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

1. 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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Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment cover

2. Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment

by Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., Kathlyn Hendricks

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Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success cover

3. Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success

by Dietrich Vollrath

Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto cover

4. Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto

by Jessa Crispin

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

5. 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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Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations cover

6. Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations

by Vijay Prashad

Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life cover

7. Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

by Nir Eyal

Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense cover

8. Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense

by Sheldon Krimsky, Jeremy Gruber

Theories of Programming Languages cover

9. Theories of Programming Languages

by John C. Reynolds

How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life cover

10. How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

by Catherine Price

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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race cover

11. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth

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Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia cover

12. Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia

by Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw

Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation (Addison-Wesley series in computer science) cover

13. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation (Addison-Wesley series in computer science)

by John E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey D. Ullman

Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop: at Solving the Gordian Knot of Electricity Poverty and Global Warming cover

14. Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop: at Solving the Gordian Knot of Electricity Poverty and Global Warming

by Jack Devanney

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Stoicism and the Art of Happiness (Teach Yourself: Philosophy & Religion) cover

15. Stoicism and the Art of Happiness (Teach Yourself: Philosophy & Religion)

by Don Robertson

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How to Starve Cancer cover

16. How to Starve Cancer

by Jane McLelland

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Differential Equations with Applications and Historical Notes, 2nd Edition (International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics) cover

17. Differential Equations with Applications and Historical Notes, 2nd Edition (International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics)

by George Finlay Simmons

The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations (Dover Recreational Math) cover

18. The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations (Dover Recreational Math)

by Boris A. Kordemsky

Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Moments (Spectrum) cover

19. Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Moments (Spectrum)

by George F. Simmons

To Know as We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey cover

20. To Know as We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey

by Parker J. Palmer

A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness cover

21. A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

by Nassir Ghaemi

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Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It cover

22. Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It

by Ken Alibek, Stephen Handelman

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The Gray Lady Winked cover

23. The Gray Lady Winked

by Ashley Rindsberg

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The End of Alzheimer's Program: The First Protocol to Enhance Cognition and Reverse Decline at Any Age cover

24. The End of Alzheimer's Program: The First Protocol to Enhance Cognition and Reverse Decline at Any Age

by Dale Bredesen

The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science) cover

25. The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science)

by Tor Norretranders

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Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law cover

26. Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law

by Douglas N. Husak

They Say You're Crazy cover

27. They Say You're Crazy

by Paula J. Caplan

An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications (Texts in Computer Science) cover

28. An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications (Texts in Computer Science)

by Ming Li, Paul Vitanyi

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A culture of corruption: Changing an Australian Police Service (Institute of Criminology monograph series) cover

29. A culture of corruption: Changing an Australian Police Service (Institute of Criminology monograph series)

by David Dixon

Code of Silence: The True Story of How One Honest Police Officer Took on Australia's Most Corrupt Police Force and Survived cover

30. Code of Silence: The True Story of How One Honest Police Officer Took on Australia's Most Corrupt Police Force and Survived

by Colin Dillon, Tom Gilling

The One-Page Proposal: How to Get Your Business Pitch onto One Persuasive Page cover

31. The One-Page Proposal: How to Get Your Business Pitch onto One Persuasive Page

by Patrick G. Riley

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The Political Economy of Dictatorship cover

32. The Political Economy of Dictatorship

by Ronald Wintrobe

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Project MARS: A Technical Tale cover

33. Project MARS: A Technical Tale

by Wernher Von Braun