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The Nazi War on Cancer cover

1. The Nazi War on Cancer

by Robert Proctor

How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, And Vanish Without A Trace cover

2. How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, And Vanish Without A Trace

by Frank Ahearn, Eileen Horan

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Designing Active Server Pages cover

3. Designing Active Server Pages

by Scott Mitchell

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Program Generators with XML and Java cover

4. Program Generators with XML and Java

by J. Craig Cleaveland

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The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things cover

5. The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

by Barry Glassner

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Head First Git: A Learner's Guide to Understanding Git from the Inside Out cover

6. Head First Git: A Learner's Guide to Understanding Git from the Inside Out

by Raju Gandhi

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The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else cover

7. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

by Hernando De Soto

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Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine cover

8. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine

by Edzard Ernst, Simon Singh

Writing Interpreters and Compilers for the Raspberry Pi Using Python cover

9. Writing Interpreters and Compilers for the Raspberry Pi Using Python

by Anthony Dos Reis

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The Stars: A New Way to See Them cover

10. The Stars: A New Way to See Them

by Hans Augusto Rey

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Language Implementation Patterns: Create Your Own Domain-Specific and General Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

11. Language Implementation Patterns: Create Your Own Domain-Specific and General Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Terence Parr

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Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More cover

12. Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

by Christopher M. Palmer, MD

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Bugs in Writing: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose cover

13. Bugs in Writing: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose

by Lyn Dupré

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Digital Computer Programming cover

14. Digital Computer Programming

by Daniel D. McCracken

The Art of the Japanese Sword: The Craft of Swordmaking and its Appreciation cover

15. The Art of the Japanese Sword: The Craft of Swordmaking and its Appreciation

by Yoshindo Yoshihara, Leon Kapp, Hiroko Kapp

The Clan of the Cave Bear cover

16. The Clan of the Cave Bear

by Jean M. Auel

Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline cover

17. Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

by Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson

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Parasites: Tales of Humanity's Most Unwelcome Guests cover

18. Parasites: Tales of Humanity's Most Unwelcome Guests

by Rosemary Drisdelle

Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge cover

19. Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge

by Scott Walker, Marc Thiessen

Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs cover

20. Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

by Ken Kocienda

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Overqualified cover

21. Overqualified

by Joey Comeau

A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System: Communications Sciences, 1925-1980 cover

22. A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System: Communications Sciences, 1925-1980

by Bell Telephone Laboratories

British Manly Exercises cover

23. British Manly Exercises

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering cover

24. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics cover

25. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics

by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith

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Outliers: The Story of Success cover

26. Outliers: The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell

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The Algorithm Design Manual (Texts in Computer Science) cover

27. The Algorithm Design Manual (Texts in Computer Science)

by Steven S. Skiena

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A Burglar's Guide to the City cover

28. A Burglar's Guide to the City

by Geoff Manaugh

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Pimp: The Story of My Life cover

29. Pimp: The Story of My Life

by Iceberg Slim

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The Tyranny of Nations: How the Last 500 Years Shaped Today's Global Economy cover

30. The Tyranny of Nations: How the Last 500 Years Shaped Today's Global Economy

by Palak Patel

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How to Raise an Adult cover

31. How to Raise an Adult

by Julie Lythcott-Haims

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Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters cover

32. Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters

by Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D.

Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents cover

33. Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson

Beyond Product cover

34. Beyond Product

by Jill Soley, Todd Wilms