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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Apr 6, 2009 - Apr 13, 2009

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Speaking Secrets of the Masters: The Personal Techniques Used by 22 of the World's Top Professional Speakers cover

1. Speaking Secrets of the Masters: The Personal Techniques Used by 22 of the World's Top Professional Speakers

by Speakers Roundtable, Cavett Robert, Ken Blanchard, Charlie Plumb, Jim Newman, Herb True, Don Hutson, Daniel Burrus, Ty Boyd, Tony Alessandra, Jim Cathcart, Nido Qubein, Naomi Rhode, Charlie Jones, Tom Winninger, Jim Tunney, Patricia Fripp, Art Holst, Danny Cox, Allan Hurst, Bill Gove, Brian S. Tracy, Ira Hayes
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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language cover

2. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

by Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

3. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner
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Beggars in Spain (Beggars Trilogy) cover

4. Beggars in Spain (Beggars Trilogy)

by Nancy Kress
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What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought cover

5. What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

by Keith E. Stanovich
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The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive cover

6. The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive

by John Graham-Cumming
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The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company cover

7. The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company

by David A. Price
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The 50th Law cover

8. The 50th Law

by 50 Cent, Robert Greene
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature cover

9. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

by Steven Pinker
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Hadoop: The Definitive Guide cover

10. Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

by Tom White
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Real-World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C# cover

11. Real-World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C#

by Tomas Petricek, Jon Skeet
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Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (Special Edition) cover

12. Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (Special Edition)

by Michael Abrash
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Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

13. Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by James Edward Smith, Ravi Nair
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Mastering the Requirements Process cover

14. Mastering the Requirements Process

by Suzanne Robertson, James Robertson
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A Discipline for Software Engineering cover

15. A Discipline for Software Engineering

by Watts S. Humphrey
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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal cover

16. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop
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Expert One on One Oracle cover

17. Expert One on One Oracle

by KYTE
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Scientific Discovery: Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes cover

18. Scientific Discovery: Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes

by Pat Langley
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Calculus cover

19. Calculus

by Michael Spivak
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