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

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

by James C. Scott
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Compliance-Industrial Complex: The Operating System of a Pre-Crime Society cover

2. Compliance-Industrial Complex: The Operating System of a Pre-Crime Society

by Tereza Østbø Kuldova
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Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation cover

3. Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation

by Eva Illouz
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The Manga Guide to Databases cover

4. The Manga Guide to Databases

by Mana Takahashi, Shoko Azuma, Co Ltd Trend
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COMPLEXITY AND CRITICALITY (Imperial College Press Advanced Physics Texts) cover

5. COMPLEXITY AND CRITICALITY (Imperial College Press Advanced Physics Texts)

by Kim Christensen, Nicholas R. Moloney
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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons cover

6. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

by Phyllis Haddox, Siegfried Engelmann, Elaine Bruner
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty cover

7. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
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Atari Inc.: Business is Fun cover

8. Atari Inc.: Business is Fun

by Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel
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Steve Jobs cover

9. Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson
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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics cover

10. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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The Second Law: Resolving the Mystery of the Second Law of Thermodynamics cover

11. The Second Law: Resolving the Mystery of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

by Stephen Wolfram
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Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World cover

12. Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

by H. R. McMaster
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition cover

13. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Rhodes
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An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Vol. 1, 3rd Edition cover

14. An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Vol. 1, 3rd Edition

by William Feller
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Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower cover

15. Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

by Henry M. Paulson Jr.
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Probability and Computing: Randomization and Probabilistic Techniques in Algorithms and Data Analysis cover

16. Probability and Computing: Randomization and Probabilistic Techniques in Algorithms and Data Analysis

by Michael Mitzenmacher, Eli Upfal
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12 Seconds Of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon cover

17. 12 Seconds Of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon

by Jamie Holmes
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Probability and Random Variables: Theory and Applications cover

18. Probability and Random Variables: Theory and Applications

by Iickho Song, So Ryoung Park, Seokho Yoon
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The Way of Analysis, Revised Edition (Jones and Bartlett Books in Mathematics) cover

19. The Way of Analysis, Revised Edition (Jones and Bartlett Books in Mathematics)

by Robert S. Strichartz
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An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Vol. 2, 2nd Edition cover

20. An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Vol. 2, 2nd Edition

by William Feller
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コミックでわかるアドラー心理学 cover

21. コミックでわかるアドラー心理学

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Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things cover

22. Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things

by Jeremy England
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Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism cover

23. Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism

by Carver A. Mead
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Informal Introduction To Stochastic Calculus With Applications, An (second Edition) cover

24. Informal Introduction To Stochastic Calculus With Applications, An (second Edition)

by Ovidiu Calin
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Shakespeare's Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare cover

25. Shakespeare's Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare

by Chris Laoutaris
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Manga de yasasiku wakaru NLP (NLP to understand by comics easily) cover

26. Manga de yasasiku wakaru NLP (NLP to understand by comics easily)

by 山崎啓支, サノマリナ
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マンガでわかる民法入門 第2版 cover

27. マンガでわかる民法入門 第2版

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