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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 31, 2009 - Sep 7, 2009

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On Competition cover

1. On Competition

by ME. Porter

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) cover

2. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)

by Clayton M. Christensen

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Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Revised Edition) cover

3. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Revised Edition)

by Deborah A. Stone

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

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

by Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison

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

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

by Kay Redfield Jamison

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Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, Third Edition cover

6. Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, Third Edition

by Alan S. Kaufman, Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger

Handbook of Intelligence cover

7. Handbook of Intelligence

by Robert J. Sternberg

What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect cover

8. What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect

by James Robert Flynn

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What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought cover

9. What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

by Keith E. Stanovich

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Assessment of Children: Cognitive Foundations, 5th Edition cover

10. Assessment of Children: Cognitive Foundations, 5th Edition

by Jerome M. Sattler

Taiko cover

11. Taiko

by Eiji Yoshikawa

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! cover

12. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk!

by Jack Trout

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Musashi cover

13. Musashi

by 吉川英治

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The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan (Tuttle Classics) cover

14. The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan (Tuttle Classics)

by Yasushi Inoue

The Arabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition) cover

15. The Arabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition)

by Muhsin Mahdi

Katsuno's Revenge and Other Tales of the Samurai cover

16. Katsuno's Revenge and Other Tales of the Samurai

by Asataro Miyamori

The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology cover

17. The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology

by Nathaniel Branden

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Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples cover

18. Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples

by John Robbins

The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War (Canto) cover

19. The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War (Canto)

by Gerald Brenan

Homage to Catalonia cover

20. Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell

How to Get Rich cover

21. How to Get Rich

by Felix Dennis

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Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working cover

22. Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working

by Jonathan Rauch

Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life cover

23. Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life

by Maxwell Maltz

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Hacker's Delight cover

24. Hacker's Delight

by Henry S. Warren

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A Code of Jewish Ethics, Volume 2: Love Your Neighbor as Yourself cover

25. A Code of Jewish Ethics, Volume 2: Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

by Joseph Telushkin

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters cover

26. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

by Matt Ridley

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Write Great Code: Volume 1: Understanding the Machine cover

27. Write Great Code: Volume 1: Understanding the Machine

by Randall Hyde

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus cover

28. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

by Richard Preston

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The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers cover

29. The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers

by Phil Rosenzweig

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The One-Page Proposal: How to Get Your Business Pitch onto One Persuasive Page cover

30. The One-Page Proposal: How to Get Your Business Pitch onto One Persuasive Page

by Patrick G. Riley

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Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?: Persuading Customers When They Ignore Marketing cover

31. Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?: Persuading Customers When They Ignore Marketing

by Bryan Eisenberg, Jeffrey Eisenberg, Lisa T. Davis

The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color cover

32. The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color

by Johannes Itten

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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software cover

33. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

by Scott Rosenberg

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The Design of Everyday Things cover

34. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money cover

35. Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

by Daniel E. Lapin

Algorithm Design cover

36. Algorithm Design

by Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos

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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity cover

37. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen

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Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach cover

38. Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach

by Leonard Bloomfield, Clarence Lewis Barnhart

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Early Reading Instruction: What Science Really Tells Us about How to Teach Reading (MIT Press) cover

39. Early Reading Instruction: What Science Really Tells Us about How to Teach Reading (MIT Press)

by Diane McGuinness

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