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The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer cover

1. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

by Charles J. Murray
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing) cover

2. Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing)

by Mar Hicks
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

3. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann
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Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith cover

4. Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

by Sam Newman
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Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library cover

5. Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library

by Gary Bradski, Adrian Kaehler
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics) cover

6. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)

by Eric Hoffer
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The Duke Nukem 3d Level Design Handbook (Duke Nukem Games) cover

7. The Duke Nukem 3d Level Design Handbook (Duke Nukem Games)

by Matt Tagliaferri
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How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships cover

8. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

by Leil Lowndes
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The Physics of Sorrow cover

9. The Physics of Sorrow

by Georgi Gospodinov
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