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

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Hacker's Delight cover

1. Hacker's Delight

by Henry S. Warren

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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win cover

2. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

by Steven Gary Blank

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

3. 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

4. Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State

by William J. Voegeli

The Eudaemonic Pie cover

5. The Eudaemonic Pie

by Thomas A. Bass

Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits cover

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

by Bjørn Lomborg

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

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

by Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee

Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn't Report to You cover

8. Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn't Report to You

by Tom Kendrick

The Algorithm Design Manual cover

9. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena

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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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Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life cover

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

by Jeremy Campbell

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master cover

13. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

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

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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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Muscles : Testing and Function cover

15. Muscles : Testing and Function

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

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

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

by Benoit B. Mandelbrot

Leading Change cover

17. Leading Change

by John P. Kotter

Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-case Scenarios With Xhtml and Css cover

18. Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-case Scenarios With Xhtml and Css

by Dan Cederholm

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JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts cover

19. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier

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

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

by Richard Dowis

1897 Sears Roebuck & Co Catalogue cover

21. 1897 Sears Roebuck & Co Catalogue

by Sears, Roebuck and Company

Mind Hacks cover

22. Mind Hacks

by Tom Stafford, Matt Webb

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Mind Performance Hacks cover

23. Mind Performance Hacks

by Ron Hale-Evans

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

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

by Randall J. Strossen

Shared Source CLI Essentials cover

25. Shared Source CLI Essentials

by David Stutz, Ted Neward, Geoff Shilling

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

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

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

by Earl Cox

Fuzzy Logic for Business and Industry (DOS Windows) cover

28. Fuzzy Logic for Business and Industry (DOS Windows)

by Earl Cox

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 (Volume 2) cover

30. Sex.com: One Domain, Two Men, Twelve Years and the Brutal Battle for the Jewel in the Internet's Crown (Volume 2)

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 World of Mathematics: A Four-Volume Set (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

32. The World of Mathematics: A Four-Volume Set (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by James R. Newman

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

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

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

Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design cover

34. Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design

by Robert Hoekman

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Color Design Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design cover

35. Color Design Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design

by Terry Lee Stone, Sean Adams, Noreen Morioka

36. Logo Design Workbook: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Logos

by Sean Adams, Noreen Morioka

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design cover

37. The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

by Jason Beaird

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Unusually Useful Web Book, The cover

38. Unusually Useful Web Book, The

by June Cohen

39. Logo Font & Lettering Bible: A Comprehensive Guide to the Design, Construction and Usage of Alphabets and Symbols

by Leslie Cabarga

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

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

by Robin Williams

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

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

by Steve Krug

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Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice cover

42. Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice

by Armin Hofmann

The Elements of Typographic Style cover

43. The Elements of Typographic Style

by Robert Bringhurst

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

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

by Amy N. Langville, Carl D. Meyer