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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 10, 2010 - May 17, 2010

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion cover

1. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

by Robert B. Cialdini, Robert B Cialdini, PhD PH.D.

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Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea cover

2. Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea

by George Lakoff

Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up cover

3. Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up

by Joel N. Shurkin

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Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud cover

4. Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud

by Robert L. Park

Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine cover

5. Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine

by R. Barker Bausell

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Authoritas: One Student's Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the Facebook Era cover

6. Authoritas: One Student's Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the Facebook Era

by Aaron Greenspan

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The Little Bastard: Autobiography of a Sociopath cover

7. The Little Bastard: Autobiography of a Sociopath

by Leah Laraine Byron

In the Pond cover

8. In the Pond

by Ha Jin

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto cover

9. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

by Michael Pollan

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Rip-Off! The Scandalous Inside Story of the Management Consulting Money Machine cover

10. Rip-Off! The Scandalous Inside Story of the Management Consulting Money Machine

by David Craig

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Constraint Processing (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence) cover

11. Constraint Processing (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)

by Rina Dechter

Handbook of Constraint Programming (Foundations of Artificial Intelligence) cover

12. Handbook of Constraint Programming (Foundations of Artificial Intelligence)

by Francesca Rossi, Peter Van Beek, Toby Walsh

Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face cover

13. Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face

by Dale C. Carson, Wes Denham

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Intellectual Property and Open Source cover

14. Intellectual Property and Open Source

by Van Lindberg

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

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

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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The Art of Multiprocessor Programming cover

16. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit

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Professional Android 2 Application Development cover

17. Professional Android 2 Application Development

by Reto Meier

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What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought cover

18. What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

by Keith E. Stanovich

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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World cover

19. The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

by Eric Weiner

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The Insider's Guide to Getting Published: Why They Always Reject Your Manuscript and What You Can Do About It cover

20. The Insider's Guide to Getting Published: Why They Always Reject Your Manuscript and What You Can Do About It

by John Boswell

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics cover

21. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

by Larry Gonick

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Light and Color in the Outdoors cover

22. Light and Color in the Outdoors

by Marcel Minnaert

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, 10th Anniversary Edition cover

23. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, 10th Anniversary Edition

by John Taylor Gatto

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Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling cover

24. Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

by John Taylor Gatto

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Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention cover

25. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention

by Stanislas Dehaene

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The Sociopath Next Door cover

26. The Sociopath Next Door

by Martha Stout

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Programming Scala: Scalability = Functional Programming + Objects (Animal Guide) cover

27. Programming Scala: Scalability = Functional Programming + Objects (Animal Guide)

by Dean Wampler, Alex Payne

Project Whirlwind: History of a Pioneer Computer cover

28. Project Whirlwind: History of a Pioneer Computer

by Kent C. Redmond, Thomas Malcolm Smith

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Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse cover

29. Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse

by Torkel Franzén

Pro JavaScript Techniques cover

30. Pro JavaScript Techniques

by John Resig

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Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students cover

31. Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students

by Jenny Olive

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Python Programming On Win32 cover

32. Python Programming On Win32

by Mark J. Hammond, Andy Robinson

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