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1. A Renegade History of the United States
by Thaddeus Russell
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2. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard Phillips Feynman, A. Zee
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3. Who's in Charge?: The Neuroscience of Decision-Making, the Notion of Free Will and the Idea of a Determined World
by Michael S. Gazzaniga
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4. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
by Corey Robin
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5. 超限战 与反超限战,中国人提出的新战争观美国人如何应对
by 乔良, 王湘穗
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6. The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet
by Jeff Kosseff
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7. Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training
by Karen Pryor
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8. Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring (Paperback))
by Christopher Hitchens
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9. No bullshit guide to math and physics
by Ivan Savov
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10. Functions and Graphs (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by I. M. Gelfand, E. G. Glagoleva, E. E. Shnol
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11. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
by Harvey Silverglate
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12. Purity: A Novel
by Jonathan Franzen
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13. The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason (Studies in Monetary and Financial History)
by Larry Neal
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14. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
by Edward Chancellor
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15. A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
by William J. Bernstein
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16. BGP
by Iljitsch van Beijnum
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17. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition
by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
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18. Color Theory and Its Application in Art and Design (Springer Series in Optical Sciences)
by George A. Agoston
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19. Animal Menagerie - O'Reilly Media
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20. Software Engineering at Google
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21. And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
by Yanis Varoufakis
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22. A short history of the O'Reilly animals
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23. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
by Cal Newport
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24. Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: The Updated Version of the Insightful Guide on Bringing Cutting-Edge Products to the Mainstream (Collins Business Essentials)
by Geoffrey A. Moore
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25. Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD
by Sylvain Gugger, Jeremy Howard
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26. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright
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27. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)
by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
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28. Unraveling DNA
by M. D. Frank-Kamenet︠s︡kiĭ
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29. The Biology of Viruses
by Bruce A. Voyles
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30. Yeager: An Autobiography
by Chuck Yeager, Leo Janos
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31. Learning Malware Analysis
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32. Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
by B. J. Fogg
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33. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition
by Betty Edwards
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34. Harry Potter: Slytherin Glass Votive Candle (Luminaries)
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35. Red Plenty
by Francis Spufford
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36. A Million Thoughts: Learn All About Meditation from a Himalayan Mystic
by Om Swami
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37. Molecular Biology of the Cell
by Bruce Alberts, Alexander D. Johnson, Julian Lewis
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38. Online Learning Platform Pricing - O'Reilly Media
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39. Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
by Robert Pirsig
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40. The Art of UNIX Programming (The Addison-Wesley Professional Computng Series)
by Eric S. Raymond
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41. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
by Julie Zhuo
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42. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
by James Clear
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43. Practical C Programming, 3rd Edition
by Steve Oualline
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44. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
by Don Norman
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45. Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform
by Patrick Henry Winston
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46. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
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47. The Culture Map
by Erin Meyer
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48. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
by Michael A. Singer
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49. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1)
by Peter Wohlleben
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50. Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
by G. Richard Shell
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51. Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond
by Deepak Malhotra, Max Bazerman
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52. Good to Great: A Study of Management Strategies of Companies with Lasting Growth
by Jim Collins
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53. Say Good Night To Insomnia
by Gregg D. Jacobs
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54. Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790
by Jonathan Israel
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55. Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations
by William Ury
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56. Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression
by W. A. Mathieu
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57. Secure Coding in C and C++, Second Edition
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58. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
by Shunryū Suzuki
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59. Clojure Programming
by Chas Emerick. Brian Carper. Christophe Grand
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60. Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
by Bryan Caplan
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61. Who Goes First?: The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine
by Lawrence K. Altman
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62. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
by Michael Pillsbury
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63. Video Kids: Making Sense of Nintendo
by Eugene F. Provenzo
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64. Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On: Apply modern RL methods, with deep Q-networks, value iteration, policy gradients, TRPO, AlphaGo Zero and more
by Maxim Lapan
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65. The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook
by Michael Kerrisk
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66. No bullshit guide to linear algebra
by Ivan Savov
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67. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
by Jaron Lanier
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68. Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions: A Catologue of Modern Engineering Paradigms
by Peter DeGrace, Leslie Hulet Stahl
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69. Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
by Gary Marcus, Ernest Davis
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70. The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Numbers: Revised Edition
by David Wells
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71. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
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72. Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
by Thomas C. Leonard
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73. Black Rednecks and White Liberals
by Thomas Sowell
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74. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
by Saifedean Ammous
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75. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
by Donald C. Shoup
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76. Piracy is progressive taxation, and other thoughts on the evolution of online distribution
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77. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
by Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton
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78. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
by Carlota Perez
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79. Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition
by Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, Linda Lamb
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80. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
by Kim Zetter
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81. The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison – An Oracle Biography of Ruthless Ambition and Silicon Valley Fame
by Mike Wilson
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82. The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
by James Bernard MacKinnon
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83. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
by Peter Seibel
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84. High Performance Browser Networking
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85. The Design of the UNIX Operating System
by Maurice J. Bach
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86. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Krste Asanović
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87. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale
by Boris Cherny
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88. Laravel: Up & Running, 2nd Edition
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89. Making Software
by Andrew Oram, Greg Wilson
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90. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts
by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier
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91. Lisp in Small Pieces
by Christian Queinnec
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92. Reality Is What You Can Get Away With
by Robert Anton Wilson
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93. True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
by Jacob Grimm, Ernst Friedrich Johann Dronke, Georg Ludwig Von Maurer
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94. Code
by Charles Petzold
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95. The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993
by Jordan Mechner
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96. Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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97. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
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98. Visual Complex Analysis
by Tristan Needham
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99. The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
by Alex Beam
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100. JavaScript: The Good Parts
by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford
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