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The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy cover

1. The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy

by Matthew D. Taylor

The Late Great Planet Earth: The Classic Analysis of the Biblical Prophecies Leading Up To the Return of Jesus Christ cover

2. The Late Great Planet Earth: The Classic Analysis of the Biblical Prophecies Leading Up To the Return of Jesus Christ

by Hal Lindsey, Carole C. Carlson

The Dabare Snake Launcher cover

3. The Dabare Snake Launcher

by Joelle Presby

Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

4. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott

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Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store cover

5. Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store

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Bag in the Wind cover

6. Bag in the Wind

by Ted Kooser

Indistinguishable From Magic cover

7. Indistinguishable From Magic

by Robert L. Forward

8. "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide

by Samantha Power

Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition cover

9. Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition

by Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa, Alan R. Hayakawa

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Thought and Language - Revised Edition (English and Russian Edition) cover

10. Thought and Language - Revised Edition (English and Russian Edition)

by Lev Semenovich Vygotskiĭ

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum cover

11. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

by Alan Cooper

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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet cover

12. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

by Yasha Levine

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Return to the Sky: The Surprising Story of How One Woman and Seven Eaglets Helped Restore the Bald Eagle cover

13. Return to the Sky: The Surprising Story of How One Woman and Seven Eaglets Helped Restore the Bald Eagle

by Tina Morris

Les Aventures de Tintin: Coke en Stock (French Edition of the Red Sea Sharks) cover

14. Les Aventures de Tintin: Coke en Stock (French Edition of the Red Sea Sharks)

by Hergé

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma cover

15. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel A. Van der Kolk

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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 cover

16. They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45

by Milton Mayer

Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse cover

17. Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse

by Mary Ann Glendon

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Retrain Your Brain: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 7 Weeks: A Workbook for Managing Depression and Anxiety (Retrain Your Brain with CBT) cover

18. Retrain Your Brain: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 7 Weeks: A Workbook for Managing Depression and Anxiety (Retrain Your Brain with CBT)

by Seth J. Gillihan

Beautiful Code cover

19. Beautiful Code

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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Press Here (Herve Tullet) cover

20. Press Here (Herve Tullet)

by Herve Tullet

Recent Economic Changes and Their Effect on the Production and Distribution of Wealth and Well-being of Society cover

21. Recent Economic Changes and Their Effect on the Production and Distribution of Wealth and Well-being of Society

by David Ames Wells

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection cover

22. Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

by John T Cacioppo, William Patrick

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Designer Relationships: A Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships cover

23. Designer Relationships: A Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships

by Mark A. Michaels, Patricia Johnson

Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft cover

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

by Paul Allen

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Hello Sweetheart Get Me A Rewrite cover

25. Hello Sweetheart Get Me A Rewrite

by A. A. Dornfeld, Tom Vickerman, Archibald Leckie

How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between cover

26. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner

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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

27. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

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

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Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain cover

28. Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain

by Edith Sheffer

A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? cover

29. A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?

by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn cover

30. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

by Richard Hamming

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Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists cover

31. Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists

by Kimberley A. Bobo, Jackie Kendall, Steve Max

High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out cover

32. High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

by Amanda Ripley

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Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

33. Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Joe Celko

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If You Give a Moose a Muffin cover

34. If You Give a Moose a Muffin

by Laura Numeroff

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX cover

35. Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

by Eric Berger

UNIX: A History and a Memoir cover

36. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

by Brian W. Kernighan

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2026 Farmers' Amanac cover

37. 2026 Farmers' Amanac

by Sondra Duncan

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires cover

38. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu

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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction cover

39. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

by Philip Eyrikson Tetlock, Dan Gardner

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Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World cover

40. Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World

by Matt Alt

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

41. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff

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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency cover

42. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

by Tom DeMarco

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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series) cover

43. Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)

by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

44. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain: How to Manage Quality - So That It Becomes A Source of Profit for Your Business cover

45. Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain: How to Manage Quality - So That It Becomes A Source of Profit for Your Business

by Philip B. Crosby

The Anarchist Cookbook cover

46. The Anarchist Cookbook

by William Powell

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The Goal: 40th Anniversary Edition: A Process of Ongoing Improvement cover

47. The Goal: 40th Anniversary Edition: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, David Whitford

Plentiful Energy: The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor: The complex history of a simple reactor technology, with emphasis on its scientific bases for non-specialists cover

48. Plentiful Energy: The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor: The complex history of a simple reactor technology, with emphasis on its scientific bases for non-specialists

by Charles E. Till, Yoon Il Chang

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The World of Physics: A Small Library of the Literature of Physics from Antiquity to the Present (3 Volumes) cover

49. The World of Physics: A Small Library of the Literature of Physics from Antiquity to the Present (3 Volumes)

by Jefferson Hane Weaver

The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West cover

50. The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

by Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska

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Nolo's LLC Handbook: A Complete Legal Guide to Creating and Operating Your LLC cover

