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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

1. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives cover

2. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

by Steven Levy

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The Cult of Mac cover

3. The Cult of Mac

by Leander Kahney

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Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) cover

4. Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

by Steven C. Hayes, Spencer Xavier Smith

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No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model cover

5. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

by Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.

The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (

6. The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management ("International Perspectives on Science, Culture and Society")

by Richard Jones, J. Eliot B. Moss, Antony Hosking

Deep Learning with Python cover

7. Deep Learning with Python

by Francois Chollet

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The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East cover

8. The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East

by John Marco Allegro

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets cover

9. The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

by Graham Farmelo

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Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality, a Western Perspective cover

10. Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality, a Western Perspective

by Shimon Malin

Computer Organization and Design ARM Edition: The Hardware Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

11. Computer Organization and Design ARM Edition: The Hardware Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

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Computer Organization and Design MIPS Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

12. Computer Organization and Design MIPS Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

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Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

13. Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

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100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings: How to Get By Without Even Trying cover

14. 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings: How to Get By Without Even Trying

by Sarah Cooper

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Bhagavad Gita cover

15. Bhagavad Gita

Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow cover

16. Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow

by Zak Smith

Data-Driven Science and Engineering: Machine Learning, Dynamical Systems, and Control cover

17. Data-Driven Science and Engineering: Machine Learning, Dynamical Systems, and Control

by Steven L. Brunton, J. Nathan Kutz

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Quantum in Pictures: A New Way to Understand the Quantum World cover

18. Quantum in Pictures: A New Way to Understand the Quantum World

by Bob Coecke, Stefano Gogioso

Control System Design: An Introduction to State-Space Methods (Dover Books on Electrical Engineering) cover

19. Control System Design: An Introduction to State-Space Methods (Dover Books on Electrical Engineering)

by Bernard Friedland

Control Systems Engineering cover

20. Control Systems Engineering

by Norman S. Nise

Eco-computer: Impact of Global Intelligence cover

21. Eco-computer: Impact of Global Intelligence

by Geoffrey Leslie Simons

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The RISC-V Reader: An Open Architecture Atlas cover

22. The RISC-V Reader: An Open Architecture Atlas

by David A. Patterson, Andrew Waterman

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Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism cover

23. Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism

by Aleksandar Matovski

Poverty, by America cover

24. Poverty, by America

by Matthew Desmond

The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine (CIUS Press) cover

25. The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine (CIUS Press)

by Bohdan Klid, Alexander J. Motyl

Aaron's Code: Meta-Art, Artificial Intelligence and the Work of Harold Cohen cover

26. Aaron's Code: Meta-Art, Artificial Intelligence and the Work of Harold Cohen

by Pamela McCorduck

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) cover

27. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman

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Crafting Interpreters cover

28. Crafting Interpreters

by Robert Nystrom

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid cover

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

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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

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

by Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World cover

31. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

by Cal Newport

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How to Win Friends and Influence People: Updated For the Next Generation of Leaders (Dale Carnegie Books) cover

32. How to Win Friends and Influence People: Updated For the Next Generation of Leaders (Dale Carnegie Books)

by Dale Carnegie

Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything cover

33. Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything

by James Gleick

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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments cover

34. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

by David Foster Wallace

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“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character cover

35. “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P Feynman

Distrust that Particular Flavor cover

36. Distrust that Particular Flavor

by William Gibson

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet cover

37. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

by John Green

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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World cover

38. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

by Steven Johnson

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Snow Crash cover

39. Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies cover

40. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond

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