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

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Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography cover

1. Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

by Walter Isaacson

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

2. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

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

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

by Dan Roam

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

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

by Stacy Horn

Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form – Twelve Revolutions in Digital Publishing, Creators' Rights, and the Future of Storytelling cover

5. Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form – Twelve Revolutions in Digital Publishing, Creators' Rights, and the Future of Storytelling

by Scott McCloud

The History of White People cover

6. The History of White People

by Nell Irvin Painter

The Man Who Rode the Thunder cover

7. The Man Who Rode the Thunder

by William Henry Rankin

Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy cover

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

by Thomas Sowell

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women cover

9. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

by Susan Faludi

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming cover

10. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit, Victor Luchangco, Michael Spear

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C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

11. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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

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

by Rohit Bhargava

The Linux Programming Interface cover

13. The Linux Programming Interface

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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

14. 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

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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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 Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication cover

18. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication

by William Zinsser

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The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself cover

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

by Susan Bell

Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative cover

20. Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative

by Pete McBreen

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength cover

21. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

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

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

by David Adamson

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

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

by Stephen P. Halbrook

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Samurai, the Mountie and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies? cover

24. Samurai, the Mountie and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies?

by David B. Kopel

Guns and Violence: The English Experience cover

25. Guns and Violence: The English Experience

by Joyce Lee Malcolm

Neal Knox - The Gun Rights War cover

26. Neal Knox - The Gun Rights War

by Neal Knox

The Non-Designer's Design Book cover

27. The Non-Designer's Design Book

by Robin Williams

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