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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 19, 2011 - Dec 26, 2011

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Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State cover

1. Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

by Götz Aly

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Sharpening the Warriors Edge: The Psychology & Science of Training cover

2. Sharpening the Warriors Edge: The Psychology & Science of Training

by Bruce K. Siddle

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea cover

3. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

by Guy Delisle

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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) cover

4. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)

by George R. R. Martin

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

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

by Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rae

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Calculus and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

6. Calculus and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Michael C. Gemignani

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Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models cover

7. Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models

by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill

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The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America cover

8. The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America

by Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch

How to Lie with Statistics cover

9. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff

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Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? cover

10. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

by Seth Godin

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Accounting Principles cover

11. Accounting Principles

by Jerry J. Weygandt, Donald E. Kieso, Paul D. Kimmel

The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers cover

12. The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers

by Edward Fields

The World's Writing Systems cover

13. The World's Writing Systems

by Peter T. Daniels, William Bright

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Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems cover

14. Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems

by Carl Townsend, Dennis Feucht

Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems cover

15. Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems

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Remembering the Kana: The Hiragana / The Katakana cover

16. Remembering the Kana: The Hiragana / The Katakana

by James W. Heisig, Helmut Morsbach, Kazue Kurebayashi

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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror cover

17. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

by Thomas Ligotti

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Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference cover

18. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference

by William R. Shadish, Thomas D. Cook, Donald Thomas Campbell

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Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems) cover

19. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell

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Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler cover

20. Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler

by Thomas Frank, Matt Weiland

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Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing cover

21. Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing

by Jane Margolis, Allan Fisher

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

22. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Algorithm Design cover

23. Algorithm Design

by Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos

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Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology behind Search (2nd Edition) (ACM Press Books) cover

24. Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology behind Search (2nd Edition) (ACM Press Books)

by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto

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Head First Programming cover

25. Head First Programming

by Paul Barry, David Griffiths

Getting Started with Arduino cover

26. Getting Started with Arduino

by Massimo Banzi

Just Let the Kids Play: How to Stop Other Adults from Ruining Your Child's Fun and Success in Youth Sports cover

27. Just Let the Kids Play: How to Stop Other Adults from Ruining Your Child's Fun and Success in Youth Sports

by Bob Bigelow, Tom Moroney, Linda Hall

Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits, Volume 7 cover

28. Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits, Volume 7

by Rudolf F. Graf, William Sheets

Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours (Covering Java 7 and Android) (6th Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself...in 24 Hours) cover

29. Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours (Covering Java 7 and Android) (6th Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself...in 24 Hours)

by Rogers Cadenhead

Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective (v. 1) cover

30. Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective (v. 1)

by Diomidis Spinellis

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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less cover

31. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

by Barry Schwartz

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PeopleSoft PeopleTools Tips & Techniques (Oracle Press) cover

32. PeopleSoft PeopleTools Tips & Techniques (Oracle Press)

by Jim Marion

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business cover

33. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

by Neil Postman

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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty cover

34. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

by David Kadavy

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