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Years > 2012 > Week 19
The top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News between May 7, 2012 - May 14, 2012.
Showing 1 - 33 of 33 books
1. The River : A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS
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2. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
Read 6 comments
3. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Read 8 comments
4. The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
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5. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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6. The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws
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7. Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again
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8. Blood-Drenched Altars: A Catholic Commentary on the History of Mexico
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9. Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command
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10. The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
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11. Jazz
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12. Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes
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13. Toward Zero Defect Programming
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14. Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win (Outlooks)
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15. The Eudaemonic Pie
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16. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)
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17. The Tao of Objects: A Beginner's Guide to Object-Oriented Programming
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18. Object-Oriented Design
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19. Object-Oriented Analysis, Second Edition.
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20. Halting State
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21. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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22. Steve Jobs & the Next Big Thing
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23. Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business
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24. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
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25. The Newtonian Casino
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26. The iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook: Core Concepts and Essential Recipes for iOS Programmers (3rd Edition) (Developer's Library)
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27. How to Lie with Statistics
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28. Clojure in Action
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29. The Bootstrapper's Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money
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30. Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
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31. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
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32. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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33. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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