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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jan 19, 2009 - Jan 26, 2009

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The Ruby Programming Language cover

1. The Ruby Programming Language

by David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life cover

2. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

by Anne Lamott
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The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet cover

3. The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet

by Matthieu Ricard, Trinh Xuan Thuan
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The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing cover

4. The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing

by Henry Blodget
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A Short History of Nearly Everything cover

5. A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson
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Making Things Talk cover

6. Making Things Talk

by Tom Igoe
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Test Driven Development: By Example cover

7. Test Driven Development: By Example

by Kent Beck
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Parallel Distributed Processing, Vol. 1: Foundations cover

8. Parallel Distributed Processing, Vol. 1: Foundations

by David E. Rumelhart
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less cover

9. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

by Barry Schwartz
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art cover

10. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

by Scott McCloud
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Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics cover

11. Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

by William Dunham
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Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (CBC Massey Lectures) cover

12. Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (CBC Massey Lectures)

by Margaret Atwood
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