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Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
"What Waley did create is literary art of extraordinary beauty that brings to life in English the world Murasaki Shikibu imagined. The beauty of his art has not dimmed, but like the original text itself retains the power to move and enlighten."—Denn...
Talking to Humans: Success Starts With Understanding Your Customers
Giff Constable , Frank Rimalovski , Tom Fishburne
Talking to Humans is a practical guide to the qualitative side of customer development, an indispensable skill for vetting and improving any new startup or innovation. This book will teach you how to structure and run effective customer interviews, ...
The Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey
Lao Tzu and Stephen Mitchell
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way) is a timeless guide to the art of living. Its central figure, the Master, lives in harmony with the Tao, the irreducible essence of the universe. Surrendering to it as the Master teaches, we feel whole. E...
Teamwork Means You Can't Pick the Side That's Right
Scott Adams
He's the icon of millions of corporate workers, the most popular cubicle dweller on this planet. He spends his days in endless meetings with incompetent supervisors, performing perfunctory tasks mixed with the occasional team-building, brainstorming,...
Terraform: Up & Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code
Yevgeniy Brikman
Terraform has become a key player in the DevOps world for defining, launching, and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) across a variety of cloud and virtualization platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and more. This hands-on second editi...
Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems
Peter Dayan
Theoretical neuroscience provides a quantitative basis for describing what nervous systems do, determining how they function, and uncovering the general principles by which they operate. This text introduces the basic mathematical and computational ...
Theory of Financial Risk and Derivative Pricing: From Statistical Physics to Risk Management
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and Marc Potters
Risk control and derivative pricing have become of major concern to financial institutions, and there is a real need for adequate statistical tools to measure and anticipate the amplitude of the potential moves of the financial markets. Summarising ...
The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How to Think Like One
David Sklansky
The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky discusses theoriesand concepts applicable to nearly every variation of the game,including five-card draw (high), seven-card stud, hold 'em, lowballdraw, and razz (seven-card lowball stud). This book introduces y...
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill
This book contains money-making secrets that can change your life. Think and Grow Rich, based on the author’s famed Law of Success, represents the distilled wisdom of distinguished men of great wealth and achievement.  Andrew Carnegie’s magic form...
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Annie Duke
Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result. In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in football his...
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Donella H. Meadows and Diana Wright
In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analy...
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Major New York Times bestsellerOver two million copies soldSelected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of 20112013 Presidential Medal of Freed...
The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World
Raghuram Rajan
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization and how re...
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
Robert Jay Lifton
Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appreared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of fifteen Chinese citizens and twenty-five Westerners who underwent "brainwashing" by the Communist Chi...
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
'A Thousand Splendid Suns' is a chronicle of Afghan history, and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, and the salvation to be found in love.
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
The winner of 2015 Hugo Award. Winner of the Nebula Award. The Three-Body Problem is a masterpiece of enormous scope and vision, written by Cixin, Liu, the most prevailing science fiction writer in China today and tells a story set against the backd...
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John Vaillant
It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote Russian village. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As...
Tika in Action
Chris Mattmann and Jukka Zitting
SummaryTika in Action is a hands-on guide to content mining with Apache Tika. The book's many examples and case studies offer real-world experience from domains ranging from search engines to digital asset management and scientific data processing.A...
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
English novelist, historian and science writer Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) abandoned teaching and launched his literary career with a series of highly successful science-fiction novels. 'The Time Machine' was the first of a number of these imag...
Timescape
Gregory Benford
The author of Tides of Light offers his Nebula Award-winning SF classic--a combination of hard science, bold speculation, and human drama. In the year 1998, a group of scientists works desperatey to communicate with the scientists of 1962, warning o...
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
Andrew Ross Sorkin
A brilliantly reported true-life thriller that goes behind the scenes of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington. In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkin-a New York Times columnist and one of the ...
Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Timothy Ferriss
The latest groundbreaking tome from Tim Ferriss, the #1 * New York Times *best-selling author of * The 4-Hour Workweek *.From the author:“For the last two years, I’ve interviewed more than 200 world-class performers for my podcast, The Tim Ferriss S...
Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Counted among his admirers are Jonas Salk, Aldous Huxley, David Hockney, and Van Morrison, along with countless other philosophers, artist, writers and students of the spiritual path. Now the trustees of Krishnamurti’s work have gathered his very be...
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
Gino Wickman
Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you? All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations—personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or, once made,...
Trades, Quotes and Prices
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Julius Bonart, Jonathan Donier
The widespread availability of high-quality, high-frequency data has revolutionised the study of financial markets. By describing not only asset prices, but also market participants' actions and interactions, this wealth of information offers a new ...
Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
Larry Harris
This book is about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it. Readers will learn about investors, brokers, dealers, arbitrageurs, retail traders, day traders, rogue trader...
Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
Larry Harris
This book is about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it. Readers will learn about investors, brokers, dealers, arbitrageurs, retail traders, day traders, rogue trader...
Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis
Herbert Spiegel and David Spiegel
What is hypnosis? Despite widespread misconceptions, hypnosis is not a treatment in itself; instead, it is a facilitator -- a useful diagnostic tool that can help the practitioner choose an appropriate treatment modality and accelerate various prima...
The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
David Brin
In New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell that information to anyone willing to pay. Host sites on the World Wide Web record every page you view, and “s...
The Trial
Franz Kafka
The Trial and (original German title: Der Process,[1] later Der Proceß, Der Prozeß and Der Prozess and ) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of J...
Tribe
Sebastian Junger
We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding -"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before th...
Tribe of Mentors
Timothy Ferriss
We All Need Mentors. Here Are More than 100 of the World's Best. When facing life's questions, who do you turn to for advice? We all need mentors, particularly when the odds seem stacked against us. For this book, best-selling author Tim Ferriss trac...
Trip
Tao Lin
Part memoir, part history, part journalistic exposé, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century's most innovative novelists—The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation. A...
Tropic of Cancer
Miller, Henry
Amazon.com ReviewNo punches are pulled in Henry Miller's most famous work. Still pretty rough going for even our jaded sensibilities, but Tropic of Cancer is an unforgettable novel of self-confession. Maybe the most honest book ever written, this aut...
Turing's Cathedral
George Dyson
"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence," twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing's Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neuma...
Types and Programming Languages
Benjamin C. Pierce and Benjamin C. (professor Pierce, University Of Pennsylvania)
A comprehensive introduction to type systems and programming languages. A type system is a syntactic method for automatically checking the absence of certain erroneous behaviors by classifying program phrases according to the kinds of values they co...