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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' cover

1. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

by Professor Sidney Dekker

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How to Shit in the Woods, 4th Edition: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art cover

2. How to Shit in the Woods, 4th Edition: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art

by Kathleen Meyer

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Kettlebell Simple & Sinister: Revised and Updated (2nd Edition) cover

3. Kettlebell Simple & Sinister: Revised and Updated (2nd Edition)

by Pavel Tsatsouline

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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory cover

4. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

by David Graeber

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Accidents in North American Climbing 2021 cover

5. Accidents in North American Climbing 2021

by American Alpine American Alpine Club

First and Final War: A Basic Information Manual on the Effects of Nuclear War Applied to Australia cover

6. First and Final War: A Basic Information Manual on the Effects of Nuclear War Applied to Australia

by David Blair

ADSCAM: How Online Advertising Gave Birth to One of History's Greatest Frauds, and Became a Threat to Democracy cover

7. ADSCAM: How Online Advertising Gave Birth to One of History's Greatest Frauds, and Became a Threat to Democracy

by Bob Hoffman

Advertising For Skeptics cover

8. Advertising For Skeptics

by Bob Hoffman

Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business cover

9. Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business

by Gino Wickman, Mark C. Winters

The Bhagavad Gita cover

10. The Bhagavad Gita

by Eknath Easwaran

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Living Memory cover

11. Living Memory

by David Walton

Microservices antipatterns and pitfalls cover

12. Microservices antipatterns and pitfalls

Windows XP Professional: The Missing Manual cover

13. Windows XP Professional: The Missing Manual

Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things cover

14. Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

by Dan Ariely

The PC Is Not a Typewriter: A Style Manual for Creating Professional-Level Type on Your Personal Computer cover

15. The PC Is Not a Typewriter: A Style Manual for Creating Professional-Level Type on Your Personal Computer

by Robin Williams

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The Mac is Not a Typewriter, 2nd Edition cover

16. The Mac is Not a Typewriter, 2nd Edition

by Robin Williams

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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us cover

17. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

by Ed Yong

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Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street cover

18. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

by John Brooks

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The Econometrics of Financial Markets cover

19. The Econometrics of Financial Markets

by John Y. Campbell, Andrew W. Lo, A. Craig MacKinlay

Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy (Studies in Critical Social Sciences) cover

20. Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

by Stuart Davis

C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

21. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell cover

22. Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell

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O'Reilly Newsletters - O'Reilly Media cover

23. O'Reilly Newsletters - O'Reilly Media

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Game Programming Patterns cover

24. Game Programming Patterns

by Robert Nystrom

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It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!: RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals cover

25. It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!: RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals

by Suparna Damany, Jack Bellis

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Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web cover

26. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web

by Tim Berners-Lee

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APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book cover

27. APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book

by Guy Kawasaki, Shawn Welch

The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them cover

28. The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them

by Euan Angus Ashley

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death cover

29. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

by Nick Lane

The Gene: An Intimate History cover

30. The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology cover

31. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

by Chris Miller

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Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower cover

32. Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

by William Blum

The More You Watch the Less You Know: News Wars/(sub)Merged Hopes/Media Adventures cover

33. The More You Watch the Less You Know: News Wars/(sub)Merged Hopes/Media Adventures

by Danny Schechter

Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition cover

34. Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition

by Jeffrey Friedl

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The Internet Directory: A Guide to Internet, Usenet, and Bitnet cover

35. The Internet Directory: A Guide to Internet, Usenet, and Bitnet

by Eric Eugene Braun

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Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development cover

36. Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff

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The Theory of Critical Phenomena: An Introduction to the Renormalization Group (Oxford Science Publications) cover

37. The Theory of Critical Phenomena: An Introduction to the Renormalization Group (Oxford Science Publications)

by James Binney, J.J. Binney, N. J. Dowrick, A. J. Fisher, M. E. J. Newman, N.J. Dowrick, A.J. Fisher, M.E.J. Newman, J. J. Binney

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Material World cover

38. Material World

by Ed Conway