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101. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
by James Wallace, Jim Erickson
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102. 101 Amazing Sights of the Night Sky: A Guided Tour for Beginners
by George Moromisato
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103. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew
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104. Microservices: A quick and simple definition
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105. Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick
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106. The Absorbent Mind
by Maria Montessori
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107. Late-Talking Children
by Thomas Sowell
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108. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
by Joseph Cox
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109. Naive Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by P. R. Halmos
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110. Exploring RANDOMNESS
by Gregory J. Chaitin
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111. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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112. How to Use a Breadboard! (Make: Handbook)
by Sean Michael Ragan, Jody Culkin
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113. ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic
by Alan Schwarz
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114. Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science
by Harry R. Lewis
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115. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
by Nick Flynn
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116. Tolstoy and the Genesis of "War and Peace"
by Kathryn Beliveau Feuer
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117. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
by James Nestor
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118. Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies)
by Robert R. Locke, J.-C. Spender
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119. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition
by Paul Scherz, Simon Monk
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120. Global Catastrophic Risks
by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic
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121. High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars
by Charles Ferguson, Charles H. Ferguson
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122. Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It: The Classic Exposure of Monetary Abuse by Banks, Trusts, Wall Street, and Predator Monopolies
by Louis Brandeis
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123. The Hobbit Facsimile Gift Edition [Lenticular cover]: The Classic Bestselling Fantasy Novel
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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124. Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy
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125. Who Is Fourier?: A Mathematical Adventure
by Transnational College of Lex
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126. The Conquest of Happiness
by Bertrand Russell
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127. Version Control with Git, 3rd Edition
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128. Solaris™ Internals: Core Kernel Components
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129. SQL and Relational Theory, 3rd Edition
by C. J. Date
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130. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
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131. Ultralearning: The Essential Guide To Mastering Hard Skills And Future-Proofing Your Career
by Scott Young
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132. Against Creativity
by Oli Mould
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133. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
by David D. Burns
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134. termcap & terminfo (O'Reilly Nutshell)
by John Strang, Linda Mui, Tim O'Reilly
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135. The Autism Matrix
by Gil Eyal
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136. Meditations (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
by Marcus Aurelius
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137. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
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138. Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks
by James A. Anderson, Edward Rosenfeld
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139. Space Shuttle, The History of Developing the National Space Transportation System
by Dennis R. Jenkins
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140. Roaring Silence: Discovering the Mind of Dzogchen
by Ngakpa Chogyam, Khandro Dechen
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141. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
by Edward Chancellor
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142. The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking
by Barbara Minto
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143. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
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144. To Mock a Mockingbird
by Raymond M. Smullyan
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145. Physics of Finance: Gauge Modelling in Non-Equilibrium Pricing
by Kirill Ilinski
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146. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
by Chris Miller
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147. Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and Reality, a Western Perspective
by Shimon Malin
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148. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition
by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
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149. Altered Harvest
by Jack Doyle
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150. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
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151. Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
by Ha-Joon Chang
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152. The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
by Clara E. Mattei
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153. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, 2)
by Vernor Vinge
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154. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries
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155. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
by John Brooks
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156. War in Human Civilization
by Azar Gat
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157. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
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158. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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159. An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure (Dover Books on Astronomy)
by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, S. Chandrasekhar
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160. Dispersing Population: What America Can Learn from Europe
by James L. Sundquist
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161. The Diversity Myth : Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus
by David O. Sacks, Peter A. Thiel
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162. Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks
by Arash Azizi
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163. Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy
by Jeffrey E. Garten
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164. Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems
by Stephen T. Thornton, Jerry B. Marion
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165. Classical Mechanics
by Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole, John L. Safko
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166. McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War
by Hamilton Gregory
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167. CRC Handbook of tables for Probability & Statistics
by William H. Beyer
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168. Shell Scripting: Expert Recipes for Linux, Bash, and More
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169. Linda Mui
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170. The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Volume IV
by Avron Barr, Edward A. Feigenbaum, Paul R. Cohen
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171. The Mathematical Experience: A National Book Award Winner – Exploring Mathematics: History, Philosophy, and Personalities for Lay Readers
by Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh
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172. Foundations of Constructive Analysis
by Errett Bishop
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173. Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
by David Bessis
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174. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
by S. C. Gwynne
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175. There Is No Antimemetics Division: A Novel
by qntm
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176. Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series)
by Michael C. Feathers
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177. An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Volume 1
by William Feller
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178. Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism
by Carver A. Mead
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179. Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation: The 1962 Amendments (Evaluative Studies 15)
by Sam Peltzman
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180. Programming Phoenix: Productive |> Reliable |> Fast
by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, José Valim
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181. Designing Elixir Systems With OTP: Write Highly Scalable, Self-healing Software with Layers
by James Edward Gray, Bruce A. Tate
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182. Elixir in Action, Third Edition
by Saša Juric
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183. Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell
by Simon Marlow
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184. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
by George Polya
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185. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
by James Clear
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186. Modern Structured Analysis
by Edward Yourdon
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187. Linear Algebra, 4th Edition
by Stephen H. Friedberg, Arnold J. Insel, Lawrence E. Spence
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188. Calculus and Analysis in Euclidean Space (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by Jerry Shurman
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189. Ultra-Processed People: The Food We Eat That Isn't Food and Why We Can't Stop
by Chris van Tulleken
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190. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by Leonard Mlodinow
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191. Man's Worldly Goods - The Story of The Wealth of Nations
by Leo Huberman
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192. Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary
by Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, Rachel Jones
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193. Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement
by Jonathan M. Berman
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194. Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals
by Hiroki Azuma
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195. Perl Best Practices
by Damian Conway
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196. The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably
by Thomas T. Nagle, John E. Hogan (Ph. D.)
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197. Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
by Hermann Simon
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198. Opposed Piston Engines: Evolution, Use, and Future Applications
by Jean-Pierre Pirault, Martin LS Flint
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199. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)
by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev
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200. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
by Peter Robison
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