Hacker News Books

Hacker News Books

The top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News this week.

1. Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition (Principles of Neural Science (Kandel))

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2. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

3. The Wal-Mart Triumph: Inside the World's #1 Company

4. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen)

5. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

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6. Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators

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7. The Art of Facilitation: The Essentials for Leading Great Meetings and Creating Group Synergy

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8. Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business

9. Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

10. The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (Collins Business Essentials)

11. Guerilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business

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12. The Deming Management Method

13. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication (with featured article "The Necessary Art of Persuasion," by Jay A. Conger)

14. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

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15. Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

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16. Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization: Fundamentals and Applications (Topics in Chemical Engineering)

17. Marketing Management (14th Edition)

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18. The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders

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19. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

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20. Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win

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21. Market Wizards, Updated: Interviews With Top Traders

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22. The Sound Reinforcement Handbook

23. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition)

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24. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition

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25. Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation

26. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C (2nd Edition)

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27. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Twentieth Edition (Vol.1 & Vol.2)

28. Rhoton's Cranial Anatomy and Surgical Approaches

29. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition

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30. Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition)

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31. Applied Logistic Regression (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

32. The Art of Electronics

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33. Data Matching: Concepts and Techniques for Record Linkage, Entity Resolution, and Duplicate Detection (Data-Centric Systems and Applications)

34. The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition (Springer Series in Statistics)

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35. Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

36. Lectures on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics - 2nd Edition

37. Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development

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38. Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition (Language, Speech, and Communication)

39. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing (The MIT Press)

40. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)

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41. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

42. Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

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43. Introduction to Linear Algebra, Fifth Edition

44. Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies)

45. Lisp in Small Pieces

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46. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp

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47. Generative Programming: Methods, Tools, and Applications

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48. The C Programming Language

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49. The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel XXL (Multilingual Edition)

50. Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

51. Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits and Gates to C and Beyond

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52. The Genius Checklist: Nine Paradoxical Tips on How You can Become a Creative Genius (The MIT Press)

53. The Personalized Diet: The Pioneering Program to Lose Weight and Prevent Disease

54. Linear Regression Analysis

55. Essential COM

56. Cultural Marxism and Political Sociology (SAGE Library of Social Research)

57. The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys

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58. Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach

59. The 48 Laws of Power

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60. Shared Source CLI Essentials

61. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

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62. The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life

63. Great at Work: How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More

64. Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

65. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

66. Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

67. Cooking with Chocolate: Essential Recipes and Techniques

68. The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others

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69. Programming Python

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70. The Joy of Craft: A Paradoxical Approach for Learning to Do Things Well

71. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

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72. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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73. Gödel's Proof

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74. Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK

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75. The Life of the Cosmos

76. Japan's Longest Day

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77. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Revised Reprint

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78. New Horizons in Geometry (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions)

79. How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps

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80. Edingbuggers vs. Weegies: Why Edingburgh is Slightly Superior to Glasgow / Weegies vs. Edingbuggers: Why Glasgow Smiles Better Than Edingburgh

81. Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care

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82. The Ethics of Liberty

83. Game Engine Architecture, Third Edition

84. Real-Time Collision Detection (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3-D Technology)

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85. Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition

86. Sex and the Origins of Death

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87. Interactive Programming Environments

88. The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

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89. Outliers: The Story of Success

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90. Building Embedded Systems: Programmable Hardware

91. Professional Embedded ARM Development

92. Gravitation

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93. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)

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94. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

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95. Mushrooms Demystified

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96. Everyone Poops (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

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