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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 20, 2010 - Dec 27, 2010

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Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss cover

1. Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss

by Pat Schwiebert, Chuck DeKlyen

Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching and Keeping the Best People cover

2. Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching and Keeping the Best People

by Bradford D. Smart

Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food cover

3. Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food

by Jeff Potter

The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism And Other Essays cover

4. The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism And Other Essays

by Roger Sandall

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid cover

5. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle cover

6. Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

by Dan Senor, Saul Singer

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Applied Numerical Linear Algebra cover

7. Applied Numerical Linear Algebra

by James W. Demmel

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (3rd Edition) cover

8. Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (3rd Edition)

by Aaron Hillegass

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xkcd: volume 0 cover

9. xkcd: volume 0

by Randall Munroe

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The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory, With a New Foreword by Jerome S. Bruner cover

10. The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory, With a New Foreword by Jerome S. Bruner

by Aleksandr Romanovich Lurii͡a

Numbers (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 123) cover

11. Numbers (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 123)

by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus

Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

12. Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Scott Meyers

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Erlang and OTP in Action cover

13. Erlang and OTP in Action

by Martin Logan, Eric Merritt, Richard Carlsson

The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance cover

14. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

by Henry Petroski

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The Art of Enterprise Information Architecture: A Systems-Based Approach for Unlocking Business Insight cover

15. The Art of Enterprise Information Architecture: A Systems-Based Approach for Unlocking Business Insight

by Mario Godinez, Eberhardt Hechler, Klaus Koenig, Martin Oberhofer, Steve Lockwood

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World cover

16. The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

by David Kirkpatrick

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Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy cover

17. Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

by Bill Gates

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Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory cover

18. Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory

by Neil F. Johnson, Neil Johnson

Googled: The End of the World As We Know It cover

19. Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

by Ken Auletta

Complexity: A Guided Tour cover

20. Complexity: A Guided Tour

by Melanie Mitchell

The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

21. The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan

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Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering cover

22. Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering

by Eldad Eilam

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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software cover

23. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

by Scott Rosenberg

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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

24. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel

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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution cover

25. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy

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The Soul of A New Machine cover

26. The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder

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Code cover

27. Code

by Charles Petzold

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Operating Systems Design and Implementation (Prentice Hall Software Series) cover

28. Operating Systems Design and Implementation (Prentice Hall Software Series)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull

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Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam cover

29. Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam

by Bryan Basham, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates

Murach's Java Servlets and JSP, 2nd Edition cover

30. Murach's Java Servlets and JSP, 2nd Edition

by Joel Murach, Andrea Steelman

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

31. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho

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Design and Evolution of C++, The cover

32. Design and Evolution of C++, The

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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