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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 16, 2010 - Aug 23, 2010

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The End of Certainty cover

1. The End of Certainty

by Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers

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

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

by Harvey A. Silverglate

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The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System cover

4. The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil

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Man Who Never Was: World War II's Boldest Counterintelligence Operation (Bluejacket Books) cover

5. Man Who Never Was: World War II's Boldest Counterintelligence Operation (Bluejacket Books)

by Ewen Montagu

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Most Secret War (Penguin World War II Collection) cover

6. Most Secret War (Penguin World War II Collection)

by R.V. Jones

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The Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 cover

7. The Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945

by Reginald Victor Jones

The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War cover

8. The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War

by Thaddeus Holt

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The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress cover

9. The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress

by Joel Mokyr

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Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering cover

10. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

by Robert L. Glass

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Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition cover

11. Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition

by Edward Luttwak

Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War cover

12. Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War

by Frances Stonor Saunders

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Biology cover

13. Biology

by Peter H. Raven, George B. Johnson, Susan R. Singer, Jonathan B. Losos

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Serious Men: A Novel cover

14. Serious Men: A Novel

by Manu Joseph

Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews cover

15. Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews

by Timothy Falcon Crack

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The Map of Innovation: Creating Something Out of Nothing cover

16. The Map of Innovation: Creating Something Out of Nothing

by Kevin J. O'Connor

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

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

by Kenneth L. Higbee

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Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish cover

18. Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish

by Mark R. Levin

Crime by Computer cover

19. Crime by Computer

by Donn B. Parker

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As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial#A Graphic Novel cover

20. As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial#A Graphic Novel

by Derrick Jensen, Stephanie McMillan

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ cover

21. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

by Daniel Goleman

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The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves cover

22. The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves

by Andrew Potter

Swarm Intelligence (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Evolutionary Computation) cover

23. Swarm Intelligence (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Evolutionary Computation)

by James Kennedy, Russell C. Eberhart, Yuhui Shi

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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages (Definitive Guides) cover

24. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages (Definitive Guides)

by David Flanagan

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The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web cover

25. The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web

by Jesse James Garrett

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) cover

26. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind cover

27. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

by Jack Trout, Al Ries

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The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!) cover

28. The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)

by Kenneth L. Fisher

Head First Design Patterns cover

29. Head First Design Patterns

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates

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The new business road test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan (2nd Edition) cover

30. The new business road test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan (2nd Edition)

by John Walker Mullins