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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 2, 2012 - Jul 9, 2012

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Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) cover

1. Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

by Chad Pytel, Tammer Saleh

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Smalltalk, Objects, and Design cover

2. Smalltalk, Objects, and Design

by Chamond Liu

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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws cover

3. The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws

by Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto

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Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft cover

4. Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft

by David Bank

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The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition) cover

5. The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition)

by Robin Williams

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The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way cover

6. The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way

by Michael Fogus, Chris Houser

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Clojure Programming cover

7. Clojure Programming

by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, Christophe Grand

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Programming Clojure cover

8. Programming Clojure

by Stuart Dabbs Halloway, Aaron Bedra

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Hilary Mason: An Introduction to Machine Learning with Web Data cover

9. Hilary Mason: An Introduction to Machine Learning with Web Data

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Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach cover

10. Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach

by Brad J. Cox, Andrew J. Novobilski

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Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity cover

11. Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity

by Carliss Young Baldwin, Kim B. Clark

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The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? cover

12. The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

by Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi

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Measurement cover

13. Measurement

by Paul Lockhart

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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II cover

14. Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II

by Madhusree Mukerjee

Handbook of Crime Correlates cover

15. Handbook of Crime Correlates

by Lee Ellis, Kevin M. Beaver, John Wright

How to Think About Algorithms cover

16. How to Think About Algorithms

by Jeff Edmonds

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The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity cover

17. The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

by Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life cover

18. If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

by Stephen Webb

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The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers cover

19. The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers

by Phil Rosenzweig

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Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

20. Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by P.R. Halmos

Algebra (AMS Chelsea Publishing) cover

21. Algebra (AMS Chelsea Publishing)

by Saunders Mac Lane, Garrett Birkhoff

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Introduction to Calculus and Analysis, Vol. II/2 (Classics in Mathematics) cover

22. Introduction to Calculus and Analysis, Vol. II/2 (Classics in Mathematics)

by Richard Courant, Fritz John

Graph Theory (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

23. Graph Theory (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

by J. A. Bondy

Introduction to Calculus and Analysis, Vol. 1 (Classics in Mathematics) cover

24. Introduction to Calculus and Analysis, Vol. 1 (Classics in Mathematics)

by Richard Courant, Fritz John

Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 3rd Edition cover

25. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 3rd Edition

by Gilbert Strang

Introduction to Calculus and Analysis, Vol. II/1 (Classics in Mathematics) cover

26. Introduction to Calculus and Analysis, Vol. II/1 (Classics in Mathematics)

by Richard Courant, Fritz John

Post-Quantum Cryptography cover

27. Post-Quantum Cryptography

by Daniel J. Bernstein, Johannes Buchmann, Erik Dahmen

Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition) cover

28. Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition)

by Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik

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Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega cover

29. Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega

by Gregory Chaitin

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Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists cover

30. Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists

by Noson S. Yanofsky, Mirco A. Mannucci

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Elements of Discrete Mathematics (Mcgraw Hill Computer Science Series) cover

31. Elements of Discrete Mathematics (Mcgraw Hill Computer Science Series)

by Chung Laung Liu

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness cover

32. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

33. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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

34. Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

by Seth Lloyd

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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) cover

35. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press)

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis cover

36. Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis

by James Rickards

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The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle cover

37. The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle

by Steven Pressfield

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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

38. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Robert C. Martin

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The Algorithm Design Manual cover

39. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena

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The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead cover

40. The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead

by Frank J. Tipler

The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies cover

41. The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies

by Edward Jay Epstein

In Search of Schrdinger's Cat. John Gribbin cover

42. In Search of Schrdinger's Cat. John Gribbin

by John R. Gribbin

Where Good Ideas Come From cover

43. Where Good Ideas Come From

by Steven Johnson

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The Handbook of Financing Growth: Strategies, Capital Structure, and M&A Transactions cover

44. The Handbook of Financing Growth: Strategies, Capital Structure, and M&A Transactions

by Kenneth H. Marks, Larry E. Robbins, Gonzalo Fernandez, John P. Funkhouser, D. L. Williams