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Trigonometry (Gelfand Mathematical Seminar Series) cover

1. Trigonometry (Gelfand Mathematical Seminar Series)

by Izrailʹ Moiseevich Gelʹfand, Mark E. Saul

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Algebra cover

2. Algebra

by I.M. Gelfand, Alexander Shen

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Geometry cover

3. Geometry

by Israel M. Gelfand, Tatiana Alekseyevskaya (Gelfand)

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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media cover

4. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky

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False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet cover

5. False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

by Bjorn Lomborg

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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? cover

6. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

by Frans de Waal

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Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications cover

7. Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications

by Chet Haase, Romain Guy

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SAPIENS: A GRAPHIC HISTORY: THE BIRTH OF HUMANKIND (VOL. 1) cover

8. SAPIENS: A GRAPHIC HISTORY: THE BIRTH OF HUMANKIND (VOL. 1)

by Yuval Noah Harari

Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth cover

9. Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth

by Jay Hosler

Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story cover

10. Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story

by Lisa Westberg Peters

Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan cover

11. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan

by Ronald H. Spector

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code cover

12. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck

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Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? cover

13. Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

by Philip E. Tetlock

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Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading: Predictive models to extract signals from market and alternative data for systematic trading strategies with Python, 2nd Edition cover

14. Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading: Predictive models to extract signals from market and alternative data for systematic trading strategies with Python, 2nd Edition

by Stefan Jansen

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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age cover

15. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Michael A. Hiltzik

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Playing at the World cover

16. Playing at the World

by Jon Peterson

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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' cover

17. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

by Professor Sidney Dekker

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ORGANIZE YOUR MIND, ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE cover

18. ORGANIZE YOUR MIND, ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution cover

19. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

by Terence McKenna

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On Bullshit cover

20. On Bullshit

by Harry G. Frankfurt

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Advances in Financial Machine Learning cover

21. Advances in Financial Machine Learning

by Marcos Lopez de Prado

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers cover

22. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz

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The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You cover

23. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

by Julie Zhuo

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Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created

24. Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George"

by James Lapine

The Dark Side of Dharma: Meditation, Madness and Other Maladies on the Contemplative Path cover

25. The Dark Side of Dharma: Meditation, Madness and Other Maladies on the Contemplative Path

by Anna Lutkajtis

The Art of Thinking Clearly cover

26. The Art of Thinking Clearly

by Rolf Dobelli

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Leadership and Training for the Fight: Using Special Operations Principles to Succeed in Law Enforcement, Business, and War cover

27. Leadership and Training for the Fight: Using Special Operations Principles to Succeed in Law Enforcement, Business, and War

by Paul R. Howe

The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation cover

28. The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation

by James C. Russell

Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship cover

29. Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship

by George Dyson

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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 74) cover

30. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 74)

by Walter Scheidel

Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime cover

31. Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime

by Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rae

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Practical Cloud Security: A Guide for Secure Design and Deployment cover

32. Practical Cloud Security: A Guide for Secure Design and Deployment

by Chris Dotson

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An Introduction to the Mathematics and Methods of Astrodynamics, Revised Edition (AIAA Education) cover

33. An Introduction to the Mathematics and Methods of Astrodynamics, Revised Edition (AIAA Education)

by Richard H. Battin

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living cover

34. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

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