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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

1. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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A Book of Abstract Algebra: Second Edition (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

2. A Book of Abstract Algebra: Second Edition (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Charles C Pinter

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Meditations: A New Translation cover

3. Meditations: A New Translation

by Marcus Aurelius

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Constructing the User Interface with Statecharts cover

4. Constructing the User Interface with Statecharts

by Ian Horrocks

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Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media cover

5. Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media

by Sarah T. Roberts

The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others cover

6. The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others

by Tali Sharot

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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World cover

7. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

by Cal Newport

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How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life cover

8. How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

by Catherine Price

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

9. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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The Cure for Alcoholism: The Medically Proven Way to Eliminate Alcohol Addiction cover

10. The Cure for Alcoholism: The Medically Proven Way to Eliminate Alcohol Addiction

by Roy Eskapa

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11. Ideas Generation : Tools for Being Constantly Fresh, Creative and Original

by Rosemary Herceg, Tim Flattery

Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity cover

12. Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity

by Marc J. Roberts

Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

13. Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

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Building Parallel, Embedded, and Real-Time Applications with Ada cover

14. Building Parallel, Embedded, and Real-Time Applications with Ada

by John W. McCormick, Frank Singhoff, Jérôme Hugues

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Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Ada cover

15. Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Ada

by Alan Burns, Andy Wellings

Visual Group Theory (MAA Problem Book Series) cover

16. Visual Group Theory (MAA Problem Book Series)

by Nathan Carter

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No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering cover

17. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius cover

18. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius

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The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book cover

19. The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book

by Andriy Burkov

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Fundamentals of Error-Correcting Codes cover

20. Fundamentals of Error-Correcting Codes

by W. Cary Huffman, Vera Pless

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

21. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B Irvine

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Linux in a Nutshell cover

22. Linux in a Nutshell

by Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins

Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society cover

23. Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

by Eric A. Posner, Eric Glen Weyl

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ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty Fun Games to Code and Learn cover

24. ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty Fun Games to Code and Learn

by Gary Plowman

The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science cover

25. The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

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The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001 - 2019: Every Recipe from the Hit TV Show with Product Ratings and a Look Behind the Scenes cover

26. The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001 - 2019: Every Recipe from the Hit TV Show with Product Ratings and a Look Behind the Scenes

by America's Test Kitchen (Firm)

On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals cover

27. On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals

by Sarah R. Labensky, Alan M. Hause, Priscilla Martel

Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer cover

28. Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer

by Rob Manning, William L. Simon

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

29. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Satan, Cantor, And Infinity and Other Mind-Boggling Puzzles cover

30. Satan, Cantor, And Infinity and Other Mind-Boggling Puzzles

by Raymond M. Smullyan

The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job (Springer Praxis Books) cover

31. The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job (Springer Praxis Books)

by Emily Lakdawalla

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Billy and the Boingers Bootleg cover

32. Billy and the Boingers Bootleg

by Dalton

The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Book & CD) cover

33. The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Book & CD)

by John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal

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Hooked: How to Building Habit-Forming Products cover

34. Hooked: How to Building Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover

The Go Programming Language (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

35. The Go Programming Language (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Alan A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan

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