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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 17, 2010 - May 24, 2010

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This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness cover

1. This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness

by Laura Munson

Walking the High-Tech High Wire: The Technical Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Successful Enterprise cover

2. Walking the High-Tech High Wire: The Technical Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Successful Enterprise

by David Adamson

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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

3. 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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Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy cover

4. Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy

by John DeFrancis

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Against Intellectual Monopoly cover

5. Against Intellectual Monopoly

by Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine

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What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought cover

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

by Keith E. Stanovich

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The Story of English: Third Revised Edition cover

7. The Story of English: Third Revised Edition

by Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert Macneil

The Stories of English cover

8. The Stories of English

by David Crystal

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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition cover

9. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

by Daniel Okrent

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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) cover

10. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

by Seth Godin

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Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime cover

11. Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime

by Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rae

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Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters) cover

12. Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters)

by Jared M. Diamond

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Programming Windows Azure cover

13. Programming Windows Azure

by Sriram Krishnan

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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide cover

14. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

by David Flanagan

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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

15. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran

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Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment cover

16. Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment

by Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., Kathlyn Hendricks

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Undefended Love cover

17. Undefended Love

by Jett Psaris, Marlena S. Lyons

Dvorak Predicts: An Insider's Look at the Computer Industry cover

18. Dvorak Predicts: An Insider's Look at the Computer Industry

by John C. Dvorak

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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns cover

19. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

by John C. Bogle

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How the Web Was Won cover

20. How the Web Was Won

by Paul Andrews, Paul Andrews

The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations cover

21. The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations

by Dietrich Dorner

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation cover

22. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

by Lynne Truss

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Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport cover

23. Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

by Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski

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The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition) cover

24. The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition)

by Robin Williams

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It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be: The world's best selling book cover

25. It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be: The world's best selling book

by Paul Arden

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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) cover

26. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

by Elinor Ostrom

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Head First Java cover

27. Head First Java

by Kathy Sierra

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Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design cover

28. Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design

by Michael James Hernandez

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Mathematical Biology: I. An Introduction (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics) (Pt. 1) cover

29. Mathematical Biology: I. An Introduction (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics) (Pt. 1)

by James D. Murray

Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

30. Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Joe Celko

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An Introduction to Database Systems cover

31. An Introduction to Database Systems

by C. J. Date

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