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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 2, 2011 - May 9, 2011

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Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude cover

1. Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

by Robert Baer
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Sleep Thinking: The Revolutionary Program That Helps You Solve Problems, Reduce Stress, and Increase Creativity While You Sleep cover

2. Sleep Thinking: The Revolutionary Program That Helps You Solve Problems, Reduce Stress, and Increase Creativity While You Sleep

by Eric Maisel
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The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone cover

3. The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone

by Kenneth W. Ford
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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

4. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto) cover

5. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A History of Western Philosophy cover

6. A History of Western Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia cover

7. Anarchy, State, and Utopia

by Robert Nozick
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A Theory of Justice: Original Edition (Oxford Paperbacks 301 301) cover

8. A Theory of Justice: Original Edition (Oxford Paperbacks 301 301)

by John Rawls
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The Quote Sleuth: A Manual for the Tracer of Lost Quotations cover

9. The Quote Sleuth: A Manual for the Tracer of Lost Quotations

by Anthony W. Shipps
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Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist cover

10. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

by Roger Lowenstein
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Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy cover

11. Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

by Jostein Gaarder
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) cover

12. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Notes from the Underground cover

13. Notes from the Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers cover

14. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

by Will Durant
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Living and Working in Spain: A Survival Handbook (Living & Working in Spain) cover

15. Living and Working in Spain: A Survival Handbook (Living & Working in Spain)

by David Hampshire
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Lisp in Small Pieces cover

16. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec
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Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault cover

17. Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault

by Pierre Hadot
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For God, Country, and Coca-Cola cover

18. For God, Country, and Coca-Cola

by Mark Pendergrast
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Computability, Complexity, and Languages, Second Edition: Fundamentals of Theoretical Computer Science (Computer Science and Scientific Computing) cover

19. Computability, Complexity, and Languages, Second Edition: Fundamentals of Theoretical Computer Science (Computer Science and Scientific Computing)

by Martin Davis, Ron Sigal, Elaine J. Weyuker
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Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition cover

20. Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition

by Thomas H Cormen, Charles E Leiserson, Ronald L Rivest, Clifford Stein
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Algorithm Design cover

21. Algorithm Design

by Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos
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