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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 10, 2011 - Oct 17, 2011

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Steve Jobs cover

1. Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

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One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com cover

2. One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com

by Richard L. Brandt

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Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students cover

3. Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students

by Jenny Olive

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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success cover

4. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

by Carol S. Dweck

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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers cover

5. What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

by Richard Nelson Bolles

Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals cover

6. Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals

by Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.

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Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life cover

7. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

by Martin E.P. Seligman

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The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom cover

8. The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

by James W. Stigler, James Hiebert

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Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain cover

9. Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain

by Ron Hale-Evans

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Kids Don't Want to Fail: Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap cover

10. Kids Don't Want to Fail: Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap

by Angel L. Harris

Designing Design cover

11. Designing Design

by Kenya Hara

Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating cover

12. Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating

by Walter Willett

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Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual (Texts in Computer Science) cover

13. Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual (Texts in Computer Science)

by Steven S. Skiena, Miguel A. Revilla

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Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health cover

14. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health

by Gary Taubes

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The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet cover

15. The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet

by Robb Wolf

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Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health cover

16. Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

by William Davis

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Fat and Cholesterol are Good for You cover

17. Fat and Cholesterol are Good for You

by Uffe Ravnskov

The Great Cholesterol Con cover

18. The Great Cholesterol Con

by Anthony Colpo

Simone Weil: An Anthology cover

19. Simone Weil: An Anthology

by Simone Weil

Programming Collective Intelligence cover

20. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

21. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 cover

22. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

by Brian Fagan

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Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) cover

23. Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

by Chad Pytel, Tammer Saleh

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Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition) cover

24. Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition)

by Scott Meyers

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In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State cover

25. In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State

by Charles A. Murray

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Game Engine Architecture cover

26. Game Engine Architecture

by Jason Gregory

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Head First Python cover

27. Head First Python

by Paul Barry

Web Analytics: An Hour a Day cover

28. Web Analytics: An Hour a Day

by Avinash Kaushik

Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity cover

29. Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity

by Avinash Kaushik

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A Geography Of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist cover

30. A Geography Of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist

by Robert N. Levine

Frank Wood's Business Accounting 1 (v. 1) cover

31. Frank Wood's Business Accounting 1 (v. 1)

by Frank Wood, Alan Sangster

Finance for Managers (Harvard Business Essentials) cover

32. Finance for Managers (Harvard Business Essentials)

by Richard Luecke

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength cover

33. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

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