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Advanced Engineering Mathematics (Part III) - Michael D. Greenberg
(2024-07-03)
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
(2024-06-26)
Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
(2024-05-24)
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution - C. P. Snow
(2024-03-14)
The Guitar Handbook - Ralph Denyer
(2024-03-08)
Lords and Ladies - Terry Pratchett
(2024-03-07)
Crochet Know-How - CICO books
(2024-02-22)
Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
(2024-02-02)
Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett
(2024-01-25)
The story of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in Pixels, Volume 3 - Chris Wilkins
(2024-01-17)
The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett
(2023-12-14)
The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett
(2023-12-14)
Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
(2023-11-28)
What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School - Mark H. McCormack
(2023-11-13)
RHS The Little Book of Bonsai - Malcolm Hughes and Kath Hughes
(2023-06-18)
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett
(2023-06-03)
Geometry Snacks - Ed Southall and Vincent Panaloni
(2023-05-24)
Emily Post's Table Manners for Kids - Peggy Post and Cindy Post Senning
(2023-05-23)
The Origins of Totalitarianism - Part one: Anti-semitism
(2023-05-17)
Bea Wolf - Weinersmith and Boulet
(2023-05-06)
Maskerade - Terry Pratchett
(2023-04-01)
Eric (Faust) - Terry Pratchett
(2023-03-08)
wagamama Feed Your Soul
(2023-03-05)
Why I am a Liberal Democrat - Ed. Duncan Brack
(2023-03-04)
Open Circuits - Eric Schlaepfer and Windell H. Oskay
(2023-01-14)
Good - C. P. Taylor
(2023-01-07)
Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
(2022-11-21)
Plays 1 - Tom Stoppard
(2022-10-09)
Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (modern theatre guides) - John Fleming
(2022-09-19)
Retro-review: City Come a Walkin' - John Shirley
(2022-09-18)
Retro-review: Zeitgeist - Bruce Sterling
(2022-09-18)
Retro-review: Slaughtermatic - Steve Aylett
(2022-09-16)
Retro-review: Islands in the Net - Bruce Sterling
(2022-09-16)
Craft Beer for the Geeks - Richard Taylor, James Watt, Martin Dickie
(2022-09-14)
Retro-review: Cyber-killers - Ed. Ric Alexander
(2022-09-13)
Retro-review: Distraction - Bruce Sterling
(2022-09-12)
Retro-review: Noir - K. W. Jeter
(2022-09-12)
Retro-review: redRobe, reMix - John Courtenay Grimwood
(2022-09-11)
Measure What Matters - John Doerr
(2022-09-09)
Retro-review: Spares, Only Forward, One of Us - Michael Marshall Smith
(2022-09-08)
Retro-review: Factoring Humanity - Robert J Sawyer
(2022-09-07)
Retro-review: Headcrash - Bruce Bethke
(2022-09-07)
Retro-review: Synners, Fools, Mind Players, Tea from an Empty Cup - Pat Cadigan
(2022-09-07)
Retro-review: On - Adam Roberts
(2022-09-07)
Retro-review: The Revolution Business - Charlie Stross
(2022-08-23)
Raising Steam - Terry Pratchett
(2022-08-21)
All My Friends Are Superheroes
(2022-07-28)
Newnes Mechanical Engineer's Pocket Book - Roger Timings and Tony May
(2022-05-30)
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
(2022-05-21)
Wings - Terry Pratchett
(2022-05-21)
MS-DOS Programmer's Reference - Microsoft
(2022-05-08)
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman
(2022-05-04)
Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
(2022-05-04)
Mike and Psmith - P. G. Wodehouse
(2022-05-03)
Making Money - Terry Pratchett
(2022-03-02)
Tricky Logic Puzzles for Adults - Steven Clontz
(2022-03-01)
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence - Dr Gavin Francis
(2022-03-01)
See MIPS Run - Dominic Sweetman
(2022-01-01)
Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
(2021-12-24)
Showstopper! - G. Pascal Zachary
(2021-11-20)
Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
(2021-10-14)
The Art of Rest - Claudia Hammond
(2021-10-14)
A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
(2021-10-10)
An Introduction to Amateur Radio - I. D. Poole
(2021-09-26)
Diggers - Terry Pratchett
(2021-09-15)
Truckers - Terry Pratchett
(2021-09-13)
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
(2021-09-07)
Ra - qntm
