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Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse cover

1. Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse

by Mary Ann Glendon

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The Anarchist Cookbook cover

2. The Anarchist Cookbook

by William Powell

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Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing cover

3. Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

by Sarah Brayne

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Derelict cover

4. Derelict

by Kristine Smith, D. B. Jackson, Griffin Ayaz Tyree, Andrija Popovic, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Gerald Brandt, Kit Harding, Gini Koch, Julie E. Czerneda, Jacey Bedford, Mark D. Jacobsen, Jana Paniccia, Alex Bledsoe, Chaz Brenchley, R. Z. Held, Jack Campbell

Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union cover

5. Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union

by Scott Shane

The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II cover

6. The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II

by Helen Fry

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

7. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann

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

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

by Tereza Østbø Kuldova

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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner) cover

9. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by Liaquat Ahamed

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy cover

10. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

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Outliers: The Story of Success cover

11. Outliers: The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell

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Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company cover

12. Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

by Andrew S. Grove

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Handbook to Higher Consciousness cover

13. Handbook to Higher Consciousness

by Ken Keyes

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The Analysis of the Self: A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders cover

14. The Analysis of the Self: A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders

by Heinz Kohut

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Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation cover

15. Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation

by Eva Illouz

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Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology cover

16. Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology

by Dan Gusfield

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How to Teach Your Baby to Read (The Gentle Revolution Series) cover

17. How to Teach Your Baby to Read (The Gentle Revolution Series)

by Glenn Doman, Janet Doman

Algorithms on Strings cover

18. Algorithms on Strings

by Maxime Crochemore, Christophe Hancart, Thierry Lecroq

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Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean cover

19. Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean

by David Gelernter

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The Definitive Guide to Jakarta Faces in Jakarta EE 10: Building Java-Based Enterprise Web Applications cover

20. The Definitive Guide to Jakarta Faces in Jakarta EE 10: Building Java-Based Enterprise Web Applications

by Bauke Scholtz, Arjan Tijms