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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

1. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win cover

2. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

3. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap cover

4. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

by Stephanie Coontz

This Book Is Gay cover

5. This Book Is Gay

by Juno Dawson

A Law Unto Itself: The Untold Story of the Law Firm of Sullivan and Cromwell cover

6. A Law Unto Itself: The Untold Story of the Law Firm of Sullivan and Cromwell

by Nancy Lisagor, Frank Lipsius

How to Resist Amazon and Why (Real World) cover

7. How to Resist Amazon and Why (Real World)

by Danny Caine

Collins Nicholson Waterways Guides – Grand Union, Oxford & the South East: Waterways Guide 1 cover

8. Collins Nicholson Waterways Guides – Grand Union, Oxford & the South East: Waterways Guide 1

by Collins Maps

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies cover

9. Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

by Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh

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Marx on Suicide (Psychosocial Issues) cover

10. Marx on Suicide (Psychosocial Issues)

by Karl Marx

Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code (Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series) cover

11. Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code (Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series)

by Zed Shaw

Lonely Planet Greece 15 (Travel Guide) cover

12. Lonely Planet Greece 15 (Travel Guide)

by Simon Richmond, Kate Armstrong, Stuart Butler, Peter Dragicevich, Trent Holden, Anna Kaminski, Vesna Maric, Hugh McNaughtan, Kate Morgan, Isabella Noble, Zora O'Neill, Leonid Ragozin, Kevin Raub, Andrea Schulte-Peevers, Andy Symington, Greg Ward

Maine Atlas & Gazetteer (Delorme Atlas & Gazetteer) cover

13. Maine Atlas & Gazetteer (Delorme Atlas & Gazetteer)

by David Delorme

Molecular Biology of the Cell cover

14. Molecular Biology of the Cell

by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter

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The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite cover

15. The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

by Daniel Markovits

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The Perfect Prey: The Fall of Abn Amro, Or What Went Wrong in the Banking Industry cover

16. The Perfect Prey: The Fall of Abn Amro, Or What Went Wrong in the Banking Industry

by Jeroen Smit

Practical Statecharts in C/C++: Quantum Programming for Embedded Systems with CDROM cover

17. Practical Statecharts in C/C++: Quantum Programming for Embedded Systems with CDROM

by Miro Samek

The Story of Fake Books: Bootlegging Songs to Musicians (Volume 53) (Studies in Jazz, 53) cover

18. The Story of Fake Books: Bootlegging Songs to Musicians (Volume 53) (Studies in Jazz, 53)

by Barry Kernfeld

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets cover

19. The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

by Graham Farmelo

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San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities cover

20. San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

by Michael Shellenberger

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At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others cover

21. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

by Sarah Bakewell