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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control cover

1. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

by Stuart Russell

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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence cover

2. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

by Max Tegmark

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Superintelligence cover

3. Superintelligence

by Nick Bostrom

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Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) cover

4. Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

by Federico Biancuzzi, Chromatic

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Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity cover

5. Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity

by Carliss Young Baldwin, Kim B. Clark

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Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise cover

6. Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise

by Carl Walter, Fraser Howie

Language As Disclosure: Reading Language in the Works of Five American Modernists cover

7. Language As Disclosure: Reading Language in the Works of Five American Modernists

by Carolyn Slaughter

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Xi Jinping: The Governance of China Volume 1: [English Language Version] cover

8. Xi Jinping: The Governance of China Volume 1: [English Language Version]

by Xi Jinping

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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation cover

9. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner

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Shrinking-population Economics: Lessons From Japan cover

10. Shrinking-population Economics: Lessons From Japan

by Akihiko Matsutani

The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat cover

11. The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat

by Stephan J. Guyenet

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The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism cover

12. The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

by Katherine Stewart

Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover

13. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To cover

14. Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To

by David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America cover

15. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

by Kevin M. Kruse

How to Avoid Huge Ships cover

16. How to Avoid Huge Ships

by John W. Trimmer

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Computational Ocean Acoustics (Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing) cover

17. Computational Ocean Acoustics (Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing)

by Finn B. Jensen, William A. Kuperman, Michael B. Porter, Henrik Schmidt

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How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender cover

18. How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender

by Mike Chase

The Thought Gang cover

19. The Thought Gang

by Tibor Fischer

The Collector Collector cover

20. The Collector Collector

by Tibor Fischer

The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People cover

21. The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People

by Rachel Wilkerson Miller

Badass: Making Users Awesome cover

22. Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra

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The New York Times Page One: One Hundred Years of Headlines As Presented in the New York Times cover

23. 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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Annals of the Former World cover

24. Annals of the Former World

by John McPhee

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Linear Algebra: Step by Step cover

25. Linear Algebra: Step by Step

by Kuldeep Singh

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Topology (2nd Edition) cover

26. Topology (2nd Edition)

by James R. Munkres

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