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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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Anticancer: A New Way of Life cover

2. Anticancer: A New Way of Life

by David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD

Python for Data Analysis cover

3. Python for Data Analysis

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

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

by Paul Starr

What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought cover

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

by Keith E. Stanovich

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Machine Dreams cover

6. Machine Dreams

by Philip Mirowski

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

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8. Synco

by Jorge Baradit

The Perspective of the World cover

9. The Perspective of the World

by Fernand Braudel

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

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

by Eugene F. Mallove

Rocket Propulsion Elements cover

11. Rocket Propulsion Elements

by George P. Sutton, Oscar Biblarz

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Blacks & the Mormon Priesthood: Setting the Record Straight cover

12. Blacks & 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

13. 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

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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Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis cover

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

by James Rickards

The Design of Everyday Things cover

17. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground cover

18. Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground

by Kevin Poulsen

Programming Collective Intelligence cover

19. Programming Collective Intelligence

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

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

by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

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