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Mathematics Form and Function cover

1. Mathematics Form and Function

by Saunders MacLane

The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss cover

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

by David Bentley Hart

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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams cover

3. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

by Matthew Walker

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Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques cover

4. Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques

by Alan H. Watt, Mark Watt

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The quintessential dictionary cover

5. The quintessential dictionary

by I. Moyer Hunsberger

The Nineties: A Book cover

6. The Nineties: A Book

by Chuck Klosterman

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Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will cover

7. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

by Robert M. Sapolsky

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Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons (Computational Neuroscience Series) cover

8. Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons (Computational Neuroscience Series)

by Christof Koch

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Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing cover

9. Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing

by Jared Bhatti, Sarah Corleissen, Jen Lambourne, David Nunez, Heidi Waterhouse

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Loners: The Life Path of Unusual Children cover

10. Loners: The Life Path of Unusual Children

by Sula Wolff

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Schizotypy and Schizophrenia: The View from Experimental Psychopathology cover

11. Schizotypy and Schizophrenia: The View from Experimental Psychopathology

by Mark F. Lenzenweger

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Short Calculus: The Original Edition of “A First Course in Calculus” (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

12. Short Calculus: The Original Edition of “A First Course in Calculus” (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Serge Lang

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Ishmael:A Novel cover

13. Ishmael:A Novel

by Daniel Quinn

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Tao Te Ching cover

14. Tao Te Ching

by Stephen Mitchell

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Tao Te Ching: A Literal Translation With an Introduction, Notes, and Commentary (English and Chinese Edition) cover

15. Tao Te Ching: A Literal Translation With an Introduction, Notes, and Commentary (English and Chinese Edition)

by Laozi

Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? cover

16. Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

by Philip E. Tetlock

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Classical Indian Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 5 cover

17. Classical Indian Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 5

by Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri

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Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism cover

18. Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism

by Robert Zubrin

Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence cover

19. Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence

by Aaron T. Beck

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After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering (DV-Best Practices) cover

20. After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering (DV-Best Practices)

by Steve McConnell

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition) cover

21. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

by Seamus Heaney

Herakleitos and Diogenes cover

22. Herakleitos and Diogenes

by Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Diogenes

Lao-tzu's Taoteching cover

23. Lao-tzu's Taoteching

by Laozi