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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 23, 2011 - May 30, 2011

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Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood cover

1. Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

by Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey

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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal cover

2. The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

by James E. Loehr, Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz

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Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions cover

3. Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

by Jeff Hammerbacher, Toby Segaran

Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment cover

4. Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment

by Ben Fry

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Remote Sensing in Archaeology (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) cover

5. Remote Sensing in Archaeology (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)

by James R. Wiseman, Farouk El-Baz

Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy (FirstPress) cover

6. Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy (FirstPress)

by James Turnbull

Intimate Connections cover

7. Intimate Connections

by David D. Burns

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Modern Information Retrieval cover

8. Modern Information Retrieval

by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto

Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams cover

9. Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams

by Alfred Lubrano

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Mediasmart: How to Handle a Reporter by a Reporter cover

10. Mediasmart: How to Handle a Reporter by a Reporter

by Dennis Stauffer

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

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

by Oliver Sacks

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Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology behind Search (2nd Edition) (ACM Press Books) cover

12. Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology behind Search (2nd Edition) (ACM Press Books)

by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto

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I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography cover

13. I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography

by P.R. Halmos

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Slats Grobnik and some other friends cover

14. Slats Grobnik and some other friends

by Mike Royko

Ada 95: Problem Solving and Program Design cover

15. Ada 95: Problem Solving and Program Design

by Michael B. Feldman, Elliot B. Koffman

An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications (Texts in Computer Science) cover

16. An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications (Texts in Computer Science)

by Ming Li, Paul Vitanyi

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The Android Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK: Building Applications with the Android SDK (Developer's Library) cover

17. The Android Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK: Building Applications with the Android SDK (Developer's Library)

by James Steele, Nelson To

Professional Android 2 Application Development cover

18. Professional Android 2 Application Development

by Reto Meier

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Algorithms in C, Parts 1-5 (Bundle): Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, and Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition) cover

19. Algorithms in C, Parts 1-5 (Bundle): Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, and Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition)

by Robert Sedgewick

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