(2021-09-07)
All Systems Red (Murderbot diaries) - Martha Wells
(2021-08-26)
The Computers That Made Britain - Tim Danton
(2021-08-22)
The Truth - Terry Pratchett
(2021-07-28)
Thud! - Terry Pratchett
(2021-07-22)
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
(2021-07-13)
Snuff - Terry Pratchett
(2021-07-10)
How to be a Liberal - Ian Dunt
(2021-07-04)
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
(2021-06-23)
Why Information Grows - César Hidalgo
(2021-06-19)
The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie
(2021-06-17)
The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
(2021-06-07)
The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman
(2021-05-21)
Jingo - Terry Pratchett
(2021-05-13)
Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
(2021-05-07)
Men At Arms - Terry Pratchett
(2021-04-28)
Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
(2021-04-18)
The Making of Prince of Persia, Journals 1985-1993 - Jordan Mechner
(2021-04-04)
A-Z of The Designers Republic - Ian Anderson
(2020-12-27)
Beowulf - Maria Dahvana Headley
(2020-11-21)
The Foundation License Manual for Radio Amateurs - Alan Betts, G0HIQ
(2020-07-19)
Agency - William Gibson
(2020-07-11)
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt
(2020-05-31)
The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
(2020-04-11)
The Case Study Handbook - William Elliot
(2020-02-08)
Birds: The Art of Ornithology
(2020-01-03)
Radical Candor - Kim Scott
(2020-01-03)
Essential Ornithology - Graham Scott
(2019-10-06)
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar - Chris Packham
(2019-09-08)
Learn to Sail in a Weekend - John Driscoll
(2019-08-17)
The Dip - Seth Godin
(2019-08-16)
What They Teach You At Harvard Business School - Philip Delves Broughton
(2019-08-16)
Dinghy Techniques - Jeremy Evans (RYA)
(2019-06-13)
Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle
(2019-06-10)
Start Sailing - RYA
(2019-06-08)
How Music Works - David Byrne
(2019-06-02)
Think Box - Johnny Ball
(2019-03-13)
Birds of Washington - Stan Tekiela
(2019-02-02)
The Strength Training Anatomy Workout - Delavier and Gundill
(2019-01-19)
Indie Games: The Complete Introduction to Indie Gaming by Mike Diver
(2018-12-28)
A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout
(2018-12-15)
Discover Birds - Ian Wallace
(2018-08-08)
Numerical Recipes in C - Press et al
(2018-08-08)
Men Explain Things to Me - Rebecca Solnit
(2018-08-08)
Level Up! - Scott Rogers
(2018-07-03)
To Mock a Mockingbird - Raymond Smullyan
(2018-06-24)
The Millennium Problems - Keith Devlin
(2018-05-13)
Why Buildings Stand Up - Mario Salvadori
(2018-05-13)
The Credibility Code - Cara Hale Alter
(2018-03-14)
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
(2018-03-14)
Collins gem: Birds
(2018-02-18)
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence - Derald Wing Sue
(2017-12-23)
What's that Bird? - Rob Hume
(2017-11-25)
Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT - T. F. Peterson
(2017-11-12)
The Third Man and the Fallen Idol - Graham Greene
(2017-11-12)
Emma - Jane Austen
(2017-06-26)
Real World Haskell - Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen and Don Stewart
(2017-06-06)
Cocaine Nights - J. G. Ballard
(2017-05-28)
The Seven-Day Weekend: A Better Way to Work in the 21st Century - Ricardo Semler
(2017-05-27)
What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Marshall Goldsmith
(2017-04-29)
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
(2017-03-02)
Turn the Ship Around! - L. David Marquet
(2017-02-08)
Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella H. Meadows
(2017-02-08)
Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline - Charlie Brooker
(2017-02-07)
Debugging Teams - Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman
(2016-12-23)
Ancillary Mercy - Ann Leckie
(2016-12-08)
The Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul - Douglas Adams
(2016-12-08)
High-Output Management - Andy Grove
(2016-12-08)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
(2016-12-08)
Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
(2016-11-12)
The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
(2016-11-02)
