robert Davis

Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy cover

13. Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

by Matt Stoller

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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

14. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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The Captain Class: The Hidden Force Behind the World's Greatest Teams cover

15. The Captain Class: The Hidden Force Behind the World's Greatest Teams

by Samuel Walker

The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You cover

16. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

by Julie Zhuo

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Motel of the Mysteries cover

17. Motel of the Mysteries

by David Macaulay

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable cover

18. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

by Patrick M. Lencioni

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The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) cover

19. The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

by David Hurst Thomas, Andrew Hunt

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Queen in 3-D: Bohemian Rhapsody Edition: 2019 cover

20. Queen in 3-D: Bohemian Rhapsody Edition: 2019

by Brian May

C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

21. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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The C Programming Language cover

22. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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War with the Newts cover

23. War with the Newts

by Karel Čapek

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things: Crime, Drugs, Minorities, Teen Moms, Killer Kids, Mutant Microbes, Plane Crashes, Road Rage, & So Much More cover

24. The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things: Crime, Drugs, Minorities, Teen Moms, Killer Kids, Mutant Microbes, Plane Crashes, Road Rage, & So Much More

by Barry Glassner

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World cover

25. A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

by William J. Bernstein

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Corporate Flashcards cover

26. Corporate Flashcards

by Knock Knock

Finite and Infinite Games cover

27. Finite and Infinite Games

by James Carse

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Writing Secure Code, Second Edition (Developer Best Practices) cover

28. Writing Secure Code, Second Edition (Developer Best Practices)

by Michael Howard, David LeBlanc

Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++ cover

29. Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++

by John Viega, Matt Messier

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind - and Keep - Love cover

30. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind - and Keep - Love

by Amir Levine, M.D., Rachel Heller

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Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals cover

31. Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals

by Tyler Cowen

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Bayesian Data Analysis (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science) cover

32. Bayesian Data Analysis (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)

by Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, David B. Dunson, Aki Vehtari, Donald B. Rubin

The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success cover

33. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

by William Thorndike

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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 cover

34. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000

by Paul Kennedy

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History cover

35. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

by Sidney W. Mintz

Salt: A World History cover

36. Salt: A World History

by Mark Kurlansky

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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction cover

37. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction

by David Quammen

So You Want to Start a Brewery?: The Lagunitas Story cover

38. So You Want to Start a Brewery?: The Lagunitas Story

by Tony Magee

Cocktail Codex: Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions cover

39. Cocktail Codex: Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions

by Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, David Kaplan

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Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC cover

40. Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC

by Peter Norton, John Socha

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Elena's Messages: From Her Big Sur Sanctuary cover

41. Elena's Messages: From Her Big Sur Sanctuary

by Jim Hunolt

Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology cover

42. Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

by Valentino Braitenberg

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Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization cover

43. Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

by Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright

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At Home: A Short History of Private Life cover

44. At Home: A Short History of Private Life

by Bill Bryson

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Adventures of a Mathematician cover

45. Adventures of a Mathematician

by S. M. Ulam, Stanislaw M. Ulam

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Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street cover

46. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

by John Brooks

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Modern Compiler Design cover

47. Modern Compiler Design

by Dick Grune, Kees van Reeuwijk, Henri E. Bal, Ceriel J.H. Jacobs, Koen Langendoen

Hacker's Handbook cover

48. Hacker's Handbook

by Hugo Cornwall

SQL Performance Explained Everything Developers Need to Know about SQL Performance cover

49. SQL Performance Explained Everything Developers Need to Know about SQL Performance

by Markus Winand

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Open Source Intelligence Techniques: Resources for Searching and Analyzing Online Information cover

50. Open Source Intelligence Techniques: Resources for Searching and Analyzing Online Information

by Michael Bazzell

Normal People: A Novel cover

51. Normal People: A Novel

by Sally Rooney

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order cover

52. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

by Kai-Fu Lee

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Time Reborn cover

53. Time Reborn

by Lee Smolin

The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5: Mathematical Preliminaries Redux; Introduction to Backtracking; Dancing Links cover

54. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5: Mathematical Preliminaries Redux; Introduction to Backtracking; Dancing Links

by Donald E. Knuth

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history) cover

55. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history)

by David Hackett Fischer

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