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The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want cover

1. The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want

by Sonja Lyubomirsky

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Stumbling on Happiness cover

2. Stumbling on Happiness

by Daniel Todd Gilbert

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How to Watch TV News cover

3. How to Watch TV News

by Neil Postman

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior) cover

4. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)

by Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels

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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

5. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

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The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win cover

6. The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win

by Jeff Haden

Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers cover

7. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers

by Robert Jackall

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The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness cover

8. The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Eric Swanson

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones cover

9. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

by James Clear

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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) cover

10. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

by Jez Humble

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The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite cover

11. The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

by Daniel Markovits

Learning Perl, 8th Edition cover

12. Learning Perl, 8th Edition

by Randal Schwartz, brian foy, Tom Phoenix

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Garfield's Ghost Stories (Garfield) cover

13. Garfield's Ghost Stories (Garfield)

by Jim Davis, Mark Acey, Jim Kraft

Programming Perl, 4th Edition cover

14. Programming Perl, 4th Edition

by Tom Christiansen

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Mastering Perl cover

15. Mastering Perl

by brian foy

Intermediate Perl cover

16. Intermediate Perl

by Randal L. Schwartz, brian foy, Tom Phoenix

Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves cover

17. Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

by Christian Rudder

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Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us cover

18. Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us

by Victor J. Stenger

JFK: The Smoking Gun cover

19. JFK: The Smoking Gun

Perl Cookbook cover

20. Perl Cookbook

by Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington

The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain cover

21. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain

by John E. Sarno

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The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety cover

22. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

by Alan Watts

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Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller cover

23. Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

by Donella Meadows

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

24. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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Biochemistry cover

25. Biochemistry

by Reginald H. Garrett, Charles M. Grisham

Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies) cover

26. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)

by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost

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Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture, 38) cover

27. Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture, 38)

by Edouard Bugnion, Margaret Martonosi, Jason Nieh, Dan Tsafrir

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The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact cover

28. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact

by Edmond Lau

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High Output Management cover

29. High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove

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Principles: Life and Work cover

30. Principles: Life and Work

by Ray Dalio

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The Art of WebAssembly: Build Secure, Portable, High-Performance Applications cover

31. The Art of WebAssembly: Build Secure, Portable, High-Performance Applications

by Rick Battagline

Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe cover

32. Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe

by Bernardo Kastrup

Oil's Deep State: How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa cover

33. Oil's Deep State: How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa

by Kevin Taft

A Master's Secret Whispers: For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living cover

34. A Master's Secret Whispers: For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living

by Kapil Gupta

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness cover

35. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

by Eric Jorgenson

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (Pantheon Graphic Library) cover

36. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (Pantheon Graphic Library)

by Sydney Padua

The Red Book (Philemon) cover

37. The Red Book (Philemon)

by Carl G. Jung

Les Miserables: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) cover

38. Les Miserables: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Victor Hugo

Les Miserables (Signet Classics) cover

39. Les Miserables (Signet Classics)

by Victor Hugo

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment cover

40. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

by Eckhart Tolle

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Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change cover

41. Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

by William R. Catton

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Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming cover

42. Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming

by Luciano Ramalho

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An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

43. An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by John Robinson Pierce

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A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market cover

44. A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

by Edward O. Thorp

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The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism cover

45. The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism

by Simon Baron-Cohen