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

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

by Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman

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The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How America really took over the world cover

2. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How America really took over the world

by John Perkins

Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow cover

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

by Joshua Spodek

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Good to Great: A Study of Management Strategies of Companies with Lasting Growth cover

4. Good to Great: A Study of Management Strategies of Companies with Lasting Growth

by Jim Collins

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Principles: Life and Work cover

5. Principles: Life and Work

by Ray Dalio

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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It cover

6. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

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

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

by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh

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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

8. 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

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

by Jonathan Raymond

The Manager's Path cover

10. The Manager's Path

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Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type cover

11. Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type

by Peter Mansfield, Nicolas Pelham

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

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

by Matt Stoller

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Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration cover

13. Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

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The Armed Forces Officer: Edition of 1950 cover

14. The Armed Forces Officer: Edition of 1950

by United States. Department of Defense, Robert Davis

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

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

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

16. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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

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

by Samuel Walker

Motel of the Mysteries cover

18. Motel of the Mysteries

by David Macaulay

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition cover

19. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition

by Patrick M. Lencioni

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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

The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey To Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) cover

21. The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey To Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

by David Hurst Thomas, Andrew Hunt

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War with the Newts cover

22. War with the Newts

by Karel Čapek

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

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

by William Thorndike

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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

Finite and Infinite Games cover

25. Finite and Infinite Games

by James Carse

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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World cover

26. A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

by William J. Bernstein

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

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

by Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright

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Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++ cover

28. Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++

by John Viega, Matt Messier

Writing Secure Code cover

29. Writing Secure Code

by Michael Howard, David LeBlanc

Corporate Flashcards cover

30. Corporate Flashcards

by Knock Knock

No bullshit guide to math and physics cover

31. No bullshit guide to math and physics

by Ivan Savov

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No Bullshit Guide to Mathematics cover

32. No Bullshit Guide to Mathematics

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Modern Compiler Design cover

33. Modern Compiler Design

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

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

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

by Tony Magee

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

35. 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

36. 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

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Salt: A World History cover

37. Salt: A World History

by Mark Kurlansky

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

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

by Sidney W. Mintz

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

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

by David Quammen

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life cover

40. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

by Scott Adams

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Cocktail Codex: Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions [A Cocktail Recipe Book] cover

41. Cocktail Codex: Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions [A Cocktail Recipe Book]

by Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, David Kaplan

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

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

by Peter Norton, John Socha

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Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology cover

43. Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

by Valentino Braitenberg

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Elena's Messages: From Her Big Sur Sanctuary cover

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

by Jim Hunolt

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

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

by John Brooks

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At Home: A Short History of Private Life cover

46. At Home: A Short History of Private Life

by Bill Bryson

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Adventures of a Mathematician cover

47. Adventures of a Mathematician

by S. M. Ulam, Stanislaw M. Ulam

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Normal People: A Novel cover

48. Normal People: A Novel

by Sally Rooney

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

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

by Michael Bazzell

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

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

by Markus Winand

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

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

by David Hackett Fischer

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

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

by Donald E. Knuth

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