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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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

101. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla cover

102. My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

by Nikola Tesla

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

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

by Nigel Cross

Effective Cycling: 6th Edition cover

104. Effective Cycling: 6th Edition

by John Forester

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How to Lie with Statistics cover

105. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff

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Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions cover

106. 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

107. 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

108. 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

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

by Art Sobczak

Judgment in Managerial Decision Making cover

110. Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

by Max H. Bazerman

Convicted but Innocent: Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy cover

111. Convicted but Innocent: Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy

by C. Ronald Huff, Arye Rattner, Edward Sagarin

The History of White People cover

112. The History of White People

by Nell Irvin Painter

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

113. 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

114. The Man Who Rode the Thunder

by William Henry Rankin

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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To Mock a Mockingbird cover

116. To Mock a Mockingbird

by Raymond M. Smullyan

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

117. 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

118. 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

119. 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

120. 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

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

by Peter D. Schiff

Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder cover

122. 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

123. 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

124. Programming Pearls (ACM Press)

by Jon Louis Bentley

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Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual cover

125. Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual

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

126. 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

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

by Uffe Ravnskov

The Great Cholesterol Con cover

128. The Great Cholesterol Con

by Anthony Colpo

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

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

by William Davis

Paleo Solution, 2nd Edition cover

130. Paleo Solution, 2nd Edition

by Robb Wolf

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

131. 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

132. 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

133. 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

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

by Thomas Sowell

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women cover

135. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

by Susan Faludi

Thinking with a Pencil cover

136. Thinking with a Pencil

by Henning Nelms

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

137. 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

138. 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

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

by Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas

Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition cover

140. Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition

by Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher

Statistics cover

141. 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

142. 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

143. 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

144. 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

145. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

by Seth Godin

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

146. 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

147. 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

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

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The Art of Multiprocessor Programming cover

149. 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

150. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

by Larry Harris

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The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation cover

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

by Perseus

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

152. 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

153. 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

154. The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers

by Edward Fields

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart cover

155. Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart

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

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

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

by Michael Michalko

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Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition cover

157. Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition

by Michael J. Mauboussin

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard cover

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

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

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Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems cover

159. Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems

by Carl Townsend, Dennis Feucht

JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts cover

160. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier

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Thinking and Deciding, 4th Edition cover

161. Thinking and Deciding, 4th Edition

by Jonathan Baron

Project Management With Cpm, Pert and Precedence Diagramming cover

162. Project Management With Cpm, Pert and Precedence Diagramming

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

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

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

by Connie Malamed

R Graphs Cookbook cover

164. R Graphs Cookbook

by Hrishi V. Mittal

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

165. 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

166. 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

167. 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

168. 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

169. 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

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

by Matt Ridley

The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life cover

171. The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life

by John Daido Loori

The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation cover

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

by Frederick Franck

The Elements of Typographic Style cover

173. The Elements of Typographic Style

by Robert Bringhurst

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

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

by Gayle Laakmann

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Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference cover

175. Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference

by Judea Pearl

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

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

by Lennard Zinn

Building Scalable Web Sites cover

177. 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

178. 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

179. 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

180. 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

181. The Art of Capacity Planning

Web Operations cover

182. Web Operations

Programming Collective Intelligence cover

183. Programming Collective Intelligence

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

184. 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

185. 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

186. 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

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

by Adam Bien

Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server cover

188. Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server

by David R. Heffelfinger

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

189. 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

190. 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

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

by Norah Vincent

Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition) cover

192. Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

193. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

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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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Payments Systems in the U.S. cover

195. Payments Systems in the U.S.

by Carol Coye Benson, Scott Loftesness

Remembering the Kana: The Hiragana / The Katakana cover

196. Remembering the Kana: The Hiragana / The Katakana

by James W. Heisig, Helmut Morsbach, Kazue Kurebayashi

Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns cover

197. 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

198. 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

199. 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

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

by Dennis Elliott Shasha, Yunyue Zhu