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The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities cover

1. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

by Mancur Olson

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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' cover

2. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

by Professor Sidney Dekker

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Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices) cover

3. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)

by Steve McConnell

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Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't cover

4. Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't

by Jeffrey Pfeffer

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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) cover

5. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

by Martin Fowler

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Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (ACM Press) cover

6. Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (ACM Press)

by Clemens Szyperski

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The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job (Springer Praxis Books) cover

7. The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job (Springer Praxis Books)

by Emily Lakdawalla

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Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations cover

8. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

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Diet for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary Edition) cover

9. Diet for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary Edition)

by Frances Moore Lappé

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Quick Boot: A Guide for Embedded Firmware Developers, Second Edition cover

10. Quick Boot: A Guide for Embedded Firmware Developers, Second Edition

by Pete Dice

The Weather of the Pacific Northwest cover

11. The Weather of the Pacific Northwest

by Cliff Mass

From Dictatorship to Democracy cover

12. From Dictatorship to Democracy

by Gene Sharp

Building with Straw Bales: A Step-by-step Guide (6) (Sustainable Building) cover

13. Building with Straw Bales: A Step-by-step Guide (6) (Sustainable Building)

by Barbara Jones

Vaccines and Autoimmunity cover

14. Vaccines and Autoimmunity

by Yehuda Shoenfeld, Nancy Agmon-Levin, Lucija Tomljenovic

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Verification of Reactive Systems: Formal Methods and Algorithms (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series) cover

15. Verification of Reactive Systems: Formal Methods and Algorithms (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)

by Klaus Schneider

Manifold: Space cover

16. Manifold: Space

by Stephen Baxter

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) cover

17. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)

by Kip S Thorne

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An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

18. An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Greg Michaelson

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Foundations of Applied Mathematics, Volume 2: Algorithms, Approximation, Optimization cover

19. Foundations of Applied Mathematics, Volume 2: Algorithms, Approximation, Optimization

by JEFFREY. JARVIS HUMPHERYS (TYLER J.)

The Future of Fusion Energy cover

20. The Future of Fusion Energy

by Jason Parisi, Justin Ball

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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It cover

21. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

by Gary Taubes

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The Big Fat Surprise (Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet) cover

22. The Big Fat Surprise (Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet)

by Nina Teicholz

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On Bullshit cover

23. On Bullshit

by Harry G. Frankfurt

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CPython Internals: Your Guide to the Python 3 Interpreter cover

24. CPython Internals: Your Guide to the Python 3 Interpreter

by Anthony Shaw

Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 cover

25. Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

by Jack Kerouac

Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity (Dover Books on Computer Science) cover

26. Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity (Dover Books on Computer Science)

by Christos H. Papadimitriou, Kenneth Steiglitz

The E Myth: Why Most Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It cover

27. The E Myth: Why Most Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

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