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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 3, 2012 - Sep 10, 2012

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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section:

1. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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An Introduction to Programming in Go cover

2. An Introduction to Programming in Go

by Caleb Doxsey
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Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It cover

3. Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets cover

4. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
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The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World cover

5. The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World

by Hernando de Soto
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Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure cover

6. Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure

by Tim Harford
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Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node cover

7. Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node

by Mike Amundsen, Michael Amundsen
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This Is for the Mara Salvatrucha: Inside the MS-13, America's Most Violent Gang cover

8. This Is for the Mara Salvatrucha: Inside the MS-13, America's Most Violent Gang

by Samuel Logan
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Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians cover

9. Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians

by Larry Reithmaier
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution cover

10. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

by Francis Fukuyama
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How to Be a Man cover

11. How to Be a Man

by John Birmingham, Dirk Flinthart
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It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!: RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals cover

12. It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!: RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals

by Suparna Damany, Jack Bellis
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The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance cover

13. The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance

by Nessa Carey
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The Myth of Masculinity cover

14. The Myth of Masculinity

by Joseph H. Pleck
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa cover

15. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

by E.B. Sledge
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Graphs, Dioids and Semirings: New Models and Algorithms (Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series) cover

16. Graphs, Dioids and Semirings: New Models and Algorithms (Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series)

by Michel Gondran, Michel Minoux
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Ogilvy on Advertising cover

17. Ogilvy on Advertising

by David Ogilvy
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The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life cover

18. The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life

by Robert Trivers
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Scala in Depth cover

19. Scala in Depth

by Josh Suereth
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Asking Questions: The Definitive Guide to Questionnaire Design -- For Market Research, Political Polls, and Social and Health Questionnaires cover

20. Asking Questions: The Definitive Guide to Questionnaire Design -- For Market Research, Political Polls, and Social and Health Questionnaires

by Norman M. Bradburn, Seymour Sudman, Brian Wansink
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity cover

21. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen
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How Will You Measure Your Life? cover

22. How Will You Measure Your Life?

by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon
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The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups cover

23. The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups

by Randall E. Stross
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Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food cover

24. Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food

by Jeff Potter
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C++ For Dummies cover

25. C++ For Dummies

by Stephen R. Davis
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