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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us cover

1. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

by Daniel H. Pink

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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery cover

2. Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery

by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin

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Thinking in Systems: A Primer cover

3. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

by Donella Meadows

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Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life cover

4. Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

by Rory Sutherland

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The Soul of the White Ant (Complete and Unabridged): The Original Work of Ethology cover

5. The Soul of the White Ant (Complete and Unabridged): The Original Work of Ethology

by Eugene Marais

Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behaviour (or, How to Understand Those Who Cannot Be Understood) cover

6. Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behaviour (or, How to Understand Those Who Cannot Be Understood)

by Thomas Erikson

Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life) cover

7. Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life)

by Thomas Erikson

Feersum Endjinn: A Novel cover

8. Feersum Endjinn: A Novel

by Iain Banks

Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps cover

9. Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps

by Jacques Bertin

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Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean cover

10. Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean

by David Gelernter

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Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression cover

11. Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression

by W. A. Mathieu

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Digitale Demenz: Wie wir uns und unsere Kinder um den Verstand bringen cover

12. Digitale Demenz: Wie wir uns und unsere Kinder um den Verstand bringen

by Manfred Spitzer

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition cover

13. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

by Thomas S. Kuhn

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Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon cover

14. Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon

by Ashton B. Carter

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology: Expanded Second Edition cover

15. Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology: Expanded Second Edition

by Ayn Rand

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Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity cover

16. Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

by Charles L. Marohn, Jr.

Stumbling on Happiness cover

17. Stumbling on Happiness

by Daniel Todd Gilbert

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Lifespan: Why We Age_and Why We Don't Have To cover

18. Lifespan: Why We Age_and Why We Don't Have To

by David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante

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An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition) cover

19. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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How To Live On 24 Hours A Day cover

20. How To Live On 24 Hours A Day

by Arnold Bennett

Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint cover

21. Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint

by Robert Gaskins

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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century cover

22. The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

by George Friedman

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Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage cover

23. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage

by Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas

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Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City cover

24. Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City

by Kathryn Edin, Timothy J. Nelson

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

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

by Binyamin Appelbaum

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A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism cover

26. A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

by Adam Gopnik

Probabilistic Data Structures and Algorithms for Big Data Applications cover

27. Probabilistic Data Structures and Algorithms for Big Data Applications

by Andrii Gakhov

Industrial Megaprojects: Concepts, Strategies, and Practices for Success cover

28. Industrial Megaprojects: Concepts, Strategies, and Practices for Success

by Edward W. Merrow

Spillworthy cover

29. Spillworthy

by Johanna Harness

The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling, 3rd Edition cover

30. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling, 3rd Edition

by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety cover

31. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser

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The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality cover

32. The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality

by Dalai Lama

How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers cover

33. 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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The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

34. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

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The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes cover

35. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

by Donald D. Hoffman

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Flash Ou Le Grand Voyage (Le Livre De Poche) (French Edition) cover

36. Flash Ou Le Grand Voyage (Le Livre De Poche) (French Edition)

by Charles Duchaussois

Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis cover

37. Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis

by Katherine Levine Einstein, David M. Glick, Maxwell Palmer

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Purely Functional Data Structures cover

38. Purely Functional Data Structures

by Chris Okasaki

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Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life cover

39. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

by Martin E.P. Seligman

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Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All cover

40. Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All

by Arthur Holland Michel

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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions cover

41. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

A Composer's Guide to Game Music (MIT Press) (The MIT Press) cover

42. A Composer's Guide to Game Music (MIT Press) (The MIT Press)

by Winifred Phillips

Writing Interactive Music for Video Games: A Composer's Guide (Game Design) cover

43. Writing Interactive Music for Video Games: A Composer's Guide (Game Design)

by Michael Sweet

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States cover

44. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

by Daniel Immerwahr

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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy cover

45. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

by David D. Burns

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The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology) cover

46. The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)

by Richard J. Haier

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Constructing the User Interface with Statecharts cover

47. Constructing the User Interface with Statecharts

by Ian Horrocks

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The New Demons cover

48. The New Demons

by Jacques Ellul

The Best Interface Is No Interface: The simple path to brilliant technology (Voices That Matter) cover

49. The Best Interface Is No Interface: The simple path to brilliant technology (Voices That Matter)

by Golden Krishna

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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague cover

50. Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague

by David K Randall

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World cover

51. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport

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Streaming Systems: The What, Where, When, and How of Large-Scale Data Processing cover

52. Streaming Systems: The What, Where, When, and How of Large-Scale Data Processing

by Tyler Akidau, Slava Chernyak, Reuven Lax

Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five cover

53. Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five

by John Medina

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Designing Data Structures in Python cover

54. Designing Data Structures in Python

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Working with Algorithms in Python cover

55. Working with Algorithms in Python

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

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

by Martin Kleppmann

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The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set cover

57. The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set

by Donald Knuth

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