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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity cover

1. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

by Alan Cooper

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Tales from The Mos Eisley Cantina (Star Wars) cover

2. Tales from The Mos Eisley Cantina (Star Wars)

by Kevin Anderson

Payments Systems in the U.S. - Third Edition: A Guide for the Payments Professional cover

3. Payments Systems in the U.S. - Third Edition: A Guide for the Payments Professional

by Carol Coye Benson, Scott Loftesness, Russ Jones

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The Computers Nobody Wanted: My Years at Xerox cover

4. The Computers Nobody Wanted: My Years at Xerox

by Paul A. Strassmann

The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States) cover

5. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)

by Richard White

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Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome cover

6. Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome

by Will Bulsiewicz, MD

Book of the Hopi cover

7. Book of the Hopi

by Frank Waters

Lisp in Small Pieces cover

8. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec

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The Genesis Strategy: Climate and Global Survival cover

9. The Genesis Strategy: Climate and Global Survival

by Stephen Schneider

Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications cover

10. Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications

by David A. Vallado

Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students (Aerospace Engineering) cover

11. Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students (Aerospace Engineering)

by Howard D Curtis

Fundamentals of Astrodynamics: Second Edition (Dover Books on Physics) cover

12. Fundamentals of Astrodynamics: Second Edition (Dover Books on Physics)

by Roger R. Bate, Donald D. Mueller, Jerry E. White, William W. Saylor

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Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Stay Healthy, and Lose Weight cover

13. Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Stay Healthy, and Lose Weight

by Herman Pontzer PhD

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The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat cover

14. The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat

by Stephan J. Guyenet

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The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

15. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto

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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? cover

16. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

by Frans de Waal

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House of Bush House of Saud : The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties cover

17. House of Bush House of Saud : The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties

by Craig Unger

Estrogeneration: How Estrogenics Are Making You Fat, Sick, and Infertile cover

18. Estrogeneration: How Estrogenics Are Making You Fat, Sick, and Infertile

by Anthony G. Jay

Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic cover

19. Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic

by Mark Wilson

Financial Statements: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports (Over 200,000 copies sold!) cover

20. Financial Statements: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports (Over 200,000 copies sold!)

by Thomas Ittelson

Financial Statements: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports cover

21. Financial Statements: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports

by Thomas R. Ittelson

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Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers cover

22. Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers

by Nat Greene

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence cover

23. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

by Dr. Anna Lembke

An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1 (Princeton Science Library, 42) cover

24. An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1 (Princeton Science Library, 42)

by Paul Nahin

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Revised Edition cover

25. Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Revised Edition

by Allen Carr

The Car That Could: The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle cover

26. The Car That Could: The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle

by Michael Shnayerson

The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia cover

27. The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia

by James Palmer

The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series, 2) cover

28. The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series, 2)

by Cixin Liu

A Literary Companion to Rome: Including Ten Walking Tours cover

29. A Literary Companion to Rome: Including Ten Walking Tours

by John Varriano

Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

30. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

31. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Don Norman

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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information cover

32. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

by Edward R. Tufte

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Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content cover

33. Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content

by Ann Handley

Clinical Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice cover

34. Clinical Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice

by S. Nassir Ghaemi

Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD cover

35. Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD

by Sylvain Gugger, Jeremy Howard

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