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2008
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
by Ricardo Semler
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2. The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself
by Phineas T. Barnum
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3. Maverick!: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workshop
by Ricardo Semler
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4. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
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5. The Book of Webmin: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love UNIX
by R. Joe Cooper
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6. Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small
by Barry Nalebuff, Ian Ayres
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7. Farmer Boy (Little House)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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8. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)
by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev
Read 18 comments
9. Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
by Michael M. Lewis
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10. Growing a Business
by Paul Hawken
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11. Strategy, Economic Organization, and the Knowledge Economy: The Coordination of Firms and Resources
by Nicolai J. Foss
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12. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins
Read 10 comments
13. The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
by Neil Strauss
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14. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
by Robert B. Cialdini
Read 42 comments
15. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 4th Edition
by Gilbert Strang
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16. Tao Te Ching: A New Translation with Commentary
by Ellen Chen
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17. Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Entrepreneurship from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
by Sam Calagione
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18. The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality
by Karl Raimund Popper
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19. Algebra
by I.M. Gelfand, Alexander Shen
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20. Algebra (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
by Serge Lang
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21. Undergraduate Algebra (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by Serge Lang
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22. RESTful Web Services
by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby
Read 7 comments
23. Secrets for Higher Success
by Vernon Howard
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24. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
by Linus Torvalds, David Diamond
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25. Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality
by Lewis C. Epstein
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26. Black Rednecks and White Liberals
by Thomas Sowell
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27. Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition
by Joseph Albers
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28. My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
by Emanuel Derman
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29. Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance
by Perry Mehrling
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30. Biostatistical Analysis (4th Edition)
by Jerrold H. Zar
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31. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)
by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
Read 15 comments
32. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
by Barry Schwartz
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33. Calculus
by Michael Spivak
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34. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
by David D. Burns
Read 31 comments
35. The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing
by Henry Blodget
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36. The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)
by Patrick M. Lencioni
Read 1 comment
37. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
by Roger Lowenstein
Read 6 comments
38. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Bill Bryson
Read 1 comment
39. Python Cookbook
by Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher
Read 5 comments
40. Yes, You Can Get A Financial Life!: Your Lifetime Guide to Financial Planning
by Ben Stein, Phil DeMuth
Read 5 comments
41. How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
by Felix Dennis
Read 14 comments
42. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books)
by Holland, John H.
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43. Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (New York Institute of Finance)
by John J. Murphy
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44. Intro Stats (2nd Edition)
by Richard D. De Veaux, Paul F. Velleman, David E. Bock
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45. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
by G. Pascal Zachary
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46. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
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47. Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)
by Jon Louis Bentley
Read 19 comments
48. The Handbook of Mortgage-Backed Securities
by Frank J. Fabozzi
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49. Salomon Smith Barney Guide to Mortgage-Backed and Asset-Backed Securities
by Lakhbir Hayre
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50. Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
by Philip Greenspun
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51. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Ninth Edition)
by Burton G. Malkiel
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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)
by Thomas J. Misa
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53. The Art of Electronics
by The Wikipedians
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54. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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55. Spidering Hacks
by Kevin Hemenway, Tara Calishain
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56. Core Python Programming (2nd Edition)
by Wesley Chun
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57. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
by Geoffrey A. Moore
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58. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Read 9 comments
59. Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District
by Peter Moskos
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60. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon
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61. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard Phillips Feynman
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62. In Defense of Elitism
by William A. Henry
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63. The 80/10/10 Diet
by Douglas N. Graham
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64. Fit for Life
by Harvey Diamond, Marilyn Diamond
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65. Investments
by Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, Alan J. Marcus
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66. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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67. Understanding the Linux Kernel
by Daniel P. Bovet
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68. Programming Python
by Mark Lutz
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69. Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance
by James B. Maas, Megan L. Wherry, David J. Axelrod, Barbara R. Hogan, Jennifer A. Blumin
Read 5 comments
70. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
by Gregory Clark
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71. Learning GNU Emacs
by Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, Eric S. Raymond
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72. Making Things Talk
by Tom Igoe
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73. Python in a Nutshell
by Alex Martelli
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74. F**k it: The Ultimate Spiritual Way
by John C. Parkin
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75. NLP in 21 Days: A Complete Introduction and Training Programme
by Harry Alder, Beryl Heather
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76. Visual Complex Analysis
by Tristan Needham
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77. The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory (Complete Idiot's Guides (Lifestyle Paperback))
by George Musser
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78. Digital Image Processing (2nd Edition)
by Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard Eugene Woods
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79. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
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80. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
by Gerald M. Weinberg
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81. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
by David Simon, Edward Burns
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82. Gravitation
by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler
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83. The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
by Phil Rosenzweig
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84. Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by Joe Celko
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85. The High-Performance Mind
by Anna Wise
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86. The Myths of Innovation
by Scott Berkun
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87. Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
by Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, Robert Cialdini
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88. Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives)
by Dan Pallotta
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89. The Eighteenth Emergency
by Betsy Byars
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90. Potential
by Ariel Schrag
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91. Python Essential Reference (3rd Edition)
by David M. Beazley
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92. Learning Python
by Mark Lutz
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93. RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
by Michael Hartl, Aurelius Prochazka
Read 6 comments
94. The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (Star Wars)
by Bill Smith
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95. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
by Roger Lowenstein
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96. Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points
by Matthew Linderman, Jason Fried, 37signals (Firm)
Read 3 comments
97. Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Web Sites
by Andrew Chak
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98. Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation
by Steven Muchnick
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99. Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach (2nd Edition)
by John H. Hubbard, Barbara Burke Hubbard
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100. The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability (Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence)
by Arthur R. Jensen
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