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1. Just Get Out of the Way: How Government Can Help Business in Poor Countries
by Robert Edward Anderson
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2. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
by Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels
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3. Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists
by Noson S. Yanofsky, Mirco A. Mannucci
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4. Hardcore Java
by Robert Simmons (Jr.)
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5. How I failed
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6. What is Christian Democracy?: Politics, Religion and Ideology
by Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
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7. Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
by C. Gordon Bell, Jim Gemmell
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8. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
by Gregory Zuckerman
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9. Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
by Richard D. Wolff
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10. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
by Cade Metz
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11. Java Concurrency in Practice
by Brian Goetz
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12. The Diamond and the Boy: The Creation of Diamonds & The Life of H. Tracy Hall – An Inspiring Picture Book Biography
by Hannah Holt
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13. Why Nothing Works: The Anthropology of Daily Life (Touchstone Books (Paperback))
by Marvin Harris
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14. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
by Christopher Lasch
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15. Out of the Crisis
by W. Edwards Deming
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16. Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy
by Giovanni Battista Riccioli
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17. CSS: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition
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18. Proofs Without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking (Classroom Resource Materials, 1)
by Roger B. Nelsen
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19. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
by David Graeber
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20. One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by George Gamow
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21. Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory
by George Gamow
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22. Integrable Hamiltonian Systems: Geometry, Topology, Classification
by A.V. Bolsinov, A.T. Fomenko
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23. HAMILTONIAN DYNAMICS
by Gaetano Vilasi
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24. Kelly: More Than My Share of It All
by Clarence L. Johnson
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25. Change Agent
by Daniel Suarez
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26. Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA (Politics and Society in Modern America)
by Benjamin C. Waterhouse
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27. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
by Nancy MacLean
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28. Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform
by Susan Rose-Ackerman
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29. The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work
by Pat Gelsinger
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30. Why Am I Still Depressed? Recognizing and Managing the Ups and Downs of Bipolar II and Soft Bipolar Disorder
by Jim Phelps
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31. Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation
by Robyn Arianrhod
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32. The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe
by Steve Nadis, Shing-Tung Yau
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33. Fragnemt
by Ctrlcreep
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34. Proofs without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking (Classroom Resource Materials)
by Roger B. Nelsen
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35. You Can't Order Change: Lessons from Jim McNerney's Turnaround at Boeing
by Peter S. Cohan
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36. What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part I)
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37. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by Ashlee Vance
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38. O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training
by Jerry D. Peek
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39. Arms and Influence: With a New Preface and Afterword (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
by Thomas C. Schelling
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40. Foundation Maths
by ANTHONY. DAVISON CROFT (ROBERT.), Robert Davison
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41. Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition
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42. Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization
by Donald W. Braben
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43. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
by W. Timothy Gallwey
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44. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
by Julia Cameron
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45. HTTP: The Definitive Guide
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46. O'Reilly First to Adopt Founders' Copyright: Publisher Restores Balance to Copyright with New Legal Option from Creative Commons
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47. What Ivan Knows That Johnny Doesn't
by Arther S Trace
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48. CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised
by Katie Hafner, John Markoff
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49. Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner
by Chris Hanson, Gerald Jay Sussman
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50. IPv6 Address Planning
by Tom Coffeen
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51. Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons (Computational Neuroscience Series)
by Christof Koch
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52. 中国现代语法
by 王力
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53. The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are
by Henry Petroski
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54. Making Software
by Andrew Oram, Greg Wilson
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55. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
by Stephanie Kelton
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56. Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
by Ashlee Vance
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57. Most Secret War
by R.V. Jones
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58. The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad
by Harrison Salisbury
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59. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
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60. Rust Atomics and Locks
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61. Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
by Stephen E. Ambrose
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62. A Survey of Matrix Theory and Matrix Inequalities (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by Marvin Marcus, Henryk Minc
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63. Atlas of World War II: History's Greatest Conflict Revealed Through Rare Wartime Maps and New Cartography
by Stephen G. Hyslop
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64. From Microphysics to Macrophysics: Methods and Applications of Statistical Physics. Volume I (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics)
by Roger Balian
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65. Designing Machine Learning Systems
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66. The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
by Edward Chancellor
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67. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
by Donald C. Shoup
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68. Daemon (Daemon Series)
by Daniel Suarez
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69. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
by Don Norman
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70. College Algebra QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide (QuickStudy Academic)
by BarCharts, Inc, Ken Yablonsky
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71. PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook
by Gianni Ciolli, Jimmy Angelakos, Boriss Mejías
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72. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
by David Eagleman
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73. Make Your Own Working Paper Clock
by James Smith Rudolph
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74. O'Reilly Open Books Project
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75. Physics from Symmetry (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
by Jakob Schwichtenberg
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76. A Philosophy of Software Design
by John Ousterhout
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77. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
by Martin Kleppmann
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78. Guards! Guards!: A Novel of Discworld
by Terry Pratchett
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79. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
by James D. Hornfischer
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80. Project Hail Mary: A Novel
by Andy Weir
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81. Mathematical Methods for Physicists: A Comprehensive Guide
by George Brown Arfken, George B. Arfken, Hans J. Weber, Frank E. Harris
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82. Learning Domain-Driven Design
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83. Dubbie: The Double-Headed Eagle
by Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen
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84. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
by Richard Rhodes
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85. Shipwreck (Panther science fiction)
by Charles Logan
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86. A Small C Compiler: Language, Usage, Theory, and Design
by James E. Hendrix
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87. Kubernetes: Up and Running, 3rd Edition
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88. Hum: A Novel
by Helen Phillips
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89. Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by Robert D. Putnam
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90. Adult Children of Alcoholics
by Janet G. Woititz
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91. The law and the profits
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92. Parkinson's Law
by C Northcote Parkinson
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93. What React Is and Why It Matters
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94. Where's My Cow?
by Terry Pratchett
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95. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
by Malcolm Harris
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96. The Coward's Guide to Conflict: Empowering Solutions for Those Who Would Rather Run Than Fight
by Tim Ursiny, Timothy E. Ursiny
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97. TinyML
by Pete Warden, Daniel Situnayake
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98. Theory of Fun for Game Design
by Raph Koster
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99. Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir
by Don Eyles
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100. High Performance MySQL, 4th Edition
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