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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

1. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work) cover

2. Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work)

by Joshua Spodek

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Rough Cut--Woodworking with Tommy Mac: 12 Step-by-Step Projects cover

3. Rough Cut--Woodworking with Tommy Mac: 12 Step-by-Step Projects

by Thomas J. MacDonald, Tommy MacDonald, Laurie Donnelly

Mazes for Programmers: Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages cover

4. Mazes for Programmers: Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages

by Jamis Buck

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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living cover

5. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

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Transforming NOKIA: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change cover

6. Transforming NOKIA: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change

by Risto Siilasmaa

Making Things Move Diy Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists cover

7. Making Things Move Diy Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists

by Dustyn Roberts

The Mathematical Experience cover

8. The Mathematical Experience

by Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh

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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

9. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America cover

10. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

by Richard Rothstein

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Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder cover

11. Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder

by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., John J. Ratey, M.D.

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Auto Mechanics Fundamentals (How and Why of the Design, Construction and Operation of Automotive Units) cover

12. Auto Mechanics Fundamentals (How and Why of the Design, Construction and Operation of Automotive Units)

by Martin W. Stockel

How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

13. How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps

by Natalie Sidner, Lawrence Krubner

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How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle -- How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers cover

14. How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle -- How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers

by William Poundstone

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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently cover

15. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

by Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

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Principles of Neural Design (The MIT Press) cover

16. Principles of Neural Design (The MIT Press)

by Peter Sterling, Simon Laughlin

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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World cover

17. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

by Steven Johnson

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Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream cover

18. Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream

by Adam W. Shepard

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A Cultural History of Physics cover

19. A Cultural History of Physics

by Károly Simonyi

Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation cover

20. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

by Blake J. Harris

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Programming Game AI by Example (Wordware Game Developers Library) cover

21. Programming Game AI by Example (Wordware Game Developers Library)

by Mat Buckland

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UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers cover

22. UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers

by Curt Schimmel

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America cover

23. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America cover

24. Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Auto Mechanics Fundamentals: How and Why of the Design, Construction, and Operation of Automotive Units cover

25. Auto Mechanics Fundamentals: How and Why of the Design, Construction, and Operation of Automotive Units

by Martin W. Stockel, Martin T. Stockel

PC Interrupts : A Programmer's Reference to BIOS, DOS, and Third-Party Calls cover

26. PC Interrupts : A Programmer's Reference to BIOS, DOS, and Third-Party Calls

by Ralf Brown, James Kyle, Jim Kyle

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The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

27. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto

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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure cover

28. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think cover

29. 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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For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History cover

30. For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History

by Sarah Rose

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Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory In Practice (O'reilly)) cover

31. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory In Practice (O'reilly))

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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

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

by Nicholas Carr

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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Twelfth Edition) cover

33. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Twelfth Edition)

by Burton G Malkiel

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Wealth, Poverty and Politics cover

34. Wealth, Poverty and Politics

by Thomas Sowell

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Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node cover

35. Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node

by Simon Holmes, Clive Herber

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests cover

36. Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

by Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce

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How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants cover

37. How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants

by Joseph E. Armstrong

Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) cover

38. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

by Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, Gregory G. Colomb

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Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python cover

39. Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python

by Joel Grus

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Beautiful Code cover

40. Beautiful Code

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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The Three-Body Problem cover

41. The Three-Body Problem

by Cixin Liu

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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back cover

42. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

by Elisabeth Rosenthal

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How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk cover

43. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk

by Douglas W. Hubbard, Richard Seiersen

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