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

1. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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Reading the New Testament: An Introduction cover

2. Reading the New Testament: An Introduction

by Pheme Perkins

Improvised Munitions Handbook TM 31 210 cover

3. Improvised Munitions Handbook TM 31 210

by Department of the Army

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The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History) cover

4. The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History)

by Ola Tunander

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Near Myths (Anthologies of the Writing Journey) cover

5. Near Myths (Anthologies of the Writing Journey)

by Tim Yao, Awnna Marie Evans, Todd Hogan

Linux Programming White Papers: A Compilation of Technical Documents for Programmers cover

6. Linux Programming White Papers: A Compilation of Technical Documents for Programmers

by David Rusling

The Rational Male cover

7. The Rational Male

by Rollo Tomassi

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

8. 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 United States of Wal-Mart cover

9. The United States of Wal-Mart

by John Dicker

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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business cover

10. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

by Neil Postman

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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual cover

11. Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

by Michael Pollan

Beginning Lua with World of Warcraft Add-ons cover

12. Beginning Lua with World of Warcraft Add-ons

by Paul Emmerich

Translucent Databases 2Nd Edition: Confusion, Misdirection, Randomness, Sharing, Authentication And Steganography To Defend Privacy cover

13. Translucent Databases 2Nd Edition: Confusion, Misdirection, Randomness, Sharing, Authentication And Steganography To Defend Privacy

by Peter Wayner

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Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution cover

14. Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution

by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, David Robertson

Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning cover

15. Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning

by Ron Sun

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future cover

16. Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

by Martin Ford

How to Blow Up a Pipeline cover

17. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

by Andreas Malm

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The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times cover

18. The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times

by Dom Jean-Charles Nault, Jean-Charles Nault

Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past, & Telling True Lies cover

19. Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past, & Telling True Lies

by Aidan Wachter

The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance: And Other Real Laws that Human Beings Actually Dreamed Up cover

20. The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance: And Other Real Laws that Human Beings Actually Dreamed Up

by Kevin Underhill

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Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World cover

21. Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World

by Irene Vallejo

The Protean Self: Human Resilience In An Age Of Fragmentation cover

22. The Protean Self: Human Resilience In An Age Of Fragmentation

by Robert J. Lifton

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The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism cover

23. The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism

by Daniel Bell

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The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio cover

24. The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio

by William Bernstein

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