Hacker News Books for 2008

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Hacker News Books for 2008

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2008.

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1. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

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2. The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself

3. Maverick!: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workshop

4. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

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5. The Book of Webmin: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love UNIX

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6. Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small

7. Farmer Boy (Little House)

8. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

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9. Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity

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10. Growing a Business

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11. Strategy, Economic Organization, and the Knowledge Economy: The Coordination of Firms and Resources

12. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

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13. The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

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14. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

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15. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 4th Edition

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16. Tao Te Ching: A New Translation with Commentary

17. Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Entrepreneurship from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

18. The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality

19. Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want, The

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20. Algebra (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

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21. Algebra

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22. Undergraduate Algebra (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

23. RESTful Web Services

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24. Secrets for Higher Success

25. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

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26. Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality

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27. Black Rednecks and White Liberals

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28. Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition

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29. Biostatistical Analysis (4th Edition)

30. Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance

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31. My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance

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32. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)

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33. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

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34. Calculus

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35. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

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36. The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing

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37. The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)

38. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

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39. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

40. Python Cookbook

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41. How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

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42. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books)

43. Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (New York Institute of Finance)

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44. Intro Stats (2nd Edition)

45. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

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46. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

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47. Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)

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48. The Handbook of Mortgage-Backed Securities

49. Salomon Smith Barney Guide to Mortgage-Backed and Asset-Backed Securities

50. Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing

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51. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Ninth Edition)

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52. Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

53. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)

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54. The Art of Electronics

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55. Spidering Hacks

56. Core Python Programming (2nd Edition)

57. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

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58. Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District

59. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

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60. In Defense of Elitism

61. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

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62. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

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63. The 80/10/10 Diet

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64. Fit for Life

65. Investments

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66. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto)

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67. Understanding the Linux Kernel

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68. Programming Python

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69. Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance

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70. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World

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71. Learning GNU Emacs

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72. Making Things Talk

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73. Python in a Nutshell

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74. F**k it: The Ultimate Spiritual Way

75. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small

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76. NLP in 21 Days: A Complete Introduction and Training Programme

77. The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory (Complete Idiot's Guides (Lifestyle Paperback))

78. Visual Complex Analysis

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79. Digital Image Processing (2nd Edition)

80. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

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81. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

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82. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

83. Gravitation

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84. The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers

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85. Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

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86. The High-Performance Mind

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87. The Myths of Innovation

88. Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive

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89. Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives)

90. Potential

91. The Eighteenth Emergency

92. Learning Python

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93. Python Essential Reference (3rd Edition)

94. The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (Star Wars)

95. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

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96. Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

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97. Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach (2nd Edition)

98. Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Web Sites

99. Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points

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100. Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation

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