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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 27, 2010 - Oct 4, 2010

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Effective Cycling: 6th Edition cover

1. Effective Cycling: 6th Edition

by John Forester

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Why Don't Students Like School? cover

2. Why Don't Students Like School?

by Daniel T. Willingham

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The New Quotable Einstein cover

3. The New Quotable Einstein

by Albert Einstein, Alice Calaprice

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation cover

4. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

by Steven Johnson

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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence cover

5. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence

by Betty Edwards

The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History cover

6. The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History

by David Hackett Fischer

Musashi cover

7. Musashi

by 吉川英治

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Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear. Dan Gardner cover

8. Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear. Dan Gardner

by Dan Gardner

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (Compass) cover

9. The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (Compass)

by Arthur Koestler

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark cover

10. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

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

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

by Jared M. Diamond

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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy cover

12. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

by David Emanuel Hoffman

The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses cover

13. The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses

by Chandler Burr

The Last Lecture cover

14. The Last Lecture

by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow

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Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership cover

15. Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

by Lewis Hyde

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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values cover

16. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

by Sam Harris

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Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics cover

17. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

by Henry Hazlitt

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Awaken the Giant Within : How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! cover

18. Awaken the Giant Within : How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!

by Tony Robbins

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read cover

19. How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

by Pierre Bayard

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The End of History and the Last Man cover

20. The End of History and the Last Man

by Francis Fukuyama

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto cover

21. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

by Chuck Klosterman

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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

22. Programming Collective Intelligence

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The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, 2nd Edition cover

23. The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, 2nd Edition

by Clair Davies, Amber Davies

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Once a Runner: A Novel cover

24. Once a Runner: A Novel

by John L. Parker (Jr.)

How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live: Learning the Alexander Technique to Explore Your Mind-Body Connection and Achieve Self-Mastery cover

25. How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live: Learning the Alexander Technique to Explore Your Mind-Body Connection and Achieve Self-Mastery

by Missy Vineyard

Bugs in Writing: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose cover

26. Bugs in Writing: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose

by Lyn Dupré

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The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling cover

27. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling

by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross

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8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back (Remember When It Didn't Hurt) cover

28. 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back (Remember When It Didn't Hurt)

by Esther Gokhale

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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) cover

29. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Gregory Clark

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The Management Secrets of T. John Dick cover

30. The Management Secrets of T. John Dick

by Augustus Gump

The C Puzzle Book cover

31. The C Puzzle Book

by Alan R. Feuer

Patternmaking: A Comprehensive Reference for Fashion Design cover

32. Patternmaking: A Comprehensive Reference for Fashion Design

by Sylvia Rosen

World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques cover

33. World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques

by John Gillow, Bryan Sentance

Exit Strategy cover

34. Exit Strategy

by Douglas Rushkoff

Introduction to Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

35. Introduction to Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Maxwell Rosenlicht

Only the Paranoid Survive cover

36. Only the Paranoid Survive

by Andrew S. Grove

The Wright Brothers: The Remarkable Story of the Aviation Pioneers Who Changed the World cover

37. The Wright Brothers: The Remarkable Story of the Aviation Pioneers Who Changed the World

by Ian Mackersey

Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets cover

38. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

by Peter Van der Linden

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Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics) cover

39. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics)

by Charles P. Kindleberger, Robert Aliber

Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion cover

40. Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion

by Al Seckel

O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training cover

41. O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training

by Jerry D. Peek

They All Laughed When I Sat Down at the Computer: And Other True Tales of One Man's Struggle With Personal Computing cover

42. They All Laughed When I Sat Down at the Computer: And Other True Tales of One Man's Struggle With Personal Computing

by Erik Sandberg-Diment

An Introduction to Programming with IDL: Interactive Data Language cover

43. An Introduction to Programming with IDL: Interactive Data Language

by Kenneth P. Bowman

Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition) cover

44. Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)

by Michael Michalko

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The Elements of Typographic Style cover

45. The Elements of Typographic Style

by Robert Bringhurst

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Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability cover

46. Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

by Steve Krug

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Defensive Design for the Web: How to Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points cover

47. Defensive Design for the Web: How to Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points

by Matthew Linderman, Jason Fried, 37signals (Firm)

Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions cover

48. Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions

by Bill Scott, Theresa Neil

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools cover

49. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

by Jonathan Kozol

Dr. Pascarelli's Complete Guide to Repetitive Strain Injury: What You Need to Know About RSI and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome cover

50. Dr. Pascarelli's Complete Guide to Repetitive Strain Injury: What You Need to Know About RSI and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

by Emil F. Pascarelli

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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) cover

51. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)

by Clayton M. Christensen

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Guerilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business cover

52. Guerilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business

by Jay Conrad Levinson, Jeannie Levinson, Amy Levinson

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers cover

53. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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The Ten-Day MBA: A Step-By-step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools cover

54. The Ten-Day MBA: A Step-By-step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools

by Steven Silbiger

Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone cover

55. Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone

by Drew Eric Whitman