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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 21, 2009 - Sep 28, 2009

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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less cover

1. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

by Barry Schwartz
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Land of LISP: Learn to Program in LISP, One Game at a Time! cover

2. Land of LISP: Learn to Program in LISP, One Game at a Time!

by Conrad Barski
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp cover

3. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp

by Peter Norvig
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Outliers: The Story of Success cover

4. Outliers: The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell
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The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those who are too fearful to do so cover

5. The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those who are too fearful to do so

by Lawrence Solomon
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Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry about Global Warming cover

6. Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry about Global Warming

by Thomas Gale Moore
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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

7. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford
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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa cover

8. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

by Dambisa Moyo
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Criminal Antitrust Litigation Handbook cover

9. Criminal Antitrust Litigation Handbook

by American Bar Association. Section of Antitrust Law
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The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind cover

10. The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind

by Mahdi Obeidi, Kurt Pitzer
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Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology cover

11. Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology

by Stan J. Liebowitz, Stephen E. Margolis
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Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround cover

12. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround

by Louis V. Gerstner
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They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators cover

13. They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators

by Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer
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Programming Clojure (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

14. Programming Clojure (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Stuart Halloway
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Graphically Speaking: A Visual Lexicon for Achieving Better Designer-Client Communication (Graphic Design) cover

15. Graphically Speaking: A Visual Lexicon for Achieving Better Designer-Client Communication (Graphic Design)

by Lisa Buchanan
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Design Evolution: A Handbook of Basic Design Principles Applied in Contemporary Design cover

16. Design Evolution: A Handbook of Basic Design Principles Applied in Contemporary Design

by Timothy Samara
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Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual cover

17. Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual

by Tim Samara
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The Ruby Programming Language cover

18. The Ruby Programming Language

by David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Windows® Internals: Including Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Fifth Edition (Developer Reference) cover

19. Windows® Internals: Including Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Fifth Edition (Developer Reference)

by Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu
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