The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jan 11, 2010 - Jan 18, 2010

The Rules (TM): Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right cover

2. The Rules (TM): Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right

by Sherrie Shamoon, Ellen Fein

Your Memory : How It Works and How to Improve It cover

3. Your Memory : How It Works and How to Improve It

by Kenneth L. Higbee

Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective (Chapman & Hall/Crc Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition) cover

4. Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective (Chapman & Hall/Crc Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition)

by Stephen Marsland

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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger cover

5. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson

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All of Nonparametric Statistics (Springer Texts in Statistics) cover

6. All of Nonparametric Statistics (Springer Texts in Statistics)

by Larry Wasserman

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The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution cover

7. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending

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8. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

by Larry Gonick

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9. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff

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Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life cover

10. Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life

by Paul Ekman

11. The Nature of Paleolithic Art

by R. Dale Guthrie

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The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth (MIT Press) cover

12. The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth (MIT Press)

by Barry Naughton

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It cover

13. The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It

by Marcia Angell

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Bebop to the Boolean Boogie, Third Edition: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics cover

14. Bebop to the Boolean Boogie, Third Edition: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics

by Clive Maxfield

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen cover

15. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

by Christopher McDougall

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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World cover

16. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World

by Gregory Clark

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17. Mastering Turbo Pascal 6

by Tom Swan

Tom Swan's Mastering Borland C++ 5 cover

18. Tom Swan's Mastering Borland C++ 5

by Tom Swan

19. Mastering Turbo Assembler

by Tom Swan

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20. Algorithm Design

by Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos

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21. Connections

by James Burke

Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain cover

22. Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain

by James Curran, Jean Seaton

23. Algebra

by I.M. Gelfand, Alexander Shen

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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World cover

24. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

by Niall Ferguson

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience cover

25. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszent

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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition cover

26. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition

by Oliver Sacks

27. Beautiful Data

by Jeff Hammerbacher, Toby Segaran