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iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library) cover

1. iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library)

by Marcel Weiher

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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

2. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

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Art of Computer Programming, The: Combinatorial Algorithms, Volume 4B cover

3. Art of Computer Programming, The: Combinatorial Algorithms, Volume 4B

by Donald Ervin Knuth

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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again cover

4. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

by Johann Hari

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The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind cover

5. The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

by Daniel J. Siegel, MD, Tina Payne Bryson

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How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Calmer, Happier Parent cover

6. How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Calmer, Happier Parent

by Carla Naumburg

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

7. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago

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Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid cover

8. Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid

by Meredith Angwin

Draw to Win: A Crash Course on How to Lead, Sell, and Innovate With Your Visual Mind cover

9. Draw to Win: A Crash Course on How to Lead, Sell, and Innovate With Your Visual Mind

by Dan Roam

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing cover

10. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

by Peter Robison

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Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement cover

11. Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

by Peter Singer

Modern Operating Systems cover

12. Modern Operating Systems

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos

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The Nazi Conscience cover

13. The Nazi Conscience

by Claudia Koonz

A Dictionary of Real Numbers cover

14. A Dictionary of Real Numbers

by Jonathan Borwein

Simple Excellence cover

15. Simple Excellence

by Adam Zak, Bill Waddell

How to Blow Up a Pipeline cover

16. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

by Andreas Malm

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Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship cover

17. Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship

by George Dyson

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U.S. Army Improvised Munitions Handbook cover

18. U.S. Army Improvised Munitions Handbook

by Army

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid cover

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

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

20. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

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Taking On Big Pharma: Dr. Charles Bennett's Battle (Children’s Health Defense) cover

21. Taking On Big Pharma: Dr. Charles Bennett's Battle (Children’s Health Defense)

by Julius Getman, Terri LeClercq

The C Programming Language cover

22. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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Inconsistency Robustness (Studies in Logic) cover

23. Inconsistency Robustness (Studies in Logic)

by Carl Hewitt, John Woods

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Learning From Data cover

24. Learning From Data

by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Hsuan-Tien Lin

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Walt Whitman's Guide to Manly Health and Training cover

25. Walt Whitman's Guide to Manly Health and Training

by Walt Whitman

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

26. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann cover

27. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

by Ananyo Bhattacharya

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Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever cover

28. Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever

by Robin Wigglesworth

Charter Schools and Their Enemies cover

29. Charter Schools and Their Enemies

by Thomas Sowell

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International Marine's Weather Predicting Simplified: How to Read Weather Charts and Satellite Images cover

30. International Marine's Weather Predicting Simplified: How to Read Weather Charts and Satellite Images

by Michael Carr, Michael William Carr

The Never-Ending Challenge of Engineering: Admiral H.G. Rickover in His Own Words cover

31. The Never-Ending Challenge of Engineering: Admiral H.G. Rickover in His Own Words

by Hyman George Rickover, Paul E. Cantonwine

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power cover

32. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff

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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition cover

33. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

by Steve Krug

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Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb cover

34. Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb

by Mike Davis

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