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

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

by Steven Johnson

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Musashi cover

3. Musashi

by 吉川英治

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

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

by Dan Gardner

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

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

by David Hackett Fischer

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

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

by Chandler Burr

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

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

by David Emanuel Hoffman

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The Last Lecture cover

8. The Last Lecture

by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow

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

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

by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

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

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

by Arthur Koestler

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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Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership cover

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

by Lewis Hyde

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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values cover

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

by Sam Harris

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

14. 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

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

by Pierre Bayard

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

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

by Henry Hazlitt

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Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance cover

17. Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance

by James B. Maas, Megan L. Wherry, David J. Axelrod, Barbara R. Hogan, Jennifer A. Blumin

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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

18. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran

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

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

by Chuck Klosterman

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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

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A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative cover

21. A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative

by Roger von Oech

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Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications cover

22. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

by Toby Segaran

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BUGS in Writing, Revised Edition: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose (2nd Edition) cover

23. BUGS in Writing, Revised Edition: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose (2nd Edition)

by Lyn Dupré

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

24. 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

Once a Runner: A Novel cover

25. Once a Runner: A Novel

by John L. Parker (Jr.)

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

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

by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross

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

27. 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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8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Foot cover

28. 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Foot

by Esther Gokhale

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The C Puzzle Book cover

29. The C Puzzle Book

by Alan R. Feuer

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World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques cover

30. World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques

by John Gillow, Bryan Sentance

Patternmaking: A Comprehensive Reference for Fashion Design cover

31. Patternmaking: A Comprehensive Reference for Fashion Design

by Sylvia Rosen

Exit Strategy cover

32. Exit Strategy

by Douglas Rushkoff

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The Management Secrets of T. John Dick cover

33. The Management Secrets of T. John Dick

by Augustus Gump

Introduction to Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

34. Introduction to Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Maxwell Rosenlicht

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Only the Paranoid Survive cover

35. Only the Paranoid Survive

by Andrew S. Grove

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Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets cover

36. 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

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

by Charles P. Kindleberger, Robert Aliber

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

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

by Al Seckel

Closure: The Definitive Guide cover

39. Closure: The Definitive Guide

by Michael Bolin

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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order cover

40. Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order

by Steven H. Strogatz

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

41. 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

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

by Kenneth P. Bowman

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

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

by Michael Michalko

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

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

by Steve Krug

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Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions cover

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

by Bill Scott, Theresa Neil

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Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points cover

46. Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points

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

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The Elements of Typographic Style cover

47. The Elements of Typographic Style

by Robert Bringhurst

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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools cover

48. 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

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

by Emil Pascarelli, M.D.

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

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

by Jay Conrad Levinson, Jeannie Levinson, Amy Levinson

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

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

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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

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

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

by Steven Silbiger

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CA$HVERTISING: How to Use More than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make Big Money Selling Anything to Anyone cover

54. CA$HVERTISING: How to Use More than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make Big Money Selling Anything to Anyone

by Drew Eric Whitman

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