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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 21, 2012 - May 28, 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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Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust (Inside Technology) cover

2. Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust (Inside Technology)

by Donald MacKenzie

War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning cover

3. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

by Chris Hedges

Rocket Propulsion Elements cover

4. Rocket Propulsion Elements

by George P. Sutton, Oscar Biblarz

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The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 cover

5. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45

by Stephen E. Ambrose

Anything You Want cover

6. Anything You Want

by Derek Sivers

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The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind cover

7. The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind

by Barbara Strauch

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition) cover

8. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)

by Stuart Jonathan Russell, Peter Norvig, Ernest Davis

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F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts cover

9. F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts

by Philip J. Kaplan

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Computers & Typesetting, Volume D: Metafont: The Program cover

10. Computers & Typesetting, Volume D: Metafont: The Program

by Donald Ervin Knuth

The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman cover

11. The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman

by Timothy Ferriss

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The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime. cover

12. The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime.

by M. J. DeMarco

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Unix Power Tools, Third Edition cover

13. Unix Power Tools, Third Edition

by Shelley Powers

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The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company cover

14. The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

by Steven Gary Blank, Bob Dorf

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

15. JavaScript: The Good Parts

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

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The Great War and Modern Memory cover

16. The Great War and Modern Memory

by Paul Fussell

Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis (Springer Series in Statistics) cover

17. Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis (Springer Series in Statistics)

by James O. Berger

Hacker's Delight cover

18. Hacker's Delight

by Henry S. Warren

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Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes cover

19. Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes

by Tarang Shah, Shital Shah

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Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making (Bradford Books) cover

20. Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making (Bradford Books)

by Gary A. Klein

Decision Points cover

21. Decision Points

by George W. Bush

The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage cover

22. The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage

by B. Joseph Pine, James H. Gilmore

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Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications cover

23. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

by Toby Segaran

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Electricity and Magnetism (Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 2) cover

24. Electricity and Magnetism (Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 2)

by Edward M. Purcell

Examples & Explanations: Corporations, 6th Ed. (Print + eBook Bonus Pack) cover

25. Examples & Explanations: Corporations, 6th Ed. (Print + eBook Bonus Pack)

by Alan R. Palmiter

Programming Clojure cover

26. Programming Clojure

by Stuart Dabbs Halloway, Aaron Bedra

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The Art of War cover

27. The Art of War

by Sunzi

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The Well-Grounded Rubyist cover

28. The Well-Grounded Rubyist

by David A. Black

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JunkBots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels: Building Simple Robots With BEAM Technology cover

29. JunkBots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels: Building Simple Robots With BEAM Technology

by Dave Hrynkiw, David Hrynkiw, Mark W. Tilden, Mark Tilden

iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (3rd Edition) (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) cover

30. iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (3rd Edition) (Big Nerd Ranch Guides)

by Joe Conway, Aaron Hillegass

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Programming in Objective-C (4th Edition) (Developer's Library) cover

31. Programming in Objective-C (4th Edition) (Developer's Library)

by Stephen G. Kochan

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C++ Primer (4th Edition) cover

32. C++ Primer (4th Edition)

by Stanley B. Lippman, Josée Lajoie, Barbara E. Moo