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How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

1. How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps

by Lawrence Krubner, Natalie Sidner

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A Life of One's Own (The Collected Works of Marion Milner) cover

2. A Life of One's Own (The Collected Works of Marion Milner)

by Marion Milner

UNIX: A History and a Memoir cover

3. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

by Brian W. Kernighan

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Winning the Games Scientists Play cover

4. Winning the Games Scientists Play

by Carl Sindermann

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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency cover

5. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

by Tom DeMarco

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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control cover

6. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

by Stuart Jonathan Russell

The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm cover

7. The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm

by Robert F. Bruner, Sean D. Carr

Taking Charge of Adult ADHD: Proven Strategies to Succeed at Work, at Home, and in Relationships cover

8. Taking Charge of Adult ADHD: Proven Strategies to Succeed at Work, at Home, and in Relationships

by Russell A. Barkley, Christine M. Benton

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On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication cover

9. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication

by William Zinsser

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Industrial archaeology in Britain cover

10. Industrial archaeology in Britain

by Robert Angus Buchanan

Quantum Computing Since Democritus cover

11. Quantum Computing Since Democritus

by Scott Aaronson

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Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines cover

12. Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines

by Stefan Buttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack

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Lucene in Action, Second Edition: Covers Apache Lucene 3.0 cover

13. Lucene in Action, Second Edition: Covers Apache Lucene 3.0

by Michael McCandless, Erik Hatcher, Otis Gospodnetić

Bloodletters and Badmen cover

14. Bloodletters and Badmen

by Jay Robert Nash

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The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer cover

15. The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

by Steven Kotler

What's Your Poo Telling You?: (Funny Bathroom Books, Health Books, Humor Books, Funny Gift Books) cover

16. What's Your Poo Telling You?: (Funny Bathroom Books, Health Books, Humor Books, Funny Gift Books)

by Josh Richman, Anish Sheth

Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers cover

17. Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers

by Jan Gullberg

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Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty cover

18. Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty

by C. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan, Michael Connors

Constructing Language Processors for Little Languages cover

19. Constructing Language Processors for Little Languages

by Randy M. Kaplan

The Topology of Chaos: Alice in Stretch and Squeezeland cover

20. The Topology of Chaos: Alice in Stretch and Squeezeland

by Robert Gilmore, Marc Lefranc

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing cover

21. What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

by Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry

Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth cover

22. Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth

by Marc Lavoie, Wynne Godley

Altered Carbon cover

23. Altered Carbon

by Richard K. Morgan

Fundamentals of Software Architecture cover

24. Fundamentals of Software Architecture

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Dr. Z's Beat the Racetrack cover

25. Dr. Z's Beat the Racetrack

by W. T. Ziemba, Donald B. Hausch

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It's Better to Be a Good Machine Than a Bad Person: Speech Recognition and Other Exotic User Interfaces at the Twilight of the Jetsonian Age cover

26. It's Better to Be a Good Machine Than a Bad Person: Speech Recognition and Other Exotic User Interfaces at the Twilight of the Jetsonian Age

by Bruce Balentine

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

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

by Charles Petzold

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