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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 6, 2010 - Dec 13, 2010

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Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men And Mountains cover

1. Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men And Mountains

by Jon Krakauer

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America cover

2. Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

by Robert Whitaker

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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) cover

3. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)

by George R. R. Martin

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Atlas Shrugged cover

4. Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

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Energy, the Subtle Concept: The discovery of Feynman's blocks from Leibniz to Einstein cover

5. Energy, the Subtle Concept: The discovery of Feynman's blocks from Leibniz to Einstein

by Jennifer Coopersmith

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster cover

6. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

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Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility cover

7. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

by James P. Carse

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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life cover

8. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

by Alice Schroeder

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

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

by Steven Johnson

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Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd cover

10. Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd

by Youngme Moon

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Breakfast of Champions: A Novel cover

11. Breakfast of Champions: A Novel

by Kurt Vonnegut

World Without End cover

12. World Without End

by Ken Follett

The Pillars of the Earth cover

13. The Pillars of the Earth

by Ken Follett

Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry cover

14. Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry

by Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler

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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose cover

15. Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

by Tony Hsieh

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The Ridiculous Race cover

16. The Ridiculous Race

by Vali Chandrasekaran

Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet cover

17. Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet

by Joseph Menn

Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America cover

18. Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America

by Jay Mathews

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Outlines of a Formalist Philosophy of Mathematics (Study in Logic & Mathematics) cover

19. Outlines of a Formalist Philosophy of Mathematics (Study in Logic & Mathematics)

by Haskell Brooks Curry

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

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

by Christopher McDougall

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The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman cover

21. The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman

by Timothy Ferriss

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Mind and Heart of the Negotiator, The (3rd Edition) cover

22. Mind and Heart of the Negotiator, The (3rd Edition)

by Leigh L. Thompson

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A Little History of the World cover

23. A Little History of the World

by E. H. Gombrich

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol cover

24. The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

by Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow

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Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence cover

25. Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence

by Ivan Bratko

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind cover

26. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

by Julian Jaynes

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A Technique for Producing Ideas (Advertising Age Classics Library) cover

27. A Technique for Producing Ideas (Advertising Age Classics Library)

by James Young

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Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture (Design Briefs) cover

28. Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture (Design Briefs)

by Casey Reas

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

29. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

30. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto

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Scalable Internet Architectures cover

31. Scalable Internet Architectures

by Theo Schlossnagle

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How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics cover

32. How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics

by Zbigniew Michalewicz, David B. Fogel

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

33. 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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Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Azure™ Platform (Patterns & Practices) cover

34. Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Azure™ Platform (Patterns & Practices)

by Dominic Betts, Eugenio Pace, Scott Densmore, Ryan Dunn

Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition) cover

35. Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull

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