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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 18, 2010 - Oct 25, 2010

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1. Windmill Networking: Understanding, Leveraging & Maximizing LinkedIn: An Unofficial, Step-by-Step Guide to Creating & Implementing Your LinkedIn Brand - Social Networking in a Web 2.0 World

by Neal Schaffer

Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives cover

2. Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives

by George Lakoff

Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State cover

3. Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State

by William J. Voegeli

The Eudaemonic Pie cover

4. The Eudaemonic Pie

by Thomas A. Bass

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Hacker's Delight cover

5. Hacker's Delight

by Henry S. Warren

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Further Mathematics for the Physical Sciences cover

6. Further Mathematics for the Physical Sciences

by Michael Tinker, Robert Lambourne

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Basic Mathematics for the Physical Sciences cover

7. Basic Mathematics for the Physical Sciences

by Robert Lambourne, Michael Tinker

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Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits cover

8. Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits

by Bjørn Lomborg

Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe cover

9. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe

by Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America cover

10. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen cover

11. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

by Christopher McDougall

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The Algorithm Design Manual cover

12. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena

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Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life cover

13. Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life

by Jeremy Campbell

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age cover

14. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Michael A. Hiltzik

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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master cover

15. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

by Andy Hunt, David Thomas, Dave Thomas, David . Thomas

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Muscles, Testing and Function: With Posture and Pain cover

16. Muscles, Testing and Function: With Posture and Pain

by Florence Peterson Kendall, Elizabeth Kendall McCreary, Patricia Geise Provance

Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E cover

17. Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E

by Benoit B. Mandelbrot

The New Toughness Training for Sports: Mental Emotional Physical Conditioning from One of the World's Premier Sports Psychologists cover

18. The New Toughness Training for Sports: Mental Emotional Physical Conditioning from One of the World's Premier Sports Psychologists

by James E. Loehr

The Lost Art of the Great Speech: How to Write One--How to Deliver It cover

19. The Lost Art of the Great Speech: How to Write One--How to Deliver It

by Richard Dowis

JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

20. JavaScript: The Good Parts

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

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Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS (2nd Edition) cover

21. Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS (2nd Edition)

by Dan Cederholm

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1897 Sears Roebuck & Co Catalogue cover

22. 1897 Sears Roebuck & Co Catalogue

by Sears, Roebuck and Company

Mind Hacks cover

23. Mind Hacks

by Tom Stafford, Matt Webb

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Mind Performance Hacks cover

24. Mind Performance Hacks

by Ron Hale-Evans

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Super Squats: How to Gain 30 Pounds of Muscle in 6 Weeks cover

25. Super Squats: How to Gain 30 Pounds of Muscle in 6 Weeks

by Randall J. Strossen

Fuzzy Modeling and Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining and Exploration (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

26. Fuzzy Modeling and Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining and Exploration (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Earl Cox

Fuzzy Logic for Business and Industry with Disk (Dos Windows) cover

27. Fuzzy Logic for Business and Industry with Disk (Dos Windows)

by Earl Cox

The Fuzzy Systems Handbook, Second Edition: A Practitioner's Guide to Building, Using, and Maintaining Fuzzy Systems cover

28. The Fuzzy Systems Handbook, Second Edition: A Practitioner's Guide to Building, Using, and Maintaining Fuzzy Systems

by Earl Cox

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The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy cover

29. The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy

by Irving Chernev

Sex.com: One Domain, Two Men, Twelve Years and the Brutal Battle for the Jewel in the Internet's Crown cover

30. Sex.com: One Domain, Two Men, Twelve Years and the Brutal Battle for the Jewel in the Internet's Crown

by Kieren McCarthy

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, Second Edition cover

31. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, Second Edition

by Albert Einstein

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The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization (Theory in Practice) cover

32. The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization (Theory in Practice)

by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin, Jessie Stricchiola

The World of Mathematics: A Four-Volume Set cover

33. The World of Mathematics: A Four-Volume Set

by James R. Newman

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

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

by Steve Krug

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The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice cover

35. The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice

by Robin Williams

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Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice cover

36. Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice

by Armin Hofmann

37. Logo, Font & Lettering Bible

by Leslie Cabarga

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Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings cover

38. Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings

by Amy N. Langville, Carl D. Meyer