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201. McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War
by Hamilton Gregory
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202. CRC Handbook of tables for Probability & Statistics
by William H. Beyer
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203. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
by Donald D. Hoffman
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204. Shell Scripting: Expert Recipes for Linux, Bash, and More
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205. Art of Violin Making
by Chris Johnson, Roy Courtnall
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206. The Diversity Myth : Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus
by David O. Sacks, Peter A. Thiel
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207. Linda Mui
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208. Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems
by Stephen T. Thornton, Jerry B. Marion
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209. Classical Mechanics
by Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole, John L. Safko
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210. Tenure hacks: The 12 secrets of making tenure
by Russell James
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211. The Mathematical Experience: A National Book Award Winner
by Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh
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212. Secrets of Question-Based Selling: How the Most Powerful Tool in Business Can Double Your Sales Results
by Thomas Freese
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213. Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
by David Bessis
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214. Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work (International Edition)
by ANON., Sarah Wynn-Williams
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215. Working Effectively with Legacy Code
by Michael C. Feathers
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216. There Is No Antimemetics Division: A Novel
by qntm
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217. Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art
by Nicholson Baker
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218. Designing Elixir Systems With OTP: Write Highly Scalable, Self-healing Software with Layers
by James Edward Gray, Bruce A. Tate
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219. Programming Phoenix: Productive |> Reliable |> Fast
by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, José Valim
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220. Elixir in Action, Third Edition
by Saša Juric
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221. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
by George Polya
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222. Modern Structured Analysis
by Edward Yourdon
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223. 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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224. Simply Fly (Paperback)
by Captain Gopinath G R Captain
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225. KAPUT
by Wolfgang Munchau
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226. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
by James Clear
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227. Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union
by Scott Shane
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228. AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models
by Chip Huyen
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229. Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
by Hermann Simon
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230. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by Leonard Mlodinow
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231. Man's Worldly Goods - The Story of The Wealth of Nations
by Leo Huberman
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232. 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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233. 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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234. Opposed Piston Engines: Evolution, Use, and Future Applications
by Jean-Pierre Pirault, Martin LS Flint
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235. The Forest and the Sea: A Look at the Economy of Nature and the Ecology of Man
by Marston Bates
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236. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
by Peter Robison
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237. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
by Charles Petzold
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238. 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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239. The Exodus
by Richard Elliott Friedman
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240. Linear Algebra, 4th Edition
by Stephen H. Friedberg, Arnold J. Insel, Lawrence E. Spence
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241. Calculus and Analysis in Euclidean Space (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by Jerry Shurman
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242. Book for ISBN 0299088901
by Bassam Z. Shakhashiri
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243. French Provincial Cooking
by Elizabeth David
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244. Designing Tube Preamps for Guitar and Bass, 2nd Edition
by Merlin Blencowe
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245. Valve Amplifiers
by Morgan Jones
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246. Prompt Engineering for LLMs: The Art and Science of Building Large Language Model–Based Applications
by John Berryman, Albert Ziegler
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247. Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway
by Clifford Stoll
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248. The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science)
by Roger Penrose
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249. Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements
by Stephen Fishman
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250. Matters Computational: Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code
by Jörg Arndt
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251. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)
by Josef Müller-Brockmann
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252. Learn Greek in 25 Years
by Brian Church
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253. Counterexamples in Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by Bernard R. Gelbaum, John M. H. Olmsted
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254. Chemical Demonstrations : A Handbook for Teachers of Chemistry Vol 1 (Volume 1)
by Bassam Z. Shakhashiri
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255. The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II
by Helen Fry
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256. When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
by Steven Pinker
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257. The Staff Engineer's Path
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258. Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying; A Guide for Kids and Teens
by Barbara Oakley, PhD, Terrence Sejnowski, PhD, Alistair McConville
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259. Stochastic Integration and Differential Equations
by Philip E. Protter
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260. Book for ISBN 113318779X
by Michael Sipser
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261. Exercises in Programming Style
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262. Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life
by Emanuel Derman
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263. Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview: Pass Tough Coding Interviews, Get Noticed, and Negotiate Successfully (Cracking the Interview & Career)
by Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Mike Mroczka, Aline Lerner, Nil Mamano
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264. Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond
by Mark Ames
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265. Nuclear War: A Scenario
by Annie Jacobsen
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266. The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
by Olivia Fox Cabane
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267. Wellness Sense: A Practical Guide to Your Physical and Emoti
by Om Swami
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268. Advanced Engineering Mathematics
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269. The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded
by Michael Watkins
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270. Introduction to the Theory of Computation
by Michael Sipser
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271. Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life―A Revolutionary Approach to Maximizing Life Experiences Over Accumulating Wealth
by Bill Perkins
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272. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history) (VOLUME I)
by David Hackett Fischer
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273. Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking
by Nicolas Collins
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274. Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor
by Paul Lutus
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275. Purely Functional Data Structures
by Chris Okasaki
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276. A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action (Mit Press/Bradford Book Series in Cognitive Psychology)
by Esther Thelen
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277. SSA-based Compiler Design
by Fabrice Rastello, Florent Bouchez Tichadou
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278. An Introduction to Western Medical Acupuncture
by Mike Cummings, Jacqueline Filshie
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279. Safeware: System Safety and Computers
by Nancy Leveson
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280. Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
by Norman Ohler
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281. Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love
by Dorothy Tennov
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282. The Barefoot Bandit: The True Tale of Colton Harris-Moore, New American Outlaw
by Bob Friel
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283. Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
by Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
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284. Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook
by Brahm
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285. Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas
by Leigh Brasington
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286. Real Computing Made Real: Preventing Errors in Scientific and Engineering Calculations (Dover Books on Computer Science)
by Forman S. Acton
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287. A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
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288. Investment Science
by David G. Luenberger
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289. The Plot Against the King
by Kash Patel
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290. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
by Douglas W. Hubbard
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291. Bestiary: Selected Stories
by Julio Cortazar
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292. Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer
by Thomas Seyfried
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293. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
by Josephine Quinn
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294. How to Shit in the Woods, 4th Edition: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
by Kathleen Meyer
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295. Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics
by Kevin M. Dunn
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296. Scientific Soapmaking: The Chemistry of the Cold Process
by Kevin M. Dunn
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297. On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript
by Robert K. Merton
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298. Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell
by Gabe Henry
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299. The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time
by Jason Socrates Bardi
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300. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
by Steven Strogatz
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