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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

1. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande
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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

2. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

3. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications cover

4. The Architecture of Open Source Applications

by Amy Brown, Greg Wilson
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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics cover

5. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
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Site Reliability Engineering cover

6. Site Reliability Engineering

by Betsy Beyer, Jones, Chris (Computer engineer), Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy
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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire cover

7. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

by James Wallace, Jim Erickson
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An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition) cover

8. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)

by Gerald M. Weinberg
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Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street (Wiley Investment Classics) cover

9. Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street (Wiley Investment Classics)

by Fred Schwed, Jr.
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life cover

10. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

by Mark Manson
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Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach cover

11. Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach

by Dandridge M. Malone
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The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness cover

12. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness

by John Yates, Matthew Immergut, Jeremy Graves
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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

13. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

14. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
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Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism cover

15. Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism

by Richard D. Wolff
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Code cover

16. Code

by Charles Petzold
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality cover

17. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

by Max Tegmark
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O'Reilly Newsletters - O'Reilly Media cover

18. O'Reilly Newsletters - O'Reilly Media

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Java 9 Modularity cover

19. Java 9 Modularity

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Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas cover

20. Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas

by Steven Poole
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High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design) cover

21. High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design)

by Howard W. Johnson, Martin Graham
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Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science cover

22. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science

by Philip N. Klein
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