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Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft cover

1. Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft

by Paul Allen

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Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism cover

2. Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism

by Carver A. Mead

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Skärmhjärnan : hur en hjärna i osynk med sin tid kan göra oss stressade, de cover

3. Skärmhjärnan : hur en hjärna i osynk med sin tid kan göra oss stressade, de

Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company cover

4. Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

by Andrew S. Grove

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How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom cover

5. How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

by Garry Kasparov

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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire cover

6. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

by James Wallace, Jim Erickson

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Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students cover

7. Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students

by Jenny Olive

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Writing Interpreters and Compilers for the Raspberry Pi Using Python cover

8. Writing Interpreters and Compilers for the Raspberry Pi Using Python

by Anthony Dos Reis

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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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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth cover

10. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth

by Paul Hoffman

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The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos cover

11. The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos

by Deborah Heiligman

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Developing Safety-Critical Software: A Practical Guide for Aviation Software and DO-178C Compliance cover

12. Developing Safety-Critical Software: A Practical Guide for Aviation Software and DO-178C Compliance

by Leanna Rierson

Popular Mechanics The Art of Mechanical Drawing: A Practical Course for Drafting and Design cover

13. Popular Mechanics The Art of Mechanical Drawing: A Practical Course for Drafting and Design

by William Franklin Willard

The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language cover

14. The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language

by John McWhorter

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Mid-Century By the Bay: A Celebration of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and 1960s cover

15. Mid-Century By the Bay: A Celebration of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and 1960s

by Heather M.. David

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century cover

16. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

by Steven Pinker

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The Peopling of Silicon Valley, 1940 to the Present Day: An Oral History cover

17. The Peopling of Silicon Valley, 1940 to the Present Day: An Oral History

by Joseph Timothy Stanley

Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region (Stanford Business Books (Paperback)) cover

18. Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region (Stanford Business Books (Paperback))

by Martin Kenney

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Palo Alto: A Centennial History cover

19. Palo Alto: A Centennial History

by Ward Winslow

Menlo Park, California: Beyond the Gate cover

20. Menlo Park, California: Beyond the Gate

by Michael Svanevik, Shirley Burgett

Santa Cruz's Seabright (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) cover

21. Santa Cruz's Seabright (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))

by Randall Brown, Associ Traci Bliss with the Seabright Ne, The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History

Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover

22. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives cover

23. The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives

by Helen Pearson

The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism cover

24. The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

by Clara E. Mattei

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Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours cover

25. Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours

by Noah Kagan

Loners: The Life Path of Unusual Children cover

26. Loners: The Life Path of Unusual Children

by Sula Wolff

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Estonia cover

27. Estonia

by Neil Taylor

The Philosophy of Redemption cover

28. The Philosophy of Redemption

by Philipp Mainländer

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think cover

29. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think

by Bryan Caplan

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See San Francisco: Through the Lens of SFGirlbyBay cover

30. See San Francisco: Through the Lens of SFGirlbyBay

by Victoria Smith

Mathematica®: A Problem-Centered Approach (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series) cover

31. Mathematica®: A Problem-Centered Approach (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series)

by Roozbeh Hazrat

Inventing the Future (Silicon Valley From the Inside) cover

32. Inventing the Future (Silicon Valley From the Inside)

by Albert Cory

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker cover

33. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

by Kevin Mitnick

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Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier cover

34. Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier

by Katie Hafner, John Markoff

Exploding the Phone cover

35. Exploding the Phone

by Phil Lapsley

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