Complex Analysis - Eberhard Freitag and Rolf Busam
(2016-09-10)
The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World
(2016-06-11)
Solitaire - Kelley Eskridge
(2016-06-11)
Neptune's Brood - Charles Stross
(2016-06-11)
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini
(2016-04-16)
A History of Britain 3: 1776-2000 - Simon Schama
(2016-02-21)
Spacetime Physics - Taylor and Wheeler
(2016-01-17)
Playing to the Gallery - Grayson Perry
(2016-01-17)
Crucial Conversations - Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler
(2016-01-12)
Speccy Nation - Dan Whitehead
(2016-01-01)
Introducing Relativity - Bruce Bassett and Ralph Edney
(2015-12-16)
Knitting for Dummies - Allen, Bar and Okey
(2015-12-06)
The Peripheral - William Gibson
(2015-11-21)
Underground - David Macaulay
(2015-10-30)
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - Sydney Padua
(2015-10-30)
The Art of Error Correcting Coding - Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza
(2015-10-24)
Gamesmansheip - Stephen Potter
(2015-10-11)
Among Others - Jo Walton
(2015-10-11)
Programmers at Work - Susan Lammers
(2015-09-26)
Armada - Ernest Cline
(2015-09-26)
Lady of Mazes - Karl Schroeder
(2015-08-30)
The Rhesus Chart - Charles Stross
(2015-08-30)
The Annotated Alice - Lewis Carroll
(2015-08-21)
Constellation Games - Leonard Richardson
(2015-08-09)
The Quants - Scott Patterson
(2015-08-08)
Bend, Not Break - Ping Fu
(2015-07-21)
Flash Boys - Michael Lewis
(2015-06-19)
Perdido Street Station - China Miéville
(2015-06-06)
How Google Works - Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
(2015-05-05)
Googled - Ken Auletta
(2015-04-28)
Company - Max Barry
(2015-04-09)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
(2015-03-18)
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
(2015-03-12)
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 Second Edition, Chapters 1-10 - Fall and Stevens
(2015-03-01)
More Programming Pearls - Jon Bentley
(2015-01-18)
Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie
(2014-12-28)
Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
(2014-12-25)
What If? - Randall Munroe
(2014-12-13)
Classic Shell Scripting - Arnold Robbins and Nelson H. F. Beebe
(2014-12-09)
Thoughts on Design - Paul Rand
(2014-11-13)
The Art of Political Manipulation - William H. Riker
(2014-11-12)
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
(2014-11-09)
Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - John D. Clark
(2014-11-09)
A History of Britain 2: 1603-1776 - Simon Schama
(2014-10-03)
The Gulag Archipelago (Part 2) - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(2014-10-02)
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
(2014-08-31)
How to be Topp - G. Willans and R. Searle
(2014-08-28)
Second Person - Harrigan and Wardrip-Fruin (editors)
(2014-08-28)
The Art and Science of Negotiation - Howard Raiffa
(2014-08-04)
Arcadia - Tom Stoppard
(2014-07-21)
The Java Tutorial 4th ed - Zakhour, Hommel, Royal, Rabinovish, Risser and Hoeber
(2014-07-09)
The Practice of Programming - Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike
(2014-07-04)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
(2014-06-12)
The Gulag Archipelago (Part 1) - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(2014-06-12)
A Theory of Fun for Game Design - Raph Koster
(2014-06-01)
Patterns for Fault Tolerant Software - Robert S. Hanmer
(2014-05-03)
Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael C. Feathers
(2014-04-13)
Macroeconomics, 4th ed. - Olivier Blanchard (part 2)
(2014-03-30)
Git Internals - Scott Chacon
(2014-03-13)
Pro Git - Scott Chacon
(2014-03-12)
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2 - Knuth
(2014-03-01)
C# 4.0 Pocket Reference - Joseph and Ben Albahari
(2014-02-03)
Programming Erlang - Joe Armstrong
(2013-12-07)
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1 - Knuth
(2013-12-07)
What Matters in Jane Austen? - John Mullan
(2013-11-22)
Derivatives - Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments
(2013-11-19)
Cyclone IV Device Handbook - Altera
(2013-11-09)
Securities - Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments
(2013-10-15)
Amiga Hardware Reference Manual - CBM Inc.
