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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Modernist Cuisine. The Art and Science of Cooking cover

201. Modernist Cuisine. The Art and Science of Cooking

by Nathan Myhrvold

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Simone Weil: An Anthology cover

202. Simone Weil: An Anthology

by Simone Weil

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die cover

203. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

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Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the China Production Game cover

204. Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the China Production Game

by Paul Midler

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror cover

205. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

by Thomas Ligotti

Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Reports) cover

206. Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Reports)

by Gerd Gigerenzer, Christoph Engel

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself cover

207. You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself

by David McRaney

The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving cover

208. The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving

by Barbara Minto

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom cover

209. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

by Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills

How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby cover

210. How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby

by Landrum Brewer Shettles, David M. Rorvik

Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long cover

211. Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long

by David Rock

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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams cover

212. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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The Linux Programming Interface cover

213. The Linux Programming Interface

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover

214. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines cover

215. Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines

by Vaclav Smil

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialS ystem--and Themselves cover

216. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialS ystem--and Themselves

by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology Behind Search cover

217. Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology Behind Search

by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto

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Prometheus Rising cover

218. Prometheus Rising

by Robert Anton Wilson

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The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep cover

219. The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep

by William C. Dement

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Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development (Essays in Social Psychology) cover

220. Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development (Essays in Social Psychology)

by Carol S. Dweck

Light Science & Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting cover

221. Light Science & Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting

by Fil Hunter, Paul Fuqua, Steven Biver

First Thing We Do, Let's Deregulate All the Lawyers cover

222. First Thing We Do, Let's Deregulate All the Lawyers

by Clifford Winston, Robert W. Crandall, Vikram Maheshri

High Performance MySQL, 2nd Edition cover

223. High Performance MySQL, 2nd Edition

by Jeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling, Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Baron Schwartz. Peter Zaitsev. Vadim Tkachenko. Jeremy D. Zawodny. Arjen Lentz. Derek J. Balling

Too Many Women?: The Sex Ratio Question cover

224. Too Many Women?: The Sex Ratio Question

by Marcia Guttentag, Paul F. Secord

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less cover

225. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

by Barry Schwartz

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TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

226. TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by W. Richard Stevens, Gary R. Wright

Zentangle Basics: A Creative Art form Where All You Need Is Paper Pencil & Pen (Design Originals) 25 Basic Tangles Step-by-Step; Turn Drawings into Art Designs, Improve Focus, & Develop Dexterity cover

227. Zentangle Basics: A Creative Art form Where All You Need Is Paper Pencil & Pen (Design Originals) 25 Basic Tangles Step-by-Step; Turn Drawings into Art Designs, Improve Focus, & Develop Dexterity

by Suzanne McNeill

Algorithm Design cover

228. Algorithm Design

by Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos

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Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals cover

229. Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals

by David Aronson

Pairs Trading: Quantitative Methods and Analysis (Wiley Finance) cover

230. Pairs Trading: Quantitative Methods and Analysis (Wiley Finance)

by Ganapathy Vidyamurthy

An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance cover

231. An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance

by Michel M. Dacorogna

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) cover

232. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

by Jez Humble

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The Language Construction Kit cover

233. The Language Construction Kit

by Mark Rosenfelder

Augustine's Laws, Sixth Edition cover

234. Augustine's Laws, Sixth Edition

by Norman R. Augustine

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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin cover

235. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

by Erik Larson

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Programming Perl, 4th Edition cover

236. Programming Perl, 4th Edition

by Tom Christiansen

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Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know cover

237. Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 cover

238. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

by Brian Fagan

Mind Performance Hacks cover

239. Mind Performance Hacks

by Ron Hale-Evans

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Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy cover

240. Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy

by Ken Follett

Learn to Program cover

241. Learn to Program

by Chris Pine

Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems) cover

242. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell

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The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law cover

243. The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law

by William M. Landes, Richard A. Posner

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition cover

244. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition

by Peter Bevelin

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The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice cover

245. The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice

by Robin Williams

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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

246. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff

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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws cover

247. The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws

by Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto

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How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization cover

248. How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization

by Mortimer Jerome Adler

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires cover

249. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu

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Theory of Moral Sentiments (Great Books in Philosophy) cover

