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1. Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption
by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
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2. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by James C. Scott
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3. An Introduction to Elvish, Other Tongues, Proper Names and Writing Systems of the Third Age of the Western Lands of Middle-Earth as Set Forth in the Published Writings of Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
by Nina Carson
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4. The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth: A Complete Guide to All Fourteen of the Languages Tolkien Invented
by Ruth S. Noel
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5. A Primer on Pontryagin's Principle in Optimal Control: Second Edition
by I. Michael Ross
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6. Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico: A Cookbook
by Rick Martínez
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7. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
by Richard V. Reeves
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8. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (The How To Talk Series)
by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
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9. The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap
by Stu Maschwitz
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10. Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk)
by Andrew Schulman, David Maxey, Matt Pietrek
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11. Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
by Robert Kurson
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12. Atlas Of Middle-Earth
by Karen Wynn Fonstad
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13. Designing Video Game Hardware in Verilog (8bitworkshop)
by Steven Hugg
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14. Paul Rand
by Steven Heller, Jessica Helfand
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15. Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
by Penn Jillette
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16. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
by Ananyo Bhattacharya
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17. Tragic Design: The Impact of Bad Product Design and How to Fix It
by Jonathan Shariat, Cynthia Savard Saucier
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18. Tim O'Reilly responds to Amazon's 1-Click and Associates Program patents in his "Ask Tim" column.
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19. Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
by Donald A. Norman
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20. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
by Tom Standage
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21. Fear: The History of a Political Idea
by Corey Robin
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22. Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
by Sarah Brayne
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23. Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Stay Healthy, and Lose Weight
by Herman Pontzer PhD
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24. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher R. Browning
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25. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
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26. Writing the Blockbuster Novel
by Albert Zuckerman
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27. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
by David Hajdu
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28. Seduction of the Innocent
by Fredric Wertham
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29. Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
by Desmond Shum
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30. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
by Ryan Holiday
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