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Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools cover

1. Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools

by Jack Greenfield, Keith Short

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History cover

2. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne

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Modern Electrodynamics cover

3. Modern Electrodynamics

by Andrew Zangwill

All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms cover

4. All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms

by David Arora

No bullshit guide to linear algebra cover

5. No bullshit guide to linear algebra

by Ivan Savov

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The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization―The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath cover

6. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization―The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

by Peter Zeihan

Toki Pona Dictionary (Official Toki Pona) cover

7. Toki Pona Dictionary (Official Toki Pona)

by Sonja Lang

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Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong cover

8. Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong

by Giles Yeo

Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions: Avoiding the Hazards and Pitfalls that Derail Us cover

9. Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions: Avoiding the Hazards and Pitfalls that Derail Us

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II cover

10. A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II

by Simon Parkin

Black Box Thinking: Psychology Paperback – 10 Jun 2016 by Matthew Syed (Author) cover

11. Black Box Thinking: Psychology Paperback – 10 Jun 2016 by Matthew Syed (Author)

Software Engineering at Google cover

12. Software Engineering at Google

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The critic's hornbook: Reading for interpretation cover

13. The critic's hornbook: Reading for interpretation

by William C. Dowling

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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Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism cover

15. Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism

by Herman Pontzer

Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

16. Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Kevin P. Murphy

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The Intentional Stance cover

17. The Intentional Stance

by Daniel Clement Dennett

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who RIsked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II cover

18. Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who RIsked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

by Robert Kurson

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To the Finland Station: A Study in the Acting and Writing of History (FSG Classics) cover

19. To the Finland Station: A Study in the Acting and Writing of History (FSG Classics)

by Edmund Wilson

Nero: Emperor and Court cover

20. Nero: Emperor and Court

by J. F. Drinkwater

JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

21. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford

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Presstitutes Embedded in the Pay of the CIA: A Confession from the Profession cover

22. Presstitutes Embedded in the Pay of the CIA: A Confession from the Profession

by Udo Ulfkotte

Constructive Anatomy: Includes Nearly 500 Illustrations (Dover Anatomy for Artists) cover

23. Constructive Anatomy: Includes Nearly 500 Illustrations (Dover Anatomy for Artists)

by George Brant Bridgman

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius cover

24. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

by Donald J. Robertson