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

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The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures cover

1. The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

by Dan Roam

Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town cover

2. Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town

by Stacy Horn

Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form cover

3. Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form

by Scott McCloud

The History of White People cover

4. The History of White People

by Nell Irvin Painter

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5. The Man Who Rode the Thunder

by William Henry Rankin

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women cover

6. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

by Susan Faludi

Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy cover

7. Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

by Thomas Sowell

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The Art of Multiprocessor Programming cover

8. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit

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Personality Not Included: Why Companies Lose Their Authenticity And How Great Brands Get it Back, Foreword by Guy Kawasaki cover

9. Personality Not Included: Why Companies Lose Their Authenticity And How Great Brands Get it Back, Foreword by Guy Kawasaki

by Rohit Bhargava

The C Programming Language cover

10. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialS ystem--and Themselves cover

11. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialS ystem--and Themselves

by Andrew Ross Sorkin

The Linux Programming Interface cover

12. The Linux Programming Interface

by Michael Kerrisk

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

13. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff

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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update cover

14. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

by Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows

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The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice cover

15. The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice

by Robin Williams

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

16. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser

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The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself cover

17. The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself

by Susan Bell

Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative cover

18. Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative

by Pete McBreen

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Walking the High-Tech High Wire: The Technical Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Successful Enterprise cover

19. Walking the High-Tech High Wire: The Technical Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Successful Enterprise

by David Adamson

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The Samurai, the Mountie and the Cowboy cover

20. The Samurai, the Mountie and the Cowboy

by David B. Kopel

That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right (Independent Studies in Political Economy) cover

21. That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right (Independent Studies in Political Economy)

by Stephen P. Halbrook

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Guns and Violence: The English Experience cover

22. Guns and Violence: The English Experience

by Joyce Lee Malcolm

Neal Knox - The Gun Rights War cover

23. Neal Knox - The Gun Rights War

by Neal Knox

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength cover

24. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

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The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition) cover

25. The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition)

by Robin Williams

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