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The C++ Programming Language Summary
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Liquid Intelligence Summary
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Help! For Writers Summary
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Prescription for Nutritional Healing Summary
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The Seven Deadly Chess Sins Summary
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A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations Summary
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The Writer's Portable Mentor Summary
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101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees Summary
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knowledge Management Summary
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Spartan Warrior Workout Summary
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Calisthenics for Beginners Summary
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The Body Reset Diet Summary
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3.79
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Criminology For Dummies Summary
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Acts of Faith Summary
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1,000 Creative Writing Prompts Summary
1,000 Creative Writing Prompts
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3.62
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The Well-Educated Mind Summary
The Well-Educated Mind
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Sextrology Summary
Sextrology
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4.23
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Can You Solve My Problems? Summary
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4.02
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The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer Summary
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The Crystal Bible 2 Summary
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925 Ideas to Help You Save Money, Get Out of Debt and Retire a Millionaire So You Can Leave Your Mark on the World! Summary
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The Green Beauty Guide Summary
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Play Poker Like the Pros Summary
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3.01
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Korean Made Simple Summary
Korean Made Simple
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4.41
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How to Learn a Foreign Language Summary
How to Learn a Foreign Language
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3.42
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The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep Summary
The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep
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3.76
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DSM-5 Insanely Simplified Summary
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50 Spiritual Classics Summary
50 Spiritual Classics
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3.97
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Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint Summary
Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint
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What the Face Reveals Summary
What the Face Reveals
Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System
by Paul Ekman 1998 672 pages
4.18
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Programming C# Summary
Programming C#
Building .NET Applications with C#
by Jesse Liberty 2001 644 pages
3.69
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The First Five Pages Summary
The First Five Pages
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