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Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything cover

1. Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything

by C. Gordon Bell

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Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design cover

2. Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design

by C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara

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Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition cover

3. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition

by W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago

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Profumi di Sicilia. Il libro della cucina siciliana cover

4. Profumi di Sicilia. Il libro della cucina siciliana

by Giuseppe Coria

Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings: The rise and fall of Sierra On-Line cover

5. Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings: The rise and fall of Sierra On-Line

by Ken Williams

Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress cover

6. Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress

by Christopher Ryan

Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life cover

7. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

by Peter Gray

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Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class cover

8. Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

by Rob Henderson

Great Battles cover

9. Great Battles

by Parragon, Incorporated

Design of Brushless Permanent-Magnet Machines cover

10. Design of Brushless Permanent-Magnet Machines

by J. R. Hendershot, Timothy John Eastham Miller

Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic cover

11. Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic

by Jean-Michel Muller, Nicolas Brunie, Florent de Dinechin, Claude-Pierre Jeannerod, Mioara Joldes, Vincent Lefèvre, Guillaume Melquiond, Nathalie Revol, Serge Torres

The Handbook of Mortgage-Backed Securities, 7th Edition cover

12. The Handbook of Mortgage-Backed Securities, 7th Edition

by Frank J. Fabozzi

Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar cover

13. Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar

by Jessie Inchauspe

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Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals cover

14. Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals

by Frans B. M. de Waal, F. B. M. de Waal

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Essentials of Programming Languages (The MIT Press) cover

15. Essentials of Programming Languages (The MIT Press)

by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand

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How JavaScript Works cover

16. How JavaScript Works

by Douglas Crockford

The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation cover

17. The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation

by Gary William Flake

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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Vintage Departures) cover

18. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Vintage Departures)

by John Vaillant

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who RIsked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II cover

19. 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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Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans cover

20. Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans

by Anon9780063061194, Peter Schweizer

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Artificial Chemistries (Mit Press) cover

21. Artificial Chemistries (Mit Press)

by Wolfgang Banzhaf, Lidia Yamamoto

Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet cover

22. Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet

by Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Jérémie Zimmermann

Truth vs Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference cover

23. Truth vs Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference

by David R. Hawkins