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Armand Halbert

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Armand Halbert rated Google BigQuery : the Definitive Guide: 4 stars

No cover — Valliappa Lakshmanan, Jordan Tigani: Google BigQuery : the Definitive Guide (2019, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated)

Google BigQuery : the Definitive Guide by Valliappa Lakshmanan, Jordan Tigani

Armand Halbert rated There Are No Accidents: 3 stars

Jessie Singer: There Are No Accidents (2022, Simon & Schuster)

There Are No Accidents by Jessie Singer

We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been deeply conditioned to just accept …

Armand Halbert rated Practical VIM: 5 stars

Drew Neil: Practical VIM (2012, Pragmatic Bookshelf)

Practical VIM by Drew Neil

Armand Halbert rated Stealth Democracy: 5 stars

John R. Hibbing, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse: Stealth Democracy (Paperback, 2002, Cambridge University Press)

Stealth Democracy by John R. Hibbing, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse

Armand Halbert rated Anxious People: 4 stars

Fredrik Backman: Anxious People (2020, Atria Books)

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and “writer of astonishing depth” (The Washington …

Armand Halbert rated Good Neighbors: 3 stars

Good Neighbors by Nancy L. Rosenblum

Armand Halbert rated Cracking the Coding Interview: 5 stars

Gayle Laakmann McDowell: Cracking the Coding Interview (Paperback, 2011, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)

Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

Armand Halbert rated India and Asian Geopolitics: 4 stars

India and Asian Geopolitics by Shivshankar Menon

Armand Halbert rated Red plenty: 5 stars

Red plenty by Francis Spufford

Armand Halbert rated Expecting better: 4 stars

Expecting better by Emily Oster

Pregnancy--unquestionably one of the most profound, meaningful experiences of adulthood--can reduce otherwise intelligent women to, well, babies. We're told to …

Armand Halbert rated Radical markets: 4 stars

Radical markets by Eric A. Posner

"Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the …