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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jan 17, 2011 - Jan 24, 2011

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MICROSOFT SECRETS: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People cover

1. MICROSOFT SECRETS: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People

by Michael A. Cusumano, Richard W. Selby

Anticancer: A New Way of Life cover

2. Anticancer: A New Way of Life

by David Servan-Schreiber

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Full Catastrophe Living: How to Cope with Stress, Pain and Illness Using Mindfulness Meditation cover

3. Full Catastrophe Living: How to Cope with Stress, Pain and Illness Using Mindfulness Meditation

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer cover

4. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama cover

5. Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama

by Daniel Goleman

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Wherever You Go, There You Are cover

6. Wherever You Go, There You Are

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path cover

7. Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path

by Khema

Game Physics cover

8. Game Physics

by David H. Eberly

Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection (Complex Adaptive Systems) cover

9. Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection (Complex Adaptive Systems)

by John R. Koza

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A Spy For All Seasons: My Life in the CIA cover

10. A Spy For All Seasons: My Life in the CIA

by Duane R. Clarridge

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA cover

11. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

by Tim Weiner

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

12. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford

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Swarm Intelligence (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Evolutionary Computation) cover

13. Swarm Intelligence (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Evolutionary Computation)

by James Kennedy, Russell C. Eberhart, Yuhui Shi

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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It cover

14. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

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Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup cover

15. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

by Rob Walling

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Mammoth cover

16. Mammoth

by John Varley

The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By cover

17. The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By

by Scott Andrew Shane, Scott Shane

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The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make UsBetter at Communicati ng, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done cover

18. The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make UsBetter at Communicati ng, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done

by Peter Miller

Mathematics made difficult cover

19. Mathematics made difficult

by Carl E. Linderholm

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How to Get Rich cover

20. How to Get Rich

by Felix Dennis

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Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup cover

21. Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup

by Brad Feld, David B. Cohen

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Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance (Insights for a New Way of Living) cover

22. Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance (Insights for a New Way of Living)

by Osho

Agile Estimating and Planning cover

23. Agile Estimating and Planning

by Mike Cohn

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Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices) cover

24. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)

by Steve McConnell

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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) cover

25. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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