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The Dabare Snake Launcher cover

1. The Dabare Snake Launcher

by Joelle Presby

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn cover

2. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

by Richard Hamming

Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom cover

3. Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom

by Richard A. Burgess

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Official Marimba Guide to Bongo cover

4. Official Marimba Guide to Bongo

by Danny Goodman

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering cover

5. Fundamentals of Data Engineering

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Chaos: Making a New Science cover

6. Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick

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Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity cover

7. Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity

by David Bessis

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There Is No Antimemetics Division: A Novel cover

8. There Is No Antimemetics Division: A Novel

by qntm

Designing Elixir Systems With OTP: Write Highly Scalable, Self-healing Software with Layers cover

9. Designing Elixir Systems With OTP: Write Highly Scalable, Self-healing Software with Layers

by James Edward Gray, Bruce A. Tate

Elixir in Action, Third Edition cover

10. Elixir in Action, Third Edition

by Saša Juric

Programming Phoenix: Productive |> Reliable |> Fast cover

11. Programming Phoenix: Productive |> Reliable |> Fast

by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, José Valim

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A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action (Mit Press/Bradford Book Series in Cognitive Psychology) cover

12. A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action (Mit Press/Bradford Book Series in Cognitive Psychology)

by Esther Thelen

Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression cover

13. Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression

by W. A. Mathieu

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Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature (Oxford Studies in Music Theory) cover

14. Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature (Oxford Studies in Music Theory)

by Richard Cohn

Xi Jinping: The Governance of China Volume Three (Simplified Chinese Version) (Chinese Edition) cover

15. Xi Jinping: The Governance of China Volume Three (Simplified Chinese Version) (Chinese Edition)

by 习近平

The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death cover

16. The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death

by Dick Teresi

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