Hacker News Books for 2012

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Hacker News Books for 2012

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2012.

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1. FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America

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

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3. The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations

4. Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French

5. In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

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6. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround

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7. The Big Enough Company: Creating a Business That Works for You

8. Assholes: A Theory

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9. Power Stories: The 8 Stories You Must Tell to Build an Epic Business

10. Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

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11. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

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12. A kick in the seat of the pants: Using your explorer, artist, judge, & warrior to be more creative

13. Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week

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14. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

15. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization

16. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

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17. Visual Thinking for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)

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18. The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence

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19. The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential...in Business and in Life

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20. Winning Through Intimidation

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21. Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond

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22. Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals

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23. A Discipline of Programming

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24. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition

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25. Living in the Future: The Education and Adventures of an Advanced Aircraft Designer

26. Tricks of the Mind [Paperback]

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27. The Feeling Good Handbook

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28. Mere Christianity

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29. Eternity in Their Hearts: Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World

30. What to Say When you Talk To Yourself

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31. Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward

32. Remembering the Kana: A Guide to Reading and Writing the Japanese Syllabaries in 3 Hours Each (part 1) (Japanese Edition)

33. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

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34. Space Propulsion Analysis and Design

35. The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

36. On Writing Well, 25th Anniversary: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

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37. The Way of Men

38. Persuasion Skills Black Book: Practical NLP Language Patterns for Getting The Response You Want

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39. Sex, Lies, and Menopause: The Shocking Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy

40. Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1000 a Minute Revised

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41. Earth: An Intimate History

42. The Objective Eye: Color, Form, and Reality in the Theory of Art

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43. Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before

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44. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

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45. Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

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46. Over the Himalaya

47. The German Generals Talk

48. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)

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49. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers)

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50. How to Cook Everything The Basics: All You Need to Make Great Food--With 1,000 Photos

51. Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet

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52. Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature

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53. Game, Set, Match: Winning the Negotiations Game

54. Singapore development policies and trends

55. Rosemary's Baby

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56. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business

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57. Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security

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58. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

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59. The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

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60. Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East

61. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

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62. South: The ENDURANCE Expedition

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63. The Fundamentals of Ethics, 2nd Edition

64. Smalltalk, Objects, and Design

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65. Yes Man

66. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

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67. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

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68. How To Win Friends and Influence People

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69. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)

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70. The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government

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71. Siddhartha

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72. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

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73. How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

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74. PostgreSQL: Up and Running

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75. How Music Works

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76. Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics

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77. One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

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78. Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy

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79. Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It

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80. How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants

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81. Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot

82. Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)

83. Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

84. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

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85. Living Low Carb: Controlled-Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss

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86. Ready Player One

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87. Algorithms

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88. The Unconscious Civilization

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89. Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the China Production Game

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90. Pirate Cinema

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91. Cloud Atlas: A Novel

92. This Perfect Day: A Novel

93. WebGL: Up and Running

94. Should I Be Tested for Cancer?: Maybe Not and Here's Why

95. Learning the vi and Vim Editors

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96. Understanding and Managing Your Child's Food Allergies (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

97. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

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98. Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo

99. Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read

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100. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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