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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. Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company
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3. Bicycling Science, fourth edition (The MIT Press)
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4. About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design
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5. Technology and Social Shock
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6. Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution
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7. But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone
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8. Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News
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9. Time on Ice: A Winter Voyage to Antarctica
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10. Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
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11. How Innovation Works
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12. Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century
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13. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
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14. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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15. Gouverner la France
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16. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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17. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
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18. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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19. The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation
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20. Les fous du son
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21. Cut in Half: The Hidden World Inside Everyday Objects (Pop Science and Photography Gift Book, How Things Work Book)
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22. The Racial Contract
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23. Statistical Inference
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24. Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk
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25. An Introduction to Legal Reasoning
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26. Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study (Yale Nota Bene S)
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27. How to Think Like a Mathematician: A Companion to Undergraduate Mathematics
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28. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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29. Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality
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30. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
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31. Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them
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32. Relax and Win
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33. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
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34. Thinking, Fast and Slow
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35. Tales from The Mos Eisley Cantina (Star Wars)
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36. Mathematics Form and Function
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37. A History of Mathematical Notations (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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38. The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers: Gentle Ways to Stop Bedtime Battles and Improve Your Child's Sleep
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39. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)
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40. Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus (Fourth Edition)
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41. The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public
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42. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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43. Object-Oriented Assembly Language
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44. Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
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45. Kettlebell Simple & Sinister: Revised and Updated (2nd Edition)
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46. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
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47. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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48. The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
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49. The Conquest of Happiness
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50. In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays (Routledge Classics)
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51. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
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52. While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America
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53. Building for Eternity: The History and Technology of Roman Concrete Engineering in the Sea
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54. Professional Cookery
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55. Natural Language Processing with Transformers: Building Language Applications with Hugging Face
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56. The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs: 100+ Recipes that You'll Love to Cook and Eat
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57. Silences
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58. Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
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59. The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition
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60. Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th-Anniversary Edition
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61. The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame
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62. Python Distilled (Developer's Library)
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63. All the Math You Missed
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64. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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65. Applied Machine Learning and AI for Engineers: Solve Business Problems That Can't Be Solved Algorithmically
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66. Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food
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67. Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
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68. 500 Lines or Less
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69. Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
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70. Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
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71. NASA Voyager 1 & 2 Owners' Workshop Manual - 1977 onwards (VGR77-1 to VGR77-3, including Pioneer 10 & 11): An insight into the history, technology, ... sent to study the outer planets and beyond
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72. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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73. Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change
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74. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
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75. Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
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76. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition
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77. Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
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78. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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79. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
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80. Le Cordon Bleu Complete Cooking Techniques: The Indispensable Reference Demonstrates Over 700 Illustrated Techniques with 2,000 Photos and 200 Recipes
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81. Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
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82. How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
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83. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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84. Foundations of Constructive Analysis
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85. The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke
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86. Introduction to Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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87. The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma
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88. Continuum Mechanics (Foundations and Applications of Mechanics)
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89. The New York Times Complete Front Pages: 1851-2018
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90. All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms
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91. The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth: A Complete Guide to All Fourteen of the Languages Tolkien Invented
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92. An Introduction to Elvish, Other Tongues, Proper Names and Writing Systems of the Third Age of the Western Lands of Middle-Earth as Set Forth in the Published Writings of Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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93. Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
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94. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
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95. Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
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96. The Japanese Have a Word for It: The Complete Guide to Japanese Thought and Culture
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97. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
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98. How to Lie with Statistics
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99. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
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100. The Professional Chef
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