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The Turkish Cookbook cover

1. The Turkish Cookbook

by Musa Dagdeviren

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks On Zen Meditation And Practice cover

2. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks On Zen Meditation And Practice

by Shunryū Suzuki

Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It cover

3. Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It

by David Graeber

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

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

by Sam Quinones

What Is Web 2.0 cover

5. What Is Web 2.0

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Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond cover

6. Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond

by David Loy

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

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

by Eric Ries

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Philosophical Investigations cover

8. Philosophical Investigations

by Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition cover

9. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Rhodes

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

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

by Richard Rhodes

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Check Your Privilege: Lean into the discomfort cover

11. Check Your Privilege: Lean into the discomfort

by Myisha Hill, Jennifer Kinney, Tina Strawn

Check Your Privilege: Live into the Work cover

12. Check Your Privilege: Live into the Work

by Myisha Hill

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

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

by Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell

Motel of the Mysteries cover

14. Motel of the Mysteries

by David Macaulay

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Free: The Future of a Radical Price cover

15. 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

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

by Lore Kutschera, Monika Sobotik

Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America cover

17. Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America

by Conor Dougherty

Translucent Databases cover

18. 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

19. 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

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

by Chris Knowles

Winnie Ille Pu (Latin Edition) cover

21. Winnie Ille Pu (Latin Edition)

by A. A. Milne

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

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

by Michael A. Gomez

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

23. 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 cover

24. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition

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

25. 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

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

by Julia Galef

Programming Rust, 2nd Edition cover

27. Programming Rust, 2nd Edition

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

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

by Michael A. Hiltzik

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The Dream Machine cover

29. The Dream Machine

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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

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

by Richard Sites

Writing Efficient Programs (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

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

by Jon Louis Bentley

Hacker's Delight cover

32. Hacker's Delight

by Henry S. Warren

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

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

by Gregory Clark

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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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