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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 4, 2012 - Jun 11, 2012

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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal cover

1. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

by Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen

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

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

by Ian Mortimer

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration cover

3. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

by Weston Andrew Price

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Calculus, Vol. 1: One-Variable Calculus, with an Introduction to Linear Algebra cover

4. Calculus, Vol. 1: One-Variable Calculus, with an Introduction to Linear Algebra

by Tom M. Apostol

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Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers cover

5. Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers

by Jan Gullberg

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What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods cover

6. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins

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Calculus Made Easy cover

7. Calculus Made Easy

by Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner

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Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points cover

8. Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points

by Matthew Linderman, Jason Fried, 37signals (Firm)

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The Ruby Programming Language cover

9. The Ruby Programming Language

by David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto

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Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition cover

10. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition

by Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman

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Game Engine Architecture cover

11. Game Engine Architecture

by Jason Gregory

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Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition) cover

12. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition)

by John F. Hughes

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Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati cover

13. Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati

by Michel Danino

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations cover

14. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

by Christopher Lasch

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Deciphering the Indus Script cover

15. Deciphering the Indus Script

by Asko Parpola

JavaScript Patterns cover

16. JavaScript Patterns

by Stoyan Stefanov

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Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form cover

17. Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form

by Anna Anthropy

A Year With Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary cover

18. A Year With Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary

by Brian Eno

Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus-Advanced 3D Graphics and Rasterization (Other Sams) cover

19. Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus-Advanced 3D Graphics and Rasterization (Other Sams)

by André LaMothe

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The Second Coming of Steve Jobs cover

20. The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

by Alan Deutschman

Essential System Administration cover

21. Essential System Administration

by AEleen Frisch

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen cover

22. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

by Christopher McDougall

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Eloquent Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) cover

23. Eloquent Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

by Russ Olsen

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Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, 2nd Edition (Programmer to Programmer) cover

24. Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, 2nd Edition (Programmer to Programmer)

by John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Gigu?re

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Head First Java, 2nd Edition cover

25. Head First Java, 2nd Edition

by Kathy Sierra

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Thinking in Java (4th Edition) cover

26. Thinking in Java (4th Edition)

by Bruce Eckel

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The Art of Readable Code (Theory in Practice) cover

27. The Art of Readable Code (Theory in Practice)

by Dustin Boswell, Trevor Foucher

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