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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety cover

1. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser

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Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food cover

2. Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

by Catherine Shanahan, M.D., Luke Shanahan

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Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear cover

3. Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear

by Frank I. Luntz

A Book of Abstract Algebra: Second Edition (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

4. A Book of Abstract Algebra: Second Edition (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Charles C Pinter

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The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains cover

5. The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains

by Robert H. Lustig

DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model cover

6. DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model

by Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

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Feynman And Computation (Frontiers in Physics) cover

7. Feynman And Computation (Frontiers in Physics)

by Anthony Hey

Feynman Lectures On Computation cover

8. Feynman Lectures On Computation

by Richard Phillips Feynman

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Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

9. Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Daphne Koller, Nir Friedman

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Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes cover

10. Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes

by Aldo Vieira Da Rosa

Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition) cover

11. Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition)

by Robert Love

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The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking cover

12. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

by Saifedean Ammous

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Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor cover

13. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor

by Lynda Barry

What It Is cover

14. What It Is

by Lynda Barry

Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives cover

15. Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives

by Jeff Schmidt

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Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas cover

16. Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas

by Laura Empson

Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves cover

17. Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

by Christian Rudder

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Drawing by Seeing (Abrams Studio) cover

18. Drawing by Seeing (Abrams Studio)

by John Torreano

The Four Steps to the Epiphany cover

19. The Four Steps to the Epiphany

by Steve Blank

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The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

20. The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid cover

21. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Studies in Nonlinearity) cover

22. Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Studies in Nonlinearity)

by Steven H. Strogatz

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Linear Programming cover

23. Linear Programming

by Vasek Chvatal, University Vasek Chvatal

Statistical Methods: The Geometric Approach (Springer Texts in Statistics) cover

24. Statistical Methods: The Geometric Approach (Springer Texts in Statistics)

by David Saville, Graham R. Wood

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World After an Apocalypse cover

25. The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World After an Apocalypse

by Lewis Dartnell

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Perspectives on Projective Geometry: A Guided Tour Through Real and Complex Geometry cover

26. Perspectives on Projective Geometry: A Guided Tour Through Real and Complex Geometry

by Jürgen Richter-Gebert

Parking and the City cover

27. Parking and the City

by Donald Shoup

Geometriekalküle (Springer-Lehrbuch) (German Edition) cover

28. Geometriekalküle (Springer-Lehrbuch) (German Edition)

by Jürgen Richter-Gebert, Thorsten Orendt

Principles of Compiler Design (Addison-Wesley series in computer science and information processing) cover

29. Principles of Compiler Design (Addison-Wesley series in computer science and information processing)

by Alfred V. Aho, Jeffrey D. Ullman

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Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World cover

30. Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World

by Ashraf Ghani, Clare Lockhart

The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense) cover

31. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense)

by Robert F. Kennedy

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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage cover

32. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

by Cliff Stoll

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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography cover

33. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

by Simon Singh

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

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

by Charles Petzold

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The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet cover

35. The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet

by David Kahn

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The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition cover

36. The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition

by Eric S. Raymond

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Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) cover

37. Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)

by Jon Louis Bentley

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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race cover

38. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth

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The Jefferson Bible, Smithsonian Edition: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth cover

39. The Jefferson Bible, Smithsonian Edition: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

by Thomas Jefferson