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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 11, 2011 - Jul 18, 2011

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Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions, Sixth Edition cover

1. Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions, Sixth Edition

by Stuart McClure

Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men cover

2. Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men

by Roy F. Baumeister

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Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals cover

3. Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals

by Frans B. M. de Waal, F. B. M. de Waal

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Adaptive Enterprise: Creating and Leading Sense-And-Respond Organizations cover

4. Adaptive Enterprise: Creating and Leading Sense-And-Respond Organizations

by Stephan H. Haeckel

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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace cover

5. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

by Ricardo Semler

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The Wheels of Commerce (Civilization and Capitalism: 15Th-18th Century -Volume 2) cover

6. The Wheels of Commerce (Civilization and Capitalism: 15Th-18th Century -Volume 2)

by Fernand Braudel

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Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics (Collected papers on quantum philosophy) cover

7. Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics (Collected papers on quantum philosophy)

by John Bell (Physicien)

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives cover

8. In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

by Steven Levy

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I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 cover

9. I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

by Douglas Edwards

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The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play cover

10. The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

by Neil Fiore

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Language Acquisition Made Practical: Field Methods for Language Learners cover

11. Language Acquisition Made Practical: Field Methods for Language Learners

by Tom Brewster, Betty Sue Brewster

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The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done cover

12. The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done

by Ph.D. Steel, Piers

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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War cover

13. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

by Max Brooks

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Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos cover

14. Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos

by Sarah Lacy

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Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties cover

15. Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties

by Ram Dass, Ralph Metzner

What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods cover

16. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins

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Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction cover

17. Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction

by Timothy Gowers

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The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible cover

18. The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible

by Keith Devlin

Programming Android cover

19. Programming Android

by Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, Blake Meike, Masumi Nakamura

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

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

by Tim Wu, Tim Wu

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Business Law (Barron's Business Law) cover

21. Business Law (Barron's Business Law)

by Robert W. Emerson

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Constitutional Law: Principles And Policies (Introduction to Law Series) cover

22. Constitutional Law: Principles And Policies (Introduction to Law Series)

by Erwin Chemerinsky

Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law (Studies in Crime and Justice) cover

23. Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law (Studies in Crime and Justice)

by Leo Katz

How Judges Think (Pims - Polity Immigration and Society Series) cover

24. How Judges Think (Pims - Polity Immigration and Society Series)

by Richard A. Posner

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Fundamentals of American Law cover

25. Fundamentals of American Law

by New York University. School of Law

Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law cover

26. Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law

by Leo Katz

Head First Java, 2nd Edition cover

27. Head First Java, 2nd Edition

by Kathy Sierra

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