(2013-09-28)
Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman
(2013-09-23)
Game On - Edited by Lucien King
(2013-09-08)
How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk - Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
(2013-08-27)
UK Financial Regulation - Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments
(2013-08-26)
The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi
(2013-07-27)
Macroeconomics, 4th ed. - Olivier Blanchard (part 1)
(2013-06-27)
Twisty Little Passages - Nick Montfort
(2013-06-14)
Cooking for Geeks - Jeff Potter
(2013-05-19)
King City - Brandon Graham
(2013-05-19)
The Space Shuttle Operator's Manual - Kerry Mark Joels, Gregory P. Kennedy, David Larkin
(2013-04-20)
Graphics Gems - Edited by Andrew S. Glassner
(2013-04-17)
Powers of Persuasion - Winston Fletcher
(2013-04-10)
Getting to Yes: Negotiating an Agreement Without Giving In - Roger Fisher and William Ury
(2013-03-31)
Information is Beautiful - David McCandless
(2013-03-30)
Some Remarks - Neal Stephenson
(2013-03-11)
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
(2013-03-03)
Nudge - Thaler and Sunstein
(2013-02-25)
The Children of the Sky - Vernor Vinge
(2013-02-11)
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
(2013-02-03)
Reasons My Kid Is Crying - Greg Pembroke
(2013-01-19)
The Evolution of Useful Things - Henry Petroski
(2013-01-19)
Ansel Adams In Color - edited by Harry M. Callahan
(2013-01-18)
Redshirts - John Scalzi
(2013-01-04)
The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose (part 2)
(2012-12-31)
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
(2012-12-09)
The Spectrum ULA - Chris Smith
(2012-11-03)
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
(2012-10-27)
Java Concurrency in Practice - Brian Goetz et al
(2012-10-16)
The Cat Expert - Rebecca Watson
(2012-10-12)
Effective Java - Joshua Bloch
(2012-09-23)
The Mathematics of Poker - Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman
(2012-08-31)
Embassytown - China Mieville
(2012-08-19)
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
(2012-07-10)
The Trade of Queens - Charles Stross
(2012-07-01)
Distrust That Particular Flavor - William Gibson
(2012-06-08)
Spin State - Chris Moriarty
(2012-06-08)
One-upmanship - Stephen Potter
(2012-06-01)
The Peter Principle - Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull
(2012-05-10)
21 Dirty Tricks at Work - Mike Phipps and Colin Gautrey
(2012-05-10)
Quantitative Trading - Ernest P. Chan
(2012-04-25)
The Decision Book - Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschaeppeler
(2012-04-25)
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
(2012-04-05)
Market Microstructure Theory - Maureen O'Hara
(2012-03-31)
Beautiful Evidence - Edward Tufte
(2012-03-27)
The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose (part 1)
(2012-02-27)
Peopleware - Tony DeMarco and Timothy Lister
(2012-02-12)
Every Hand Revealed - Gus Hansen
(2012-02-02)
In Search of Stupidity - Merrill R. Chapman
(2012-01-26)
AntiPatterns - Brown, Malveau, McCormick and Mowbray
(2012-01-19)
Private Eye: The First 50 Years - Adam MacQueen
(2012-01-16)
Essential .NET Volume 1 - Don Box with Chris Sells
(2012-01-15)
Knights of the Rainbow Table - Cory Doctorow
(2012-01-08)
Dave Gorman vs. The Rest of the World - Dave Gorman
(2011-12-31)
The Systems Bible - John Gall
(2011-12-29)
Defeat into Victory - Field Marshall Viscount Slim
(2011-12-10)
Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine
(2011-11-13)
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
(2011-10-20)
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
(2011-10-20)
Action This Day - Michael Smith and Ralph Erskine (Ed.s)
(2011-10-02)
JavaScript: The Good Parts - Douglas Crockford
(2011-09-26)
Rule 34 - Charles Stross
(2011-09-08)
253 - Geoff Ryman
(2011-09-08)
Batteries Not Included - Seth McEvoy
(2011-08-24)
How Not to F*** Them Up - Oliver James
(2011-08-24)
Leadership: Plain and Simple - Steve Radcliffe
(2011-07-31)
A Void - Georges Perec
(2011-07-21)
How to Lead - Jo Owen
(2011-07-21)
Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
(2011-07-09)
The Speed of Dark - Elizabeth Moon
(2011-07-09)
A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives - Cordelia Fine
(2011-07-09)
The Prize: The epic quest for oil, money and power - Daniel Yergin
(2011-06-16)
Getting Things Done - David Allen
(2011-06-03)
My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic
(2011-06-03)
The Best of 2600 - Emmanuel Goldstein
