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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 21, 2011 - Nov 28, 2011

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The Design of Everyday Things cover

1. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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Civilization: The West and the Rest cover

2. Civilization: The West and the Rest

by Niall Ferguson

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Computers & Typesetting, Volumes A-E Boxed Set cover

3. Computers & Typesetting, Volumes A-E Boxed Set

by Donald E. Knuth

The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play cover

4. The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

by Neil Fiore

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Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength cover

5. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

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Programmer's Guide to the EGA, VGA, and Super VGA Cards (3rd Edition) cover

6. Programmer's Guide to the EGA, VGA, and Super VGA Cards (3rd Edition)

by Richard F. Ferraro

The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist cover

7. The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

8. Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Joseph Albers

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Thinking with a Pencil cover

9. Thinking with a Pencil

by Henning Nelms

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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition cover

10. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

by Steve Krug

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Elements of Information Theory (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing) cover

11. Elements of Information Theory (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)

by Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas

Train Your Brain to Get Happy: The Simple Program That Primes Your Grey Cells for Joy, Optimism, and Serenity cover

12. Train Your Brain to Get Happy: The Simple Program That Primes Your Grey Cells for Joy, Optimism, and Serenity

by Teresa Aubele, Susan Reynolds

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

13. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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Thinking and Deciding, 4th Edition cover

14. Thinking and Deciding, 4th Edition

by Jonathan Baron

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Project Management With Cpm, Pert and Precedence Diagramming cover

15. Project Management With Cpm, Pert and Precedence Diagramming

by Joseph J. Moder, Cecil R. Phillips, Edward Willmore Davis

Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition cover

16. Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition

by Michael J. Mauboussin

Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition) cover

17. Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)

by Michael Michalko

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

18. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart cover

19. Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart

by Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC Research Group

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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard cover

20. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice cover

21. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

by Shunryū Suzuki

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The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life cover

22. The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life

by John Daido Loori

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The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation cover

23. The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation

by Frederick Franck

Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand cover

24. Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand

by Connie Malamed

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Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) cover

25. Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)

by Hanan Samet

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Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again cover

26. Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again

by Norah Vincent

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Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns cover

27. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

by Kent Beck

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Prometheus Rising cover

28. Prometheus Rising

by Robert Anton Wilson

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Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions cover

29. Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

by Gary A. Klein

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Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Reports) cover

30. Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Reports)

by Gerd Gigerenzer, Christoph Engel

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) cover

31. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

by Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills

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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less cover

32. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

by Barry Schwartz

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The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving cover

33. The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving

by Barbara Minto

The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep cover

34. The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep

by William C. Dement

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

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

by Martin E.P. Seligman

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Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development (Essays in Social Psychology) cover

36. Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development (Essays in Social Psychology)

by Carol S. Dweck

The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Book & CD) cover

37. The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Book & CD)

by John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal

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What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite cover

38. What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

by David DiSalvo

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Vision & Voice: Refining Your Vision in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (Voices That Matter) cover

39. Vision & Voice: Refining Your Vision in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (Voices That Matter)

by David DuChemin

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work cover

40. The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

by Shawn Achor

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JavaScript Patterns cover

41. JavaScript Patterns

by Stoyan Stefanov

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I Will Teach You To Be Rich cover

42. I Will Teach You To Be Rich

by Ramit Sethi

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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics) cover

43. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)

by Eric Hoffer

The Art of Prolog, Second Edition: Advanced Programming Techniques (Logic Programming) cover

44. The Art of Prolog, Second Edition: Advanced Programming Techniques (Logic Programming)

by Leon Sterling, Ehud Y. Shapiro

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

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

by William Zinsser

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How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling cover

46. How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling

by Frank Bettger

Agile Web Development with Rails 3.2 (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

47. Agile Web Development with Rails 3.2 (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Sam Ruby, David Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson

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A quantum mechanics primer: An Elementary Introduction to the Formal Theory of Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics cover

48. A quantum mechanics primer: An Elementary Introduction to the Formal Theory of Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics

by Daniel T. Gillespie

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture cover

49. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

by Martin Fowler

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