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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 4, 2009 - May 11, 2009

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Basic Mathematics cover

1. Basic Mathematics

by Serge Lang

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Functions and Graphs (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

2. Functions and Graphs (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by I. M. Gelfand, E. G. Glagoleva, E. E. Shnol

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Sequences, Combinations, Limits (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

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

by S. I. Gelʹfand, M. L. Gerver, A. A. Kirillov, N. N. Konstantinov

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Calculus, 4th edition cover

4. Calculus, 4th edition

by Michael Spivak

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Trigonometry cover

5. Trigonometry

by I.M. Gelfand, Mark Saul

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Algebra cover

6. Algebra

by I.M. Gelfand, Alexander Shen

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Teach Your Child to Read in Just Ten Minutes a Day cover

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

by Sidney Ledson

Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach cover

8. Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach

by Leonard Bloomfield, Clarence Lewis Barnhart

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

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

by Tom M. Apostol

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

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

by Tom M. Apostol

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The Method of Coordinates cover

11. The Method of Coordinates

by I.M. Gelfand, E.G. Glagoleva, A.A. Kirilov

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Programming Clojure (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

12. Programming Clojure (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Stuart Halloway

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Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History) cover

13. Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History)

by Frans P. B. Osinga

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Education's Smoking Gun: How Teachers' Colleges Have Destroyed Education in America cover

14. Education's Smoking Gun: How Teachers' Colleges Have Destroyed Education in America

by Reginald G. Damerell

Bionomics: Economy as Business Ecosystem cover

15. Bionomics: Economy as Business Ecosystem

by Michael Rothschild

Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance cover

16. Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance

by Stuart McGill

Low Back Disorders, Second Edition cover

17. Low Back Disorders, Second Edition

by Stuart McGill

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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension cover

18. Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension

by Michio Kaku

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Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, 2nd Edition cover

19. Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, 2nd Edition

by Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison

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Depression: Causes and Treatment, 2nd Edition cover

20. Depression: Causes and Treatment, 2nd Edition

by Aaron T. Beck, M.D., Brad A. Alford

What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty (Edge Question Series) cover

21. What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty (Edge Question Series)

by John Brockman

Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competit ion cover

22. Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competit ion

by Guy Kawasaki

Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front cover

23. Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front

by Joel Salatin

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Additive Combinatorics (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics) cover

24. Additive Combinatorics (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics)

by Terence Tao, Van H. Vu

Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Expert's Voice) cover

25. Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Expert's Voice)

by Eric Sink

Press Send cover

26. Press Send

by John McLaren

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Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs - A Parody cover

27. Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs - A Parody

by Daniel Lyons

Growing a Business cover

28. Growing a Business

by Paul Hawken

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Cryptonomicon cover

29. Cryptonomicon

by Neal Stephenson

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Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur cover

30. Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur

by Dermot Berkery

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The Biology of Love cover

31. The Biology of Love

by Arthur Janov

The C Programming Language cover

32. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets cover

33. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

by Peter Van der Linden

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Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age (Sloan Technology) cover

34. Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age (Sloan Technology)

by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson

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

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

by Joe Celko

Numerical Recipes in C++: The Art of Scientific Computing cover

36. Numerical Recipes in C++: The Art of Scientific Computing

by William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling, Brian P. Flannery