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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Apr 5, 2010 - Apr 12, 2010

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Taken by Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe during World War II cover

1. Taken by Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe during World War II

by J. Robert Lilly

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

2. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser

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The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

3. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto

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The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition cover

4. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

by Thomas E. Pearsall

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

5. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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Transformation: Understanding the Three Levels of Masculine Consciousness cover

6. Transformation: Understanding the Three Levels of Masculine Consciousness

by Robert A. Johnson

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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61) cover

7. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)

by Eckhart Tolle

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Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work cover

8. Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work

by Mel Bartholomew

On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore cover

9. On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore

by Brian Bagnall

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The Nature of Paleolithic Art cover

10. The Nature of Paleolithic Art

by R. Dale Guthrie

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What's Your Type of Career?: Unlock the Secrets of Your Personality to Find Your Perfect Career Path cover

11. What's Your Type of Career?: Unlock the Secrets of Your Personality to Find Your Perfect Career Path

by Donna Dunning

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science cover

12. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

by E. T. Jaynes

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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life cover

13. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

by Nick Lane

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The Little Book That Beats the Market cover

14. The Little Book That Beats the Market

by Joel Greenblatt

Your Child's Growing Mind: Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence cover

15. Your Child's Growing Mind: Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence

by Jane Healy

Failing At Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls cover

16. Failing At Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls

by Myra Sadker, David Sadker

Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps -- And What We Can Do About It cover

17. Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps -- And What We Can Do About It

by Lise Eliot

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The Power of Clan: The Influence of Human Relationships on Heart Disease cover

18. The Power of Clan: The Influence of Human Relationships on Heart Disease

by Stewart Wolf, John G. Bruhn

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19. Wad-Ja-Get? the Grading Game in American Education

by Howard Kirschenbaum, Rodney Napier, Sidney B. Simon

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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Illinois) cover

20. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Illinois)

by Eric Klinenberg

Ten Secrets for Success With Beautiful Women: A/Complete How to Guide for Pursuing the Women of Your Dreams cover

21. Ten Secrets for Success With Beautiful Women: A/Complete How to Guide for Pursuing the Women of Your Dreams

by Ursula Lindstrom

ARM System-on-Chip Architecture (2nd Edition) cover

22. ARM System-on-Chip Architecture (2nd Edition)

by Stephen Bo Furber

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ARM Architecture Reference Manual (2nd Edition) cover

23. ARM Architecture Reference Manual (2nd Edition)

by David Seal

Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer cover

24. Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer

by Douglas K. Smith, Robert C. Alexander

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Advanced UNIX Programming (2nd Edition) cover

25. Advanced UNIX Programming (2nd Edition)

by Marc J. Rochkind

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Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (5th Edition) cover

26. Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (5th Edition)

by John Hull

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Investments cover

27. Investments

by Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, Alan J. Marcus

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ARM System Developer's Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

28. ARM System Developer's Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by Andrew Sloss, Dominic Symes, Chris Wright

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution cover

29. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

by L. Hunter Lovins, Amory Lovins, Paul Hawken

Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability, Programmability cover

30. Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability, Programmability

by James M. Feldman, Charles T. Retter

JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

31. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford

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This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly cover

32. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff

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