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How Innovation Works cover

1. How Innovation Works

by Matt Ridley

Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century cover

2. Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century

by Morton A. Meyers

NASA Voyager 1 & 2 Owners' Workshop Manual - 1977 onwards (VGR77-1 to VGR77-3, including Pioneer 10 & 11): An insight into the history, technology, ... sent to study the outer planets and beyond cover

3. NASA Voyager 1 & 2 Owners' Workshop Manual - 1977 onwards (VGR77-1 to VGR77-3, including Pioneer 10 & 11): An insight into the history, technology, ... sent to study the outer planets and beyond

by Christopher Riley

Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science cover

4. Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science

by Harry R. Lewis

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Marijuana and Madness cover

5. Marijuana and Madness

by Deepak Cyril D'Souza, David Castle, Robin Murray

How to Boil an Egg cover

6. How to Boil an Egg

by Jan Arkless

The Practical Einstein: Experiments, Patents, Inventions cover

7. The Practical Einstein: Experiments, Patents, Inventions

by József Illy

Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies) cover

8. Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies)

by Robert R. Locke, J.-C. Spender

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CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook, Third Edition cover

9. CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook, Third Edition

by James F. Shackelford, William Alexander

Operation Epsilon, The Farm Hall Transcripts cover

10. Operation Epsilon, The Farm Hall Transcripts

by Jane Moira Taupin

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently cover

11. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

by Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory cover

12. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

by David Graeber

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Healing ADD Revised Edition: The Breakthrough Program that Allows You to See and Heal the 7 Types of ADD cover

13. Healing ADD Revised Edition: The Breakthrough Program that Allows You to See and Heal the 7 Types of ADD

by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

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A Practical Guide To Quantitative Finance Interviews cover

14. A Practical Guide To Quantitative Finance Interviews

by Xinfeng Zhou

The Structure of Magic, Vol. 1: A Book About Language and Therapy cover

15. The Structure of Magic, Vol. 1: A Book About Language and Therapy

by Richard Bandler, John Grinder

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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach cover

16. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach

by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Krste Asanović

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The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss cover

17. The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss

by David Bentley Hart

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Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies cover

18. Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

by David Bentley Hart

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The Unexpurgated Code - A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners cover

19. The Unexpurgated Code - A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners

by James Patrick Donleavy

Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence cover

20. Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

by Bryan Burrough

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Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons cover

21. Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons

by Kris Newby

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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living cover

22. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

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How to Build a Brain: A Neural Architecture for Biological Cognition (Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures) cover

23. How to Build a Brain: A Neural Architecture for Biological Cognition (Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures)

by Chris Eliasmith

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How to Create a Mind cover

24. How to Create a Mind

Space Mission Engineering: The New SMAD (Space Technology Library, Vol. 28) cover

25. Space Mission Engineering: The New SMAD (Space Technology Library, Vol. 28)

by James Richard Wertz, David F. Everett, Jeffery John Puschell

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The Four Steps to the Epiphany cover

26. The Four Steps to the Epiphany

by Steve Blank

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