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Fragnemt cover

1. Fragnemt

by Ctrlcreep

Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Seventh Edition: A Comprehensive Guide cover

2. Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Seventh Edition: A Comprehensive Guide

by George Brown Arfken, George B. Arfken, Hans J. Weber, Frank E. Harris

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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

3. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

4. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel

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Logical Miracles: 100 Stories of Hope and Healing cover

5. Logical Miracles: 100 Stories of Hope and Healing

by Dor Mullen

Life on a Little Known Planet: A Biologist's View of Insects and Their World cover

6. Life on a Little Known Planet: A Biologist's View of Insects and Their World

by Howard Ensign Evans

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The Greek Philosophical Vocabulary cover

7. The Greek Philosophical Vocabulary

by J.O. Urmson

Greek Philosophical Terms: A Historical Lexicon cover

8. Greek Philosophical Terms: A Historical Lexicon

by Francis E. Peters

A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation cover

9. A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation

by Christopher W. Fraser, David R. Hanson

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C++ Concurrency in Action cover

10. C++ Concurrency in Action

by Anthony Williams

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The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, Book 5) (Wheel of Time, 5) cover

11. The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, Book 5) (Wheel of Time, 5)

by Carl Christian Erhard Schmid

Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch cover

12. Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch

by Nora Sandler

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Focus Philosophical Library Series) cover

13. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Focus Philosophical Library Series)

by Aristotle, Joe Sachs

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming cover

14. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit

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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth cover

15. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares

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How I Turned $1,000 into Five Million in Real Estate in My Spare Time cover

16. How I Turned $1,000 into Five Million in Real Estate in My Spare Time

by William Nickerson

The Craft of Musical Composition: Theoretical Part - Book 1 (Tap/159) cover

17. The Craft of Musical Composition: Theoretical Part - Book 1 (Tap/159)

by Paul Hindemith

Genesis Of A Music: An Account Of A Creative Work, Its Roots, And Its Fulfillments, Second Edition cover

18. Genesis Of A Music: An Account Of A Creative Work, Its Roots, And Its Fulfillments, Second Edition

by Harry Partch

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How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) cover

19. How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)

by Ross W. Duffin

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Visual Complex Functions: An Introduction with Phase Portraits cover

20. Visual Complex Functions: An Introduction with Phase Portraits

by Elias Wegert

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The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius cover

21. The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

by Joyce Chaplin

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It cover

22. 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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How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion cover

23. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion

by David McRaney

The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men (The New Library of Psychoanalysis) cover

24. The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men (The New Library of Psychoanalysis)

by Marion Milner

Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

25. Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Kevin P. Murphy

Understanding Software Dynamics (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

26. Understanding Software Dynamics (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Richard Sites

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The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life cover

27. The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life

by Eugenia Cheng

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Systems Performance (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

28. Systems Performance (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Brendan Gregg

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Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts cover

29. Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts

by Christopher M. Bishop, Hugh Bishop

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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise cover

30. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

by Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool

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