(2011-05-24)
Differential Forms and Connections - R. W. R Darling
(2011-04-24)
Do you think what you think you think? - Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom
(2011-04-22)
Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? - P.C.W. Davies and J. Brown
(2011-03-27)
Organising Genius - Warren G. Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman
(2011-03-20)
The McKinsey Way - Ethan M. Rasiel
(2011-03-12)
The City and the City - China Mieville
(2011-03-12)
Chess - Stefan Zweig
(2011-03-02)
Galois Theory - Ian Stewart
(2011-02-22)
Büro Destruct
(2011-02-11)
Harrington on Hold 'em, Volume 1 - Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie
(2011-01-06)
Linear Algebra - Serge Lang
(2011-01-06)
Tournament Poker - David Sklansky
(2010-12-27)
All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye - Christopher Brookmyre
(2010-12-22)
My 50 most memorable hands - Doyle Brunson
(2010-12-18)
Online Ace - Scott Fischman
(2010-12-14)
Zero History - William Gibson
(2010-12-14)
Caro's Book of Poker Tells - Mike Caro
(2010-11-29)
The Mitrokhin Archive - The KGB in Europe and the West - Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew
(2010-11-27)
Texas Hold 'em Poker - Paul Mendelson
(2010-11-25)
Introduction to Algorithms - Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest
(2010-10-13)
Lua Programming Gems - Edited by Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Waldemar Ceres and Roberto Ierusalimschy
(2010-10-09)
Programming in Lua - Roberto Ierusalimschy
(2010-09-25)
Starting Forth - Leo Brodie
(2010-09-15)
The Road to Serfdom - F. A. Hayek
(2010-09-10)
This is Not a Game - Walter Jon Williams
(2010-09-03)
The Fuller Memorandum - Charles Stross
(2010-09-03)
If on a Winter's night a traveller - Italo Calvino
(2010-08-31)
Buy, sell and move house - Which? guide
(2010-08-30)
Annual Design Review 1989 - Magazine of International Design
(2010-08-30)
The Power of Full Engagement - Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
(2010-08-09)
All the President's Men - Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
(2010-08-01)
The Baby Owner's Manual - Louis and Joe Borgenicht
(2010-08-01)
The Art of Electronics - Horowitz and Hill (1)
(2010-07-17)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
(2010-06-26)
Mindstorms - Seymour Papert
(2010-06-05)
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
(2010-06-05)
Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 1 - Berklekamp, Conway and Guy
(2010-05-23)
The Devouring Fungus - Tales of the computer age - Karla Jennings
(2010-05-11)
Diaspora - Greg Egan
(2010-05-02)
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
(2010-04-27)
The Android's Dream - John Scalzi
(2010-04-19)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
(2010-04-18)
All you need is kill - Hiroshi Sakurazaka
(2010-04-13)
The Art of Unix Programming - Eric S. Raymond
(2010-04-04)
The Soros Lectures - George Soros
(2010-03-15)
Concurrent Systems - Jean Bacon
(2010-03-01)
Dynamic Hedging - Nassim Taleb
(2010-02-16)
Haynes Saturn V Owners' Workshop Manual - David Woods
(2010-01-26)
Coders at Work - Peter Seibel
(2009-12-30)
Programming Perl (2nd edition) - Wall, Christiansen and Schwartz
(2009-12-23)
Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientist - Benjamin C. Pierce
(2009-12-20)
Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
(2009-12-20)
Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
(2009-12-20)
Mort - Terry Pratchett
(2009-11-19)
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
(2009-11-19)
New Active Birth - Janet Balaskas
(2009-11-11)
C# Essentials - Ben Albahari, Peter Drayton and Brad Merrill
(2009-10-24)
Leading Change - John P. Kotter
(2009-10-23)
A History of Britain 1: 3000BC-AD1603 - Simon Schama
(2009-09-17)
The Barnbrook Bible - Jonathan Barnbrook
(2009-08-17)
What Style is it? - John C. Poppeliers and S. Allen Chambers Jr.
(2009-08-17)
Combinatorial Algorithms - Donald L. Kreher and Douglas R. Stinson
(2009-07-29)
Quantum Theory For Beginners - J. P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate
(2009-07-28)
Give Me Time - The Mind Gym
(2009-07-28)
BP Portrait Award 2009
(2009-07-21)
The Painter RAs - Dennis Toff
(2009-07-21)
The Rough Guide to Babies - Miranda Levy
(2009-07-20)
The Complete Rock Climber - Malcolm Creasey
(2009-06-28)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
(2009-06-28)
The Meaning of Liff - Douglas Adams and John Lloyd
(2009-06-28)
Marrow - Robert Reed
