Hacker News Books for 2011

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Hacker News Books for 2011

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2011.

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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla cover

101. My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

by Nikola Tesla

Designerly Ways of Knowing (Board of International Research in Design) cover

102. Designerly Ways of Knowing (Board of International Research in Design)

by Nigel Cross

Effective Cycling: 6th Edition cover

103. Effective Cycling: 6th Edition

by John Forester

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How to Lie with Statistics cover

104. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff

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Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions cover

105. Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

by Gary A. Klein

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The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems cover

106. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

by Jef Raskin

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Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form – Twelve Revolutions in Digital Publishing, Creators' Rights, and the Future of Storytelling cover

107. Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form – Twelve Revolutions in Digital Publishing, Creators' Rights, and the Future of Storytelling

by Scott McCloud

Smart Calling: Eliminate the Fear, Failure, and Rejection From Cold Calling cover

108. Smart Calling: Eliminate the Fear, Failure, and Rejection From Cold Calling

by Art Sobczak

Judgment in Managerial Decision Making cover

109. Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

by Max H. Bazerman

Convicted but Innocent: Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy cover

110. Convicted but Innocent: Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy

by C. Ronald Huff, Arye Rattner, Edward Sagarin

The History of White People cover

111. The History of White People

by Nell Irvin Painter

The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing cover

112. The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing

by Benjamin Graham

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The Man Who Rode the Thunder cover

113. The Man Who Rode the Thunder

by William Henry Rankin

To Mock a Mockingbird cover

114. To Mock a Mockingbird

by Raymond M. Smullyan

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Secrets of Power Negotiating: Inside Secrets from a Master Negotiator cover

115. Secrets of Power Negotiating: Inside Secrets from a Master Negotiator

by Roger Dawson

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Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business cover

116. Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business

by Ernie Chan

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Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves cover

117. Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves

by Sharon Begley

The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force cover

118. The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force

by Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Sharon Begley

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values cover

119. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

by Sam Harris

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Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse cover

120. Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse

by Peter D. Schiff

Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder cover

121. Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder

by Rudy von Bitter Rucker

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Health Behavior Change and Treatment Adherence: Evidence-based Guidelines for Improving Healthcare cover

122. Health Behavior Change and Treatment Adherence: Evidence-based Guidelines for Improving Healthcare

by Leslie R. Martin, Kelly B. Haskard-Zolnierek, M. Robin DiMatteo

Programming Pearls (ACM Press) cover

123. Programming Pearls (ACM Press)

by Jon Louis Bentley

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Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual cover

124. Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health cover

125. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health

by Gary Taubes

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Fat and Cholesterol Are Good for You: What Really Causes Heart Disease cover

126. Fat and Cholesterol Are Good for You: What Really Causes Heart Disease

by Uffe Ravnskov

The Great Cholesterol Con cover

127. The Great Cholesterol Con

by Anthony Colpo

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health cover

128. Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

by William Davis

Paleo Solution, 2nd Edition cover

129. Paleo Solution, 2nd Edition

by Robb Wolf

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism cover

130. Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism

by George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller

C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

131. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature cover

132. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

by Matt Ridley

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Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy cover

133. Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

by Thomas Sowell

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women cover

134. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

by Susan Faludi

Thinking with a Pencil cover

135. Thinking with a Pencil

by Henning Nelms

Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk cover

136. Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk

by Richard Grinold, Ronald Kahn

Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage cover

137. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage

by Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas

Elements of Information Theory (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing) cover

138. Elements of Information Theory (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)

by Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas

Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition cover

139. Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition

by Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher

Statistics cover

140. Statistics

by David Freedman

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The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology cover

141. The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

by Robert Wright

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Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life cover

142. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

by Martin Elias Pete Seligman

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Train Your Brain to Get Happy: The Simple Program That Primes Your Grey Cells for Joy, Optimism, and Serenity cover

143. Train Your Brain to Get Happy: The Simple Program That Primes Your Grey Cells for Joy, Optimism, and Serenity

by Teresa Aubele, Susan Reynolds

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? cover

144. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

by Seth Godin

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

145. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

146. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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Hilary Mason: An Introduction to Machine Learning with Web Data cover

147. Hilary Mason: An Introduction to Machine Learning with Web Data

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The Art of Multiprocessor Programming cover

148. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit, Victor Luchangco, Michael Spear

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Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners cover

149. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

by Larry Harris

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The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation cover

150. The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation

by Perseus

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice cover

151. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

by Shunryū Suzuki

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

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

by Brian W. Kernighan

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The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers cover

