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How the Irish Became White (Routledge Classics) cover

1. How the Irish Became White (Routledge Classics)

by Noel Ignatiev

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Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3 series) cover

2. Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3 series)

by Geeta Dayal

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success cover

3. The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

by Kevin Dutton

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Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television, Updated and Expanded cover

4. Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television, Updated and Expanded

by Joel Brinkley

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The Quest for Cosmic Justice cover

5. The Quest for Cosmic Justice

by Thomas Sowell

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Discrimination and Disparities cover

6. Discrimination and Disparities

by Thomas Sowell

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Black Rednecks and White Liberals cover

7. Black Rednecks and White Liberals

by Thomas Sowell

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Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks: Languages That Are Shaping the Future cover

8. Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks: Languages That Are Shaping the Future

by Bruce A. Tate, Ian Dees, Frederic Daoud, Jack Moffitt

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

9. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Bruce Tate

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Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America cover

10. Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

by Chris Arnade

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Unix Power Tools, Third Edition cover

11. Unix Power Tools, Third Edition

by Shelley Powers

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Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi (Penguin Library of American Indian History) cover

12. Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi (Penguin Library of American Indian History)

by Timothy R. Pauketat

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SPIN Selling cover

13. SPIN Selling

by Neil Rackham

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Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality cover

14. Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality

by Anthony De Mello

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Closing Is NOT Your Problem! cover

15. Closing Is NOT Your Problem!

by Lisa Terrenzi

The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life cover

16. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

by Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson

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Something Really New: Three Simple Steps to Creating Truly Innovative Products cover

17. Something Really New: Three Simple Steps to Creating Truly Innovative Products

by Denis J. Hauptly

Measuring the Cosmos: How Scientists Discovered the Dimensions of the Universe cover

18. Measuring the Cosmos: How Scientists Discovered the Dimensions of the Universe

by David H. Clark, Matthew D. H. Clark

Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp cover

19. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp

by Peter Norvig

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The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 6: Satisfiability cover

20. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 6: Satisfiability

by Donald Ervin Knuth

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This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life cover

21. This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

by Annie Grace

Allen Carr's Easyway to Control Alcohol cover

22. Allen Carr's Easyway to Control Alcohol

by Allen Carr

Exactly What to Say: Your Personal Guide to the Mastery of Magic Words cover

23. Exactly What to Say: Your Personal Guide to the Mastery of Magic Words

by Phil M Jones

Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel cover

24. Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

by Tom Wainwright

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Thomas' Calculus: Early Transcendentals cover

25. Thomas' Calculus: Early Transcendentals

by George Thomas, Maurice D. Weir, Joel Hass

The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems cover

26. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

by Jef Raskin

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Competition & Monopoly in Medical Care cover

27. Competition & Monopoly in Medical Care

by Harry Edward Frech (III)

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Allen Carr's Quit Drinking Without Willpower: Be a happy nondrinker (Allen Carr's Easyway, 2) cover

28. Allen Carr's Quit Drinking Without Willpower: Be a happy nondrinker (Allen Carr's Easyway, 2)

by Allen Carr

Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue cover

29. Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue

by Carl Malamud

Scorched Worth: A True Story of Destruction, Deceit, and Government Corruption cover

30. Scorched Worth: A True Story of Destruction, Deceit, and Government Corruption

by Joel Engel

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The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows cover

31. The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows

by Raymond Chen

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Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews cover

32. Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews

by Timothy Falcon Crack

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The Human Life cover

33. The Human Life

by O'Neil, George

Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective - Updated Edition (Advances in Financial Engineering, 3) cover

34. Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective - Updated Edition (Advances in Financial Engineering, 3)

by Andrew W. Lo

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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems cover

35. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems

by Aurélien Géron

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