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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World cover

1. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

by Cade Metz

CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised cover

2. CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised

by Katie Hafner, John Markoff

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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World cover

3. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

by Malcolm Harris

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition cover

4. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Rhodes

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Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration cover

5. Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration

by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson

Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? cover

6. Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

by Philip E. Tetlock

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

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

by C. Gordon Bell

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Mental Health Survival Kit and Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs: A User's Guide cover

8. Mental Health Survival Kit and Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs: A User's Guide

by Peter C. Gøtzsche

A General Theory of Love cover

9. A General Theory of Love

by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon

Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships cover

10. Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

by Robin Dunbar

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind - and Keep - Love cover

11. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind - and Keep - Love

by Amir Levine, M.D., Rachel Heller

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Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair cover

12. Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair

by Daniel P. Brown

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Engineering General Intelligence, Part 1: A Path to Advanced AGI via Embodied Learning and Cognitive Synergy (Atlantis Thinking Machines) cover

13. Engineering General Intelligence, Part 1: A Path to Advanced AGI via Embodied Learning and Cognitive Synergy (Atlantis Thinking Machines)

by Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin, Nil Geisweiller

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Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare) cover

14. Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)

by William Shakespeare

Blind Spot: Why We Fail to See the Solution Right in Front of Us cover

15. Blind Spot: Why We Fail to See the Solution Right in Front of Us

by Dr. Gordon Rugg

Man's Search for Meaning cover

16. Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Emil Frankl

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Socratic Logic: A Logic Text using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, and Aristotelian Principles, Edition 3.1 cover

17. Socratic Logic: A Logic Text using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, and Aristotelian Principles, Edition 3.1

by Peter Kreeft

History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 cover

18. History of the Civil War, 1861-1865

by James Ford Rhodes, Everette Beach Long

The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics) cover

19. The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics)

by Christopher Columbus

The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure cover

20. The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

by Yascha Mounk