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Drink: A Social History of America cover

1. Drink: A Social History of America

by Andrew Barr

The History of Money cover

2. The History of Money

by Jack Weatherford

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.) cover

3. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.)

by Peter Hessler

A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation cover

4. A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation

by Christopher W. Fraser, David R. Hanson

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Home Performance Diagnostics: the Guide to Advanced Testing cover

5. Home Performance Diagnostics: the Guide to Advanced Testing

by Corbett Lunsford

Industrialists in Olive Drab: The Emergency Operations of Private Industries During World War II cover

6. Industrialists in Olive Drab: The Emergency Operations of Private Industries During World War II

by Center of Military History United States, Center of Military History United States Army

Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms (Audio Engineering Society Presents) cover

7. Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms (Audio Engineering Society Presents)

by Floyd E. Toole

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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

8. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

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Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing cover

9. Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing

by Leonard Peikoff

3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated cover

10. 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated

by Donald E. Knuth

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A Theory of Objects (Monographs in Computer Science) cover

11. A Theory of Objects (Monographs in Computer Science)

by Martin Abadi, Luca Cardelli

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

12. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser

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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It cover

13. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

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Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline cover

14. Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline

by Mary Shaw, David Garlan

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

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

by Nicole Perlroth

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Practical Common Lisp cover

16. Practical Common Lisp

by Peter Seibel

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Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work cover

17. Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

by Alex Petrov

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The Town That Fought to Save Itself cover

18. The Town That Fought to Save Itself

by Orville Schell

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't cover

19. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

by Jim Collins

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Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

20. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank

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A technique for producing ideas: A simple five step formula for producing ideas cover

21. A technique for producing ideas: A simple five step formula for producing ideas

by James Webb Young

Bike Fit: Optimise your bike position for high performance and injury avoidance cover

22. Bike Fit: Optimise your bike position for high performance and injury avoidance

by Phil Burt