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Below, I’ve listed the books I recommend most.

  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

  • THE BOOK OF THE COURTIER

  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century

  • Fame

  • Surrounded by Idiots

  • Zero to One

  • Secrets of Sand Hill Road

  • Decoded

  • Permanent Record

  • The Gift of Fear

  • Dictators: Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia

  • Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

  • Until the End of Time

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow

  • How We Learn

  • The Construction of Social Reality

  • The Denial of Death

  • The Art of Invisibility

  • This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

  • These Are the Plunderers

  • Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son

  • Building Empires: The Business of Bernard Arnault

  • The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood

  • Too Much and Never Enough

  • Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

  • The Art of War

  • The Bell Jar

  • 1984

  • King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone

  • Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

  • Who Is Michael Ovitz?

  • How to Make a Few Billion Dollars

  • Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency

  • Who Knew: The Inside Story of Barry Diller

  • Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

  • Dark Psychology Tactics for Mental Warfare

  • Stoic Philosophy for Unbreakable Minds

  • The Art of Strategic Thinking

  • The Prince

  • How Judges Think

  • Aftermath

  • The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War

  • The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

  • Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

  • Popper Selections

  • Feynman Lectures On Gravitation

  • The Ascent of Man

  • American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

  • Quantum Electrodynamics

  • Men, Machines, and Modern Times

  • The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability

  • The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

  • The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence & Japan's Computer Challenge to the World

  • A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World

  • GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History

  • This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital

  • Pop Internationalism

  • Trading Places: How We Are Giving Our Future to Japan and How to Reclaim It

  • Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America

  • Recent economic changes, and their effect on the production and distribution of wealth and the well-being of society

  • Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition (New Accents)

  • Enemies: A Love Story

  • Labyrinths

  • Mind-Body Problem

  • The Road

  • The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life

  • The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World (Bradford Books)

  • Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear (Vintage International)

  • Fear No Evil

  • The Arrival

  • Last and First Men: A Story of the near and far future

  • Invisible Cities

  • Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

  • William Blake and the Age of Revolution

  • The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible!

  • War and Peace

  • The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

  • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

  • Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business

  • Managing Oneself

  • The End of Error: Unum Computing

  • The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth

  • Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

  • Photoviz: Visualizing Information through Photography

  • Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares A Context Sensitive Approach

  • Urban Street Design Guide

  • Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

  • Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

  • Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

  • The 40s: The Story of a Decade

  • Perfidia: A novel

  • The 60s: The Story of a Decade

  • Alexander Hamilton

  • Ask Me Anything (A collection of Reddit's best from r/IAmA Volume 1)

  • American Tabloid

  • The Revolt of the Masses

  • Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment

  • Mapping the Airways

  • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

  • Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model

  • An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays

  • Suck: Worst-Case Scenarios in Media, Culture, Advertising, and the Internet

  • Underworld

  • Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865

  • All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

  • The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

  • How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)

  • The Journalist And The Murderer

  • The Hunters

  • The Lost Daughter

  • Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

  • Radical Software Number Five

  • The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

  • Sea Ranch... Diary of an Idea

  • The Sea Ranch: Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community on the Northern California Coast

  • Process and Reality

  • The Wealth of Nations

  • The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

  • Chronicles of Wasted Time: An Autobiography

  • Are Prisons Obsolete?

  • The Essays

  • New Atlantis

  • How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

  • Montaigne: Complete Essays

  • Quantum Computation and Quantum Information

  • Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

  • Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

  • The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational

  • The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

  • The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

  • Toward a radical middle: Fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism

  • Reckless Disregard

  • Speedboat (NYRB Classics)

  • Existential America

  • Once An Eagle

  • Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model

  • Dictator (Cicero Trilogy)

  • In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations With the Visionaries of the Digital World

  • CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping

  • Has Globalization Gone Too Far?

