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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 19, 2012 - Nov 26, 2012

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Assholes: A Theory cover

1. Assholes: A Theory

by Aaron James

One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way cover

2. One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

by Robert Maurer

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Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security cover

3. Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security

by Daniel J. Solove

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Living in the Future: The Education and Adventures of an Advanced Aircraft Designer cover

4. Living in the Future: The Education and Adventures of an Advanced Aircraft Designer

by Daniel Raymer

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It―A Guide to Starting a Business in a Productive and Successful Way cover

5. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It―A Guide to Starting a Business in a Productive and Successful Way

by Michael E. Gerber

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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

6. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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RESTful Web Services Cookbook: Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity cover

7. RESTful Web Services Cookbook: Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity

by Subbu Allamaraju, Subrahmanyam Allamaraju

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Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Galaxy Books) cover

8. Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Galaxy Books)

by Morris Kline

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Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within, Book & Includes Online Downloadable code cover

9. Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within, Book & Includes Online Downloadable code

by Kenny Werner

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Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter cover

10. Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter

by Steven Johnson

The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America cover

11. The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America

JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts cover

12. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier

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Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work cover

13. Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work

by Paul Babiak, Robert D. Hare

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

14. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

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On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication cover

15. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication

by William Zinsser

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Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine (Holt Paperback) cover

16. Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine (Holt Paperback)

by Jasper Becker

The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity cover

17. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

by Amartya Sen

Mr Nice: An Autobiography cover

18. Mr Nice: An Autobiography

by Howard Marks

Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node: Creating Evolvable Hypermedia Applications cover

19. Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node: Creating Evolvable Hypermedia Applications

by Mike Amundsen, Michael Amundsen

Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) cover

20. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

by Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, Gregory G. Colomb

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Paragraphs and Essays: With Integrated Readings cover

21. Paragraphs and Essays: With Integrated Readings

by Lee Brandon, Kelly Brandon

Encounters: Essays for Exploration and Inquiry cover

22. Encounters: Essays for Exploration and Inquiry

by Pat C. Hoy, Robert DiYanni, Pat Hoy

Art of Styling Sentences cover

23. Art of Styling Sentences

by Ann Longknife, K.D. Sullivan

Wordly Wise: Book 8 cover

24. Wordly Wise: Book 8

by Kenneth Hodkinson

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression cover

25. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression

by Stéphane Courtois

Programming Clojure cover

26. Programming Clojure

by Stuart Dabbs Halloway, Aaron Bedra

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Heechee Rendezvous cover

27. Heechee Rendezvous

by Frederik Pohl

Computer Networks (5th Edition) cover

28. Computer Networks (5th Edition)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, David Wetherall

Options, Futures And Other Derivatives cover

29. Options, Futures And Other Derivatives

by Hull, John

Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques cover

30. Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques

by Sheldon Natenberg

Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics cover

31. Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics

by William M. Newman, Robert F. Sproull

Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice cover

32. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice

by John F. Hughes

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Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition cover

33. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition

by Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman

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3D Computer Graphics (3rd Edition) cover

34. 3D Computer Graphics (3rd Edition)

by Alan H. Watt

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business cover

35. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

by Neil Postman, Neil Postman

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Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years cover

36. Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years

by Paul B. Carroll, Chunka Mui

Are We Getting Smarter?: Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century cover

37. Are We Getting Smarter?: Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century

by James R. Flynn

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Hacking The LSAT: Full Explanations For LSATs 29-38 (Volume I: LSATs 29-33): An LSAT Prep and Study Guide For The Next Ten Actual Official LSATs (Includes Logic Games Diagrams) cover

38. Hacking The LSAT: Full Explanations For LSATs 29-38 (Volume I: LSATs 29-33): An LSAT Prep and Study Guide For The Next Ten Actual Official LSATs (Includes Logic Games Diagrams)

by Graeme Blake

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Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity cover

39. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

by Lester R. Brown

Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options cover

40. Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss: The Visual Program for Permanent Weight Loss cover

41. Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss: The Visual Program for Permanent Weight Loss

by Howard M. Shapiro

Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals cover

42. Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

by John Gray

Fund Sensory Physiology cover

43. Fund Sensory Physiology

by Robert F. Schmidt

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence cover

44. Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

by Lisa Cron

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The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right cover

45. The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right

by Adrian Holovaty

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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win cover

46. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

by Steven Gary Blank

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Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript cover

47. Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript

by Karel Kurst-Swanger