153. The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers

by Edward Fields

Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition) cover

154. Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)

by Michael Michalko

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Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition cover

155. Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition

by Michael J. Mauboussin

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard cover

156. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart cover

157. Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart

by Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC Research Group

Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems cover

158. Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems

by Carl Townsend, Dennis Feucht

JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts cover

159. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier

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Project Management With Cpm, Pert and Precedence Diagramming cover

160. Project Management With Cpm, Pert and Precedence Diagramming

by Joseph J. Moder, Cecil R. Phillips, Edward Willmore Davis

Thinking and Deciding, 4th Edition cover

161. Thinking and Deciding, 4th Edition

by Jonathan Baron

Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand cover

162. Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand

by Connie Malamed

R Graphs Cookbook cover

163. R Graphs Cookbook

by Hrishi V. Mittal

Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything cover

164. Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

by Joshua Foer

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Debugging: The Nine Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems cover

165. Debugging: The Nine Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems

by David J. Agans

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art cover

166. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

by Scott McCloud

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The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance) cover

167. The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance)

by Alex Kuznetsov

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Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge cover

168. Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge

by Oded Shenkar

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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters cover

169. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

by Matt Ridley

The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life cover

170. The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life

by John Daido Loori

The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation cover

171. The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation

by Frederick Franck

The Elements of Typographic Style cover

172. The Elements of Typographic Style

by Robert Bringhurst

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Interview Questions and Solutions cover

173. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Interview Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann

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Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference cover

174. Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference

by Judea Pearl

Zinn's Cycling Primer: Maintenance Tips and Skill Building for Cyclists cover

175. Zinn's Cycling Primer: Maintenance Tips and Skill Building for Cyclists

by Lennard Zinn

Building Scalable Web Sites cover

176. Building Scalable Web Sites

by Cal Henderson

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Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

177. Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Hanan Samet

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

178. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman

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Personality Not Included: Why Companies Lose Their Authenticity And How Great Brands Get it Back, Foreword by Guy Kawasaki cover

179. Personality Not Included: Why Companies Lose Their Authenticity And How Great Brands Get it Back, Foreword by Guy Kawasaki

by Rohit Bhargava

The Art of Capacity Planning cover

180. The Art of Capacity Planning

Web Operations cover

181. Web Operations

Programming Collective Intelligence cover

182. Programming Collective Intelligence

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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) cover

183. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

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Beginning Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 (Expert's Voice in Java Technology) cover

184. Beginning Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 (Expert's Voice in Java Technology)

by Antonio Goncalves

Pro JPA 2: Mastering the Java™ Persistence API (Expert's Voice in Java Technology) cover

185. Pro JPA 2: Mastering the Java™ Persistence API (Expert's Voice in Java Technology)

by Mike Keith

Real World Java EE Night Hacks Dissecting the Business Tier cover

186. Real World Java EE Night Hacks Dissecting the Business Tier

by Adam Bien

Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server cover

187. Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server

by David R. Heffelfinger

Pro Puppet (Expert's Voice in Open Source) cover

188. Pro Puppet (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

by James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune

The Triumph of Contrarian Investing : Crowds, Manias, and Beating the Market by Going Against the Grain cover

189. The Triumph of Contrarian Investing : Crowds, Manias, and Beating the Market by Going Against the Grain

by Nathan E. Davis

Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again cover

190. Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again

by Norah Vincent

Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition) cover

191. Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

192. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

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Payments Systems in the U.S. cover

193. Payments Systems in the U.S.

by Carol Coye Benson, Scott Loftesness

The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth cover

194. The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor

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Remembering the Kana: The Hiragana / The Katakana cover

195. Remembering the Kana: The Hiragana / The Katakana

by James W. Heisig, Helmut Morsbach, Kazue Kurebayashi

Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns cover

196. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

by Kent Beck

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Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, 2nd Edition (Programmer to Programmer) cover

197. Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, 2nd Edition (Programmer to Programmer)

by John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Gigu?re

The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing) cover

198. The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing)

by Kees Doets, Jan Eijck

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High Performance Discovery In Time Series: Techniques and Case Studies (Monographs in Computer Science) cover

199. High Performance Discovery In Time Series: Techniques and Case Studies (Monographs in Computer Science)

by Dennis Elliott Shasha, Yunyue Zhu

Modernist Cuisine. The Art and Science of Cooking cover

200. Modernist Cuisine. The Art and Science of Cooking

by Nathan Myhrvold

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