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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 5, 2012 - Nov 12, 2012

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Earth: An Intimate History cover

1. Earth: An Intimate History

by Richard Fortey

Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet cover

2. Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet

by Ted Nield

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less cover

3. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

by Barry Schwartz

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Annals of the Former World cover

4. Annals of the Former World

by John McPhee

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

5. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

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Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice (Volume 1998) (Morality and Society Series) cover

6. Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice (Volume 1998) (Morality and Society Series)

by Bent Flyvbjerg

Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language cover

7. Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It cover

8. Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It

by Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor Jr.

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

9. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

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Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study (Yale Nota Bene S) cover

10. Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study (Yale Nota Bene S)

by Thomas Sowell

The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy cover

11. The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently cover

12. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

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An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms (Computational Molecular Biology) cover

13. An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms (Computational Molecular Biology)

by Neil C. Jones, Pavel A. Pevzner

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

14. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman

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What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods cover

15. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins

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See MIPS Run (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

16. See MIPS Run (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by Dominic Sweetman

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Clojure Programming cover

17. Clojure Programming

by Chas Emerick. Brian Carper. Christophe Grand

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The Algorithm Design Manual cover

18. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena

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