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The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully cover

1. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future cover

2. If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

by Jill Lepore

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Intelligence: All That Matters cover

3. Intelligence: All That Matters

by Stuart Ritchie

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Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent (Encounter Broadsides) cover

4. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent (Encounter Broadsides)

by Harvey A. Silverglate

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The Chemistry Book: From Gunpowder to Graphene, 250 Milestones in the History of Chemistry (Union Square & Co. Milestones) cover

5. The Chemistry Book: From Gunpowder to Graphene, 250 Milestones in the History of Chemistry (Union Square & Co. Milestones)

by Derek B. Lowe

'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyrics cover

6. 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyrics

by Gavin Edwards

The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

7. The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

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Majo no takkyūbin (Japanese Edition) cover

8. Majo no takkyūbin (Japanese Edition)

by Eiko Kadono

Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

9. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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Glued to Games: How Video Games Draw Us In and Hold Us Spellbound (New Directions in Media) cover

10. Glued to Games: How Video Games Draw Us In and Hold Us Spellbound (New Directions in Media)

by Scott Rigby, Richard M. Ryan

Basic Economics cover

11. Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell

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Longitude cover

12. Longitude

by Dava Sobel

Cannon's Concise Guide to Rules of Order cover

13. Cannon's Concise Guide to Rules of Order

by Hugh Cannon

CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised cover

14. CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised

by Katie Hafner, John Markoff

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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker cover

15. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

by Kevin Mitnick

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Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models cover

16. Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models

by Martin Fowler

Introduction to Information Retrieval cover

17. Introduction to Information Retrieval

by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze

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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1 cover

18. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1

by Karl Marx

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Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice cover

19. Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice

by W. Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman

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「は」と「が」 (新日本語文法選書 (1)) cover

20. 「は」と「が」 (新日本語文法選書 (1))

by 野田尚史

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Les dossiers de la CIA sur la France 1981-2010: Dans le secret des présidents ** (Pluriel) (French Edition) cover

21. Les dossiers de la CIA sur la France 1981-2010: Dans le secret des présidents ** (Pluriel) (French Edition)

by Vincent Nouzille

Style Guide (Economist Books) cover

22. Style Guide (Economist Books)

by The Economist

Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems) cover

23. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell

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The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution cover

24. The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

by Denis Dutton

How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot cover

25. How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot

by John Muir, Tosh Gregg, Peter Aschwanden

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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann cover

26. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

by Ananyo Bhattacharya

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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany cover

27. Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

by Hans Massaquoi