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1. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
by Yasha Levine
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2. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
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3. Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming
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4. The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
by Matthew Hollis
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5. The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound (A Harvest Special)
by T. S. Eliot
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6. Coolidge
by Amity Shlaes
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7. Introduction to Fourier Optics
by Joseph W. Goodman
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