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I Am Not Sick I Don't Need Help: How to Help Someone with Mental Illness Accept Treatment cover

1. I Am Not Sick I Don't Need Help: How to Help Someone with Mental Illness Accept Treatment

by Xavier Amador

Time on Ice: A Winter Voyage to Antarctica cover

2. Time on Ice: A Winter Voyage to Antarctica

by Deborah Shapiro, Rolf Bjelke

Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection cover

3. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

by John E. Sarno

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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy cover

4. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil

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Conquering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other Repetitive Strain Injuries: A Self-Care Program cover

5. Conquering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other Repetitive Strain Injuries: A Self-Care Program

by Sharon J. Butler

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The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching (2nd Edition) cover

6. The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching (2nd Edition)

by Donald Ervin Knuth

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Common LISP Modules: Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Neural Networks and Chaos Theory cover

7. Common LISP Modules: Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Neural Networks and Chaos Theory

by Mark Watson

Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier cover

8. Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier

by Brad J. Cox

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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World cover

9. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

by Iain McGilchrist

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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition cover

10. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition

by Betty Edwards

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The Politics of the Real cover

11. The Politics of the Real

by D. C. Schindler

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th-Anniversary Edition cover

12. Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th-Anniversary Edition

by Bo Burlingham

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Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel (The Pragmatic Programmers) cover

13. Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel (The Pragmatic Programmers)

by Paul Butcher

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New Directions in the Philosophy of Mathematics cover

14. New Directions in the Philosophy of Mathematics

by Thomas Tymoczko

The Routledge Handbook of Consciousness (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy) cover

15. The Routledge Handbook of Consciousness (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

by Rocco J. Gennaro

The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time cover

16. The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time

by Julian Barbour

Exegesis cover

17. Exegesis

by Astro Teller

The Mysteries cover

18. The Mysteries

by Bill Watterson

Zarathustra in the Space Age: Zoroastrian Poetry, Philosophy and Theology - Updated for our times (Present day adaptations of Zarathustra's Hymns) cover

19. Zarathustra in the Space Age: Zoroastrian Poetry, Philosophy and Theology - Updated for our times (Present day adaptations of Zarathustra's Hymns)

by Jehangir (Jeh) Daruvala

I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work, Fully Revised and Updated cover

20. I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work, Fully Revised and Updated

by Julie Jansen

Flight Test Results from the Nf-15b Intelligent Flight Control System (Ifcs) Project with Adaptation to a Simulated Stabilator Failure cover

21. Flight Test Results from the Nf-15b Intelligent Flight Control System (Ifcs) Project with Adaptation to a Simulated Stabilator Failure

Altered Harvest cover

22. Altered Harvest

by Jack Doyle

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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals cover

23. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

by Michael Pollan

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Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World cover

24. Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World

by Oliver Bullough

Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners cover

25. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

by Larry Harris

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Consciousness: An Introduction cover

26. Consciousness: An Introduction

by Susan Blackmore, Emily T. Troscianko

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Incerto) cover

27. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing) cover

28. TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)

by E. Voorhees, Donna K. Harman