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1. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
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2. How to Build a Car: A high-speed adventure of mechanics, teamwork, and friendship (Technical Tales)
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3. The 10X Author: Level Up or Be Left Behind
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4. Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?
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5. Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
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6. Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World
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7. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'
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8. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
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9. Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (A Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy Book)
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10. Calm Technology: Principles and Patterns for Non-Intrusive Design
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11. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
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12. The ZX Spectrum Ula: How to Design a Microcomputer (ZX Design Retro Computer)
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13. Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory
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14. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition
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15. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
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16. Superintelligence
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17. Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress: Learn to play the most complex video game ever made
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18. How to Watch TV News
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19. How to Build With Grid Beam: A Fast, Easy and Affordable System for Constructing Almost Anything
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20. The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
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21. Renegades of the Empire: How Three Software Warriors Started a Revolution Behind the Walls of Fortress Microsoft
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22. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
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23. The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
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24. iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
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25. On the House: A Washington Memoir
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26. Computer Graphics from Scratch: An Introduction to 3D Rendering
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27. Development and Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games, Vol. I: GDD, Authoritative Servers, Communications (Development and Deployment of Multiplayer Games)
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28. The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization - Updated Edition
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29. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
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30. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
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31. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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32. Linux Kernel Programming: A comprehensive guide to kernel internals, writing kernel modules, and kernel synchronization
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33. UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Edition)
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34. Linux Kernel Programming Part 2 - Char Device Drivers and Kernel Synchronization: Create user-kernel interfaces, work with peripheral I/O, and handle hardware interrupts
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35. Operating System Concepts
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36. Linux Command Bible 3e
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37. MacOS and iOS Internals, Volume II: Kernel Mode
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38. MacOS and iOS Internals, Volume I: User Mode (v1.3)
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39. Systems Performance (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
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40. Operating Systems Design and Implementat: Design and Implementation
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41. The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference
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42. Windows Internals, Part 2 (7th Edition)
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43. Unix Shell Programming (3rd Edition)
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44. Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition)
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45. BPF Performance Tools (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
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46. Modern Operating Systems
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47. MacOS and iOS Internals, Volume III: Security & Insecurity
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48. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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49. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
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50. Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
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51. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition)
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52. Hands-On Network Programming with C: Learn socket programming in C and write secure and optimized network code
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53. Kelly: More Than My Share of It All
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54. Windows Internals, Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more (7th Edition)
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55. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
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56. SWAT Madness and the Militarization of the American Police: A National Dilemma
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57. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
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58. Dynamics of Software Development
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59. 10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less
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60. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
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61. "All Governments Lie": The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone
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62. Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))
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63. The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate
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64. ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History
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65. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
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66. Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition
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67. Video Kids: Making Sense of Nintendo
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68. If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript
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69. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
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70. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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71. The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
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72. Mastering Kubernetes
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73. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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74. After the Trade Is Made: Processing Securities Transactions
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75. Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)
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76. Mein Kampf
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77. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
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78. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior, 4)
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79. About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
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80. Small Time Operator: How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, and Stay Out of Trouble
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81. Henry and Mudge The Complete Collection: Henry and Mudge; Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble; Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps; Henry and Mudge ... under the Yellow Moon, etc. (Henry & Mudge)
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82. Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach
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83. Eiffel : The Language (PRENTICE HALL OBJECT-ORIENTED SERIES)
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84. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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85. Where Is My Flying Car?
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86. Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition (Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures)
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87. Affirming Psychosis: The Mass Appeal of Adolf Hitler
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88. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
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89. Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers (MSRI Mathematical Circles Library)
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90. Geometry
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91. Algebra
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92. Trigonometry (Gelfand Mathematical Seminar Series)
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93. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
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94. The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815
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95. Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment
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96. How to Avoid Huge Ships
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97. The Gun that Changed the World
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98. Dream Snow
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99. The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Princeton Science Library, 44)
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100. Rise and Fall of American Growth, The (The Princeton Economic Series of the Western World)
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