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Programming · 1974
Computer Lib/Dream Machines
Fiction · 2006
The Road
History · 1960
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Psychology · 1999
Emperor's New Mind
Mathematics
Mathematics for Computer Science
Politics society · 1973
The machinery of freedom
Business · 2005
Blue ocean strategy
Psychology · 2005
The Game
Biology · 2017
Behave
Mathematics · 1998
Introduction to linear algebra
Cities · 1994
How Buildings Learn
Functional Programming · 2013
Realm of Racket
Science Fiction · 1986
Marooned in Realtime
Business · 2011
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
Programming · 2019
Modern C
Data statistics · 2013
Think Bayes
Business · 2018
Thinking in bets
Fantasy · 1937
The Hobbit
Science Fiction · 2008
Dark Forest
Fiction · 1961
Catch-22
Philosophy · 1942
Myth of Sisyphus
Law · 1975
Discipline and Punish
Programming · 1986
The art of Prolog
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