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The Tankship Tromedy: The Impending Disasters in Tankers cover

1. The Tankship Tromedy: The Impending Disasters in Tankers

by Jack Devanney

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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies cover

2. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies

by Charles Perrow

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Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House cover

3. Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

by Cheryl Mendelson

Impact: The History Of Germany's V-weapons In World War II cover

4. Impact: The History Of Germany's V-weapons In World War II

by Benjamin King, Timothy J. Kutta

Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan-And Why Truman Dropped the Bomb cover

5. Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan-And Why Truman Dropped the Bomb

by Thomas B. Allen, Norman Polmar

Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire cover

6. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire

by Richard B. Frank

The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy cover

7. The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy

by David Gelles

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The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. cover

8. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.

by Daniel Coyle

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Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization cover

9. Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization

by Donald W. Braben

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence cover

10. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence

by Harvard Business Review., Susan Larkin James Edward Thomas

The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change cover

11. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

by Camille Fournier

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How to Fix Copyright cover

12. How to Fix Copyright

by William Patry

Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre cover

13. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

by Keith Johnstone

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Starter Villain cover

14. Starter Villain

by John Scalzi

The Terraformers cover

15. The Terraformers

by Annalee Newitz

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Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum cover

16. Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

by Leonard Susskind, George Hrabovsky

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No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics: A Student-Friendly Introduction cover

17. No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics: A Student-Friendly Introduction

by Jakob Schwichtenberg

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Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win (Outlooks) cover

18. Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win (Outlooks)

by Steven S. Skiena

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Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon (second Edition) cover

19. Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon (second Edition)

by Jenny Chase

Random Walks in Biology: New and Expanded Edition cover

20. Random Walks in Biology: New and Expanded Edition

by Howard C. Berg

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness cover

21. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

by Jonathan Haidt

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America cover

22. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

by Daniel J. Boorstin

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