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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jan 24, 2011 - Jan 31, 2011

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Showing 1 - 27 of 27 books

1. Fatal Error (Repairman Jack)

by F. Paul Wilson

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Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

2. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary

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The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems cover

3. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

by Jef Raskin

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

4. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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5. Inside the Third Reich

by Albert Speer

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Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day cover

6. Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day

by Anthony Cave Brown

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7. Rework

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea cover

8. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

by Guy Delisle

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Man Who Never Was: World War II's Boldest Counterintelligence Operation (Bluejacket Books) cover

9. Man Who Never Was: World War II's Boldest Counterintelligence Operation (Bluejacket Books)

by Ewen Montagu

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10. This Is Not a Game: A Novel

by Walter Jon Williams

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Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition cover

11. Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition

by Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa, Alan R. Hayakawa

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Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two (Foreign intelligence book series) cover

12. Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two (Foreign intelligence book series)

by Władysław Kozaczuk

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Probability Theory: The Logic of Science cover

13. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

by E. T. Jaynes

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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (Edge Question Series) cover

14. What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (Edge Question Series)

by John Brockman

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Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet cover

15. Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet

by Joseph Menn

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Practical Programming for Strength Training cover

16. Practical Programming for Strength Training

by Mark Rippetoe, Andy Baker (Powerlifter)

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The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State cover

17. The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State

by Shane Harris

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Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World with CD-ROM cover

18. Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World with CD-ROM

by John Sterman, Professor

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19. The Medium is the Massage

by Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore

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20. On Intelligence

by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee

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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jan 24, 2011 - Jan 31, 2011

Showing 1 - 27 of 27 books

1. Fatal Error (Repairman Jack)

2. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

3. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

4. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

5. Inside the Third Reich

6. Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day

7. Rework

8. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

9. Man Who Never Was: World War II's Boldest Counterintelligence Operation (Bluejacket Books)

10. This Is Not a Game: A Novel

11. Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition

12. Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two (Foreign intelligence book series)

13. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

14. What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (Edge Question Series)

15. Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet

16. Practical Programming for Strength Training

17. The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State

18. Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World with CD-ROM

19. The Medium is the Massage

20. On Intelligence

21. The Holographic Universe

22. The Design of Everyday Things

23. The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century

24. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

25. The Well-Grounded Rubyist

26. Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa

27. Colin Moock's Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend Course 1