51. Nolo's LLC Handbook: A Complete Legal Guide to Creating and Operating Your LLC

by Secor Glen

Fundamentals of Game Design cover

52. Fundamentals of Game Design

by Ernest Adams

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy cover

53. Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

by Francis Fukuyama

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We're Number One: Where America Stands--and Falls--in the New World Order cover

54. We're Number One: Where America Stands--and Falls--in the New World Order

by Andrew L. Shapiro

Bullying: The Social Destruction of Self cover

55. Bullying: The Social Destruction of Self

by Laura Martocci

A Sense of Honor (Bluejacket Books) cover

56. A Sense of Honor (Bluejacket Books)

by James Webb

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The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition cover

57. The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

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58. Book for ISBN B0BS1WJZNW

Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary cover

59. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

by Linus Torvalds, David Diamond

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The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer's Crimes Against Humanity cover

60. The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer's Crimes Against Humanity

by The WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysts

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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform cover

62. Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform

by Patrick Henry Winston

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Declarative Models of Concurrent Cyclic Processes (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 438) cover

63. Declarative Models of Concurrent Cyclic Processes (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 438)

by Grzegorz Bocewicz

The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places cover

64. The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places

by Bernie Krause

Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom cover

65. Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom

by Richard A. Burgess

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Riding the Runaway Horse: The Rise and Decline of Wang Laboratories cover

66. Riding the Runaway Horse: The Rise and Decline of Wang Laboratories

by Charles Kenney

Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least cover

67. Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least

by Antti Ilmanen

The Feynman Tapes, Volume 1 (Chief Research Chemist and other stories) cover

68. The Feynman Tapes, Volume 1 (Chief Research Chemist and other stories)

by Richard Phillips Feynman

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism cover

69. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

by Sarah Wynn-Williams

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

70. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppmann

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When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm (Random House Large Print) cover

71. When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm (Random House Large Print)

by Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe

The Invention of the Jewish People cover

72. The Invention of the Jewish People

by Shlomo Sand

Coding Theory and Cryptography: The Essentials, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics) cover

73. Coding Theory and Cryptography: The Essentials, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics)

by D.C. Hankerson, Gary Hoffman, D.A. Leonard, Charles C. Lindner, K.T. Phelps, C.A. Rodger, J.R. Wall

Fearless Salary Negotiation: A step-by-step guide to getting paid what you're worth cover

74. Fearless Salary Negotiation: A step-by-step guide to getting paid what you're worth

by Josh Doody

How the Irish Became White cover

75. How the Irish Became White

by Noel Ignatiev

Insisting On the Impossible : The Life of Edwin Land cover

76. Insisting On the Impossible : The Life of Edwin Land

by Victor K. McElheny

Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II cover

77. Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II

by Jennet Conant

The Logic Of Sports Betting cover

78. The Logic Of Sports Betting

by Matthew Davidow, Ed Miller

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine cover

79. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

by Rashid Khalidi

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes cover

80. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

by Bill Watterson

In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity cover

81. In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity

by Eamonn Fingleton

Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life cover

82. Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life

by Brent Gleeson

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Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right cover

83. Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine cover

84. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

by Charles Petzold

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Scott And Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth cover

85. Scott And Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth

by Roland Huntford

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Fourth Edition cover

86. The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Fourth Edition

by Warren Buffett

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Parallel Distributed Processing, Vol. 1: Foundations cover

87. Parallel Distributed Processing, Vol. 1: Foundations

by David E. Rumelhart

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Principles of Semantic Networks: Explorations in the Representation of Knowledge cover

88. Principles of Semantic Networks: Explorations in the Representation of Knowledge

Semantic Information Processing cover

89. Semantic Information Processing

Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. cover

90. Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.

by Jay Haley

91. "Cause Unknown": The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 (Children’s Health Defense)

by Ed Dowd

The Fractal Organization: Creating sustainable organizations with the Viable System Model cover

92. The Fractal Organization: Creating sustainable organizations with the Viable System Model

by Patrick Hoverstadt

Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling cover

93. Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling

by Meathead Goldwyn

Facts Don't Care about Your Feelings cover

94. Facts Don't Care about Your Feelings

by Ben Shapiro

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95. Book for ISBN B00B7XWG7E

The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

96. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Don Norman

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A Philosophy of Software Design cover

97. A Philosophy of Software Design

by John Ousterhout

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The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives cover

98. The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives

by David B. Yaden, Andrew Newberg

The End of Error cover

99. The End of Error

by John L. Gustafson

Game, Set, Cash!: Inside the Secret World of International Tennis Trading cover

100. Game, Set, Cash!: Inside the Secret World of International Tennis Trading

by Brad Hutchins

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