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Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Alasdair Gray
From its first publication in 1981, Lanark was hailed as a masterpiece and it has come to be widely regarded as the most remarkable and influential Scottish novel of the second half of the twentieth century. A work of extraordinary imagination and w...
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book on decoding the behavior of the people around youRobert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy int...
The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate With Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
Dan Olsen
The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know...
Learning Spark: Lightning-Fast Big Data Analysis
Holden Karau and Matei Zaharia
Data in all domains is getting bigger. How can you work with it efficiently? Recently updated for Spark 1.3, this book introduces Apache Spark, the open source cluster computing system that makes data analytics fast to write and fast to run. With Sp...
Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories
John Green and Lauren Myracle and Maureen Johnson
Three interconnected stories from three bestselling authors: John Green ( Paper Towns, The Fault in our Stars ), Maureen Johnson ( The Name of the Star ), and Lauren Myracle (The Internet Girls series.) Major motion picture in the works! A Christm...
Letters From a Stoic
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"It is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us...without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry." For several years of his turbulent life, Seneca was the guiding hand of the Roman Empire. His inspired reasoning derived mainly from th...
Letters From the Earth: Uncensored Writings
Mark Twain
“The most impressive contribution to books by Mark Twain since The Mysterious Stranger of 1916...The attitude is that of Swift, the intellectual contempt is that of Voltaire, and the imagination is that of one of the great masters of American writin...
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
By a deep and careful analysis of the text, enabling a new printing history of Leviathan to be constructed, this edition demonstrates that the traditional picture is substantially wrong. Both the Bear and Ornaments editions contain corrections and ch...
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Before there was Flash Boys and The Big Short , there was Liar's Poker. A knowing and unnervingly talented debut, this insider’s account of 1980s Wall Street excess...
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
George Gilder
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumb...
The Little Typer
Daniel P. Friedman , David Thrane Christiansen
An introduction to dependent types, demonstrating the most beautiful aspects, one step at a time. A program's type describes its behavior. Dependent types are a first-class part of a language, and are much more powerful than other kinds of types; us...
Looking for Alaska
John Green
Winner of the Michael L. Printz AwardAn ALA Best Book for Young AdultsAn ALA Quick PickA Los Angeles Times 2005 Book Prize FinalistA New York Public Library Book for the Teen AgeA 2005 Booklist Editor’s ChoiceA 2005 School Library Journal Best Book o...
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
14.5 Million copies sold to dateThe classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature-now available as a Premium Edition with a stunning new cover and re-set, easy-to-read text.
Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed
THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the Secon...
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they wake on the morning of the twenty-seventh of June. Everything has been prepared for the town’s annual tradition—a lottery in which every family must pa...
Love and Sex with Robots
David Levy
Love, marriage, and sex with robots? Not in a million years? Maybe a whole lot sooner!A leading expert in artificial intelligence, David Levy argues that the entities we once deemed cold and mechanical will soon become the objects of real companionsh...