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

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

by Nicole Perlroth

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The Gun that Changed the World cover

2. The Gun that Changed the World

by Mikhail Kalashnikov

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

3. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B. Irvine

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Hard Realtime Garbage Collection in Modern Object Oriented Programming Languages. cover

4. Hard Realtime Garbage Collection in Modern Object Oriented Programming Languages.

by Fridtjof Siebert

Dark Matter: A Novel cover

5. Dark Matter: A Novel

by Blake Crouch

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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery cover

6. Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery

by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin

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Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge cover

7. Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge

by Ed Regis

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Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story cover

8. Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story

by Julie K. Brown

Razor Clams: Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Writers Fund xx) cover

9. Razor Clams: Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Writers Fund xx)

by David Alexander Berger

Colonies in Space: A Comprehensive and Factual Account of the Prospects for Human Colonization of Space (Stackpole Classics) cover

10. Colonies in Space: A Comprehensive and Factual Account of the Prospects for Human Colonization of Space (Stackpole Classics)

by T. A. Heppenheimer

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11. xchg rax,rax

by Xorpd

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Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science cover

12. Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science

by John W. Harris, Horst Stöcker

Practice of System and Network Administration, The: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1 cover

13. Practice of System and Network Administration, The: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1

by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup

Gravitation cover

14. Gravitation

by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler

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The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (5 Volume Set) cover

15. The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (5 Volume Set)

by Jacqueline L. Longe

Shell Scripting: Expert Recipes for Linux, Bash, and More cover

16. Shell Scripting: Expert Recipes for Linux, Bash, and More

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Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America cover

17. Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America

by Qiao Liang, Wang Xiangsui

What Is Total Quality Control?: The Japanese Way (English and Japanese Edition) cover

18. What Is Total Quality Control?: The Japanese Way (English and Japanese Edition)

by 石川馨

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The Human Element: Productivity, Self-Esteem, and the Bottom Line (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) cover

19. The Human Element: Productivity, Self-Esteem, and the Bottom Line (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

by Will Schutz

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Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices cover

20. Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices

by George Varghese

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The Algorithm Design Manual cover

21. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena

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An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions cover

22. An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions

by Peter J. Eccles

Overcoming Anxiety and Depression on the Autism Spectrum: A Self-help Guide Using CBT cover

23. Overcoming Anxiety and Depression on the Autism Spectrum: A Self-help Guide Using CBT

by Lee A. Wilkinson

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life cover

24. A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

by Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon cover

25. Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr

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Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists cover

26. Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists

by Edward Scheinerman

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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love cover

27. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport

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The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab cover

28. The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab

by Carl Miller

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

29. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann

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The Garbage Collection Handbook (

30. The Garbage Collection Handbook ("International Perspectives on Science, Culture and Society")

by Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss

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Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder cover

31. Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder

by Rudy von Bitter Rucker

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Java Performance: The Definitive Guide cover

32. Java Performance: The Definitive Guide

by Scott Oaks

Corporations (Examples & Explanations) cover

33. Corporations (Examples & Explanations)

by Alan R. Palmiter

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming cover

34. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit, Victor Luchangco, Michael Spear

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Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management cover

35. Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management

by Richard Jones, Rafael Lins

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Introduction to 64 Bit Intel Assembly Language Programming for Linux cover

36. Introduction to 64 Bit Intel Assembly Language Programming for Linux

by Ray Seyfarth

Introduction to Automata, Theory, Languages and Computation cover

37. Introduction to Automata, Theory, Languages and Computation

by John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman

Introduction to the Theory of Computation cover

38. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

by Michael Sipser

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Basic Economics cover

39. Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell

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Apple Inside Macintosh, Volumes I, II, and III cover

40. Apple Inside Macintosh, Volumes I, II, and III

by Caroline Rose, Apple Computer, Inc

Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change cover

41. Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

by William R. Catton

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