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

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

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

by Bradford D. Smart

Database Nation cover

2. Database Nation

by Simson Garfinkel

Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss cover

3. Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss

by Pat Schwiebert, Chuck DeKlyen

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

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

by Jeff Potter

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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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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity cover

7. The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

by Julia Cameron

Applied Numerical Linear Algebra cover

8. Applied Numerical Linear Algebra

by James W. Demmel

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

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

by Aaron Hillegass

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The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory cover

10. The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory

by Aleksandr Romanovich Lurii͡a

Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition) cover

11. Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition)

by Scott Meyers

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Numbers (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

12. Numbers (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus

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Erlang and OTP in Action cover

13. Erlang and OTP in Action

by Martin Logan, Eric Merritt, Richard Carlsson

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

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

by Bill Gates

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

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

by Ken Auletta

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

17. 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

Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory cover

18. Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory

by Neil F. Johnson, Neil Johnson

Complexity: A Guided Tour cover

19. Complexity: A Guided Tour

by Melanie Mitchell

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

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

by David Kirkpatrick

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

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

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

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Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering cover

22. Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering

by Eldad Eilam

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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution cover

23. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

24. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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The Soul of A New Machine cover

25. The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder

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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

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

by Peter Seibel

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

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

by Scott Rosenberg

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Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition) cover

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

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull

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

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

by Joel Murach, Andrea Steelman

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

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

by Bryan Basham, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates

The Design and Evolution of C++ cover

31. The Design and Evolution of C++

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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