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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 23, 2010 - Aug 30, 2010

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb cover

1. The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

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Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men cover

2. Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men

by Roy F. Baumeister

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Effective Negotiating (Sunday Times Business Skills Series) cover

3. Effective Negotiating (Sunday Times Business Skills Series)

by Colin Robinson

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things cover

4. The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

by Barry Glassner

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The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving cover

5. The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving

by Morgan D. Jones

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Language Implementation Patterns: Create Your Own Domain-Specific and General Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

6. Language Implementation Patterns: Create Your Own Domain-Specific and General Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Terence Parr

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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) cover

7. Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

by Igor Stravinsky

Bare Essentials: The ALDI Way of Retailing cover

8. Bare Essentials: The ALDI Way of Retailing

by Dieter Brandes

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

9. Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1: How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Chinese Characters

by James W. Heisig, Timothy W. Richardson

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

10. 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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Algorithm Design cover

11. Algorithm Design

by Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos

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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) cover

12. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press)

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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Management Teams cover

13. Management Teams

by R. M. Belbin

Biology cover

14. Biology

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

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The Mathematical Experience cover

15. The Mathematical Experience

by Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh

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Loving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life cover

16. Loving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life

by Reuben Hersh, Vera John-Steiner

Freedom Evolves cover

17. Freedom Evolves

by Daniel C. Dennett

Atlas Shrugged cover

18. Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

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

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

by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die cover

20. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values cover

21. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig

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How To Win Friends and Influence People cover

22. How To Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream cover

23. The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

by Paulo Coelho

Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy cover

24. Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy

by Joel Feinberg, Russ Shafer-Landau

Matsushita Leadership cover

25. Matsushita Leadership

by John P. Kotter

Time Enough for Love cover

26. Time Enough for Love

by Robert A. Heinlein

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Molecular Biology made simple and fun, 4th edition cover

27. Molecular Biology made simple and fun, 4th edition

by David P. Clark, Lonnie Dee Russell