Hacker News Books for 2009

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Hacker News Books for 2009

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2009.

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1. Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

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2. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.

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3. On Competition

4. Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis.

5. Creating Harmonious Relationships: A Practical Guide to the Power of True Empathy

6. The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth

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7. Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow

8. The Rich Are Different: A Priceless Treasury of Quotations and Anecdotes About the Affluent, the Posh, a nd the Just Plain Loaded

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9. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)

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10. Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom

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11. Dive Into Python

12. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

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13. The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Book & CD)

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14. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

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15. Modern Compiler Implementation in ML

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16. Land of LISP: Learn to Program in LISP, One Game at a Time!

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17. The Money Is the Gravy: Finding the Career That Nourishes You

18. Hacker's Delight

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19. Essential System Administration: Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration, 3rd Edition

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20. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

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21. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

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22. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

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23. The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo

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24. How to Lie with Statistics

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25. A Course in Mathematical Logic (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

26. Why Evolution Is True

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27. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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28. Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

29. Evolution: The First Four Billion Years

30. Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library)

31. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

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32. Teach Your Child to Read in Just Ten Minutes a Day

33. Sequences, Combinations, Limits (Dover Books on Mathematics)

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34. The Method of Coordinates

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35. Calculus, Vol. 2: Multi-Variable Calculus and Linear Algebra with Applications to Differential Equations and Probability

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36. Trigonometry

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37. Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History of a Methodological Concept (Ideas in Context)

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38. The Day I Became an Autodidact and the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies That Befell Me Thereafter

39. Learning the bash Shell

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40. The Tyranny of Testing

41. The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time

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42. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

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43. Pushing Yourself to Power: The Ultimate Guide to Total Body Transformation

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44. Masterminds of Programming

45. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Revised Edition)

46. Selected Papers on Computer Science (Lecture Notes)

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47. The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis

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48. Quantum Fields and Strings: A Course for Mathematicians

49. DNS and BIND (5th Edition)

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50. Insider's Tell-All Handbook on Weight-Training Technique: Illustrated Step-by-step Guide to Perfecting Your Exercise Form for Injury-free Maximum Gains, 3rd Edition

51. Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

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52. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

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

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54. The Nature of Paleolithic Art

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55. How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)

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56. The Art & Science Of Dumpster Diving

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

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58. Game Theory at Work: How to Use Game Theory to Outthink and Outmaneuver Your Competition

59. Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America

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60. Buddhism Plain and Simple

61. The Design of the UNIX Operating System

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62. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

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63. Understanding the Linux Kernel

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64. Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition)

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65. Linux System Programming

66. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

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67. The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body

68. The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

69. Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care

70. War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900 (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

71. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

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72. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround

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73. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

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74. Axiomatic

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75. Beautiful Data

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76. iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It

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77. Principles of Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

78. Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown

79. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C

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80. The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die

81. Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

82. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

83. Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future

84. The Leap: How 3 Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career from Good to Great

85. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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86. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 4th Edition

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87. Unix Power Tools

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88. Outliers: The Story of Success

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89. Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering

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90. Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control

91. A Mathematician's Survival Guide: Graduate School and Early Career Development

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92. Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America

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93. The Practice of System and Network Administration, Second Edition

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94. DNS and BIND

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95. Calculus, Vol. 1: One-Variable Calculus, with an Introduction to Linear Algebra

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96. Elementary Classical Analysis, 2nd Edition

97. Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting

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98. The Piano Tuner

99. Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition

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100. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)

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