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1. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
by William Thorndike
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2. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (A Brief History of the Natural World)
by Richard Dawkins
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3. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
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4. Persecution and the Art of Writing
by Leo Strauss
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5. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1)
by Rob Walling
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6. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
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7. Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
by F. William Lawvere, Stephen H. Schanuel
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8. Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
by Bo Burlingham
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9. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck
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10. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, 2)
by Vernor Vinge
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11. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
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12. Perl Best Practices
by Damian Conway
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13. The Soul of A New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
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14. The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
by Nick Lane
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15. Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?
by Nancy Stepan
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16. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
by Randall Munroe
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17. Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open: Future buildings, vehicles, products and equipment - made efficiently and made with less new material (without the hot air)
by Julian M. Allwood, Jonathan M. Cullen, Mark A. Carruth
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18. Being Nixon: A Man Divided
by Evan Thomas
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19. The Road to Character
by David Brooks
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20. Schaum's 3,000 Solved Problems in Calculus (Schaum's Outlines)
by Elliott Mendelson
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21. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
by Ryan Holiday
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22. Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA (Politics and Society in Modern America)
by Benjamin C. Waterhouse
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23. The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)
by Lee Drutman
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24. Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
by Lawrence Lessig
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25. Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide
by Alex Reinhart
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26. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
by Elliot Aronson Carol Tavris, Joe Barrett Marsha Mercant
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27. Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials, Second Edition
by Allison Randal, Dan Sugalski, Leopold Tötsch
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28. The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
by William Rosen
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29. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by Charles Duhigg
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30. Not for Bread Alone
by Konosuke Matsushita
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31. Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User's Guide
by Emil Pascarelli, M.D., Deborah Quilter
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32. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
by Thomas E. Pearsall
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33. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy
by Henry George
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34. Anarchy, State, and Utopia
by Robert Nozick
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35. A Theory of Justice
by John Rawls
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36. The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
by Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros
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37. Team Geek
by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick
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38. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
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39. Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972-1981 (History of the Space Shuttle, Volume 2)
by Heppenheimer Ta
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40. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
by Michael Lopp
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41. Rise of the Warrior Cop
by Radley Balko
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42. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
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43. Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others
by Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman
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44. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
by Paul Fussell
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45. 3D Math Primer For Graphics and Game Development (Wordware Game Math Library)
by Fletcher Dunn, Ian Parberry
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46. Lisp in Small Pieces
by Christian Queinnec
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47. Accelerando (Singularity)
by Charles Stross
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48. Enemies: A History of the FBI
by Tim Weiner
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49. Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development
by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff
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50. Driving Technical Change: Why People on Your Team Don't Act on Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should
by Terrence Ryan
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51. In Defense of Globalization: With a New Afterword
by Jagdish Bhagwati
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52. Living Clojure
by Carin Meier
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53. High Performance Web Sites
by Steve Souders
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54. Even Faster Web Sites
by Steve Souders
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55. How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
by Russell D. Roberts
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56. Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (3rd Edition)
by Gary Chartrand, Albert D. Polimeni, Ping Zhang
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57. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by Nicholas Carr
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58. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
by Gerald M. Weinberg
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59. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
by John Gall
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60. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)
by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
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61. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought
by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Fluid Analogies Research Group
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62. Plentiful Energy: The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor: The complex history of a simple reactor technology, with emphasis on its scientific bases for non-specialists
by Charles E. Till, Yoon Il Chang
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63. The Sociopath Next Door
by Martha Stout, Ph.D.
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64. The Elements of Style (4th Edition)
by William Strunk
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65. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication
by William Zinsser
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66. Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets
by Peter Schweizer
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67. Virtuous Violence
by Alan Page Fiske, Tage Shakti Rai
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68. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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69. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
by Marc Reisner
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70. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
by Jared Diamond
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71. Who Is Fourier?: A Mathematical Adventure
by Transnational College of Lex
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72. Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
by Nick Bilton
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73. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)
by Kip S Thorne
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74. Soluzioni: A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian (Routledge Concise Grammars) (Italian Edition)
by Denise De Rôme
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75. A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian (Routledge Reference Grammars)
by Martin Maiden, Cecilia Robustelli
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76. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language
by Ted Gioia
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77. Modern Italian Grammar (Modern Grammars)
by Anna Proudfoot, Francesco Cardo
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78. The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
by Pedro Domingos
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79. Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace: A Memoir
by Michael Morton
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80. Four Views on Free Will (Great Debates in Philosophy)
by John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, Manuel Vargas
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81. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
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82. The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
by Bryan Ward-Perkins
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83. English Grammar for Students of German: The Study Guide for Those Learning German
by Cecile Zorach
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84. Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications
by John J. Murphy
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85. Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (5th Edition)
by John Hull
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86. Working Effectively with Legacy Code
by Michael C. Feathers
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87. Working Effectively with Legacy Code
by Michael C. Feathers
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88. The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably
by Thomas T. Nagle, John E. Hogan (Ph. D.)
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89. The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs
by Andrew Hussey
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90. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
by Pierre Bourdieu
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91. Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
by David J. C. MacKay
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92. The Art of Readable Code
by Dustin Boswell
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93. Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street (Wiley Investment Classics)
by Fred Schwed, Jr.
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94. The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD: An 8-Step Program for Strengthening Attention, Managing Emotions, and Achieving Your Goals
by Lidia Zylowska, Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.
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95. Crystallizing Public Opinion
by Edward L. Bernays
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96. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
by Eric Schlosser
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97. Data Science at the Command Line
by Jeroen Janssens
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98. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
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99. Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics
by Henry Jenkins, Mizuko Ito, danah boyd
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100. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
by Laurence Gonzales
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