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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Apr 30, 2012 - May 7, 2012

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Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies cover

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

by David Bentley Hart

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

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

by Clayton M. Christensen

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Version Control with Git cover

3. Version Control with Git

by Jon Loeliger

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Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

4. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey A. Silverglate

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Hatless Jack: The President, the Fedora and the Death of the Hat cover

5. Hatless Jack: The President, the Fedora and the Death of the Hat

by Neil Steinberg

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture cover

6. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

by Martin Fowler

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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code cover

7. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck

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The Geek Atlas cover

8. The Geek Atlas

by John Graham-Cumming

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Enemies: A History of the FBI cover

9. Enemies: A History of the FBI

by Tim Weiner

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Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos cover

10. Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos

by Seth Lloyd

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Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision cover

11. Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision

by Richard Hartley, Andrew Zisserman

Building Web Applications with Erlang cover

12. Building Web Applications with Erlang

by Zachary Kessin

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24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America cover

13. 24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America

by Rebecca Smith, John R. Emshwiller

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell cover

14. C# 4.0 in a Nutshell

by Joseph Albahari

Go for Beginners cover

15. Go for Beginners

by Kaoru Iwamoto

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Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People, Revised and Updated Edition cover

16. Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People, Revised and Updated Edition

by Bradford D. Smart Ph.D.

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The Second Book of Go (Beginner and Elementary Go Books) cover

17. The Second Book of Go (Beginner and Elementary Go Books)

by Richard Bozulich

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SQL and Relational Theory cover

18. SQL and Relational Theory

by C. Date

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Learning SQL cover

19. Learning SQL

by Alan Beaulieu

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Oracle Essentials cover

20. Oracle Essentials

by Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Jonathan Stern

Programming Collective Intelligence cover

21. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran

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Machine Learning for Hackers cover

22. Machine Learning for Hackers

by Drew Conway, John White

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Database Design and Relational Theory cover

23. Database Design and Relational Theory

by Chris Date

Lingua Latina: Pars I: Familia Romana (Pt. 1) cover

24. Lingua Latina: Pars I: Familia Romana (Pt. 1)

by Hans H. Ørberg

Learning Python cover

25. Learning Python

by Mark Lutz

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Programming Python cover

26. Programming Python

by Mark Lutz

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Clojure Programming cover

27. Clojure Programming

by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, Christophe Grand

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

28. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford

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Eloquent JavaScript cover

29. Eloquent JavaScript

by Marijn Haverbeke

Mastering Regular Expressions cover

30. Mastering Regular Expressions

by Jeffrey Friedl

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The Book of CSS3 cover

31. The Book of CSS3

by Peter Gasston

The Art of SEO cover

32. The Art of SEO

by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola, Rand Fishkin

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bash Cookbook cover

33. bash Cookbook

by Carl Albing, JP Vossen, Cameron Newham

CSS: The Missing Manual cover

34. CSS: The Missing Manual

Programming Reactive Extensions and LINQ (Expert's Voice in .NET) cover

35. Programming Reactive Extensions and LINQ (Expert's Voice in .NET)

by Jesse Liberty, Paul Betts

JavaScript Pocket Reference cover

36. JavaScript Pocket Reference

by David Flanagan

Learn to Play Go: A Master's Guide to the Ultimate Game (Volume I) (Learn to Play Go Series) cover

37. Learn to Play Go: A Master's Guide to the Ultimate Game (Volume I) (Learn to Play Go Series)

by Janice Kim, Soo-hyun Jeong

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

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

39. 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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How to Win Friends and Influence People cover

40. How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets cover

41. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy cover

42. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams