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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory cover

1. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

by David Graeber

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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses cover

2. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

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Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond cover

3. Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond

by David Loy

Philosophical Investigations cover

4. Philosophical Investigations

by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature cover

5. Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature

by Richard Rhodes

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Check Your Privilege: Live into the Work cover

6. Check Your Privilege: Live into the Work

by Myisha Hill

Check Your Privilege: Lean into the discomfort cover

7. Check Your Privilege: Lean into the discomfort

by Myisha Hill, Jennifer Kinney, Tina Strawn

The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth cover

8. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

by Sam Quinones

Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World cover

9. Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World

by Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell

Motel of the Mysteries cover

10. Motel of the Mysteries

by David Macaulay

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Free: The Future of a Radical Price cover

11. Free: The Future of a Radical Price

by Chris Anderson

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Wurzelatlas Mitteleuropaeischer Gruelandpflanzen Band 2 Pteridophyta und Dicotyledoneae (Magnoliopsida) Teil 2 Anatomie (Wurzelatlas mitteleuropaeischer Gruenlandpflanzen) cover

12. Wurzelatlas Mitteleuropaeischer Gruelandpflanzen Band 2 Pteridophyta und Dicotyledoneae (Magnoliopsida) Teil 2 Anatomie (Wurzelatlas mitteleuropaeischer Gruenlandpflanzen)

by Lore Kutschera, Monika Sobotik

Translucent Databases cover

13. Translucent Databases

by Peter Wayner

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Real-Time 3D Graphics with WebGL 2: Build interactive 3D applications with JavaScript and WebGL 2 (OpenGL ES 3.0), 2nd Edition cover

14. Real-Time 3D Graphics with WebGL 2: Build interactive 3D applications with JavaScript and WebGL 2 (OpenGL ES 3.0), 2nd Edition

by Farhad Ghayour, Diego Cantor

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Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes cover

15. Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes

by Chris Knowles

Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America cover

16. Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America

by Conor Dougherty

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Winnie Ille Pu (Latin Edition) cover

17. Winnie Ille Pu (Latin Edition)

by A. A. Milne

African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa cover

18. African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

by Michael A. Gomez

Winnie-the-Pooh on Management: In which a Very Important Bear and his friends are introduced to a Very Important Subject cover

19. Winnie-the-Pooh on Management: In which a Very Important Bear and his friends are introduced to a Very Important Subject

by Roger E. Allen

Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World cover

20. Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

by Jane McGonigal

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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) cover

21. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press)

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939-1945 cover

22. Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939-1945

by Alfred Price

The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't cover

23. The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't

by Julia Galef

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

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

by Michael A. Hiltzik

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The Dream Machine cover

25. The Dream Machine

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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Kanazawa Void cover

26. Kanazawa Void

Understanding Software Dynamics (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

27. Understanding Software Dynamics (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Richard Sites

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Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition) cover

28. Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition)

by Henry S. Warren

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Writing Efficient Programs (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

29. Writing Efficient Programs (Prentice-Hall Software Series)

by Jon Louis Bentley

Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind cover

30. Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind

by Dan Charnas

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How to Build a Shed cover

31. How to Build a Shed

by Sally Coulthard

The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 49) cover

32. The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 49)

by Gregory Clark

The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense) cover

33. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense)

by Robert F. Kennedy

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

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

by Martin Kleppmann

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