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2007
Hacker News Books for 2007
Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2007.
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1. Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
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2. The Hidden Persuaders
by Vance Packard
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3. The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
by Eric M. Jackson
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4. Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want, The
by Mike Hernacki
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5. The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense at Work
by Suzette Haden Elgin
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6. Genderspeak: Men, Women, and the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense
by Suzette Haden Elgin
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7. City of Truth (Harvest Book)
by James Morrow
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8. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
by Alan Cooper
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9. Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice
by Prajit K. Dutta
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10. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
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11. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
by Steve Krug
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12. Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
by Tal Ben-Shahar
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13. Envisioning Information
by Edward R. Tufte
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14. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward R. Tufte
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15. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszent
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16. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by Steve Coll
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17. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
by Peter Hopkirk
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18. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
by Eric Evans
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19. The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
by Robert Wright
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20. The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
by Terrence William Deacon
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21. Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
by Anthony Pratkanis, Elliot Aronson
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22. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
by David Jeffery Griffiths
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23. The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
by John Maeda
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24. How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
by Ross W. Duffin
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25. Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation
by Adele Goldberg, David Robson
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26. The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
by Josh Waitzkin
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27. Electronic Commerce
by Ronald J. Mann, Jane K. Winn
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28. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
by Christopher M. Bishop
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29. How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
by Francis Wheen
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30. Web Standards Creativity: Innovations in Web Design with XHTML, CSS, and DOM Scripting
by Cameron Adams
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31. ITT: The Management of Opportunity
by Robert Sobel
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32. Scalable Internet Architectures
by Theo Schlossnagle
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33. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
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34. Learning Perl
by Randal Schwartz, brian foy, Tom Phoenix
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35. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books)
by Richard P. Feynman
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36. Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
by Imre Lakatos
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37. Algorithms in C++, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structure, Sorting, Searching, Third Edition
by Robert Sedgewick
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38. The Algorithm Design Manual
by Steven S Skiena
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39. Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
by Steve Krug
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40. Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Term Sheets & Valuations (Bigwig Briefs)
by Alex Wilmerding
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41. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
by James Charles Collins, Jerry I. Porras
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42. Introductory Techniques for 3-D Computer Vision
by Emanuele Trucco, Alessandro Verri
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43. PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition)
by Luke Welling
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44. Computer Vision: A Modern Approach
by David Forsyth, Jean Ponce
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45. Lisp in Small Pieces
by Christian Queinnec
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46. Bargaining for Advantage : Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
by G. Richard Shell
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47. Programming Collective Intelligence
by Toby Segaran
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48. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck
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49. Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World
by Joe Armstrong
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50. How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle -- How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
by William Poundstone
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51. Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation
by K. Eric Drexler
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52. Code Complete (Microsoft Programming)
by Steve McConnell
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53. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
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54. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
by Guy Kawasaki
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55. Priest, Vol. 3: Requiem for the Damned
by Min-Woo Hyung
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56. The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?
by David Brin
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57. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
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58. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)
by Clayton M. Christensen
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59. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
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60. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)
by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi
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61. The Selfish Gene (Popular Science)
by Richard Dawkins
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62. Common Morality: Deciding What to Do
by Bernard Gert
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63. The C++ Standard Template Library
by P. J. Plauger
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64. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Vms: An Unsupported-Undocumented-Can-Go-Away-At-Any-Time Feature of Vms
by Bruce Ellis
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65. An Invitation to Formal Reasoning: The Logic of Terms
by Fred Sommers, George Englebretsen
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66. Proofs without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking (Classroom Resource Materials) (v. 1)
by Roger B. Nelsen
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67. Bootstrapping Your Business: Start and Grow a Successful Company with Almost No Money
by Greg Gianforte
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68. The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right (Expert's Voice in Web Development)
by Adrian Holovaty, Jacob Kaplan-Moss
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69. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by Paul Hoffman
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70. Halting State
by Charles Stross
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71. Earth Story : The Forces That Have Shaped Our Planet
by Simon Lamb, David Sington
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72. Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
by Aaron Hillegass
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73. Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People 2nd Edition
by G. Richard Shell
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74. The Elements of Style (4th Edition)
by William Strunk
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75. Advertising Design and Typography
by Alex White
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76. Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook: The Eight Best Practices of Task and E-Mail Management
by Michael Linenberger
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77. The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
by Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson
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78. How to Make Patent Drawings: A Patent It Yourself Companion
by Jack Lo, David Pressman
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79. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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80. Patent Pending in 24 Hours
by Richard Stim, David Pressman
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81. Patent It Yourself, 12th Edition
by David Pressman
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82. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
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83. Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
by Danny Goodman
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84. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
by Al Ries, Jack Trout
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85. Algorithm Design
by Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos
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86. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
by C. K. Prahalad
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87. Digital Aboriginal: The Direction of Business Now: Instinctive, Nomadic, and Ever-Changing
by Mikela Tarlow, Philip Tarlow
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88. How To Get Rich
by Felix Dennis
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89. Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition
by Jack Trout
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90. Advanced Mac OS X Programming (2nd Edition of Core Mac OS X & Unix Programming)
by Mark Dalrymple, Aaron Hillegass
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91. RESTful Web Services
by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby
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92. The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon
by Mark Bryan, Julia Cameron, Catherine A. Allen
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93. The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably
by Thomas T. Nagle, John E. Hogan (Ph. D.)
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94. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law
by Constance E. Bagley, Craig E. Dauchy
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95. Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications
by Cal Henderson
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96. High Performance MySQL
by Jeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling
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97. First Things First
by Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill
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98. Programming PHP
by Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe, Peter MacIntyre
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99. Phparchitect's Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide
by Davey Shafik, Ben Ramsey
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100. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
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