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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 16, 2012 - Jul 23, 2012

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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French cover

1. Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French

by Jean-Benoît Nadeau, Julie Barlow

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround cover

2. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround

by Louis V. Gerstner

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Eternity in Their Hearts: Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World cover

3. Eternity in Their Hearts: Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World

by Don Richardson

Mere Christianity cover

4. Mere Christianity

by C. S. Lewis

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I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 cover

5. I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

by Douglas Edwards

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Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy) cover

6. Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)

by Jonathan Nitzan, Shimshon Bichler

Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within (Book + CD set) cover

7. Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within (Book + CD set)

by Kenny Werner

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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths cover

8. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

by Michael Shermer

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American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War cover

9. American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War

by Carole Gallagher

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code cover

10. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck

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Descartes' Error cover

11. Descartes' Error

by Antonio R. Damasio

American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset cover

12. American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset

by Jon Roberts, Evan Wright

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated] cover

13. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated]

by Jeremy Scahill

Free Will cover

14. Free Will

by Sam Harris

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Principle-Centered Leadership cover

15. Principle-Centered Leadership

Invisible* Jukebox (Music) cover

16. Invisible* Jukebox (Music)

by Tony Herrington

The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature; Revised Edition (Signet Shakespeare) cover

17. The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature; Revised Edition (Signet Shakespeare)

by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical cover

18. Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical

by Chris Matthew Sciabarra

7 Habits of Highly Effective People cover

19. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

by Stephen R. Covey

Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything cover

20. Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything

by Stephen Baker

Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition) cover

21. Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull

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Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People, Revised and Updated Edition cover

22. Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People, Revised and Updated Edition

by Bradford D. Smart Ph.D.

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F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts cover

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

by Philip J. Kaplan

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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art cover

24. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

by Donald N. Thompson, Don Thompson

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Boo Hoo: A Dot.com Story from Concept to Catastrophe cover

25. Boo Hoo: A Dot.com Story from Concept to Catastrophe

by Ernst Malmsten, Erik Portanger, Charles Drazin

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Textbook on Intellectual Property cover

26. Textbook on Intellectual Property

by Hector L. MacQueen, Charlotte Waelde, Graeme T. Laurie

Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning cover

27. Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning

by John Bear

Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition) cover

28. Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition)

by Alistair Cockburn

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UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record cover

29. UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record

by Leslie Kean

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Schaum's Outline of Principles of Computer Science (Schaum's Outlines) cover

30. Schaum's Outline of Principles of Computer Science (Schaum's Outlines)

by Paul Tymann, Carl Reynolds

Unix Power Tools cover

31. Unix Power Tools

by Shelley Powers

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Zen Judaism: For You, A Little Enlightenment cover

32. Zen Judaism: For You, A Little Enlightenment

by David M. Bader

UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973 cover

33. UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973

by Richard M. Dolan

PostgreSQL: Up and Running cover

34. PostgreSQL: Up and Running

by Regina O. Obe, Regina Obe, Leo S. Hsu

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Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols and Practices cover

35. Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols and Practices

by Leon Shklar, Rich Rosen

RESTful Web Services cover

36. RESTful Web Services

by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby

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The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves cover

37. The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

by Annie Murphy Paul

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