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101. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
by Rich Cohen
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102. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication
by William Zinsser
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103. Feedback Control for Computer Systems
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104. Technical Editing: The Practical Guide For Editors And Writers (Hewlett-Packard Press)
by Judith Tarutz
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105. Strata + Hadoop World 2016 - San Jose, California: Video Compilation
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106. Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition
by Debra Cameron
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107. Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
by Bruce Schneier
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108. Abandoned Ship: An intimate account of the Costa Concordia shipwreck
by Benji Smith
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109. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition
by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
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110. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
by Evan Osnos
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111. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
by W. Timothy Gallwey
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112. Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
by Maryanne Wolf
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113. The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
by Christopher Lasch
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114. Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
by David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
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115. The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
by Alex Korb
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116. Building Machine Learning Powered Applications
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117. Building Machine Learning Powered Applications: Going from Idea to Product
by Emmanuel Ameisen
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118. Incident Response & Computer Forensics, Third Edition
by Kevin Mandia, Matthew Pepe, Jason T. Luttgens
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119. Non-Designer's Design Book, The
by Robin Williams
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120. The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
by Maria Konnikova
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121. Beyond The Galaxy: How Humanity Looked Beyond Our Milky Way And Discovered The Entire Universe
by Ethan Siegel
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122. Tour of C++, A (C++ In-Depth Series)
by Bjarne Stroustrup
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123. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by Jonathan Haidt
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124. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
by Marshall B. Rosenberg
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125. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
by Camille Fournier
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126. Fundamentals of Software Architecture
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127. Physics of the Plasma Universe
by Anthony L. Peratt
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128. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
by Gerald M. Weinberg
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129. A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
by T. R. Reid
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130. Goomics: Google's corporate culture revealed through internal comics
by Manu Cornet
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131. Man's Search for Meaning (OLD EDITION/OUT OF PRINT)
by Viktor Emil Frankl
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132. The Third Apple: Personal Computers & the Cultural Revolution (English and French Edition)
by Jean-Louis Gassée
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133. MAC OS X Internals: A Systems Approach
by Amit Singh
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134. Sophie's World (Sophie Series, Book 1)
by Nancy N. Rue
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135. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
by James W. Loewen
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136. What Every Economics Student Needs to Know and Doesn't Get in the Usual Principles Text
by John Komlos
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137. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by Gregory Clark
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138. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey
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139. Woodpecker Method
by Axel Smith, Hans Tikkanen
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140. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan
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141. The Reproduction of Colour (The Wiley-IS&T Series in Imaging Science and Technology)
by R. W. G. Hunt
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142. Colorimetry: Understanding the CIE System
by Janos Schanda
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143. Color Appearance Models (The Wiley-IS&T Series in Imaging Science and Technology)
by Mark D. Fairchild
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144. Billmeyer and Saltzman's Principles of Color Technology
by Roy S. Berns
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145. Color: An Introduction to Practice and Principles
by Rolf G. Kuehni
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146. Planet Water: Investing in the World's Most Valuable Resource
by Steve Hoffmann
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147. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition
by Patrick M. Lencioni
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148. The Doomsday Myth: 10,000 Years of Economic Crises (Hoover Institution Press Publication) (Volume 296)
by Charles Maurice, Charles W. Smithson
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149. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
by Michael Lewis
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150. Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach
by Tom DeMarco
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151. Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story
by John Bloom
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152. The Second Brain: A Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach and Intestine
by Michael Gershon
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153. Wireless Hacks
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154. Predictive modeling: Striking a balance between accuracy and interpretability
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155. Practical Ethics
by Peter Singer
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156. The Klutz Book of Knots
by John Cassidy
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157. How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
by Thomas Gilovich
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158. No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
by Molly Knight Raskin
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159. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
by Eric Schlosser
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160. Object-Oriented Design Heuristics
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161. The Magic Machine: A Handbook of Computer Sorcery
by A. K. Dewdney
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162. The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight)
by Dr. Jason Fung
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163. Strapdown Analytics Part 1 Part 2 by Paul G. Sav
by Paul G. Savage
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164. Programming Scala, 2nd Edition
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165. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
by David Kushner
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166. Flow Architectures: The Future of Streaming and Event-Driven Integration
by James Urquhart
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167. What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People
by Jennifer Bachner, Benjamin Ginsberg
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168. Who Is Fourier?: A Mathematical Adventure
by Transnational College of Lex
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169. Biochemical Pathways: An Atlas of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
by Gerhard Michal, Dietmar Schomburg
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170. A First Course in General Relativity
by Bernard F. Schutz
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171. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
by Gerald M. Weinberg
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172. Hegel: A Very Short Introduction
by Peter Singer
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173. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness
by John Yates, Matthew Immergut, Jeremy Graves
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174. Classics to Moderns in the Intermediate Grade | Piano Songbook for Intermediate Students | Original Classical Sheet Music from Baroque to 20th Century | Music for Millions, Vol 37
by Denes Agay
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175. Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded
by David Graeber
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176. The Art of Electronics
by Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill
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177. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
by Cliff Stoll
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178. High Performance Python: Practical Performant Programming for Humans
by Micha Gorelick, Ian Ozsvald
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179. Show-stopper!: Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
by G. Pascal Zachary
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180. Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
by Blake Snyder
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181. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
by Sönke Ahrens
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182. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
by Will Durant
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183. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
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184. Finite and Infinite Games
by James Carse
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185. The Cheap Video Cookbook
by Don Lancaster
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186. Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
by Steve Almond
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187. Unix Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers
by Curt Schimmel
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188. Burn Math Class: And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself
by Jason Wilkes
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189. Heteroptera: The Beautiful and the Other, or Images of a Mutating World
by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
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190. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
by John E. Sarno
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191. Scala Cookbook
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192. Linux For Dummies, 10th Edition
by Richard Blum
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193. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
by G. Pascal Zachary
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194. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)
by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev
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195. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
by Simon Singh
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196. The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
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197. Nuclear War Survival Skills: Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition
by Cresson H. Kearny
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198. Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence
by Vikram Mansharamani
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199. The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
by Binyamin Appelbaum
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200. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
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