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101. Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor
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102. Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love
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103. Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
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104. Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook
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105. Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas
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106. A Little Life
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107. Bestiary: Selected Stories
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108. Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer
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109. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
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110. Compliance-Industrial Complex: The Operating System of a Pre-Crime Society
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111. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
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112. The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time
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113. Calculus from the Ground Up
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114. Human Error
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115. Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
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116. Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions
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117. Artificial General Intelligence (Cognitive Technologies)
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118. Probability with Martingales (Cambridge Mathematical Textbooks)
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119. Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels
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120. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
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121. Practical Foundations of Mathematics (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Series Number 59)
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122. The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book: Persons, Animals, Ships and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels
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123. The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods
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124. Fundamentals of Computer Graphics: International Student Edition
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125. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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126. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
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127. Envisioning Information
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128. Beautiful Evidence
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129. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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130. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
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131. The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
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132. Poems
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133. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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134. The Manga Guide to Databases
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135. Forward Through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan
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136. A Little War That Shook the World: Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West
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137. Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill: The Complete Guide to Fats, Oils, Cholesterol and Human Health
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138. The Crisis Of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered
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139. Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
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140. The Complete Rhyming Dictionary: Including The Poet's Craft Book
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141. Cows: Discover These Cows On The Farm And More! A Children's Cow Book
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142. How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
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143. Internet Security: A Hands-on Approach (Computer & Internet Security)
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144. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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145. Fantastic Flexagons: Hexaflexagons and Other Flexible Folds to Twist and Turn
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146. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
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147. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
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148. Can Animals Be Moral?
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149. Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
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150. The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
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151. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
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152. Chris Beat Cancer: A Comprehensive Plan for Healing Naturally
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153. Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity
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154. The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, 20th Anniversary Edition
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155. Software People: An Insider's Look at the Personal Computer Software Industry
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156. Programming from the Ground Up
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157. The Zimmermann Telegram
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158. Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology
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159. Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book for Smart People
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160. Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is
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161. How to Teach Your Baby to Read (The Gentle Revolution Series)
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162. Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life
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163. Algorithms on Strings
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164. War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
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165. Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean
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166. The Definitive Guide to Jakarta Faces in Jakarta EE 10: Building Java-Based Enterprise Web Applications
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167. Marketing Management, Global Edition
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