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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
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less cover

2. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

by Barry Schwartz
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Annals of the Former World cover

3. Annals of the Former World

by John McPhee
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Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice (Morality and Society Series) cover

4. Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice (Morality and Society Series)

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

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

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community cover

6. Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community

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

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

by Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor Jr., Stuart Taylor
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

8. 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

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

by Thomas Sowell
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Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat cover

10. Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

by Oliver Sacks
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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
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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

by Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman
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Lean Startup How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses cover

13. Lean Startup How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries
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An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms (Computational Molecular Biology) cover

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

by Neil C. Jones, Pavel A. Pevzner
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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

15. Thinking, Fast and Slow

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

16. 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

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

by Dominic Sweetman
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Clojure Programming cover

18. Clojure Programming

by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, Christophe Grand
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The Algorithm Design Manual cover

19. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena
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Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture cover

20. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

by Apostolos Doxiadis
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