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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 31, 2011 - Nov 7, 2011

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Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners cover

1. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

by Larry Harris

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This way out;: A guide to alternatives to traditional college education in the United States, Europe and the Third World cover

2. This way out;: A guide to alternatives to traditional college education in the United States, Europe and the Third World

by John Coyne, Tom Hebert

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The Independent Scholar's Handbook cover

3. The Independent Scholar's Handbook

by Ronald Gross

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine cover

4. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

by Charles Petzold

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Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business cover

5. Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business

by Ernie Chan

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, First Edition cover

6. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, First Edition

by Charles Petzold

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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

7. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner

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The Cartoon Guide to the Computer cover

8. The Cartoon Guide to the Computer

by Larry Gonnick

The Non-Designer's Design Book cover

9. The Non-Designer's Design Book

by Robin Williams

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Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk cover

10. Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk

by Richard Grinold, Ronald Kahn

The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance) cover

11. The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance)

by Alex Kuznetsov

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Visible Learning cover

12. Visible Learning

by John Hattie

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The Triumph of Contrarian Investing : Crowds, Manias, and Beating the Market by Going Against the Grain cover

13. The Triumph of Contrarian Investing : Crowds, Manias, and Beating the Market by Going Against the Grain

by Nathan E. Davis

The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society cover

14. The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society

by Eric D. Beinhocker

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Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime cover

15. Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime

by Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rae

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Too Many Women?: The Sex Ratio Question cover

16. Too Many Women?: The Sex Ratio Question

by Marcia Guttentag, Paul F. Secord

Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals cover

17. Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals

by David Aronson

Pairs Trading: Quantitative Methods and Analysis (Wiley Finance) cover

18. Pairs Trading: Quantitative Methods and Analysis (Wiley Finance)

by Ganapathy Vidyamurthy

An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance cover

19. An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance

by Michel M. Dacorogna

Learn to Program cover

20. Learn to Program

by Chris Pine

The Definitive Guide to SQLite (Expert's Voice in Open Source) cover

21. The Definitive Guide to SQLite (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

by Grant Allen

Operating System Design: The XINU Approach cover

22. Operating System Design: The XINU Approach

by Douglas Comer

Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy cover

23. Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy

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My War cover

24. My War

by Andy Rooney

Principles of Economics cover

25. Principles of Economics

by N. Gregory Mankiw

Principles of Economics (Mankiw's Principles of Economics) cover

26. Principles of Economics (Mankiw's Principles of Economics)

by N. Gregory Mankiw

Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design cover

27. Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design

by Robert Hoekman

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Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience cover

28. Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience

by Frank Cioffi

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Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and Culture cover

29. Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and Culture

by Edwin Fuller Torrey

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Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend cover

30. Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend

by Frederick C. Crews

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Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle cover

31. Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

by Dan Senor, Saul Singer

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