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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 24, 2009 - Aug 31, 2009

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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) cover

1. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

by Tom Vanderbilt
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2. Aesthetics, Well-Being and Health: Essays Within Architecture and Environmental Aesthetics (Ethnoscapes)

by Birgit Cold
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature cover

3. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker, Victor Bevine, Roc Filella Escolà, ʻImanuʾel Loṭem
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The Art of Prolog, Second Edition: Advanced Programming Techniques (Logic Programming) cover

4. The Art of Prolog, Second Edition: Advanced Programming Techniques (Logic Programming)

by Leon Sterling, Ehud Y. Shapiro
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Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism cover

5. Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism

by Brink Lindsey
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Asian Americans: Achievement Beyond Iq cover

6. Asian Americans: Achievement Beyond Iq

by James Robert Flynn
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen cover

7. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

by Christopher McDougall
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What to Expect The Toddler Years cover

8. What to Expect The Toddler Years

by Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff, Sandee Eisenberg Hathaway
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Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life cover

9. Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

by Winifred Gallagher
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RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) cover

10. RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

by Michael Hartl, Aurelius Prochazka
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Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament cover

11. Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

by Kay Redfield Jamison
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Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, 2nd Edition cover

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

by Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison
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No Contest: The Case Against Competition cover

13. No Contest: The Case Against Competition

by Alfie Kohn
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Probability Theory: The Logic of Science cover

14. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

by E. T. Jaynes
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Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count cover

15. Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count

by Richard E. Nisbett
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time cover

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

by Michael Shermer
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The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science) cover

17. The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science)

by Tor Norretranders
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Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up cover

18. Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up

by Joel N. Shurkin
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On Intelligence cover

19. On Intelligence

by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
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Slow Burn: Burn Fat Faster By Exercising Slower cover

20. Slow Burn: Burn Fat Faster By Exercising Slower

by Stu Mittleman, Katherine Callan
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The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life cover

21. The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life

by John Assaraf, Murray Smith
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The High Cost of Free Parking cover

22. The High Cost of Free Parking

by Donald C. Shoup
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The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream cover

23. The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream

by Christopher B. Leinberger
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Collective Intelligence in Action cover

24. Collective Intelligence in Action

by Satnam Alag
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Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications cover

25. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

by Toby Segaran
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Algorithms of the Intelligent Web cover

26. Algorithms of the Intelligent Web

by Haralambos Marmanis, Dmitry Babenko
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Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers cover

27. Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers

by Hank Rainwater
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