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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Apr 20, 2009 - Apr 27, 2009

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Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach cover

1. Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach

by Leonard Bloomfield, Clarence Lewis Barnhart

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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

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

by Jessica Livingston

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

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

by Kendall Hailey

Dark Age Ahead cover

4. Dark Age Ahead

by Jane Jacobs

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life cover

5. The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

by Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter

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Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking cover

6. Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking

by Jeff Hertzberg, M.D., Zoë François

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience cover

7. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszent

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Alton Brown's Gear for Your Kitchen cover

8. Alton Brown's Gear for Your Kitchen

by Alton Brown

The C Programming Language cover

9. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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

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

by Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith

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The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

11. The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

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The C Puzzle Book cover

12. The C Puzzle Book

by Alan R. Feuer

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Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time cover

13. Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

by Brian Tracy

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C Traps and Pitfalls cover

14. C Traps and Pitfalls

by Andrew Koenig

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

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

by Ricardo Semler

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Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions cover

16. Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions

by Bill Scott, Theresa Neil

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Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places cover

17. Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places

by Paul Collier

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Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers cover

18. Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers

by Justin Seitz

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Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children cover

19. Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children

by David Sheff

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The Man Who Sold The Moon cover

20. The Man Who Sold The Moon

by Robert A. Heinlein

JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

21. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford

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The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack cover

22. The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack

by Nicholas Gurewitch

A New Kind of Science cover

23. A New Kind of Science

by Stephen Wolfram

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Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design cover

24. Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design

by Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate cover

25. Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate

by Kenan Malik

The Stories of English cover

26. The Stories of English

by David Crystal

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A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates cover

27. A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

by Rand Corporation

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Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism cover

28. Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism

by Jonathan Rieder

Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition cover

29. Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition

by Thomas H Cormen, Charles E Leiserson, Ronald L Rivest, Clifford Stein

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Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 3rd Updated Edition (Book & CD-ROM) cover

30. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 3rd Updated Edition (Book & CD-ROM)

by David C. Lay

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Calculus: Early Transcendentals cover

31. Calculus: Early Transcendentals

by James Stewart

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What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People cover

32. What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People

by Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins

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Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) cover

33. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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Built to Last cover

34. Built to Last

by Collins, James C., Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras, James C. Collins