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1. Computer Professional's Quick Reference
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2. The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility
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3. Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 194445
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4. The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune
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5. Justice Matters: Rescuing the legal system for the twenty-first
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6. The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
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7. Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition)
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8. Don't Shoot the Dog: The New Art of Teaching and Training
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9. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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10. Goya
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11. Introducing Psychology of Relationships: A Practical Guide
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12. The End of History and the Last Man
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13. Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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14. Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game
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15. The Method of Coordinates (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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16. Algebra
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17. The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity (The MIT Press)
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18. Trigonometry
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19. Sequences, Combinations, Limits (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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20. Geometry
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21. Functions and Graphs (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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22. Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (The MIT Press)
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23. The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet
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24. Une Fois Pour Toutes
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25. The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
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26. The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving
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27. Small talk survival: praktische gids voor de gesprekken tussendoor (Dutch Edition)
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28. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
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29. The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
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30. The Four Steps to the Epiphany
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31. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press)
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32. The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
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33. Server-Side JavaScript(TM): Developing Integrated Web Applications
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34. Server-Side Javascript: Developing Integrated Web Applications
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35. Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
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36. Criminal: The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things
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37. The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
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38. Feynman Lectures On Computation (Frontiers in Physics)
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39. Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition (Collins Business Essentials)
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40. SPIN-selling
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41. Winning through Intimidation: How to Be the Victor, Not the Victim, in Business and in Life
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42. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
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43. Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought (A Bradford Book)
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44. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
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45. Practical Ethics
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46. Nuclear Engineering Handbook (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)
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47. Mazes for Programmers: Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages
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48. Rough Cut--Woodworking with Tommy Mac: 12 Step-by-Step Projects
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49. The Vertical Jump Development Bible
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50. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
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51. Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants In American Democracy (Business and Public Policy)
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52. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
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53. CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web
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54. Architecting Angular Applications with Redux, RxJS, and NgRx: Learn to build Redux style high-performing applications with Angular 6
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55. Mastering TypeScript 3: Build enterprise-ready, industrial-strength web applications using TypeScript 3 and modern frameworks, 3rd Edition
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56. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
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57. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale
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58. Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery
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59. The New Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by the World's Best Companies
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60. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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61. Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia
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62. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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63. Formula 1 Technology (Premiere Series Books)
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64. The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
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65. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
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66. Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists
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67. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)
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68. Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
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69. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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70. The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds
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71. Shake: A New Perspective on Cocktails
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72. Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary
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73. The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
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74. The Art of Comic Book Inking (Third Edition)
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75. Deutsche Schulzeit: Erinnerungen u. Erzählungen aus 3 Jahrhunderten (German Edition)
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76. How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
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77. Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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78. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
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79. Where the Crawdads Sing
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80. Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
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81. Functional Differential Geometry (The MIT Press)
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82. The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
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83. Transforming NOKIA: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change
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84. Ringtone: Exploring the Rise and Fall of Nokia in Mobile Phones
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85. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
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86. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
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87. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
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88. Science of Breath (Hindu-yogi)
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89. Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money
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90. A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation
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91. Parkinsons Law: Or The Pursuit Of Progress (Business Library)
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92. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition
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93. Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
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94. Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
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95. Calculus the Easy Way
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96. The Data Model Resource Book: A Library of Universal Data Models for All Enterprises
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97. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)
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98. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from a Secret World
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99. Music: A Mathematical Offering
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100. Tamata and the Alliance
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