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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 19, 2010 - Jul 26, 2010

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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) cover

1. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

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Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less cover

2. Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less

by Guy Claxton

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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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Ending the Death Penalty: The European Experience in Global Perspective cover

4. Ending the Death Penalty: The European Experience in Global Perspective

by A. Hammel

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life cover

5. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

by Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

6. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey A. Silverglate

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How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World cover

7. How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World

by Harry Browne

After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC cover

8. After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC

by Steven J. Mithen

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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life cover

9. Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life

by Albert-laszlo Barabasi

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Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us cover

10. Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us

by Rodney Allen Brooks

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Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art cover

11. Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art

by Vitaly Komar, Aleksandr Melamid

The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Book & CD) cover

12. The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Book & CD)

by John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal

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The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing) cover

13. The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing)

by Kees Doets, Jan Eijck

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The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

14. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

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Clause and Effect: Prolog Programming for the Working Programmer cover

15. Clause and Effect: Prolog Programming for the Working Programmer

by Wojbor A. Woyczynski

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A Discipline of Programming cover

16. A Discipline of Programming

by Edsger W. Dijkstra

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Thinking Mathematically cover

17. Thinking Mathematically

by John Mason, Leone Burton, Kaye Stacey

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The tiger that isn't: seeing through a world of numbers cover

18. The tiger that isn't: seeing through a world of numbers

by Michael Blastland, A. W. Dilnot

Calculus, 4th edition cover

19. Calculus, 4th edition

by Michael Spivak

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Remembering Traditional Hanzi: Book 1, How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Chinese Characters cover

20. Remembering Traditional Hanzi: Book 1, How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Chinese Characters

by James W. Heisig, Timothy W. Richardson

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1089 and All That - A Journey into Mathematics cover

21. 1089 and All That - A Journey into Mathematics

by D. J. Acheson

Learn to Write Chinese Characters (Yale Language Series) cover

22. Learn to Write Chinese Characters (Yale Language Series)

by Johan Björkstén

Chinese Cursive Script: An Introduction to Handwriting in Chinese (Far Eastern Publications Series) cover

23. Chinese Cursive Script: An Introduction to Handwriting in Chinese (Far Eastern Publications Series)

by Fred Fang-Yu Wang

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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series) cover

24. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series)

by Kurt W. Beyer

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Taming C++: Pattern Classes and Persistence for Large Projects cover

25. Taming C++: Pattern Classes and Persistence for Large Projects

by Jiri Soukup

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Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America cover

26. Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America

by Donna Foote

The Design of Everyday Things cover

27. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide cover

28. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

by David Flanagan

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iPhone Forensics cover

29. iPhone Forensics

by Jonathan A. Zdziarski

Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus-Advanced 3D Graphics and Rasterization (Other Sams) cover

30. Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus-Advanced 3D Graphics and Rasterization (Other Sams)

by André LaMothe

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Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner cover

31. Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner

by Michael Dawson

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