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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Apr 25, 2011 - May 2, 2011

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Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease cover

1. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

by Gary Taubes

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The Algorithm Design Manual cover

2. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena

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

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

by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

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Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) cover

4. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)

by Liping Ma

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Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education cover

5. Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education

by Harold Stevenson, James W. Stigler

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

6. 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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Python in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition cover

7. Python in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Alex Martelli

Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript cover

8. Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

BlackBerry Hacks cover

9. BlackBerry Hacks

by Dave Mabe

Beautiful Teams cover

10. Beautiful Teams

by Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene

Python Cookbook cover

11. Python Cookbook

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Python Pocket Reference, 4th Edition cover

12. Python Pocket Reference, 4th Edition

iOS 4 Programming Cookbook cover

13. iOS 4 Programming Cookbook

Programming iOS 4 cover

14. Programming iOS 4

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