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1. The Cult of Mac
by Leander Kahney
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2. SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL, 4th Edition
by John L. Viescas
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3. Watch On The Right: Conservative Intellectuals In The Reagan Era (History of American Thought and Culture)
by J. David Hoeveler
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4. The Zero-Sum Society: Distribution And The Possibilities For Change
by Lester C. Thurow
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5. A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
by Michael Pollan
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6. Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion
by Stewart Elliott Guthrie
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7. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale
by Boris Cherny
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8. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
by Charles Perrow
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9. Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
by Quinn Slobodian, Ben Tarnoff
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10. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
by Tom Standage
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11. Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How…
by Nicholas Enrich
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12. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
by Yasha Levine
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13. Laces: 100s of Ways to Pimp Your Kicks
by Ian Fieggen
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14. Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention and Problem Solving
by John R. Koza
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15. Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human …
by Federico Faggin
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16. Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
by Adrian Wooldridge
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17. Frodo's Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings
by Joseph Pearce, Jef Murray
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18. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Soft…
by Charles Petzold
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19. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Soft…
by Charles Petzold
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20. Internet: A First Discovery Book (First Discovery Books)
by Donald Grant
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21. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Soft…
by Charles Petzold
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22. Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
by Sarah Brayne
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23. Build a DeepSeek Model (From Scratch)
by Raj Abhijit Dandekar, Rajat Dandekar, Naman Dwivedi, Sreedath Pana
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24. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
by Harvey Silverglate
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25. The Plot Against the King
by Kash Patel
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26. The Cure for Alcoholism: Drink Your Way Sober Without Willpower, Abstinence or Discomfort
by Roy Eskapa, Roy D. Eskapa
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27. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Emp…
by Tim Wu
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28. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Emp…
by Tim Wu
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29. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
by Nick Bostrom
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30. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America
by Scott Adams
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31. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
by John Dittmer
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32. Put Yourself First (Chinese Edition)
by 西村博之
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33. Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler, Abraham Foxman, Ralph Manheim
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34. Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Independent Researcher Anjali Shrivastava
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35. Alone in the Ocean by Slava Kurilov
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36. Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol
by Katie Herzog
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37. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)
by Leland Wilkinson
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38. In Business As in Life, You Don't Get What You Deserve, You Get What You Negotiate
by Chester L. Karrass
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39. The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America
by Kenneth M. Pollack
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40. How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entreprene…
by Felix Dennis
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41. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
by Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Maté, MD
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42. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt
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43. Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great Companies Stay Great
by Eric Ries
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44. After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
by Tripp Mickle
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45. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
by Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D., William D. Danko Ph.D
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46. How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Dragonfly Books)
by Marjorie Priceman
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47. Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy
by Vladik Khononov
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48. The VimL Primer
by Benjamin Klein
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49. Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy
by Vladik Khononov
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50. The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (Theory Redux)
by Bogna Konior
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51. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
by Chris van Tulleken
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52. Picture Cook: See. Make. Eat.
by Katie Shelly
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53. Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the Linux Shell (Expert's Voice in Linux)
by Chris F.A. Johnson
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54. The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs: The bestselling classic that transforms how you see the world around you - a must-read for all nature lovers
by Tristan Gooley
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55. Amerithrax: The Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
by Robert Graysmith
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56. The Anatomist
by Federico Andahazi
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57. Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's…
by Sterling Seagrave, Peggy Seagrave
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58. Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing)
by Mar Hicks
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59. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, David Whitford
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60. When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
by Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
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61. We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse: Book 1
by Dennis E. Taylor
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62. Software Engineering Mathematics (Sei Series in Software Engineering)
by Jim Woodcock, Martin Loomes
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63. Practical TLA+: Planning Driven Development
by Hillel Wayne
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64. The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space (Ribbonfarm Roughs Book 2)
by Venkatesh Rao
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65. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
by Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins
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66. Introductory Logic and Sets for Computer Scientists (International Computer Science Series)
by Nimal Nissanke
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67. Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
by Byron Tau
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68. Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier
by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
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69. The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
by Bryan Caplan
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70. Operating Systems Design and Implementation
by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull
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71. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley
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72. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis
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73. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
by Jared Diamond
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74. Operating Systems Design and Implementation
by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull
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75. Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ
by Giulia Enders
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76. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
by Henry Petroski
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77. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
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78. Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think i…
by Temple Grandin
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79. Make Your Own Web Page!, A Guide for Kids - 1998 publication
by Ted Pedersen, Francis Moss
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80. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
by Martin Kleppmann
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81. Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith
by Sam Newman
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82. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
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83. High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace
by Peter Ludlow, Mike Godwin
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84. The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century
by Immanuel Wallerstein
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85. The Shattering Peace: Old Man's War Book 7
by John Scalzi
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86. Computation Structures
by Stephen A. Ward, Robert H. Halstead
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87. Three Worlds Collide
by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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88. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
by S. C. Gwynne
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89. Ethical Password Cracking: Decode passwords using John the Ripper, hashcat, and advanced methods for password breaking
by James Leyte-Vidal
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90. Hash Crack: Password Cracking Manual (v3)
by Joshua Picolet
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91. Password Cracking with Kali Linux
by Daniel W. Dieterle
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92. What's the Matter with Kansas?
by Thomas Frank
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93. Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics, Vol. 1
by George Reisman
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94. Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
by F. William Lawvere, Stephen H. Schanuel
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95. Learn Java Now
by Stephen Randy Davis
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96. Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition
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97. The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
by Seth Harp
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98. Qualityland
by Marc-Uwe Kling
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99. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer
by Charles J. Murray
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100. Thinking in Postscript
by Glenn C. Reid
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