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

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Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It cover

1. Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It

by Lawrence Lessig

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The Unconscious Civilization cover

2. The Unconscious Civilization

by John Ralston Saul

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Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the China Production Game cover

3. Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the China Production Game

by Paul Midler

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Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo cover

4. Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo

by Murat Kurnaz

Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently cover

5. Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently

by Gregory Berns

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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics cover

6. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader

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The Denial of Death cover

7. The Denial of Death

by Ernest Becker

An Introduction to Gödel's Theorems (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy) cover

8. An Introduction to Gödel's Theorems (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)

by Peter Smith

A First Course in Probability (8th Edition) cover

9. A First Course in Probability (8th Edition)

by Sheldon M. Ross

Hollywood Economics: How Extreme Uncertainty Shapes the Film Industry (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Political Economy) cover

10. Hollywood Economics: How Extreme Uncertainty Shapes the Film Industry (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Political Economy)

by Arthur De Vany

Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

11. Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by Pascal G. Zachary

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

12. Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos

by Seth Lloyd

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Gödel's Proof cover

13. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman

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The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth cover

14. The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth

by Eric M. Jackson

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An Eye for Color cover

15. An Eye for Color

by Olga Gutierrez de la Roza

Mathematical Statistics with Applications cover

16. Mathematical Statistics with Applications

by Dennis Wackerly, William Mendenhall, Richard L. Scheaffer

Winning the Games Scientists Play cover

17. Winning the Games Scientists Play

by Carl Sindermann

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CLR via C# (3rd Edition) (Developer Reference) cover

18. CLR via C# (3rd Edition) (Developer Reference)

by Jeffrey Richter

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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty cover

19. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

by David Kadavy

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Take a Nap! Change Your Life. cover

20. Take a Nap! Change Your Life.

by Sara C. Mednick, Mark Ehrman

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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) cover

21. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

by Tom Vanderbilt

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Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds (Complex Adaptive Systems) cover

22. Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds (Complex Adaptive Systems)

by Mitchel Resnick

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The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation cover

23. The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation

by Gary William Flake

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