(2009-06-28)
The Wiz Biz - Rick Cook
(2009-06-07)
Time Out Guide - Hong Kong
(2009-06-07)
Wake Your Mind Up - The MindGym
(2009-05-31)
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin
(2009-05-21)
Make your first million - Martin Webb
(2009-05-21)
M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry - Doris Schattschneider
(2009-04-27)
Gamma - Julian Havil
(2009-04-23)
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
(2009-04-12)
The Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth - Kaz Cooke
(2009-03-29)
Watchmaking - George Daniels
(2009-03-25)
The Times Su Doku, Book 1
(2009-03-15)
Graphic Design for the 21st Century - Charlotte and Peter Fiell
(2009-03-15)
The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson - Lewis Blackwell
(2009-01-06)
Living with Books - Alan Powers
(2009-01-02)
Type and Typography - Baines and Haslam
(2009-01-01)
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
(2008-12-28)
Büro Destruct II
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Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan
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Vignelli: From A to Z - Massimo and Lella Vignelli
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The Merchants' War - Charles Stross
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The Clan Corporate - Charles Stross
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The Great Crash, 1929 - J. K. Galbraith
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I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me - Trevor Paglen
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Vellum - Hal Duncan
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The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
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Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
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Economics (Tenth Edition) - Paul A. Samuelson
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Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan - Nicole Rousmaniere and Inspired Shapes - Ori Koyama
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(2008-09-20)
Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
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The Last Colony - John Scalzi
(2008-08-25)
ML for the Working Programmer - L. C. Paulson
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(2008-07-31)
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(2008-07-26)
Don'ts for Husbands
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Why Buildings Fall Down - Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori
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The Bloke's Guide to Pregnancy - Jon Smith
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School - Matthew Frederick
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Toast - Charles Stross
(2008-06-13)
Complex Analysis - Ian Stewart and David Tall
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The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
(2008-06-05)
The Theory of Poker - David Sklansky
(2008-05-01)
20th-Century Typography - Lewis Blackwell
(2008-04-27)
Poker for Dummies - Harroch and Krieger
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Designing Type - Karen Cheng
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TimeOut Guide: San Francisco
(2008-03-08)
The Line of Polity - Neal Asher
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Designed by Peter Saville
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Halting State - Charles Stross
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No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism - Rick Poynor
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The Master of Go - Yasunari Kawabata
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The Spy's Bedside Book - Graham Greene and Hugh Greene
(2008-01-13)
Stop Stealing Sheep - Erik Spiekermann and E. M. Ginger
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Core Memory - Richards and Alderman
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The Hidden Family - Charles Stross
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Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
(2007-12-08)
The Family Trade - Charles Stross
(2007-12-08)
Gridlinked - Neal Asher
(2007-11-24)
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The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
