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1. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
by John Brooks
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2. How to Build a Car: A high-speed adventure of mechanics, teamwork, and friendship (Technical Tales)
by Martin Sodomka, Saskia Lacey
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3. The 10X Author: Level Up or Be Left Behind
by Johnny Truant, Sean M Platt
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4. Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?
by Tom O'Connor
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5. Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
by Rob Manning, William L. Simon
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6. Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World
by Robert Lawson, Benjamin Powell
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7. The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
by Martin Gurri
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8. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman
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9. Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (A Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy Book)
by Robert Higgs
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10. Calm Technology: Principles and Patterns for Non-Intrusive Design
by Amber Case
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11. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
by Clayton M. Christensen
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12. The ZX Spectrum Ula: How to Design a Microcomputer (ZX Design Retro Computer)
by Chris Smith
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13. Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory
by Michael C. Carroll
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14. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition
by W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago
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15. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
by Stuart Russell
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16. Superintelligence
by Nick Bostrom
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17. Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress: Learn to play the most complex video game ever made
by Peter Tyson
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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
by Phil Jergenson, Richard Jergenson, Wilma Keppel
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20. The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
by Sean McFate
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21. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'
by Professor Sidney Dekker
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22. Renegades of the Empire: How Three Software Warriors Started a Revolution Behind the Walls of Fortress Microsoft
by Michael Drummond
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23. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
by Mancur Olson
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24. iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
by Jeffrey S. Young, William L. Simon
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25. On the House: A Washington Memoir
by John Boehner
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26. Development and Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games, Vol. I: GDD, Authoritative Servers, Communications (Development and Deployment of Multiplayer Games)
by 'No Bugs' Hare
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27. Computer Graphics from Scratch: An Introduction to 3D Rendering
by Gabriel Gambetta
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28. The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization - Updated Edition
by Michael C. Corballis
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29. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
by Eric Evans
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30. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
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31. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
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32. Linux Command Bible 3e
by Richard Blum, Christine Bresnahan
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33. Modern Operating Systems
by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos
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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
by Kaiwan N Billimoria
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35. Systems Performance (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
by Brendan Gregg
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36. The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference
by Charles M. Kozierok
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37. Operating System Concepts
by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne
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38. MacOS and iOS Internals, Volume III: Security & Insecurity
by Jonathan Levin
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39. UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Edition)
by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Ben Whaley, Trent Hein
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40. Unix Shell Programming (3rd Edition)
by Stephen G. Kochan, Patrick H. Wood
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41. MacOS and iOS Internals, Volume II: Kernel Mode
by Jonathan Levin (IT consultant)
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42. Windows Internals, Part 2 (7th Edition)
by Mark Russinovich, Andrea Allievi, Alex Ionescu, David Solomon
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43. BPF Performance Tools (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
by Brendan Gregg
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44. MacOS and iOS Internals, Volume I: User Mode (v1.3)
by Jonathan Levin
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45. Operating Systems Design and Implementat: Design and Implementation
by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Wookhull
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46. Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition)
by W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, Andrew M. Rudoff
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47. Linux Kernel Programming: A comprehensive guide to kernel internals, writing kernel modules, and kernel synchronization
by Kaiwan N Billimoria
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48. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Max Tegmark
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49. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
by Nicole Perlroth
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50. Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
by Brett Christophers
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51. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition)
by John F. Hughes
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52. Hands-On Network Programming with C: Learn socket programming in C and write secure and optimized network code
by Lewis Van Winkle
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53. Kelly: More Than My Share of It All
by Clarence L. Johnson
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54. Windows Internals, Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more (7th Edition)
by Pavel Yosifovich, Mark E. Russinovich, Alex Ionescu, David A. Solomon
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55. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R Sunstein
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56. SWAT Madness and the Militarization of the American Police: A National Dilemma
by Jim Fisher
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57. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
by Rashid Khalidi
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58. Dynamics of Software Development
by Jim McCarthy
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59. 10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less
by Garett Jones
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60. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by Anand Giridharadas
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61. "All Governments Lie": The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone
by Myra MacPherson
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62. Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))
by Federico Biancuzzi, Chromatic
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63. The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate
by John H. Walton
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64. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
by Frances Stonor Saunders
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65. ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History
by Jennifer Dasal
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66. Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition
by Tomas Akenine-Mo ̈ller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman
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67. Video Kids: Making Sense of Nintendo
by Eugene F. Provenzo
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68. If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript
by Angus Croll
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69. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
by Peter Van der Linden
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70. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson
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71. The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
by Lee Strobel
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72. Mastering Kubernetes
by Gigi Sayfan
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73. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
by Steven Levy
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74. After the Trade Is Made: Processing Securities Transactions
by David M. Weiss
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75. Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)
by John Drury Clark
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76. Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
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77. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior, 4)
by Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels
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78. About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, Christopher Noessel
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79. Small Time Operator: How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, and Stay Out of Trouble
by Bernard B. Kamoroff
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80. 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)
by Cynthia Rylant
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81. Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach
by Leonard Bloomfield, Clarence Lewis Barnhart
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82. Eiffel : The Language (PRENTICE HALL OBJECT-ORIENTED SERIES)
by Bertrand Meyer
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83. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
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84. Where Is My Flying Car?
by J. Storrs Hall
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85. Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition (Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures)
by Joscha Bach
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86. Affirming Psychosis: The Mass Appeal of Adolf Hitler
by Paul Matussek, Peter Matussek, Jan Marbach
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87. How Apollo Flew to the Moon (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
by W. David Woods
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88. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
by Mark Bittman
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89. Algebra
by I.M. Gelfand, Alexander Shen
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90. Trigonometry (Gelfand Mathematical Seminar Series)
by Izrailʹ Moiseevich Gelʹfand, Mark E. Saul
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91. Geometry
by Israel M. Gelfand, Tatiana Alekseyevskaya (Gelfand)
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92. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
by Tom Vanderbilt
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93. The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815
by N A M Rodger
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94. Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment
by Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., Kathlyn Hendricks
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95. How to Avoid Huge Ships
by John W. Trimmer
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96. The Gun that Changed the World
by Mikhail Kalashnikov
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97. The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Princeton Science Library, 44)
by David Archer
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98. Dream Snow
by Eric Carle
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99. Rise and Fall of American Growth, The (The Princeton Economic Series of the Western World)
by Robert J. Gordon, Michael Butler Murray
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100. The New York Times Page One: One Hundred Years of Headlines As Presented in the New York Times
by New York Times, New York Times Company
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