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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 11, 2009 - May 18, 2009

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

1. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control cover

2. Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control

by Dominic Streatfeild

The Algorithm Design Manual cover

3. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena

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

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

by Michael Shermer

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Pretending to Be Normal: Living With Asperger's Syndrome cover

5. Pretending to Be Normal: Living With Asperger's Syndrome

by Liane Holliday Willey

Parkinson's Law cover

6. Parkinson's Law

by Cyril Northcote Parkinson

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Algorithm Design cover

7. Algorithm Design

by Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos

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

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

by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi

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Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization cover

9. Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization

by Robert Zubrin

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions cover

10. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely

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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

11. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel cover

12. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

by Michio Kaku

Readings in Database Systems (MIT Press) cover

13. Readings in Database Systems (MIT Press)

by Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker

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Post-Scarcity Anarchism (Working Classics) cover

14. Post-Scarcity Anarchism (Working Classics)

by Murray Bookchin

Beginning Chinese Reader (Beginning Chinese Reader, Part I) cover

15. Beginning Chinese Reader (Beginning Chinese Reader, Part I)

by John DeFrancis, Chia-yee Yung Teng, Chih-sheng Yung

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values cover

16. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig

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Chinese-English Dictionary of the 500 Most Frequently Used Words: A Study Guide to Mandarin Chinese (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition) cover

17. Chinese-English Dictionary of the 500 Most Frequently Used Words: A Study Guide to Mandarin Chinese (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition)

by Yong Ho