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How to Raise a Healthy Gamer: End Power Struggles, Break Bad Screen Habits, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids cover

1. How to Raise a Healthy Gamer: End Power Struggles, Break Bad Screen Habits, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids

by Alok Kanojia, MD, MPH

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Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science cover

2. Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science

by Ian Sample

The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley cover

3. The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

by Jimmy Soni

The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows cover

4. The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows

by Raymond Chen

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Object-Oriented Design Heuristics cover

5. Object-Oriented Design Heuristics

by Arthur J. Riel

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The Four Steps to the Epiphany cover

6. The Four Steps to the Epiphany

by Steve Blank

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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty cover

7. The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

by Caroline Alexander

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition cover

8. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

by Caroline Alexander

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The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface cover

9. The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface

by Philip Mirowski, Dieter Plehwe

Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community cover

10. Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

by Robert D. Putnam

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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again cover

11. The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

by Robert D. Putnam

Schizotypy and Schizophrenia: The View from Experimental Psychopathology cover

12. Schizotypy and Schizophrenia: The View from Experimental Psychopathology

by Mark F. Lenzenweger

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Loners: The Life Path of Unusual Children cover

13. Loners: The Life Path of Unusual Children

by Sula Wolff

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Schizotypy: New dimensions (Advances in Mental Health Research) cover

14. Schizotypy: New dimensions (Advances in Mental Health Research)

by Oliver Mason, Gordon Claridge

Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need cover

15. Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

by Blake Snyder

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Structured Design: Fundamentals of a Discipline of Computer Program and Systems Design cover

16. Structured Design: Fundamentals of a Discipline of Computer Program and Systems Design

by Edward Yourdon, Larry L. Constantine

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World Class Manufacturing cover

17. World Class Manufacturing

by Richard J. Schonberger

The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest cover

18. The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest

by Fareed Zakaria

Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics) cover

19. Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)

by John Drury Clark

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Inquérito Do Fim Do Mundo cover

20. Inquérito Do Fim Do Mundo

by Cláudia R. de Morais Piovezan

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration cover

21. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article

22. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen)

by Harvard Business Review, Peter F. Drucker, Clayton M. Christensen, Daniel Goleman

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition cover

23. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition

by Patrick M. Lencioni

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. (From Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) (Jung Extracts, 30) cover

24. Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. (From Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) (Jung Extracts, 30)

by C. G. Jung