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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 12, 2009 - Oct 19, 2009

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How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development) cover

1. How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)

by John Holt

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The Nature of Paleolithic Art cover

2. The Nature of Paleolithic Art

by R. Dale Guthrie

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Principles of Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

3. Principles of Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by M. G. Bulmer

The Piano Tuner cover

4. The Piano Tuner

by Daniel Philippe Mason

In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed cover

5. In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed

by Carl Honore

The Design of Everyday Things cover

6. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience cover

7. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszent

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Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) cover

8. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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Lions' Commentary on Unix cover

9. Lions' Commentary on Unix

by John Lions

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The Cartoon Guide to Physics (Cartoon Guide Series) cover

10. The Cartoon Guide to Physics (Cartoon Guide Series)

by Larry Gonick

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Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West cover

11. Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

by John Ralston Saul

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The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society cover

12. The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society

by Eric D. Beinhocker

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Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up (Complex Adaptive Systems) cover

13. Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up (Complex Adaptive Systems)

by Joshua M. Epstein, Robert Axtell

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide cover

14. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

by David Flanagan

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A Language Older Than Words cover

15. A Language Older Than Words

by Derrick Jensen

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Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals cover

16. Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals

by Frans B. M. de Waal, F. B. M. de Waal

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

17. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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Twitter API: Up and Running cover

18. Twitter API: Up and Running

by Kevin Makice