  • The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

  • Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up

  • I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

  • The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

  • The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress

  • The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life

  • The Transit of Venus

  • The feminine mystique

  • Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science

  • From Satori to Silicon Valley: San Francisco and the American Counterculture

  • The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets

  • Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell

  • Book from the Ground: from point to point

  • Simulation and Its Discontents: (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

  • Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity

  • The Biology of Cancer, 2nd Edition

  • The Child's Discovery of Space: From Hopscotch to Mazes

  • Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

  • Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128

  • Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd Edition)

  • How to Lie with Statistics

  • Oliver Byrne: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid

  • How to Study Public Life

  • The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics

  • A Decade of Research: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 1970-1980

  • The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

  • The Long Way

  • Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos

  • What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence

  • Designing for People

  • The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey

  • Tenth of December: Stories

  • Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help

  • Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man

  • The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

  • The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next

  • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

  • Global Catastrophic Risks

  • The Culture of Education

  • Libraries of the Future

  • Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

  • Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

  • Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications

  • Our Knowledge of the External World (Routledge Classics)

  • Toward a Theory of Instruction

  • Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development

  • Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love

  • A History of Western Philosophy; And its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

  • The Oregon Experiment (Center for Environmental Structure)

  • Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

  • If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

  • An Introduction to Harmonic Analysis (Cambridge Mathematical Library)

  • Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring sanity to our politics, our economy, and our lives

  • The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning: A Polar Journey

  • Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

  • Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization

  • Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

  • From Third World to First: The Singapore Story - 1965-2000

  • The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture

  • Stories of Your Life and Others

  • Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World

  • The Clockwork Rocket (Orthogonal)

  • Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

  • A Theory of Fun for Game Design

  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph: The Complete 1922 Text

  • Whisky Classified: Choosing Single Malts by Flavour

  • Steve Jobs

  • The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement (Springer Praxis Books)

  • The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus

  • The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition

  • Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)

  • Pompeii: A Novel

  • Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World

  • Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation

  • Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice

  • Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West

  • Inside the Peloton: My Life as a Professional Cyclist

  • It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower

  • The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes

  • A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities

  • Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

  • The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer

  • Priceless: The Case that Brought Down the Visa/MasterCard Bank Cartel

  • Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet 1st (first) Edition by Blum, Andrew published by Ecco (2012)

  • Foucault's Pendulum By Umberto Eco

  • Applied Cryptography 2nd (second) edition Text Only

  • Two Lucky People: Memoirs

  • Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, 3rd Edition

  • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

  • PARC: The Second Decade 1980-1990

  • Beautiful Evidence

  • Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920-1965 by Hollis, Richard (2006)

  • MCAT Biology (Examkrackers)

  • The Age Of Discontinuity

  • The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, Vol. 1

  • The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life (Harvard Business School Press)

  • The New Turing Omnibus: Sixty-Six Excursions in Computer Science

  • From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

  • LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual

  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

  • What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night (Edge Question Series)

  • Make Better Landings

  • Photography

  • The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (Inside Technology)

  • Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game

  • A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

  • The Chicken from Minsk: And 99 Other Infuriatingly Challenging Brain Teasers from the Great Russian Tradition of Math and Science

  • The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1: Fundamental Algorithms, 3rd Edition

  • The Paris Review Interviews, I

  • The Paris Review Interviews, II

  • The Paris Review Interviews, III

  • The Paris Review Interviews, IV

  • Mindstorms

  • My Years with General Motors

  • Statistics As Principled Argument

  • Perfect Health Diet

  • Abstract Algebra

  • Wireshark Network Analysis: The Official Wireshark Certified Network Analyst Study Guide

  • Operating Systems: Design and Implementation

  • The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America

  • Pioneer Aviators of the World: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Pilots of 100 Countries

  • Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (Tempus)

  • Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

  • Real Analysis

  • The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form

  • The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials, Book 2

  • Kenneth Clark's Civilisation: A Personal View

  • Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals

  • Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style

  • Murder Trials

  • Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician

  • The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates the Gift of Language

  • Pigeon

  • Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

  • The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)

  • The Monkey Wrench Gang

  • The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan

  • The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life

  • Ragtime

  • Accelerando (Singularity)

