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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 16, 2011 - May 23, 2011

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Compulsory Mis-Education and the Community of Scholars cover

1. Compulsory Mis-Education and the Community of Scholars

by Paul Goodman

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read cover

2. How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

by Pierre Bayard

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The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry cover

3. The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry

by William K. Black

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The Pleasures of Counting cover

4. The Pleasures of Counting

by Thomas William Körner

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Deus X cover

5. Deus X

by Norman Spinrad

Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid cover

6. Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid

by Robert J. Sternberg

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

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

by Dan Ariely

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Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average cover

8. Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average

by Joseph T. Hallinan

Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior cover

9. Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

by Ori Brafman, Rom Brafman

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Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions cover

10. Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions

by Zachary Shore

Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance cover

11. Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance

by James B. Maas, Megan L. Wherry, David J. Axelrod, Barbara R. Hogan, Jennifer A. Blumin

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Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

12. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey A. Silverglate

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Tuck Everlasting (A Sunburst book) cover

13. Tuck Everlasting (A Sunburst book)

by Natalie Babbitt

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

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

by Susan Blackmore

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

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

by Thomas Metzinger

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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) cover

16. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books)

by Tim Wu, Tim Wu

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Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face cover

17. Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face

by Dale C. Carson, Wes Denham

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ML for the Working Programmer, 2nd Edition cover

18. ML for the Working Programmer, 2nd Edition

by Lawrence C. Paulson

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I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape cover

19. I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape

by Robin Warshaw

Elements of ML Programming, ML97 Edition (2nd Edition) cover

20. Elements of ML Programming, ML97 Edition (2nd Edition)

by Jeffrey D. Ullman

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High Performance MySQL cover

21. High Performance MySQL

by Jeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling

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39 One-Evening Electronic Projects cover

22. 39 One-Evening Electronic Projects

by Robert J. Traister

Electric Circuits: Principles, Applications, and Computer Analysis cover

23. Electric Circuits: Principles, Applications, and Computer Analysis

by David A. Bell

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (3rd Edition) cover

24. Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (3rd Edition)

by Aaron Hillegass

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The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction cover

25. The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction

by Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran, Allen Newell

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Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) cover

26. Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

by Chad Pytel, Tammer Saleh

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Crafting Rails Applications: Expert Practices for Everyday Rails Development (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

27. Crafting Rails Applications: Expert Practices for Everyday Rails Development (Pragmatic Programmers)

by José Valim

28. Logo, Font & Lettering Bible

by Leslie Cabarga

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The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You cover

29. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You

by Eli Pariser

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Just Go to Bed (Little Critter) (Pictureback(R)) cover

30. Just Go to Bed (Little Critter) (Pictureback(R))

by Mercer Mayer

The New Way Things Work cover

31. The New Way Things Work

by David Macaulay

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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (MIT Press) cover

32. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (MIT Press)

by Matthew Frederick

Eat That Frog!: Get More of the Important Things Done, Today! cover

33. Eat That Frog!: Get More of the Important Things Done, Today!

by Brian Tracy