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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

by Xiaofei Kang

Mind Games cover

2. Mind Games

by Richard Thieme

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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

by Tom Sito

Microservices: A quick and simple definition cover

4. Microservices: A quick and simple definition

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

5. 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

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

by Yasha Levine

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

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

by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, S. Chandrasekhar

The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Volume IV cover

8. The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Volume IV

by Avron Barr, Edward A. Feigenbaum, Paul R. Cohen

Cyber Sale 2025 - O'Reilly Media cover

9. Cyber Sale 2025 - O'Reilly Media

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

10. 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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Applied Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

11. Applied Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Cornelius Lanczos

Dancing Naked in the Mind Field cover

12. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

by Kary Mullis

Food, Energy, and Society cover

13. Food, Energy, and Society

by David Pimentel, Ph.D., Marcia Pimentel

Eating Glass: The Inner Journey Through Failure and Renewal cover

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

by Mark D. Jacobsen

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

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

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

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

by William D. Cohan

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

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

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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