  • Trout Fishing in America

  • A Minor Momentousness in the History of Love (in) One Story: Volume 8, Number 14

  • Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China

  • The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials

  • The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806 (Oxford History of Early Modern Europe)

  • On the Shortness of Life

  • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

  • BSD Hacks

  • Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

  • A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures)

  • The Futurists

  • Special Relativity

  • Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region

  • Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

  • Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

  • My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math)

  • On Inequality

  • Democracy in America: Abridged Edition (Mentor Series)

  • Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture

  • Blade Runner

  • How to Abandon Ship

  • Bunreacht na hEireann (English and Irish Edition) Constitution of Ireland

  • Science: A History

  • The Portable Medieval Reader

  • The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

  • Bill Bolton: Flying Midshipman

  • Ocean Flying: A Pilot's Guide

  • The Blind Watchmaker

  • Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad

  • Medieval Technology and Social Change

  • We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories From Rwanda

  • China Airborne - 12 edition

  • The Alexiad

  • Winged World. the Coming of the Air Age

  • The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

  • A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005

  • The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, 13th Edition

  • New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009

  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

  • Instrument Flying

  • The Gutenberg Galaxy

  • Say Again, Please: Guide to Radio Communications

  • Fate Is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir

  • Beyond The Checkride: What Your Flight Instructor Never Taught You

  • The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die 1st Edition

  • Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital

  • Return to the Little Kingdom: How Apple and Steve Jobs Changed the World

  • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

  • The Old Way: A Story of the First People

  • The German Generals Talk

  • Ghosts by Daylight: Love, War, and Redemption

  • The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky 1st ed.

  • In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

  • Types and Programming Languages 1st Edition

  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat

  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 2.

  • Metamagical Themas

  • Winning the Story Wars: Why Those Who Tell (and Live) the Best Stories Will Rule the Future

  • The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications 1st Edition

  • Connections

  • Postcards from Tomorrow Square

  • About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design

  • n+1 Number Thirteen: Machine Politics

  • Cessna 1978: Model 152, Pilot's Operating Handbook

  • The Andromeda Strain

  • The Anabasis: Or, Expedition of Cyrus, and the Memorabilis of Socrates

  • Asimov: The Complete Stories vol 2

  • Foundation's Edge

  • The Early Asimov: Book Two

  • The Diary of John Evelyn Volumes 1 + 2

  • The Diary of John Evelyn Volume 2

  • The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

  • The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer

  • The Case for Mars

  • Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering

  • I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation

  • The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

  • Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning

  • The Art and Craft of Problem Solving 1st Edition

  • The Seasoned Schemer

  • The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach

  • Kawasaki Klr650 1987-2006: Service, Repair, Maintenance (Clymer Motorcycle Repair)

  • Snowdrops

  • The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) 1st Edition

  • On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp

  • Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages

  • Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It

  • K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain

  • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

  • Principles of Quantum Mechanics

  • Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

  • Manifestoes: A Study of the National Recovery Administration

  • Fifty Classic Destinations for Pilots

  • Model View Culture Quarterly No. 2: New writing on technology, diveristy and culture

  • Model View Culture Quarterly No. 1: New writing on technology, diveristy and culture

  • FAA Multiengine Flying

  • Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well

  • General Knowledge

  • The New Rules of Lifting: Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle

  • North Star over My Shoulder: A Flying Life

  • Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition

  • Envisioning Information

  • Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

  • Jeppesen Instrument Commercial

  • Calculus On Manifolds: A Modern Approach To Classical Theorems Of Advanced Calculus

  • Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell: Techniques for Multicore and Multithreaded Programming

  • Swimming Across: A Memoir

  • Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

  • Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 1St Edition Edition

  • Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

  • Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity 1st Edition

  • A course in mathematical analysis

  • Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy (East Gate Books)

  • Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

  • The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials, Book 3

  • JavaScript: The Good Parts

  • On Ugliness

  • Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities

  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities

  • Justice as Fairness

  • Technics and Civilization

  • The Disappearance of Childhood

  • Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage

  • The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

  • The Pea and the Sun: A Mathematical Paradox

  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Transatlantic Classics)

  • No Future for You: Salvos from The Baffler

  • Popper Selections

  • Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change

  • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  • Hamlet

  • Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology 1st Edition

  • Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education

  • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

  • Open City: A Novel

  • English Society in the Early Middle Ages (1066-1307) Vol. 3

  • Science in History: Volume 1 the Emergence of Science; Volume 2 the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions; Volume 3 the Natural Sciences in Our Time; Volume 4 the Social Sciences, Conclusion

  • Arguably: Writings on Love, War, God and Mammon

  • What It Takes: The Way to the White House

  • Future Shop: How New Technologies Will Change the Way We Shop and What We Buy

  • The Nature of Mathematical Modeling

  • History of Engineering Drawing

  • Oliver Byrne: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid

  • Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles

  • Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

  • The Social Conquest of Earth

  • The Casual Vacancy

  • The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science

  • Einstein's Dreams

  • Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow (Princeton Paperbacks)

  • Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel

  • Wandering Significance: An Essay on Conceptual Behaviour 1st Edition

  • Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story

  • Evolution Of Cooperation

  • Stairway Walks in San Francisco

  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

  • The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

  • The Scientist as Rebel

  • Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa Kindle Edition

  • Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

  • The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

  • The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

  • Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

  • Feynman Lectures on Computation

  • Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Great Team

  • Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

  • Upstart: Friends, Foes & Founding a University

  • Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics

  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

  • Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

  • Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

  • No One a Neutral: Political Hostage-Taking in the Modern World

  • The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

  • The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs [Hardcover] [2009] Michael Belfiore

  • The Chosen Instrument: Pan Am, Juan Trippe, The Rise and Fall of an American Entrepreneur

  • Technics and Civilization

  • Logic & Design in Art, Science, and Mathematics

  • Bicycle Design: An Illustrated History

  • Lapham's Quarterly: Crimes & Punishments (4 Volumes)

  • Payments Systems in the U.S.

  • The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

  • A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It 1st Edition

  • Electricity and Magnetism: Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 2

  • A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class

  • The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

  • Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation

  • Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning

  • The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

  • Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

  • Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

  • The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

  • Exploratory Data Analysis

  • East African: An Airline Story

  • The thirty years war

  • China Takes Off: Technology Transfer and Modernization

  • Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

  • New hopes for a changing world

  • Has Man A Future?

  • The Book of Disquiet (Serpent's Tail Classics)

  • What Technology Wants

  • How to Survive in Your Native Land

  • The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science

  • Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra

  • Flying IFR: The Practical Information You Need to Fly Actual IFR Flights (General Aviation Reading series)

  • Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them

  • Plagues and Peoples

  • First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

  • Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book

  • FAR/AIM 2013: Federal Aviation Regulations/Aeronautical Information Manual (FAR/AIM series)

  • Practical Common Lisp

  • The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World

  • The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912

  • The Old Way: A Story of the First People

  • Max Trescott's G1000 Glass Cockpit Handbook with WAAS 4th Edition

  • Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management

  • In Our Time: Speeches That Shaped the Modern World

  • The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

  • Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

  • Racing Weight: How to Get Lean for Peak Performance

  • Introduction to Common Lisp

  • The American Challenge

  • Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb

  • Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon

  • The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man

  • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure)

  • City of Thieves: A Novel

  • Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!

  • Feynman Lectures on Computation

  • An Evil Cradling: The Five-Year Ordeal of a Hostage

  • Purely Functional Data Structures

  • Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age

  • What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer

  • Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (Modern Library Paperbacks)

  • Popper Selections

  • The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics

  • The Arabs: A History

  • The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

  • Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

  • The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

  • Engineers' Dreams

  • Computers and Society

  • The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)

  • Airplane Performance Stability and Control

  • Frame of government: A book of documents

  • Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the space age

  • An Autobiography

  • The Little Airplane

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