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Years > 2011 > Week 44
The top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News between Oct 31, 2011 - Nov 7, 2011.
Showing 1 - 33 of 33 books
1. The Independent Scholar's Handbook
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2. This way out;: A guide to alternatives to traditional college education in the United States, Europe and the Third World
Read 2 comments
3. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
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4. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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5. The Cartoon Guide to the Computer
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6. Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk
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7. The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition)
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8. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Read 7 comments
9. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
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10. Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement
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11. The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance)
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12. Being Right or Making Money
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13. The Triumph of Contrarian Investing : Crowds, Manias, and Beating the Market by Going Against the Grain
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14. The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society
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15. Algorithmic Trading and DMA: An introduction to direct access trading strategies
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16. Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
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17. Too Many Women?: The Sex Ratio Question
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18. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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19. Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business
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20. An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance
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21. Pairs Trading: Quantitative Methods and Analysis
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22. Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals
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23. Learn to Program (Pragmatic Programmers)
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24. The Definitive Guide to SQLite (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
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25. Operating System Design: The XINU Approach (v. 1)
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26. Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
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27. Principles of Economics
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28. My War
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29. Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
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30. Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience
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31. Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend
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32. Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
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33. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
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