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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 29, 2012 - Nov 5, 2012

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What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought cover

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

by Keith E. Stanovich
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South: The ENDURANCE Expedition cover

2. South: The ENDURANCE Expedition

by Ernest Shackleton
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Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition) cover

3. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)

by Josef Müller-Brockmann
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Redshift Rendezvous cover

4. Redshift Rendezvous

by John E. Stith
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On Photography cover

5. On Photography

by Susan Sontag
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How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed cover

6. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

by Ray Kurzweil
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Agile Estimating and Planning cover

7. Agile Estimating and Planning

by Mike Cohn
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How Apollo Flew to the Moon (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration) cover

8. How Apollo Flew to the Moon (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

by W. David Woods
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How Apollo Flew to the Moon (Springer Praxis Books) cover

9. How Apollo Flew to the Moon (Springer Praxis Books)

by W. David Woods
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Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight (Paperback)) cover

10. Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight (Paperback))

by Thomas J. Kelly
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Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond cover

11. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

by Gene Kranz
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The Scientist as Rebel (New York Review Collections (Hardcover)) cover

12. The Scientist as Rebel (New York Review Collections (Hardcover))

by Freeman Dyson
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

13. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information cover

14. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

by Edward R. Tufte
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C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software cover

15. C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software

by David R. Hanson
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The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys cover

16. The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys

by James Fadiman
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition cover

17. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

by Daniel Okrent
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Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Book) cover

18. Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Book)

by E.T. Bell
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Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic cover

19. Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic

by Anita Burdman Feferman, Solomon Feferman
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth cover

20. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth

by Paul Hoffman
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The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick Mosteller cover

21. The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick Mosteller

by Frederick Mosteller
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I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography in Three Parts (Maa Spectrum Series) cover

22. I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography in Three Parts (Maa Spectrum Series)

by Paul Richard Halmos
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Logicomix: An epic search for truth cover

23. Logicomix: An epic search for truth

by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

24. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser
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The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick cover

25. The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick

by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
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No More Mr Nice Guy cover

26. No More Mr Nice Guy

by Robert A. Glover
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Chaos: Making a New Science cover

27. Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick
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The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence cover

28. The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

by Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson
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Getting Started with Processing cover

29. Getting Started with Processing

by Casey Reas, Ben Fry
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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

30. 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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Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent cover

31. Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent

by Joel Spolsky
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