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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 22, 2012 - Oct 29, 2012

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The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) cover

1. The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

by Noam Wasserman

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The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry cover

2. The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry

by Paul Starr

Anticancer: A New Way of Life cover

3. Anticancer: A New Way of Life

by David Servan-Schreiber

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What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought cover

4. What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

by Keith E. Stanovich

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Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science cover

5. Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science

by Philip Mirowski

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Synco cover

6. Synco

by Jorge Baradit

Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) cover

7. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)

by Jean Baudrillard

Python for Data Analysis cover

8. Python for Data Analysis

by Wes McKinney

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Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor cover

9. Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor

by Eugene F. Mallove

The Perspective of the World cover

10. The Perspective of the World

by Fernand Braudel

Blacks and the Mormon Priesthood (Setting the Record Straight) cover

11. Blacks and the Mormon Priesthood (Setting the Record Straight)

by Marcus Helvécio Martins

Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy cover

12. Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy

by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee

Rocket Propulsion Elements cover

13. Rocket Propulsion Elements

by George P. Sutton, Oscar Biblarz

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Languages of the World: An Introduction cover

14. Languages of the World: An Introduction

by Asya Pereltsvaig

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas cover

15. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

by Seymour A. Papert

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How to Win Friends and Influence People cover

16. How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis cover

17. Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis

by James Rickards

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The Design of Everyday Things cover

18. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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One Second After (A John Matherson Novel) cover

19. One Second After (A John Matherson Novel)

by William R. Forstchen

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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things cover

20. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

21. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran

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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark cover

22. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

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How to Master the Art of Selling cover

23. How to Master the Art of Selling

by Tom Hopkins