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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 5, 2011 - Dec 12, 2011

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Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education cover

1. Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education

by Harold Stevenson, James W. Stigler

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Vision in Elementary Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

2. Vision in Elementary Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by W. W. Sawyer

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Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) cover

3. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)

by Liping Ma

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Secret Diary of a Call Girl cover

4. Secret Diary of a Call Girl

by Belle de Jour, Anonymous

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone cover

5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by j.k. rowling

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How to Develop a Super Power Memory cover

6. How to Develop a Super Power Memory

by Harry Lorayne

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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal cover

7. The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

by James E. Loehr, Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz

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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure) cover

8. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure)

by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

9. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language cover

10. Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language

by Don Watson

Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage cover

11. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage

by Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas

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The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

12. The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age cover

13. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

by Paul Graham

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Mathematics in India cover

14. Mathematics in India

by Kim Plofker

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The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom cover

15. The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

by James W. Stigler, James Hiebert

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The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School cover

16. The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

by Neil Postman

Making Software cover

17. Making Software

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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Tree of Smoke: A Novel cover

18. Tree of Smoke: A Novel

by Denis Johnson

Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work cover

19. Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work

by Alexander H. Talbot, Aki Kamozawa, H. Alexander Talbot

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Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas cover

20. Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas

by Brad Thomas Parsons

Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to

21. Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar Featuring the Original Formulae

by David Wondrich

Wolf Hall cover

22. Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses cover

23. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

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Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap cover

24. Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap

by Teach For America, Steven Farr

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Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement cover

25. Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement

by John Hattie

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Understanding Numbers in Elementary School Mathematics (Monograph Book) cover

26. Understanding Numbers in Elementary School Mathematics (Monograph Book)

by Hongxi Wu

Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction cover

27. Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction

by Timothy Gowers

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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason cover

28. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

by Sam Harris

Influence: Science and Practice (5th Edition) cover

29. Influence: Science and Practice (5th Edition)

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print cover

30. Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print

by Renni Browne, Dave King

Wraeththu cover

31. Wraeththu

by Storm Constantine

The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America cover

32. The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America

by Jim Marrs

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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age cover

33. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Michael A. Hiltzik

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The Name of the Wind cover

34. The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

Under the Skin cover

35. Under the Skin

by Michel Faber