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1. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
by Tom Standage
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2. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
by Henry Petroski
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3. Make Your Own Web Page!, A Guide for Kids - 1998 publication
by Ted Pedersen, Francis Moss
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4. The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes: [A Cookbook]
by Sam Sifton
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5. The CIA World Factbook 2026-2027
by Central Intelligence Agency
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6. Byrne's Euclid: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams
by Oliver Byrne
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7. Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch
by Nora Sandler
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8. The CIA World Factbook 2025-2026
by Central Intelligence Agency
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