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1. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition
by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
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2. Kea, Bird of Paradox: The Evolution and Behavior of a New Zealand Parrot
by Judy Diamond, Alan B. Bond
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3. The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
by Thomas Ligotti
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4. Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
by David Benatar
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5. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
by Jia Tolentino
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6. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
by Albert O. Hirschman
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7. Principle Centered Leadership
by Stephen R. Covey
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8. Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation
by William A. Fischel
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9. The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization
by James Bamford
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10. The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys
by James Fadiman
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11. The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke
by Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi
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12. Official Marimba Guide to Bongo
by Danny Goodman
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13. Streaming Systems
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14. Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair
by Daniel P. Brown
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15. The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves
by Jack Douglas
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16. An Invitation to Applied Category Theory: Seven Sketches in Compositionality
by Brendan Fong, David I. Spivak
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17. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
by Cliff Stoll
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18. Non-Designer's Design Book, The
by Robin Williams
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19. UNIX: A History and a Memoir
by Brian W. Kernighan
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20. Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD
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21. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
by Gregory Zuckerman
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22. Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
by Jamie Metzl
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23. The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
by Timothy Charles Winegard
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24. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by Robert M. Sapolsky
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25. Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
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26. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
by Malcolm Gladwell
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27. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
by Ben Macintyre
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28. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein
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29. Agency (The Jackpot Trilogy)
by William Gibson
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30. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)
by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost
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31. Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity
by Avram Joel Spolsky
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32. Black Art of Video Game Console Design, The
by André LaMothe
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33. The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience
by Kent A. Kiehl, PhD
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34. I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
by Chuck Klosterman
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35. Practical Foundations for Programming Languages
by Robert Harper
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36. The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
by Dr. Steven Novella
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37. The Key to Chinese Cooking
by Irene Kuo
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38. The Manager's Path
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39. Open Reference Architecture for Security and Privacy
by Maikel Mardjan
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40. Indian Instant Pot(R) Cookbook: Traditional Indian Dishes Made Easy and Fast
by Urvashi Pitre
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41. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
by J. Adam Tooze
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42. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
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43. Unity 2018 Game Development in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself
by Mike Geig
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44. The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
by Martin Gurri
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45. Dinosaur Empire! (Earth Before Us #1): Journey through the Mesozoic Era
by Abby Howard
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46. The Art of Electronics
by Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill
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47. Who
by Geoff Smart, Randy Street
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48. 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
by Camille Fournier
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49. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition
by Patrick M. Lencioni
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50. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
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51. Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership Success
by Geoff Smart, Randy Street, Alan Foster
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52. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America
by Scott Adams
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53. Flip the Script: Getting People to Think Your Idea Is Their Idea
by Oren Klaff
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54. Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery
by Steve Nicholls
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55. The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets
by Thomas Philippon
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56. The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
by Donald G. Reinertsen
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57. Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability: An Introduction
by Daniel S. Vacanti
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58. The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey To Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
by David Hurst Thomas, Andrew Hunt
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