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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 20, 2011 - Jun 27, 2011

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Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students cover

1. Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

by Ellen Lupton
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier cover

2. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Ludwig Glaeser
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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws cover

3. The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws

by Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto
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Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination cover

4. Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination

by Joseph Cornell, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature cover

5. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker, Victor Bevine, Roc Filella Escolà, ʻImanuʾel Loṭem
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America cover

6. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Visual Guide to Lock Picking cover

7. Visual Guide to Lock Picking

by Mark McCloud, Gonzalez de Santos
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Compiling with Continuations cover

8. Compiling with Continuations

by Andrew W. Appel
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Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology cover

9. Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology

by Steven Levy
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Lisp in Small Pieces cover

10. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec
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The Cryptographer cover

11. The Cryptographer

by Tobias Hill
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The Ruby Programming Language cover

12. The Ruby Programming Language

by David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto
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PHP: The Good Parts cover

13. PHP: The Good Parts

by Peter MacIntyre
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Approaching Precalculus Mathematics Discretely: Explorations in a Computer Environment cover

14. Approaching Precalculus Mathematics Discretely: Explorations in a Computer Environment

by Philip G. Lewis
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Algorithms in C++ cover

15. Algorithms in C++

by Robert Sedgewick
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Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality cover

16. Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

by Brad Warner
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Eloquent Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) cover

17. Eloquent Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

by Russ Olsen
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