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

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The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small cover

1. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small

by John Gall

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Loudspeaker Design Cookbook cover

2. Loudspeaker Design Cookbook

by Vance Dickason

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Designer & the Grid cover

3. Designer & the Grid

by Lucienne Roberts, Julia Thrift

Visual Thinking for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) cover

4. Visual Thinking for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)

by Colin Ware

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The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations cover

5. The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations

by Dietrich Dorner

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Gulag: A History cover

6. Gulag: A History

by Anne Applebaum

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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar cover

7. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

by Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia cover

8. Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

by Orlando Figes

Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies cover

9. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies

by Charles Perrow

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Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet (2nd Edition) cover

10. Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet (2nd Edition)

by Adrian Cockcroft, Richard Pettit

System Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly System Administration) cover

11. System Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly System Administration)

by Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci, Mike Loukides, Michael Kosta Loukides

What Smart Students Know: Maximum Grades. Optimum Learning. Minimum Time. cover

12. What Smart Students Know: Maximum Grades. Optimum Learning. Minimum Time.

by Adam Robinson

An Insiders Guide to Sub Modalities cover

13. An Insiders Guide to Sub Modalities

by Will MacDonald, Richard Bandler

The Structure of Magic, Vol. 1: A Book About Language and Therapy cover

14. The Structure of Magic, Vol. 1: A Book About Language and Therapy

by Richard Bandler, John Grinder

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Turtles All the Way Down: Prerequisites to Personal Genius cover

15. Turtles All the Way Down: Prerequisites to Personal Genius

by John Grinder, Judith DeLozier

Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., Vol. 2 cover

16. Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., Vol. 2

by John Grinder, Judith DeLozier, Richard Bandler

Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century: The Six-Step Plan to Unlock Your Master-Mind cover

17. Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century: The Six-Step Plan to Unlock Your Master-Mind

by Colin Penfield Rose, Malcolm J. Nicholl

The Algorithm Design Manual cover

18. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena

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Modern Welding cover

19. Modern Welding

by Andrew Daniel Althouse, Kevin E. Bowditch, William A. Bowditch

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

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

by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

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

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

22. 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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Smart Schools cover

23. Smart Schools

by David Perkins

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

24. 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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25. Mechanism of Mind

CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development cover

26. CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development

by Trevor Burnham

Boo Hoo: A Dot.com Story from Concept to Catastrophe cover

27. Boo Hoo: A Dot.com Story from Concept to Catastrophe

by Ernst Malmsten, Erik Portanger, Charles Drazin

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28. Overcoming Indecisiveness: The Eight Stages of Effective Descision-Making

by Theodore Isaac Rubin

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The Web Architect's Handbook cover

29. The Web Architect's Handbook

by Charles Stross

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The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences cover

30. The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

by N. J.A. Sloane, Simon Plouffe

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A Handbook of Integer Sequences cover

31. A Handbook of Integer Sequences

by N. J. A. Sloane

Authoritas: One Student's Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the Facebook Era cover

32. Authoritas: One Student's Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the Facebook Era

by Aaron Greenspan

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Information and the Internal Structure of the Universe: An Exploration into Information Physics cover

33. Information and the Internal Structure of the Universe: An Exploration into Information Physics

by Tom Stonier

Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management: Aligning Investment Proposals with Organizational Strategy cover

34. Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management: Aligning Investment Proposals with Organizational Strategy

by Anand Sanwal

Beyond Blogging: The Secrets to Blogging Success cover

35. Beyond Blogging: The Secrets to Blogging Success

by Nathan Hangen, Mike Cliffe-Jones

Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols (2nd Edition) cover

36. Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols (2nd Edition)

by Radia Perlman

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Wireless All In One For Dummies cover

37. Wireless All In One For Dummies

by Sean Walberg, Loyd Case, Joel Durham, Jr., Derek Torres

Check Point CCSA Exam Cram 2 (Exam 156-210.4) cover

38. Check Point CCSA Exam Cram 2 (Exam 156-210.4)

by Sean Walberg

Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer cover

39. Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer

by Duncan J. Watts

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Breakthrough Rapid Reading cover

40. Breakthrough Rapid Reading

by Peter Kump

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The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program cover

41. The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program

by Stanley D. Frank

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The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big In Business cover

42. The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big In Business

by Jeffrey Ma

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Python in a Nutshell cover

43. Python in a Nutshell

by Alex Martelli

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Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript cover

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

by Jonathan Stark

Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success cover

45. Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success

by Matthew Syed

BlackBerry Hacks cover

46. BlackBerry Hacks

by Dave Mabe

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) cover

47. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Beautiful Teams cover

48. Beautiful Teams

by Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene

Write Now: A Complete Self-teaching Program for Better Handwriting cover

49. Write Now: A Complete Self-teaching Program for Better Handwriting

by Barbara Getty, Inga Dubay

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Python Cookbook cover

50. Python Cookbook

by Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher

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Negotiating Your Salary: How To Make $1,000 A Minute 2006 Edition cover

51. Negotiating Your Salary: How To Make $1,000 A Minute 2006 Edition

by Jack Chapman

The Great International Paper Airplane Book cover

52. The Great International Paper Airplane Book

by Jerry Mander, George Dippel, Howard Luck Gossage

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M&A, Cooperations and Networks in the e-Business Industry cover

53. M&A, Cooperations and Networks in the e-Business Industry

by Michael Jurgen Garbade

Python Pocket Reference cover

54. Python Pocket Reference

by Mark Lutz

Programming iOS 4 cover

55. Programming iOS 4

by Matt Neuburg

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iOS 4 Programming Cookbook cover

56. iOS 4 Programming Cookbook

by Vandad Nahavandipoor