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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 17, 2012 - Sep 24, 2012

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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism cover

1. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang

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An Imaginary Tale: The Story of [the square root of minus one] cover

2. An Imaginary Tale: The Story of [the square root of minus one]

by Paul J. Nahin

Head Trip cover

3. Head Trip

by Jeff Warren

Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho cover

4. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho

by Jon Katz

Great Streets (MIT Press) cover

5. Great Streets (MIT Press)

by Allan B. Jacobs

The Cult of Mac (Paperback edition) cover

6. The Cult of Mac (Paperback edition)

by Leander Kahney

Drugs Without the Hot Air cover

7. Drugs Without the Hot Air

by David J. Nutt

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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another. Philip Ball cover

8. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another. Philip Ball

by Philip Ball

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Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way cover

9. Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way

by Richard Branson

The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook (All New American Edition) cover

10. The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook (All New American Edition)

by Genevieve Jolliffe, Chris Jones

Getting Started with Storm cover

11. Getting Started with Storm

by Jonathan Leibiusky, Gabriel Eisbruch, Dario Simonassi

The Physics of Star Trek cover

12. The Physics of Star Trek

by Lawrence Krauss, Lawrence M. Krauss

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Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship cover

13. Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship

by Ken Silverstein

Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read cover

14. Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read

by Stanislas Dehaene

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The Mother Tongue - English And How It Got That Way cover

15. The Mother Tongue - English And How It Got That Way

by Bill Bryson

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Dirty Dealing: The Untold Truth about Global Money Laundering, International Crime and Terrorism cover

16. Dirty Dealing: The Untold Truth about Global Money Laundering, International Crime and Terrorism

by Peter Lilley

Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior cover

17. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

by Leonard Mlodinow

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Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? cover

18. Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click?

by Susan Weinschenk

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

19. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time! cover

20. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!

by Conrad Barski

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The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies cover

21. The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies

by Chet Holmes

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

22. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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