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1. The Cult of Mac
by Leander Kahney
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2. Watch On The Right: Conservative Intellectuals In The Reagan Era (History of American Thought and Culture)
by J. David Hoeveler
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3. The Zero-Sum Society: Distribution And The Possibilities For Change
by Lester C. Thurow
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4. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale
by Boris Cherny
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5. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
by Charles Perrow
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6. Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
by Quinn Slobodian, Ben Tarnoff
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7. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
by Tom Standage
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8. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
by Yasha Levine
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9. Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention and Problem Solving
by John R. Koza
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10. Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
by Adrian Wooldridge
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11. Internet: A First Discovery Book (First Discovery Books)
by Donald Grant
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12. Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
by Sarah Brayne
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13. The Plot Against the King
by Kash Patel
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14. The Cure for Alcoholism: Drink Your Way Sober Without Willpower, Abstinence or Discomfort
by Roy Eskapa, Roy D. Eskapa
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15. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America
by Scott Adams
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16. Put Yourself First (Chinese Edition)
by 西村博之
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17. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
by Harvey Silverglate
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18. Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Independent Researcher Anjali Shrivastava
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19. Alone in the Ocean by Slava Kurilov
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20. Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol
by Katie Herzog
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21. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)
by Leland Wilkinson
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22. The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America
by Kenneth M. Pollack
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23. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
by Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Maté, MD
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24. After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
by Tripp Mickle
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25. How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Dragonfly Books)
by Marjorie Priceman
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26. The VimL Primer
by Benjamin Klein
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27. Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy
by Vladik Khononov
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28. The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (Theory Redux)
by Bogna Konior
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29. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
by Chris van Tulleken
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30. Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the Linux Shell (Expert's Voice in Linux)
by Chris F.A. Johnson
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31. 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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32. The Anatomist
by Federico Andahazi
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33. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson
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34. Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing)
by Mar Hicks
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35. We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse: Book 1
by Dennis E. Taylor
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36. The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space (Ribbonfarm Roughs Book 2)
by Venkatesh Rao
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37. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
by Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins
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38. Introductory Logic and Sets for Computer Scientists (International Computer Science Series)
by Nimal Nissanke
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39. 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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40. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis
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41. Operating Systems Design and Implementation
by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull
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42. Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ
by Giulia Enders
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43. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
by Henry Petroski
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44. Make Your Own Web Page!, A Guide for Kids - 1998 publication
by Ted Pedersen, Francis Moss
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45. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
by Martin Kleppmann
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46. Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith
by Sam Newman
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47. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
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48. The Shattering Peace: Old Man's War Book 7
by John Scalzi
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49. What's the Matter with Kansas?
by Thomas Frank
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50. Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
by F. William Lawvere, Stephen H. Schanuel
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51. Learn Java Now
by Stephen Randy Davis
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52. Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition
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53. Qualityland
by Marc-Uwe Kling
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54. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer
by Charles J. Murray
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55. An Invitation to Modern Number Theory
by Steven J. Miller
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56. Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition
by AEleen Frisch
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57. Lao-tzu's Taoteching
by Laozi
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58. Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond
by Steve Yegge, Gene Kim
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59. Colossus
by D. F. Jones
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60. Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store: Batch, Real-Time, and LLM Systems
by Jim Dowling
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61. Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library
by Gary Bradski, Adrian Kaehler
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62. The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes: [A Cookbook]
by Sam Sifton
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63. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
by Stewart Brand
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64. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
by Lawrence Weschler
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65. 50 Human Studies, in Utero, Conducted in Modern China, Indicate Extreme Risk for Prenatal Ultrasound: A New Bibliography
by Jim West, harvoa Staff
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66. Ultrasound Causation for Microcephaly and Zika Virus, The Hypothesis (Part A)
by Jim West
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67. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)
by Eric Hoffer
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68. The CIA World Factbook 2026-2027
by Central Intelligence Agency
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69. CSS: The Definitive Guide: Web Layout and Presentation
by Eric A. Meyer, Estelle Weyl
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70. The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
by Gary William Flake
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71. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
by Steven Rinella
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72. C.J. Date's Database Design and Relational Theory: Normal Forms and All That Jazz Master Class
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73. Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming
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74. Hobbitten. Eller Ud og hjem igen
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75. Hobitti eli Sinne ja takaisin
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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76. Sharp: The Definitive Introduction to Knives, Sharpening, and Cutting Techniques, with Recipes from Great Chefs
by Josh Donald
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77. Ivan Ramen: Love, Obsession, and Recipes from Tokyo's Most Unlikely Noodle Joint
by Ivan Orkin, Chris Ying
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78. Tartine Bread
by Chad Robertson
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79. The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes
by James Freeman, Caitlin Freeman, Tara Duggan
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80. Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to Overcome Anxiety, Panic, and Worry
by Catherine M. Pittman, Elizabeth M. Karle
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81. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by John J. Ratey
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82. Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
by Patrick McGee
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83. Healing ADD Revised Edition: The Breakthrough Program that Allows You to See and Heal the 7 Types of ADD
by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
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84. sed & awk, 2nd Edition
by Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins
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85. Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game
by Touraj Parang
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86. The Duke Nukem 3d Level Design Handbook (Duke Nukem Games)
by Matt Tagliaferri
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87. Byrne's Euclid: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams
by Oliver Byrne
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88. High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars
by Charles Ferguson, Charles H. Ferguson
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89. Dear Canada: Not a Nickel to Spare
by Perry Nodelman
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90. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
by Leil Lowndes
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91. U-505
by Rear-Admiral Daniel Vincent Gallery
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92. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt
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93. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
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94. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
by Gabor Maté
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95. The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
by Matthew Hollis
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96. Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch
by Nora Sandler
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97. Best Evidence : Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
by David S. Lifton
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98. Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
by Vincent Bugliosi
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99. Life After Life: A Groundbreaking Exploration of Near-Death Experiences and the Transformative Insights into the Afterlife, Backed by Scientific Study and Personal Testimonies
by Raymond Moody
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100. Lifespan of a Fact
by John D'Agata, Jim Fingal
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