22 best-selling nonfiction books like Practical SQL: A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data by Anthony DeBarros

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Practical SQL: A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data

By: Anthony DeBarros

4.27

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

Second edition of the best-selling Practical SQL. An approachable guide to programming in SQL (Stru…

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1. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

By: Charles Petzold

4.39

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CO… read more

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  • computers
  • programming
  • science
  • computer science
  • coding
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
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"Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick."

-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

"Yes, the earth is a massive conductor of electricity, but it can also be viewed as both a source of electrons and a repository for electrons. The earth is to electrons as an ocean is to drops of wate…"

-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

"Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carry…"

-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

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

By: Steve Blank , Bob Dorf

4.10

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

Now a decade after the Four Steps to the Epiphany sparked the Lean Startup revolution, comes its … read more

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  • reference
  • nonfiction
  • technology
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3. Berserk, Vol. 4 (Berserk, #4)

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.59

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Now that the evil Count has been killed and dragged to Hell by the demon lords of the Godhand, Guts… read more

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4. Berserk, Vol. 8 (Berserk, #8)

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.69

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The century-spanning war between Midland and Chuder continues unabated. The two warring kingdoms, v… read more

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"It's all right. It's like stumbling on a rock on the roadside. It's petty...a small thing. The place you want to go...is more distant farther off. So...it's all right. You'll stand up. And you'll sta…"

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 8 (Berserk, #8)

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5. Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

By: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

4.40

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Don't simply show your data — tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamen… read more

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  • science
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  • programming
  • computer science
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"Sometimes bar charts are avoided because they are common. This is a mistake. Rather, bar charts should be leveraged because they are common, as this means less of a learning curve for your audience."

-Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

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6. Berserk, Vol. 6 (Berserk, #6)

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.62

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Back in the day, Guts the Black Swordsman was a top slayer for The Band of the Hawk, an elite merce… read more

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7. Berserk, Vol. 5 (Berserk, #5)

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.61

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

He is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a warrior of legendary prowess. Relentless, fearless, merciless. A… read more

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"Man takes up the sword in order to shield the small wound in his heart sustained in a far-off time beyond remembrance. Man wields the sword so that he may die smiling in some far-off time beyond perc…"

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 5 (Berserk, #5)

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8. Berserk, Vol. 7 (Berserk, #7)

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.62

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Two feudal kingdoms, Midland and Chuder, battle for supremacy in what will become the final clash i… read more

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"Dreams. Win or lose... I'm sure you could spend your whole life chasing one."

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 7 (Berserk, #7)

"Even these thoughts will slip my mind in time. And then..... ...only... ...the beat of my heart still remains."

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 7 (Berserk, #7)

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9. Python Crash Course: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming

By: Eric Matthes

5.00

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Python Crash Courseis a fast-paced, thorough introduction to programming with Python that will have… read more

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  • technical
  • coding
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • computer science
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  • technology
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10. Head First SQL

By: Lynn Beighley

5.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Is your data dragging you down? Are your tables all tangled up? Well we've got the tools to teach y… read more

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  • computers
  • technical
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  • programming
  • computer science
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11. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

By: Peter C. Brown , Henry L. Roediger III , Mark A. McDaniel

4.30

Format: None pages, Hardcover

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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12. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

By: Sönke Ahrens

3.42

Format: 320 pages,

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  • nonfiction
Cover of A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris, Lew Hartman

13. A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

By: Miyamoto Musashi , Victor Harris , Lew Hartman

4.15

Format: 32 pages,

Miyamoto Musashi fue el mas celebre de los guerreros (samurais) japoneses. En este texto presenta s… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business

By: David J. Anderson

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • software
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • programming

15. Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People

By: None

5.00

Format: None pages,

An algorithm is nothing more than a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem. The algorithms yo… read more

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16. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

By: Mortimer J. Adler , Charles van Doren

3.98

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. I… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • reference
"In short, we can only learn from our "betters"."

-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

"A good rule always describes the ideal performance."

-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

"The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used."

-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

17. JavaScript: The Good Parts

By: Douglas Crockford

5.00

Format: None pages,

Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of th… read more

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18. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more

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19. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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20. The 2020 Commission Report On The North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The U.s.: A Speculative Novel

By: Jeffrey Lewis

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

“A brilliantly conceived page-turner.”—Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and  Command and … read more

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21. Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

By: Jake Knapp

4.08

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a simple 4-step system for improving focus, … read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. The Bogleheads' Guide to the Three-Fund Portfolio: How a Simple Portfolio of Three Total Market Index Funds Outperforms Most Investors with Less Risk

By: Taylor Larimore

3.98

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

Twenty benefits from the three-fund total market index portfolio.  The Bogleheads’ Guide to The Th… read more

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23. $100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff (Acquisition.com $100M Series Book 2)

By: Alex Hormozi

4.61

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

You can get 2x, 10x, or 100x more leads than you currently are without changing anything about what… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Reminder: You get rich from what you make. You become wealthy from what you own. And it took me years to realize this because not that long ago..."

-Alex Hormozi, $100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff (Acquisition.com $100M Series Book 2)

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24. Domain Modeling Made Functional: Tackle Software Complexity with Domain-Driven Design and F#

By: Scott Wlaschin

4.51

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

You want increased customer satisfaction, faster development cycles, and less wasted work. Domain-d… read more

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Cover of Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil

25. Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

By: Vaclav Smil

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From earth… read more

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  • nonfiction
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"Without the low operating costs, high efficiency, high reliability, and great durability of diesel engines, it would have been impossible to reach the extent of globalization that now defines the mod…"

-Vaclav Smil, Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

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26. 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less

By: Dan Sullivan

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Expanding upon one of his high-level foundational Strategic Coach co-founder Dan Sullivan explains… read more

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27. Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems

By: Joe Reis

4.25

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scient… read more

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  • technical
  • software
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Cover of When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought by Jim Holt

28. When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought

By: Jim Holt

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an enterta… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"The river of time may have its rapids and its calmer stretches, but one thing would seem to be certain: it carries all of us, willy-nilly, in its flow. Irresistibly, irreversibly, we are being borne …"

-Jim Holt, When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought

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29. Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python: Best Practices for Writing Clean Code

By: Al Sweigart

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN NOVICE AND PROFESSIONAL You've completed a basic Python programming tutoria… read more

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  • technical
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30. Practical SQL: A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data

By: Anthony DeBarros

4.27

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

Second edition of the best-selling Practical SQL. An approachable guide to programming in SQL (Stru… read more

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  • coding
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31. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

8 must-read science books like Practical SQL: A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data by Anthony DeBarros

Transform Your Habits

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Charles Petzold

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Peter C. Brown , Henry L. Roediger III , Mark A. McDaniel

4.30

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Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary

3.95

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Robert Greene

4.26

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Robert Greene , Joost Elffers

4.22

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