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The Feeling Good Handbook cover

1. The Feeling Good Handbook

by David D. Burns

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

2. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 2 (English, French and French Edition) cover

3. The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 2 (English, French and French Edition)

by Fernand Braudel

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Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart cover

4. Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart

by Ian Ayres

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Money, Politics and Power: Banking and Public Finance in Wartime England, 169496 (Financial History) cover

5. Money, Politics and Power: Banking and Public Finance in Wartime England, 169496 (Financial History)

by Richard A. Kleer

Principles of Neural Design (The MIT Press) cover

6. Principles of Neural Design (The MIT Press)

by Peter Sterling, Simon Laughlin

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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind cover

7. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

by V. S. Ramachandran

How to Lie with Maps, Third Edition cover

8. How to Lie with Maps, Third Edition

by Mark Monmonier

Central Banking 101 cover

9. Central Banking 101

by Joseph J. Wang

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Chess skill in man and machine (Texts and monographs in computer science) cover

10. Chess skill in man and machine (Texts and monographs in computer science)

by Peter William Frey

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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness cover

11. The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

by Elyn R. Saks

Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others (Foundational Questions in Science) cover

12. Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others (Foundational Questions in Science)

by David Sloan Wilson

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory cover

13. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

by David Graeber

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Purely Functional Data Structures cover

14. Purely Functional Data Structures

by Chris Okasaki

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Algorithm Design with Haskell cover

15. Algorithm Design with Haskell

by Richard Bird, Jeremy Gibbons

Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design cover

16. Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design

by Richard Bird

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) cover

17. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman

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CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing cover

18. CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing

by Ken Lunde

Domain Modeling Made Functional: Tackle Software Complexity with Domain-Driven Design and F# cover

19. Domain Modeling Made Functional: Tackle Software Complexity with Domain-Driven Design and F#

by Scott Wlaschin

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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

20. Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Andrew Hunt

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In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence cover

21. In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence

by Russell T. Warne

Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there cover

22. Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there

by Richard John Wiseman

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Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences: An Introduction cover

23. Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences: An Introduction

by Guido W. Imbens, Donald B. Rubin

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The Black Art of Video Game Console Design cover

24. The Black Art of Video Game Console Design

by André LaMothe

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Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

25. Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Drew Neil

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Feeding Everyone No Matter What: Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe cover

26. Feeding Everyone No Matter What: Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe

by David Denkenberger, Joshua M. Pearce

Developing Windows 10 Applications with C# cover

27. Developing Windows 10 Applications with C#

by Sergii Baidachnyi