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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jan 5, 2009 - Jan 12, 2009

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Building Scalable Web Sites cover

1. Building Scalable Web Sites

by Cal Henderson
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time cover

2. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

by Michael Shermer
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) cover

3. The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)

by Neal Stephenson
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The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

4. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen
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XML Schema: The W3C's Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML cover

5. XML Schema: The W3C's Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML

by Eric Vlist
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The New Way Things Work cover

6. The New Way Things Work

by David Macaulay
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Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords: How to Access 100 Million People in 10 Minutes cover

7. Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords: How to Access 100 Million People in 10 Minutes

by Perry S. Marshall, Bryan Todd
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Game Programming for Teens, 3rd Edition (Computer Game and Simulation Programming) cover

8. Game Programming for Teens, 3rd Edition (Computer Game and Simulation Programming)

by Maneesh Sethi
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

9. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers
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The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates cover

10. The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

by Daniel Golden
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Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People 2nd Edition cover

11. Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People 2nd Edition

by G. Richard Shell
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English Words from Latin and Greek Elements cover

12. English Words from Latin and Greek Elements

by Donald M. Ayers, R. L. Cherry
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English Vocabulary Elements cover

13. English Vocabulary Elements

by Keith M. Denning, Brett Kessler, William R. Leben
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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

14. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran
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Intellectual Property Cases and Materials on Trademark, Copyright and Patent Law (University Casebook Series) cover

15. Intellectual Property Cases and Materials on Trademark, Copyright and Patent Law (University Casebook Series)

by Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
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Intellectual Property- Cases and Materials on Trademark, Copyright and Patent Law, 2nd Edition, 2007 Supplement (University Casebooks) cover

16. Intellectual Property- Cases and Materials on Trademark, Copyright and Patent Law, 2nd Edition, 2007 Supplement (University Casebooks)

by Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Katherine J. Strandburg
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Bias in Mental Testing cover

17. Bias in Mental Testing

by Arthur Robert Jensen
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Unix Power Tools, Third Edition cover

18. Unix Power Tools, Third Edition

by Shelley Powers
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Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User's Guide cover

19. Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User's Guide

by Emil Pascarelli, M.D., Deborah Quilter
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USE YOUR MEMORY: UNDERSTAND YOUR MIND TO IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY AND MENTAL POWER (MIND SET) cover

20. USE YOUR MEMORY: UNDERSTAND YOUR MIND TO IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY AND MENTAL POWER (MIND SET)

by Tony Buzan
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Textbook of Medical Physiology cover

21. Textbook of Medical Physiology

by Arthur C. Guyton, John Edward Hall
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