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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Simone Weil: An Anthology cover

201. Simone Weil: An Anthology

by Simone Weil

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

202. 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

203. 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

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

by Thomas Ligotti

Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Reports) cover

205. 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

206. 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

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

by Barbara Minto

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom cover

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

by Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills

How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby cover

209. 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

210. 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

211. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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The Linux Programming Interface cover

212. The Linux Programming Interface

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover

213. 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

214. 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

215. 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

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

by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto

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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

217. 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

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

by Carol S. Dweck

Prometheus Rising cover

219. Prometheus Rising

by Robert Anton Wilson

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Light Science & Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting cover

220. 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

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

by Clifford Winston, Robert W. Crandall, Vikram Maheshri

High Performance MySQL, 2nd Edition cover

222. 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

223. Too Many Women?: The Sex Ratio Question

by Marcia Guttentag, Paul F. Secord

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less cover

224. 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

225. 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

226. 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

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

227. 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

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

by Ganapathy Vidyamurthy

An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance cover

229. An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance

by Michel M. Dacorogna

Algorithm Design cover

230. Algorithm Design

by Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos

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

231. 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

232. The Language Construction Kit

by Mark Rosenfelder

Augustine's Laws, Sixth Edition cover

233. 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

234. 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

235. Programming Perl, 4th Edition

by Tom Christiansen

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Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know cover

236. Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

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

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

by Brian Fagan

Mind Performance Hacks cover

238. Mind Performance Hacks

by Ron Hale-Evans

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Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy cover

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

by Ken Follett

Learn to Program cover

240. 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

241. 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

242. The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law

by William M. Landes, Richard A. Posner

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

243. 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

244. 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

245. 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

246. 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

247. 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

248. 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

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

by Adam Smith

Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming InterviewQuestions and Solutions cover

250. 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

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

by Grant Allen

Operating System Design: The XINU Approach cover

252. Operating System Design: The XINU Approach

by Douglas Comer

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

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

by Claudio Stampi

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

254. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock

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Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction cover

255. Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction

by Timothy Gowers

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Using Google App Engine cover

256. Using Google App Engine

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

257. 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

258. Bazooka: How to Build Your Own

by Anthony Lewis

R in a Nutshell cover

259. R in a Nutshell

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

260. 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

261. 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

262. 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

263. Tap, Move, Shake

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

264. 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

265. 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

266. 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

267. 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

268. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge

by Project Management Institute

Head First HTML5 Programming cover

269. Head First HTML5 Programming

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit cover

270. Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit

by Mary Poppendieck, Thomas David Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

271. 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

272. 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

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

by David DiSalvo

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter cover

274. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

by Richard Phillips Feynman, A. Zee

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On Negotiating cover

275. On Negotiating

by Mark H. McCormack

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

276. 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

277. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville

The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself cover

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

by Susan Bell

Linux Kernel Development cover

279. Linux Kernel Development

by Robert Love

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Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective cover

280. 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

281. 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

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

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull

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Indiscrete Thoughts cover

283. Indiscrete Thoughts

by Gian-Carlo Rota

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

284. 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

285. 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

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

by David Perkins

Visible Learning cover

287. Visible Learning

by John Hattie

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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

288. 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

289. 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

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

by Stoyan Stefanov

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Killer Game Programming in Java cover

291. Killer Game Programming in Java

by Andrew Davison

Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing cover

292. Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing

by Jane Margolis, Allan Fisher

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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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Major Account Sales Strategy cover

294. Major Account Sales Strategy

by Neil Rackham

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

295. 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

296. 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

297. 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

298. 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

299. Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results

by Bill Jensen, Josh Klein

The Art of Artificial Evolution: A Handbook on Evolutionary Art and Music (Natural Computing Series) cover

300. The Art of Artificial Evolution: A Handbook on Evolutionary Art and Music (Natural Computing Series)

by Juan J. Romero