250. Theory of Moral Sentiments (Great Books in Philosophy)

by Adam Smith

Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming InterviewQuestions and Solutions cover

251. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming InterviewQuestions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

The Definitive Guide to SQLite (Expert's Voice in Open Source) cover

252. The Definitive Guide to SQLite (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

by Grant Allen

Operating System Design: The XINU Approach cover

253. Operating System Design: The XINU Approach

by Douglas Comer

Why We Nap: Evolution, Chronobiology, and Functions of Polyphasic and Ultrashort Sleep cover

254. Why We Nap: Evolution, Chronobiology, and Functions of Polyphasic and Ultrashort Sleep

by Claudio Stampi

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

255. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock

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Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction cover

256. Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction

by Timothy Gowers

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Using Google App Engine cover

257. Using Google App Engine

TCP/IP Illustrated: The Protocols, Volume 1 (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

258. TCP/IP Illustrated: The Protocols, Volume 1 (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Kevin R. Fall, W. Richard Stevens

Bazooka: How to Build Your Own cover

259. Bazooka: How to Build Your Own

by Anthony Lewis

R in a Nutshell cover

260. R in a Nutshell

Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler (Acm Press Books) cover

261. Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler (Acm Press Books)

by Niklaus Wirth, Jürg Gutknecht

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Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from cover

262. Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from

by Thomas Frank, Matt Weiland

Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy cover

263. Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy

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Tap, Move, Shake cover

264. Tap, Move, Shake

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work cover

265. The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

by Shawn Achor

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Completely Revised and Updated Edition cover

266. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Completely Revised and Updated Edition

by Burton Gordon Malkiel

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Algorithmic Composition: Paradigms of Automated Music Generation cover

267. Algorithmic Composition: Paradigms of Automated Music Generation

by Gerhard Nierhaus

The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies cover

268. The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies

by David Wilcock

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A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge cover

269. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge

by Project Management Institute

Head First HTML5 Programming cover

270. Head First HTML5 Programming

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit cover

271. Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit

by Mary Poppendieck, Thomas David Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

272. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford

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Pi and the AGM: A Study in Analytic Number Theory and Computational Complexity (Canadian Mathematical Society Series of Monographs and Advan) cover

273. Pi and the AGM: A Study in Analytic Number Theory and Computational Complexity (Canadian Mathematical Society Series of Monographs and Advan)

by Jonathan M. Borwein, Peter B. Borwein

What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite cover

274. What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

by David DiSalvo

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter cover

275. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

by Richard Phillips Feynman, A. Zee

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On Negotiating cover

276. On Negotiating

by Mark H. McCormack

Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code cover

277. Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code

by Van Lindberg

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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web cover

278. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville

The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself cover

279. The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself

by Susan Bell

Linux Kernel Development cover

280. Linux Kernel Development

by Robert Love

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Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective cover

281. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

by Randal E. Bryant, David R. O'Hallaron

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A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core cover

282. A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core

by Enrico Perla, Massimiliano Oldani

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

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

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull

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Indiscrete Thoughts cover

284. Indiscrete Thoughts

by Gian-Carlo Rota

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) cover

285. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

by Seth Godin

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The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom cover

286. The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

by James W. Stigler, James Hiebert

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Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education cover

287. Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education

by David Perkins

Visible Learning cover

288. Visible Learning

by John Hattie

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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

289. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World cover

290. Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World

by Nicholas Shaxson

JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns cover

291. JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns

by Stoyan Stefanov

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Killer Game Programming in Java cover

292. Killer Game Programming in Java

by Andrew Davison

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses cover

293. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

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Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing cover

294. Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing

by Jane Margolis, Allan Fisher

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Major Account Sales Strategy cover

295. Major Account Sales Strategy

by Neil Rackham

The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law cover

296. The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law

by Ward Farnsworth

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Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters cover

297. Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters

by David D. Friedman

Introducing HTML 5 (Voices That Matter) cover

298. Introducing HTML 5 (Voices That Matter)

by Bruce Lawson, Remy Sharp

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

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

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results cover

300. Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results

by Bill Jensen, Josh Klein