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The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China cover

1. The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China

by Xiaofei Kang
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Mind Games cover

2. Mind Games

by Richard Thieme
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Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson cover

3. Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson

by Tom Sito
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Microservices: A quick and simple definition cover

4. Microservices: A quick and simple definition

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Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies) cover

5. Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies)

by Robert R. Locke, J.-C. Spender
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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet cover

6. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

by Yasha Levine
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An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure (Dover Books on Astronomy) cover

7. An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure (Dover Books on Astronomy)

by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, S. Chandrasekhar
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The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Volume IV cover

8. The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Volume IV

by Avron Barr, Edward A. Feigenbaum, Paul R. Cohen
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Cyber Sale 2025 - O'Reilly Media cover

9. Cyber Sale 2025 - O'Reilly Media

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The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History) cover

10. The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History)

by Ola Tunander
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Applied Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

11. Applied Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Cornelius Lanczos
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Dancing Naked in the Mind Field cover

12. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

by Kary Mullis
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Food, Energy, and Society cover

13. Food, Energy, and Society

by David Pimentel, Ph.D., Marcia Pimentel
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Eating Glass: The Inner Journey Through Failure and Renewal cover

14. Eating Glass: The Inner Journey Through Failure and Renewal

by Mark D. Jacobsen
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Women's Education & Fertility Behaviour: Recent Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys cover

15. Women's Education & Fertility Behaviour: Recent Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys

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Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon cover

16. Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon

by William D. Cohan
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The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

17. The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
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