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The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China cover

1. The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China

Mind Games cover

2. Mind Games

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Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson cover

3. Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson

Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development cover

4. Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development

Microservices: A quick and simple definition cover

5. Microservices: A quick and simple definition

Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies) cover

6. Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies)

by Robert R. Locke, J.-C. Spender

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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet cover

7. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

by Yasha Levine

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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism cover

8. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

by Sarah Wynn-Williams

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An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure (Dover Books on Astronomy) cover

9. An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure (Dover Books on Astronomy)

The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Volume IV cover

10. The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Volume IV

The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History) cover

11. The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History)

by Ola Tunander

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Dancing Naked in the Mind Field cover

12. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

by Kary Mullis

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Applied Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

13. Applied Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)

Food, Energy, and Society cover

14. Food, Energy, and Society

Eating Glass: The Inner Journey Through Failure and Renewal cover

15. Eating Glass: The Inner Journey Through Failure and Renewal

Women's Education & Fertility Behaviour: Recent Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys cover

16. Women's Education & Fertility Behaviour: Recent Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys

Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon cover

17. Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon

The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

18. The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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