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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 18, 2012 - Jun 25, 2012

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

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

by Clayton M. Christensen

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Learning the vi and Vim Editors cover

2. Learning the vi and Vim Editors

by Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, Linda Lamb

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Anything You Want cover

3. Anything You Want

by Derek Sivers

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything cover

4. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

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What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought cover

5. What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

by Keith E. Stanovich

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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA cover

6. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

by Tim Weiner

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Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age cover

7. Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

by Steven Levy

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Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State cover

8. Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State

by Dana Priest, William M. Arkin

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Photography: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) cover

9. Photography: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

by Steve Edwards

Photography: Guide to Technique cover

10. Photography: Guide to Technique

by Andrew Hawkins, Dennis Avon

No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller cover

11. No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller

by Harry Markopolos

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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives cover

12. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

by Leonard Mlodinow

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The Sex.Com Chronicles: A White-Hat Lawyer's Journey to the Dark Side of the Internet cover

13. The Sex.Com Chronicles: A White-Hat Lawyer's Journey to the Dark Side of the Internet

by Charles Carreon

The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain cover

14. The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain

by Terrence William Deacon

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science cover

15. Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

by Werner Heisenberg

What Is Life?: with

16. What Is Life?: with "Mind and Matter" and "Autobiographical Sketches"

by Erwin Schrödinger

The Blank Swan: The End of Probability cover

17. The Blank Swan: The End of Probability

by Elie Ayache

Wholeness and the Implicate Order cover

18. Wholeness and the Implicate Order

by David Bohm

Cosmopolitics I (Posthumanities) cover

19. Cosmopolitics I (Posthumanities)

by Isabelle Stengers

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20. Architect or Bee?: The Human / Technology Relationship

by Mike Cooley

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Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life cover

21. Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life

by Emanuel Derman

Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press) cover

22. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)

by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi

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Gödel's Proof cover

23. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman

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The Geek Atlas cover

24. The Geek Atlas

by John Graham-Cumming

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Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers cover

25. Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers

by B. Jack Copeland

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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation cover

26. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner

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Hacking and Securing iOS Applications cover

27. Hacking and Securing iOS Applications

by Jonathan Zdziarski

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency cover

28. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

by Tom DeMarco

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Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals cover

29. Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals

by David Aronson

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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think cover

30. Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography cover

31. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

by Simon Singh

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

32. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

33. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser

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

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

by Joe Conway, Aaron Hillegass

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Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World cover

35. Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

by Jane McGonigal

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Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive cover

36. Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive

by Bruce Schneier

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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future cover

37. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

by Daniel H. Pink

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Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: A Beginner's Guide cover

38. Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: A Beginner's Guide

by K. T. Strongman

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values cover

39. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig

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The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can: Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Long er cover

40. The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can: Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Long er

by Gretchen Reynolds

Beginning iOS 5 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK cover

41. Beginning iOS 5 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK

by David Mark, Jack Nutting, Jeff LaMarche

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

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

by Stephen G. Kochan

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Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World cover

43. Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World

by C.J. Peters, Mark Olshaker

Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce cover

44. Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

by Douglas Starr

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) cover

45. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

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Dancing Naked in the Mind Field cover

46. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

by Kary Mullis

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea cover

47. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

by Charles Seife

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