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201. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman
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202. Questioning the Lambda Architecture
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203. Real Food / Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating & What You Can Do About It
by Larry Olmsted
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204. Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics
by Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman
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205. What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength
by Scott Carney
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206. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
by Sabine Hossenfelder
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207. Programming Quantum Computers
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208. Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error
by Steven Michael Casey
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209. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
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210. The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
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211. Fair Thee Well
by Nathan Jones
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212. Swarm Intelligence (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Evolutionary Computation)
by James Kennedy, Russell C. Eberhart, Yuhui Shi
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213. The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
by Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl
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214. What Technology Wants
by Kevin Kelly
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215. The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
by Mark Schatzker
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216. The Common Lisp Condition System: Beyond Exception Handling with Control Flow Mechanisms
by Michał "phoe" Herda
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217. sed & awk, 2nd Edition
by Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins
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218. The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design
by Luciano Floridi
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219. The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
by DK
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220. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
by Andy Greenberg
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221. Born-Einstein Letters, 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times (Macmillan Science)
by Max Born, Albert Einstein
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222. Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight
by John W. Foreman
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223. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
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224. Airway Management: A Solution for Our Health Crisis
by Steven Olmos
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225. Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Sythesis
by Glenn C. Conroy, Herman Pontzer
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226. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
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227. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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228. Lying
by Sam Harris
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229. The Read Aloud Cloud: An Innocent's Guide to the Tech Inside
by Forrest Brazeal
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230. Problem-Solving Through Problems (Problem Books in Mathematics)
by Loren C. Larson
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231. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
by Rob Fitzpatrick
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232. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
by Stephanie Kelton
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233. IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation-Expanded Edition
by Edwin Black
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234. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition
by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen
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235. Turning the Wheel of Truth: Commentary on the Buddha's First Teaching
by Ajahn Sucitto
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236. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
by Michael Pollan
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237. The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945
by Nicholas Stargardt
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238. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
by Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows
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239. Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
by Alan Weisman
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240. Thinking on Paper: The Harvard Researchers' Practical Manual for Overcoming Writer's Block and Generating Ideas
by V.a. Howard, J.H. Barton
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241. The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics
by Rod Hill
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242. The Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK Reference
by John Warsinske, Mark Graff, Kevin Henry, Christopher Hoover, Ben Malisow, Sean Murphy, C. Paul Oakes, George Pajari, Jeff T. Parker, David Seidl, Mike Vasquez
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243. A Philosophy of Software Design
by John Ousterhout
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244. The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
by Ward Farnsworth
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245. Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman
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246. Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
by David Graeber
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247. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
by James Nestor
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248. Kea, Bird of Paradox: The Evolution and Behavior of a New Zealand Parrot
by Judy Diamond, Alan B. Bond
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249. Head Rush Ajax
by Brett McLaughlin
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250. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
by Seymour A. Papert
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251. Art of Computer Programming, The: Combinatorial Algorithms, Volume 4A, Part 1
by Donald Ervin Knuth
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252. The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
by Martin Gurri
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253. Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
by John Derbyshire
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254. The Fifth Risk
by Michael Lewis
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255. Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by Joe Celko
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256. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
by Nina Teicholz
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257. Psychological Operations - Principles and Case Studies
by Frank L. Goldstein, Benjamin F. Findley
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258. The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking
by Barbara Minto
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259. Perfume: The Story of Murder
by Patrick Suskind
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260. Basic Economics
by Thomas Sowell
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261. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
by David D. Burns
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262. The Geek Atlas
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263. RESTful Web APIs
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264. REST in Practice
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265. RESTful Web Services
by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby
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266. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner
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267. Blindsight (Firefall, 1)
by Peter Watts
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268. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach
by Daniel J. Velleman
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269. The Revolutionary Phenotype: The amazing story of how life begins and how it ends
by J. F. Gariépy
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270. Intelligence: All That Matters
by Stuart Ritchie
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271. Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
by Nicholson Baker
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272. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
by Liaquat Ahamed
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273. Practical Astronomy with your Calculator
by Peter Duffett-Smith
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274. The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
by Mark Kurlansky
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275. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett
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276. The Richest Man In Babylon
by George S Clason, Frederick Van Rensselaer
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277. Code Complete
by Steve McConnell
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278. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
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279. Why Reactive?
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280. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
by David Eagleman
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281. Plastics Failure Guide 2E: Cause and Prevention
by Myer Ezrin
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282. TCP/IP Illustrated
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283. Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage
by Kenneth Silverman
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284. Professional Cookery
by Daniel R. Stevenson, Patricia M. G. Scobie
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285. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky
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286. The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
by Warren Farrell, Ph.D., John Gray
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287. The Study of Orchestration
by Samuel Adler
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288. Snowflake Science: Activity Book
by Michael Peres, Patricia Cost
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289. Harvest Of Rage: Why Oklahoma City Is Only The Beginning
by Joel Dyer
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290. UNIX: A History and a Memoir
by Brian W. Kernighan
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291. History of Programming Languages II
by Thomas J. Bergin, Richard G. Gibson
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292. Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care
by Charles Silver, David A. Hyman
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293. The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles Of Our Time
by Keith Devlin
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294. Java Concurrency in Practice
by Brian Goetz
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295. Digital Signal Processing in Modern Communication Systems
by Andreas O. Schwarzinger
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296. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
by Thomas E. Pearsall
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297. Purely Functional Data Structures
by Chris Okasaki
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298. Countdown
by Ben Mikaelsen
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299. The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek
by Andrea Marcolongo
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300. Radar Man: A Personal History of Stealth
by Edward Lovick Jr, Edward Lovick
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