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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Man Who Never Was: World War II's Boldest Counterintelligence Operation (Bluejacket Books) cover

401. Man Who Never Was: World War II's Boldest Counterintelligence Operation (Bluejacket Books)

by Ewen Montagu

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World According to Twitter cover

402. World According to Twitter

by David Pogue

Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly cover

403. Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly

by James E. McWilliams

Economyths: Ten Ways Economics Gets It Wrong cover

404. Economyths: Ten Ways Economics Gets It Wrong

by David Orrell

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters cover

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

by Matt Ridley

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The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers cover

406. The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers

by Edward Fields

Accounting Principles cover

407. Accounting Principles

by Jerry J. Weygandt, Donald E. Kieso, Paul D. Kimmel

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart cover

408. Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart

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

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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard cover

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

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

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Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition cover

410. Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition

by Michael J. Mauboussin

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

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

by Michael Michalko

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Visual Guide to Lock Picking cover

412. Visual Guide to Lock Picking

by Mark McCloud, Gonzalez de Santos

The Manga Guide to Databases cover

413. The Manga Guide to Databases

by Mana Takahashi, Shoko Azuma, Co Ltd Trend

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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self cover

414. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

by Thomas Metzinger

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Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human cover

415. Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human

by Susan Blackmore

The World's Writing Systems cover

416. The World's Writing Systems

by Peter T. Daniels, William Bright

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This Is Not a Game: A Novel cover

417. This Is Not a Game: A Novel

by Walter Jon Williams

Operating System Concepts (Windows XP Update) cover

418. Operating System Concepts (Windows XP Update)

by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne

Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865 cover

419. Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865

by Diane Barnes

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

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

by Shunryū Suzuki

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In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives cover

421. In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

by Steven Levy

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The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life cover

422. The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life

by John Daido Loori

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The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation cover

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

by Frederick Franck

Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to those Beautiful Methods of Rekoning which are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus cover

424. Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to those Beautiful Methods of Rekoning which are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus

by Silvanus Phillips Thompson

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The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series) cover

425. The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Robert C. Martin

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426. Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere

by Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev

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427. Writing the Natural Way

by Gabriele L. Rico

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions cover

428. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely

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

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

by Rohit Bhargava

68000 assembly language programming cover

430. 68000 assembly language programming

by Gerry Kane, Doug Hawkins, Lance A. Leventhal

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

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

by Lennard Zinn

Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom cover

432. Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom

by Daniel T. Willingham

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How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets cover

433. How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

by Felix Dennis

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The Method of Coordinates cover

434. The Method of Coordinates

by I.M. Gelfand, E.G. Glagoleva, A.A. Kirilov

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Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems cover

435. Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems

by Carl Townsend, Dennis Feucht

Political Targeting, Second Edition cover

436. Political Targeting, Second Edition

by Hal Malchow

Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference cover

437. Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference

by Judea Pearl

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Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries cover

438. Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries

by Don Libes

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Probability Theory: The Logic of Science cover

439. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

by E. T. Jaynes

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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us cover

440. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

by Daniel H. Pink

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Matrix Computations (Johns Hopkins Studies in Mathematical Sciences)(3rd Edition) cover

441. Matrix Computations (Johns Hopkins Studies in Mathematical Sciences)(3rd Edition)

by Gene H. Golub

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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers cover

442. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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

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

by Alex Kuznetsov

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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

444. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

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Web Operations cover

445. Web Operations

by John Allspaw, Jesse Robbins

The Art of Capacity Planning cover

446. The Art of Capacity Planning

by John Allspaw

Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems cover

447. Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems

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Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) cover

448. Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)

by Hanan Samet

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Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking cover

449. Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking

by Nathan Myhrvold

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

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

by Norah Vincent

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Being Right or Making Money cover

451. Being Right or Making Money

by Ned Davis, Ned Davis Research, Inc

Real World Java Ee Night Hacks Dissecting The Business Tier cover

452. Real World Java Ee Night Hacks Dissecting The Business Tier

by Adam Bien

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

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

by Mike Keith

Compiling with Continuations cover

454. Compiling with Continuations

by Andrew W. Appel

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Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server cover

455. Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server

by David R. Heffelfinger

Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition) cover

456. Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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

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

by Antonio Goncalves

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

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

by Nathan E. Davis

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem - Design - Solution (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) cover

459. ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem - Design - Solution (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

by Emad Ibrahim

An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood cover

460. An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

by Neal Gabler

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

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

by James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune

Accelerando (Singularity) cover

462. Accelerando (Singularity)

by Charles Stross

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Cracking the Coding Interview, Fourth Edition: 150 Programming Interview Questions and Solutions cover

463. Cracking the Coding Interview, Fourth Edition: 150 Programming Interview Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns cover

464. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

by Kent Beck

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The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear cover

465. The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear

by Seth Mnookin

Remembering the Kana: The Hiragana / The Katakana cover

466. Remembering the Kana: The Hiragana / The Katakana

by James W. Heisig, Helmut Morsbach, Kazue Kurebayashi

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Flexible Pattern Matching in Strings: Practical On-Line Search Algorithms for Texts and Biological Sequences cover

467. Flexible Pattern Matching in Strings: Practical On-Line Search Algorithms for Texts and Biological Sequences

by Gonzalo Navarro, Mathieu Raffinot

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

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

by John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Gigu?re

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales cover

469. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

by Oliver Sacks

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Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

470. Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Sheldon Jay Axler

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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives cover

471. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

by Leonard Mlodinow

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

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

by Dennis Elliott Shasha, Yunyue Zhu

Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer cover

473. Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer

by Anatoli Boukreev

C Traps and Pitfalls cover

474. C Traps and Pitfalls

by Andrew Koenig

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Simone Weil: An Anthology cover

475. Simone Weil: An Anthology

by Simone Weil

Prometheus Rising cover

476. Prometheus Rising

by Robert Anton Wilson

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Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to The Bell Curve (Statistics for Social Science and Public Policy) cover

477. Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to The Bell Curve (Statistics for Social Science and Public Policy)

by Bernie Devlin, Stephen E. Fienberg, Daniel P. Resnick, Kathryn Roeder

Engineering a Compiler: Vax-11 Code Generation and Optimization cover

478. Engineering a Compiler: Vax-11 Code Generation and Optimization

by Patricia Anklam

The Rails 3 Way (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) cover

479. The Rails 3 Way (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

by Obie Fernandez

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

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

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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The Paralation Model: Architecture-Independent Parallel Programming (Artificial Intelligence) cover

481. The Paralation Model: Architecture-Independent Parallel Programming (Artificial Intelligence)

by Gary Sabot

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

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

by Paul Midler

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Design by Contract, by Example cover

483. Design by Contract, by Example

by Richard Mitchell, Jim McKim

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

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

by Thomas Ligotti

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Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Reports) cover

485. Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Reports)

by Gerd Gigerenzer, Christoph Engel

ML for the Working Programmer, 2nd Edition cover

486. ML for the Working Programmer, 2nd Edition

by Lawrence C. Paulson

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Payments Systems in the U.S. cover

487. Payments Systems in the U.S.

by Carol Coye Benson, Scott Loftesness

Chronicles of the Lensmen, Volume 1 (Triplanetary, First Lensman, Galactic Patrol ) cover

488. Chronicles of the Lensmen, Volume 1 (Triplanetary, First Lensman, Galactic Patrol )

by Edward Elmer Smith, Doc Smith

Essentials of Programming Languages - 2nd Edition cover

489. Essentials of Programming Languages - 2nd Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand, Christopher Thomas Haynes

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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) cover

490. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

by Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills

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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less cover

491. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

by Barry Schwartz

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

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

by Barbara Minto

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest cover

493. The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

by Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt

Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) cover

494. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

by Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, Gregory G. Colomb

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Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Prose cover

495. Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Prose

by Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner

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Algorithmic Trading and DMA: An introduction to direct access trading strategies cover

496. Algorithmic Trading and DMA: An introduction to direct access trading strategies

by Barry Johnson

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White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts: Suppression, Obsession, and the Psychology of Mental Control cover

497. White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts: Suppression, Obsession, and the Psychology of Mental Control

by Daniel M. Wegner

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

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

by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

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We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs And The Forging Of The Electronic Age cover

499. We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs And The Forging Of The Electronic Age

by Bob Johnstone

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A Logical Approach to Discrete Math (Texts and Monographs in Computer Science) cover

500. A Logical Approach to Discrete Math (Texts and Monographs in Computer Science)

by David Gries, Fred B. Schneider

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