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1. I Am Not Sick I Don't Need Help: How to Help Someone with Mental Illness Accept Treatment
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2. About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design
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3. Time on Ice: A Winter Voyage to Antarctica
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4. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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5. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
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6. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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7. The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation
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8. Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study (Yale Nota Bene S)
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9. How to Think Like a Mathematician: A Companion to Undergraduate Mathematics
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10. Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
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11. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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12. Relax and Win
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13. Thinking, Fast and Slow
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14. A History of Mathematical Notations (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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15. How to Win Friends & Influence People
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16. Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus (Fourth Edition)
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17. The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public
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18. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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19. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
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20. The Conquest of Happiness
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21. In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays (Routledge Classics)
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22. While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America
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23. Building for Eternity: The History and Technology of Roman Concrete Engineering in the Sea
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24. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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25. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
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26. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition
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27. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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28. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
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29. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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30. How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
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31. Introduction to Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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32. The New York Times Complete Front Pages: 1851-2018
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33. The Japanese Have a Word for It: The Complete Guide to Japanese Thought and Culture
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34. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
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35. All the Math You Missed
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36. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
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37. The Mystery of Banking
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38. Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative
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39. The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching (2nd Edition)
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40. Mathematik für Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler Band 1: Ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch für das Grundstudium (German Edition)
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41. Art of Computer Programming, The: Combinatorial Algorithms, Volume 4B
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42. The Road to React: Your journey to master plain yet pragmatic React.js
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43. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'
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44. Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math.
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45. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
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46. Learn More Python 3 the Hard Way: The Next Step for New Python Programmers (Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series)
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47. Common LISP Modules: Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Neural Networks and Chaos Theory
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48. High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
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49. Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers
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50. Starting Agile: Finding Your Path
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51. Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier
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52. Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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53. The Language of Mathematics: Utilizing Math in Practice
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54. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library, 85)
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55. Geometry and the Imagination (AMS Chelsea Publishing)
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56. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition
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57. All About Particles: A Handbook of Japanese Function Words
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58. A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
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59. ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer's World
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60. Thomas & Friends: Annual 2022: Toot! Toot! Packed full of fun and games, it's the Thomas & Friends Annual 2022!
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61. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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62. How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Calmer, Happier Parent
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63. The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
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64. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
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65. The Science of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Quest for Enduring Love
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66. Inventing Equal Opportunity
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67. Your Brain at Work, Revised and Updated: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
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68. In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters
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69. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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70. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
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71. Basic Electricity
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72. Basic Electricity (Dover Books on Electrical Engineering)
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73. Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis
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74. Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD
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75. How to Dismantle the NHS in 10 Easy Steps
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76. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
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77. The Computer - My Life
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78. Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
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79. What Is This Thing Called Science?
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80. Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy
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81. Draw to Win: A Crash Course on How to Lead, Sell, and Innovate With Your Visual Mind
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82. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
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83. Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement
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84. Gentle Introduction to Dependent Types with Idris
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85. This Book Is Gay
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86. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition
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87. The Art of Problem Solving, Vol. 1: The Basics
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88. The Politics of the Real
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89. The Luck Factor
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90. A Law Unto Itself: The Untold Story of the Law Firm of Sullivan and Cromwell
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91. Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting
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92. The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business: Make Great Money. Work the Way You Like. Have the Life You Want.
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93. The Jazz Piano Book
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94. The complete Star Ship: A simulation project (DP series in games ; no. 1)
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95. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
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96. Exercises for Programmers: 57 Challenges to Develop Your Coding Skills
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97. Ruby Way, The: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
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98. Mazes for Programmers: Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages
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99. How to Resist Amazon and Why (Real World)
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100. Collins Nicholson Waterways Guides – Grand Union, Oxford & the South East: Waterways Guide 1
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