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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 24, 2012 - Oct 1, 2012

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The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence cover

1. The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence

by Gavin De Becker
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

2. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built cover

3. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

by Stewart Brand
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier cover

4. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Ludwig Glaeser
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Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion cover

5. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

by Greg Boyle
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Hamlet's BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age cover

6. Hamlet's BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

by William Powers
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Object-Oriented JavaScript: Create scalable, reusable high-quality JavaScript applications and libraries cover

7. Object-Oriented JavaScript: Create scalable, reusable high-quality JavaScript applications and libraries

by Stoyan Stefanov
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This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly cover

8. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff
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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance cover

9. The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance

by Josh Waitzkin
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The Blue-Eyed Salaryman: From World Traveller to Lifer at Mitsubishi cover

10. The Blue-Eyed Salaryman: From World Traveller to Lifer at Mitsubishi

by Niall Murtagh
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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

11. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman
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59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot cover

12. 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot

by Richard Wiseman
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Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business cover

13. Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business

by Ernie Chan
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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love cover

14. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport
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Material World: A Global Family Portrait cover

15. Material World: A Global Family Portrait

by Peter Menzel, Charles C. Mann
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1 cover

16. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1

by Donald Ervin Knuth
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Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity cover

17. Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

by Hugh MacLeod
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The Design and Evolution of C++ cover

18. The Design and Evolution of C++

by Bjarne Stroustrup
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