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Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge
(2007-09-27)
The Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross
(2007-09-22)
All Tomorrow's Parties - William Gibson
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The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
(2007-09-01)
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Toast - Nigel Slater
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Men of Mathematics - E. T. Bell
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Inviting Disaster - James R. Chiles
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(2007-07-15)
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(2007-06-10)
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Singularity Sky - Charles Stross
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The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
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The Confusion - Neal Stephenson
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Heard On The Street - Timothy Falcon Crack
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Household Management for Men
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(2005-08-01)
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(2005-06-30)
Puzzles of Finance - Mark P. Kritzman
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Revelation Space - Alistair Reynolds
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Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
(2005-06-02)
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(2005-05-10)
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(2005-05-02)
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Know the Game: Skiing and Snowboarding
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(2005-03-08)
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - Paul Hoffman
(2005-02-08)
All the Mathematics You Missed - Thomas Garrity
(2005-01-25)
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World - Francis Wheen
(2005-01-25)
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
(2005-01-03)
When Genius Failed - Roger Lowenstein
(2004-12-28)
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(2004-12-23)
Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis
(2004-12-14)
Digital Retro - Gordon Laing
(2004-12-10)
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A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge
(2004-10-05)
A Fire Upon The Deep - Vernor Vinge
(2004-10-05)
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(2004-09-28)
Types and Programming Languages - Benjamin Pierce
(2004-09-28)
Programming Language Pragmatics - Michael Scott
(2004-09-28)
The Girl Who Played Go - Shen Sa
(2004-09-08)
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(2004-09-08)
Options, Futures and Other Derivatives - John Hull
(2004-09-01)
The Story Of Writing - Andrew Robinson
(2004-08-28)
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
(2004-08-28)
The Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman
(2004-08-12)
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
(2004-08-10)
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
(2004-08-08)
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(2004-08-03)
STL for C++ Programmers - Leen Ammeraal
(2004-07-29)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(2004-07-20)
Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland
(2004-07-15)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - Victor Hugo
(2004-07-13)
Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
(2004-06-02)
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
(2004-05-29)
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(2004-05-16)
The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly - Ian Logan and Frank O'Hara
(2004-05-05)
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
(2004-05-03)
How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays - Umberto Eco
(2004-04-19)
A Handbook of Martial Arts - Fay Goodman
(2004-04-19)
The Thirty-nine Steps - John Buchan
(2004-04-16)
The Honourable Schoolboy - Le Carré
(2004-04-14)
Lucifer's Dragon - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
(2004-04-09)
Cold Is The Grave - Peter Robinson
(2004-04-09)
No Second Chance - Harlan Coben
(2004-04-09)
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(2004-04-09)
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