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Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II cover

1. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

by Keith Lowe

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The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame cover

2. The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame

by Pete Walker

Molecular Driving Forces: Statistical Thermodynamics in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Nanoscience, 2nd Edition cover

3. Molecular Driving Forces: Statistical Thermodynamics in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Nanoscience, 2nd Edition

by Ken A. Dill, Sarina Bromberg

Patterns of Distributed Systems (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) cover

4. Patterns of Distributed Systems (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

by Unmesh Joshi

The Price of Admission (Updated Edition): How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates cover

5. The Price of Admission (Updated Edition): How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

by Daniel Golden

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Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom cover

6. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

by Katherine Eban

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World cover

7. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

by David Deutsch

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

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

by Marcel Weiher

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Outrageous Japanese: Slang, Curses and Epithets (Japanese Phrasebook) cover

9. Outrageous Japanese: Slang, Curses and Epithets (Japanese Phrasebook)

by Jack Seward

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

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

by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman

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Literate Programming (Lecture Notes) (Volume 27) cover

11. Literate Programming (Lecture Notes) (Volume 27)

by Donald Ervin Knuth

The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley cover

12. The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley

by Michael Shawn Malone

Information Rules cover

13. Information Rules

by Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian

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DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education cover

14. DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education

by Anya Kamenetz

Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future cover

15. Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future

by Saul Griffith

C++ Database Development cover

16. C++ Database Development

by Stevens A L

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

17. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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For the Love of Children: Childcare and Child Rearing 0-16 Years cover

18. For the Love of Children: Childcare and Child Rearing 0-16 Years

by Anna Wahlgren

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations cover

19. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

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Modern Fortran: Building efficient parallel applications cover

20. Modern Fortran: Building efficient parallel applications

by Milan Curcic

The Time of Illusion cover

21. The Time of Illusion

by Jonathan Schell