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1. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
by Nicole Perlroth
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2. Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
by Andrew Smith
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3. The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
by Martin Gurri
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4. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Incerto)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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5. ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History
by Jennifer Dasal
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6. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
by Frances Stonor Saunders
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7. Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory
by Michael C. Carroll
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8. How to Watch TV News
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9. Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition
by Shelley Powers
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10. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
by Clayton M. Christensen
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11. Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition
by Tomas Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman
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12. How to Build With Grid Beam: A Fast, Easy and Affordable System for Constructing Almost Anything
by Phil Jergenson, Richard Jergenson, Wilma Keppel
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13. Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
by David Graeber
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14. T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
by Carole Hooven
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15. Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America
by Jo Barraclough Paoletti
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16. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
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17. Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
by Nadia Eghbal
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18. 21st Century C
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19. The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
by Mark Schatzker
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20. If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript
by Angus Croll
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21. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
by Rashid Khalidi
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22. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
by Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels
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23. 21st Century C, 2nd Edition
by Ben Klemens
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24. Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)
by John Drury Clark
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25. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
by Steven Levy
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26. The New Kingmakers
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27. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
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28. Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition (Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures)
by Joscha Bach
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29. The Gun that Changed the World
by Mikhail Kalashnikov
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30. Where Is My Flying Car?
by J. Storrs Hall
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31. Private Equity Laid Bare
by Ludovic Phalippou
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32. Python in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
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33. Writing GNU Emacs Extensions
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34. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
by Sam Quinones
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35. The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook
by Michael Kerrisk
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36. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
by William B. Irvine
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37. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
by Cliff Stoll
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38. Hunting Cyber Criminals: A Hacker's Guide to Online Intelligence Gathering Tools and Techniques
by Vinny Troia
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39. Payments Systems in the U.S.: A Guide for the Payments Professional
by Carol Coye Benson, Scott Loftesness, Russ Jones
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40. Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines
by Stefan Buttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack
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41. Introduction to Information Retrieval
by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze
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42. The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration)
by Tim Severin
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43. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff
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44. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition
by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen
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45. Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language)
by Jean-Louis Dessalles
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46. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
by Alfred V. Aho
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47. The Turkish Cookbook
by Musa Dagdeviren
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48. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science
by Philip N. Klein
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49. The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
by G. Edward Griffin
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50. Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond
by David Loy
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51. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition
by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
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52. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries
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53. The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
by Sonja Lyubomirsky
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54. Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Todd Gilbert
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55. Hard Realtime Garbage Collection in Modern Object Oriented Programming Languages.
by Fridtjof Siebert
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56. Philosophical Investigations
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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57. Software architecture patterns
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58. Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
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59. Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
by Blake Snyder
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60. Gödel's Proof
by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman
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61. What Is Web 2.0
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62. Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
by Thomas L. Friedman
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63. Psychology and Life
by Richard J. Gerrig, Philip G. Zimbardo
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64. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
by Richard Rhodes
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65. Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
by Richard Rhodes
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66. Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
by Clemens Szyperski, Dominik Gruntz, Stephan Murer
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67. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
by James Gleick
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68. In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story
by John Stockwell
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69. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)
by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell
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70. Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
by Chris Arnade
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71. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
by Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman
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72. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
by Edmond Lau
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73. Thinking About Glue
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74. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker
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75. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by John J. Ratey
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76. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by Robert D. Putnam
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77. Check Your Privilege: Lean into the discomfort
by Myisha Hill, Jennifer Kinney, Tina Strawn
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78. Check Your Privilege: Live into the Work
by Myisha Hill
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79. The Jazz Piano Book
by Mark Levine
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80. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
by Robert Jackall
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81. Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done
by Jon Acuff
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82. Lightweight Django
by Julia Elman. Mark Lavin
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83. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
by Edward Chancellor
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84. 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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85. Introduction to the Theory of Computation
by Michael Sipser
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86. Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
by Bryan Caplan
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87. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
by Douglas W. Hubbard
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88. Microservices: A quick and simple definition
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89. O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training
by Jerry D. Peek
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90. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
by Gerald M. Weinberg
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91. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
by Michael Lewis
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92. Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
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93. How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?
by Hiroyuki Nishigaki
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94. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, 2)
by Vernor Vinge
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95. Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP
by Francesco Cesarini, Steve Vinoski
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96. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks On Zen Meditation And Practice
by Shunryū Suzuki
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97. Dark Matter: A Novel
by Blake Crouch
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98. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
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99. Bill Evans – Jazz Piano Solos Songbook | Volume 19 in Jazz Piano Solos Series | 24 Classic Jazz Standards for Solo Piano | Arranged by Brent Edstrom for Intermediate to Advanced Players
by Bill Evans, Brent Edstrom
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100. Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
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