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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

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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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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain cover

3. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

by Oliver Sacks

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

4. 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

5. 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 cover

6. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

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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 (Oxford Paperbacks) cover

8. Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Oxford Paperbacks)

by Morris Kline

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Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within (Book + CD set) cover

9. Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within (Book + CD set)

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

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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 cover

12. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford

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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

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

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

by Jasper Becker

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

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

by William Zinsser

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Mr Nice: An Autobiography cover

16. Mr Nice: An Autobiography

by Howard Marks

Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node cover

17. Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node

by Mike Amundsen, Michael Amundsen

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

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

by Amartya Sen

Paragraphs and Essays: With Integrated Readings cover

19. Paragraphs and Essays: With Integrated Readings

by Lee Brandon, Kelly Brandon

The Art of Styling Sentences cover

20. The Art of Styling Sentences

by Ann Longknife, K.D. Sullivan

Wordly Wise: Book 8 cover

21. Wordly Wise: Book 8

by Kenneth Hodkinson

Encounters: Essays for Exploration and Inquiry cover

22. Encounters: Essays for Exploration and Inquiry

by Pat C. Hoy, Robert DiYanni, Pat Hoy

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

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

by Stéphane Courtois

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Heechee Rendezvous cover

24. Heechee Rendezvous

by Frederik Pohl

Programming Clojure cover

25. Programming Clojure

by Stuart Dabbs Halloway, Aaron Bedra

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Computer Networks (5th Edition) cover

26. Computer Networks (5th Edition)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, David Wetherall

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Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (6th Edition) cover

27. Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (6th Edition)

by Hull, John

Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques cover

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

by Sheldon Natenberg

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3D Computer Graphics (3rd Edition) cover

29. 3D Computer Graphics (3rd Edition)

by Alan H. Watt

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Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C (2nd Edition) cover

30. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C (2nd Edition)

by James D. Foley

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Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition cover

31. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition

by Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman

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Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics (McGraw-Hill computer science series) cover

32. Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics (McGraw-Hill computer science series)

by William M. Newman, Robert F. Sproull

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

33. Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Ye ars

by Paul B. Carroll, Chunka Mui

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

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

by Neil Postman

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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

35. 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

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

by Lester R. Brown

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

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

by Howard M. Shapiro

Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options cover

38. Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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

by James R. Flynn

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Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals cover

40. Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

by John Gray

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Fundamentals of Sensory Physiology (Springer Study Edition) cover

41. Fundamentals of Sensory Physiology (Springer Study Edition)

by Robert F. Schmidt

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

42. 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 (Expert's Voice in Web Development) cover

43. The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right (Expert's Voice in Web Development)

by Adrian Holovaty, Jacob Kaplan-Moss

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Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript cover

44. Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript

by Karel Kurst-Swanger