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501. Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
by Russell Martin
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502. Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor Emil Frankl
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503. The Evolution of Physics
by Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld
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504. Socratic Logic: A Logic Text using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, and Aristotelian Principles, Edition 3.1
by Peter Kreeft
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505. History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
by James Ford Rhodes, Everette Beach Long
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506. The law and the profits
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507. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
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508. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
by Wade Davis
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509. High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest
by Edmund Hillary
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510. The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm
by Matt Dickinson
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511. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
by Steven Pinker
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512. How to Fix Copyright
by William Patry
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513. Seattle Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Police Payoff System in Seattle
by Christopher T. Bayley
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514. Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
by Lee Smolin
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515. Drugs Without the Hot Air
by David J. Nutt
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516. Essentials of Programming Languages (The MIT Press)
by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand
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517. The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
by Bryan Caplan
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518. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!
by Conrad Barski
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519. The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman
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520. Revolution in The Valley [Paperback]: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
by Andy Hertzfeld
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521. On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
by Harold McGee
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522. Sounds from the Bell Jar: Ten Psychotic Authors
by Gordon Claridge, Ruth Pryor, Gwen Watkins
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523. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
by Michael E. Gerber
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524. The Peopling of Silicon Valley, 1940 to the Present Day: An Oral History
by Joseph Timothy Stanley
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525. Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region (Stanford Business Books (Paperback))
by Martin Kenney
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526. The History of Mathematics: An Introduction
by David Burton
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527. Polar Bear Evolution: A Model for How New Species Arise
by Susan J Crockford
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528. Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture
by Jon Stokes
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529. 4 Disciplines of Execution, The
by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling, Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling
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530. The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It
by W. Chris Winter
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531. The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green
by Homer, Peter Green
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532. World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
by Dmitri Alperovitch, Garrett M Graff
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533. Shut Out: How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession and Crippled Our Economy (Mercatus Center at George Mason University)
by Kevin Erdmann
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534. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
by E. T. Jaynes
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535. The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief
by Clair Davies, Amber Davies
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536. Smalltalk With Style
by Edward J. Klimas, David A. Thomas, Suzanne Skublics
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537. Menlo Park, California: Beyond the Gate
by Michael Svanevik, Shirley Burgett
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538. Santa Cruz's Seabright (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))
by Randall Brown, Associ Traci Bliss with the Seabright Ne, The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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539. Palo Alto: A Centennial History
by Ward Winslow
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540. Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics
by Juan Enriquez
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541. The Coffee Paradox: Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development
by Benoit Daviron, Stefano Ponte
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542. A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition
by Leonard Monteath Thompson
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543. Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven Approach
by Cem Kaner, Bret Pettichord, James Bach
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544. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
by Rob Fitzpatrick
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545. The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World
by Adam Gazzaley, Larry D. Rosen
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546. The Hank Show: How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives
by McKenzie Funk
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547. The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
by Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela
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548. The Mongol Conquests: The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Sube'etei
by Carl Fredrik Sverdrup
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549. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Veritas Paperbacks)
by James C. Scott
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550. Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World
by Justin Marozzi
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551. Genghis Khan’s Greatest General: Subotai the Valiant
by Richard A. Gabriel
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552. The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics)
by Christopher Columbus
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553. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
by Keith Johnstone
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554. Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology
by Steven Levy
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555. Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick
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556. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition
by Steven Levy
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557. Two Zen Classics: The Gateless Gate and the Blue Cliff Records
by A. V. Grimstone
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558. Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
by Stephen E. Ambrose
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559. How JavaScript Works
by Douglas Crockford
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560. The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
by Gary William Flake
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561. The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
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562. The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
by Bryan Ward-Perkins
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563. Project Hail Mary: A Novel
by Andy Weir
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564. Guards! Guards!: A Novel of Discworld (Discworld, 8)
by Terry Pratchett
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565. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
by Robert Wright
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566. It Would Be So Nice If You Weren't Here: My Journey Through Show Business
by Charles Grodin
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567. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))
by Jez Humble
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568. Tiberius Claudius Maximus: The Legionary (Rebuilding the Past)
by Peter Connolly
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569. The Crime Drop in America (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
by David A. Statt
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570. The Money Formula: Dodgy Finance, Pseudo Science, and How Mathematicians Took Over the Markets
by Paul Wilmott, David Orrell
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571. The M and M's Brand Counting Book
by Barbara Barbieri McGrath
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572. Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World (Volume 27) (California World History Library)
by Kris Lane
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573. Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
by Kristin Neff
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574. Starter Villain
by John Scalzi
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575. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber
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576. Best of Delectable Foods and Dishes from al-Andalus and al-Maghrib: A Cookbook by Thirteenth-Century Andalusi Scholar Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī (1227–1293) ... 186) (English and Arabic Edition)
by Nawal Nasrallah
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577. Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection
by Antero Alli
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578. The Terraformers
by Annalee Newitz
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579. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
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580. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Vintage Departures)
by John Vaillant
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581. Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who RIsked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
by Robert Kurson
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582. Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web, Revised Edition
by Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis
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583. The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left
by Garett Jones
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584. 500 Years Later: An Oral History of Final Fantasy VII
by Matt Leone
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585. Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
by Scott Horton, Darryl Cooper
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586. Defeat in the East
by Jürgen Thorwald
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587. Flight MH17, Ukraine and the new Cold War: Prism of disaster (Geopolitical Economy)
by Kees van der Pijl
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588. The Psilocybin Handbook for Women: How Magic Mushrooms, Psychedelic Therapy, and Microdosing Can Benefit Your Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Health (Guides to Psychedelics & More)
by Jennifer Chesak
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589. Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics
by Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman
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590. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
by Roger Lowenstein
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591. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
by David McRaney
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592. Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror
by Lew Irwin
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593. Dan - The Pioneer of Israel
by J. C. Gawler
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594. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
by Marshall B. Rosenberg
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595. World Class Manufacturing
by Richard J. Schonberger
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596. The Strategy of Maoism in the West: Rage and the Radical Left
by David M. Jones, M. L. R. Smith
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597. The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men (The New Library of Psychoanalysis)
by Marion Milner
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598. The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives
by Helen Pearson
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599. Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach
by Wen-mei W. Hwu, David B. Kirk, Izzat El Hajj, Ph.D.
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600. Books in Print, 2024-25
by RR Bowker, Rr Bowker
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