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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Apr 16, 2012 - Apr 23, 2012

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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness cover

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

by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

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

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age cover

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

by Paul Graham

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Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear cover

4. Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear

by Jim Steinmeyer

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The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions cover

5. The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions

by Scott Adams

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Idoru cover

6. Idoru

by William Gibson

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Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules cover

7. Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules

by Johnson, Jeff Ph. D.

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

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

by Steve Krug

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The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection: Second Edition, Revised and Updated cover

9. The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection: Second Edition, Revised and Updated

by Ted Libbey, Theodore Libbey

Mathematical Go: Chilling Gets the Last Point cover

10. Mathematical Go: Chilling Gets the Last Point

by Elwyn Berlekamp, David Wolfe

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Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up cover

11. Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up

by Joel N. Shurkin

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It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be: The world's best selling book cover

12. It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be: The world's best selling book

by Paul Arden

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Lauren Ipsum cover

13. Lauren Ipsum

by Carlos Bueno

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The Weighty Word Book cover

14. The Weighty Word Book

by Paul M. Levitt, Douglas A. Burger, Elissa S. Guralnick

If I Built a Car cover

15. If I Built a Car

by Chris Van Dusen

Century of the Typewriter cover

16. Century of the Typewriter

by Wilfred A. Beeching

Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

17. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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Programming in Objective-C, Third Edition (Developer's Library) cover

18. Programming in Objective-C, Third Edition (Developer's Library)

by Stephen G. Kochan

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Beginning iPhone 4 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK cover

19. Beginning iPhone 4 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK

by David Mark, Jeff LaMarche, Jack Nutting

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution cover

20. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto) cover

21. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach cover

22. Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach

by Amit Singh

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