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

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

by Bessel A. Van der Kolk

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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

2. 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

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

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

by Brent Gleeson

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

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

by Eamonn Fingleton

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire cover

5. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

by James Wallace, Jim Erickson

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Global Catastrophic Risks cover

6. Global Catastrophic Risks

by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic

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Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems cover

7. Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems

by Stephen T. Thornton, Jerry B. Marion

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Classical Mechanics cover

8. Classical Mechanics

by Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole, John L. Safko

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

9. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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An Introduction to Western Medical Acupuncture cover

10. An Introduction to Western Medical Acupuncture

by Mike Cummings, Jacqueline Filshie

The Staff Engineer's Path cover

11. The Staff Engineer's Path

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Scientific Soapmaking: The Chemistry of the Cold Process cover

12. Scientific Soapmaking: The Chemistry of the Cold Process

by Kevin M. Dunn

Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics cover

13. Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics

by Kevin M. Dunn

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Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell cover

14. Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell

by Gabe Henry

Family Unfriendly: A Critical Examination of Overparenting and Its Consequences cover

15. Family Unfriendly: A Critical Examination of Overparenting and Its Consequences

by Timothy P. Carney

Kubernetes Operators: Automating the Container Orchestration Platform cover

16. Kubernetes Operators: Automating the Container Orchestration Platform

by Jason Dobies, Joshua Wood