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Purity: A Novel cover

1. Purity: A Novel

by Jonathan Franzen

Red Plenty cover

2. Red Plenty

by Francis Spufford

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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1) cover

3. 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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Clojure Programming cover

4. Clojure Programming

by Chas Emerick. Brian Carper. Christophe Grand

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Who Goes First?: The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine cover

5. Who Goes First?: The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine

by Lawrence K. Altman

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Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions: A Catologue of Modern Engineering Paradigms cover

6. Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions: A Catologue of Modern Engineering Paradigms

by Peter DeGrace, Leslie Hulet Stahl

The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Numbers: Revised Edition cover

7. The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Numbers: Revised Edition

by David Wells

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

8. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

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The Doomsday Myth: 10,000 Years of Economic Crises (Hoover Institution Press Publication) (Volume 296) cover

9. The Doomsday Myth: 10,000 Years of Economic Crises (Hoover Institution Press Publication) (Volume 296)

by Charles Maurice, Charles W. Smithson

Translucent Databases 2Nd Edition: Confusion, Misdirection, Randomness, Sharing, Authentication And Steganography To Defend Privacy cover

10. Translucent Databases 2Nd Edition: Confusion, Misdirection, Randomness, Sharing, Authentication And Steganography To Defend Privacy

by Peter Wayner

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How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life cover

11. How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

by Thomas Gilovich

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Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence cover

12. Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence

by Vikram Mansharamani

Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition cover

13. Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition

by Debra Cameron

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What Technology Wants cover

14. What Technology Wants

by Kevin Kelly

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sed & awk, 2nd Edition cover

15. sed & awk, 2nd Edition

by Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins

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IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation-Expanded Edition cover

16. 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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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt cover

17. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

by Michael Lewis

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How to Prove It: A Structured Approach cover

18. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach

by Daniel J. Velleman

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Why Reactive? cover

19. Why Reactive?

Java Concurrency in Practice cover

20. Java Concurrency in Practice

by Brian Goetz

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A History of the World in 6 Glasses cover

21. A History of the World in 6 Glasses

by Tom Standage

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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains cover

22. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr

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The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook: (Or: How to Beat the Big Bang) cover

23. The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook: (Or: How to Beat the Big Bang)

by Luke A. Barnes, Geraint F. Lewis

Why We're Polarized cover

24. Why We're Polarized

by Ezra Klein

21st Century C, 2nd Edition cover

25. 21st Century C, 2nd Edition

by Ben Klemens

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Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld cover

26. Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld

by Jake Halpern

Complete Venus Equilateral cover

27. Complete Venus Equilateral

by George O. Smith

Euclid and Jesus: How and why the church changed mathematics and Christianity across two religious wars cover

28. Euclid and Jesus: How and why the church changed mathematics and Christianity across two religious wars

by C. K. Raju

Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need cover

29. Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

by Blake Snyder

Me and You and Memento and Fargo: How Independent Screenplays Work cover

30. Me and You and Memento and Fargo: How Independent Screenplays Work

by J.J. Murphy

The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood cover

31. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

by James Gleick

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