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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 5, 2009 - Oct 12, 2009

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Pushing Yourself to Power: The Ultimate Guide to Total Body Transformation cover

1. Pushing Yourself to Power: The Ultimate Guide to Total Body Transformation

by John E. Peterson
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Heavyhands Walking Book cover

2. Heavyhands Walking Book

by Leonard Schwartz
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Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State cover

3. Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

by Götz Aly
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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination cover

4. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination

by Neal Gabler
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Cantor's Dilemma: A Novel cover

5. Cantor's Dilemma: A Novel

by Carl Djerassi
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What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect cover

6. What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect

by James Robert Flynn
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City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics (Sloan Technology) cover

7. City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics (Sloan Technology)

by Jeff Hecht
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Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns cover

8. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

by Kent Beck
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The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) cover

9. The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

by John Maeda
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The Ten-Day MBA: A Step-By-step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools cover

10. The Ten-Day MBA: A Step-By-step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools

by Steven Silbiger
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Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles cover

11. Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles

by Richard B. McKenzie
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And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina cover

12. And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina

by Paul Blustein
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The Art of Prolog, Second Edition: Advanced Programming Techniques (Logic Programming) cover

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

by Leon Sterling, Ehud Y. Shapiro
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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

14. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran
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Visualizing Data cover

15. Visualizing Data

by William S. Cleveland
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Algorithms in C++ Part 5: Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition) (Pt.5) cover

16. Algorithms in C++ Part 5: Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition) (Pt.5)

by Robert Sedgewick
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature cover

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

by Steven Pinker, Victor Bevine, Roc Filella Escolà, ʻImanuʾel Loṭem
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Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart cover

18. Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart

by Ian Ayres
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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

19. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford
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Influence: Science and Practice (4th Edition) cover

20. Influence: Science and Practice (4th Edition)

by Robert B. Cialdini
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