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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 26, 2010 - Aug 2, 2010

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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age cover

1. Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

by Clay Shirky

The Courage to Create cover

2. The Courage to Create

by Rollo May

The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (Issues of Our Time) cover

3. The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (Issues of Our Time)

by Louis Menand

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It cover

4. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

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Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science cover

5. Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science

by John M. Zelle

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Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century cover

6. Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

by Peter Warren Singer

Ask the Headhunter: Reinventing the Interview to Win the Job cover

7. Ask the Headhunter: Reinventing the Interview to Win the Job

by Nicholas A. Corcodilos

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You Unstuck: Mastering the New Rules of Risk-taking in Work and Life cover

8. You Unstuck: Mastering the New Rules of Risk-taking in Work and Life

by Libby Gill

The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin cover

9. The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin

by Francis Spufford

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Collective Intelligence in Action cover

10. Collective Intelligence in Action

by Satnam Alag

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Algorithms of the Intelligent Web cover

11. Algorithms of the Intelligent Web

by Haralambos Marmanis, Dmitry Babenko

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The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns cover

12. The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns

by Mohnish Pabrai

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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries (Hardcover)) cover

13. Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries (Hardcover))

by David Foster Wallace

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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies cover

14. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

by Bryan Douglas Caplan

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I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography cover

15. I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography

by P.R. Halmos

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Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

16. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank

Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart cover

17. Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart

by Ian Ayres

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Inside Steve's Brain cover

18. Inside Steve's Brain

by Leander Kahney

Could It Be B12?: An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses cover

19. Could It Be B12?: An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses

by Sally M. Pacholok, Jeffrey J. Stuart

What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods cover

20. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins

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No Tech Hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing cover

21. No Tech Hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing

by Johnny Long, Kevin David Mitnick

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

22. JavaScript: The Good Parts

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

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed cover

23. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared M. Diamond

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No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life cover

24. No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life

by Thomas J. Espenshade, Alexandria Walton Radford

Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle cover

25. Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

by Dan Senor, Saul Singer

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The Official Ubuntu Server Book (2nd Edition) cover

26. The Official Ubuntu Server Book (2nd Edition)

by Kyle Rankin

The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved cover

27. The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved

by Todd Oppenheimer

Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age cover

28. Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

by Steven Levy

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