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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything cover

1. Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On: Apply modern RL methods, with deep Q-networks, value iteration, policy gradients, TRPO, AlphaGo Zero and more cover

2. Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On: Apply modern RL methods, with deep Q-networks, value iteration, policy gradients, TRPO, AlphaGo Zero and more

Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust cover

3. Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

Practical Astronomy with your Calculator cover

4. Practical Astronomy with your Calculator

Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale cover

5. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale

Reality Is What You Can Get Away With cover

6. Reality Is What You Can Get Away With

True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier cover

7. True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work cover

8. Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

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Technical Editing: The Practical Guide For Editors And Writers (Hewlett-Packard Press) cover

9. Technical Editing: The Practical Guide For Editors And Writers (Hewlett-Packard Press)

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World cover

10. Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

Building Machine Learning Powered Applications: Going from Idea to Product cover

11. Building Machine Learning Powered Applications: Going from Idea to Product

Building Machine Learning Powered Applications cover

12. Building Machine Learning Powered Applications

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

13. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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Predictive modeling: Striking a balance between accuracy and interpretability cover

14. Predictive modeling: Striking a balance between accuracy and interpretability

The Klutz Book of Knots cover

15. The Klutz Book of Knots

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are cover

16. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

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Heteroptera: The Beautiful and the Other, or Images of a Mutating World cover

17. Heteroptera: The Beautiful and the Other, or Images of a Mutating World

Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) cover

18. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

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The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society cover

19. The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

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Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? cover

20. Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update cover

21. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction cover

22. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Blindsight (Firefall, 1) cover

23. Blindsight (Firefall, 1)

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

24. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

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Purely Functional Data Structures cover

25. Purely Functional Data Structures

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The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek cover

26. The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek

Beyond Soap: The Real Truth About What You Are Doing to Your Skin and How to Fix It for a Beautiful, Healthy Glow cover

27. Beyond Soap: The Real Truth About What You Are Doing to Your Skin and How to Fix It for a Beautiful, Healthy Glow

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Abstract Algebra cover

28. Abstract Algebra

White Bread cover

29. White Bread

Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering) cover

30. Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)

The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge cover

31. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken cover

32. How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken

The Laws of an Eruv; A comprehensive review of the laws of Eruvin and their practical applications cover

33. The Laws of an Eruv; A comprehensive review of the laws of Eruvin and their practical applications

Handbook to Higher Consciousness cover

34. Handbook to Higher Consciousness

Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear cover

35. Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear

The Black God's Drums cover

36. The Black God's Drums

Yes, You Can Get a Financial Life! cover

37. Yes, You Can Get a Financial Life!