Hacker News Books

Years > 2012 > Week 6

The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Feb 6, 2012 - Feb 13, 2012

Join 4,200+ subscribers and get an email every Thursday with the best books being discussed on Hacker News...

Showing 1 - 36 of 36 books

The Big Enough Company: Creating a Business That Works for You cover

1. The Big Enough Company: Creating a Business That Works for You

by Adelaide Lancaster, Amy Abrams

Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement cover

2. Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement

by John Hattie

Read 5 comments

Molecular Biology of the Cell 3E cover

3. Molecular Biology of the Cell 3E

by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, David O Morgan, Martin Raff, Julian Lewis, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter, Alexander D. Johnson

Read 2 comments

Introduction to Functional Programming (Prentice Hall International Series in Computing Science) cover

4. Introduction to Functional Programming (Prentice Hall International Series in Computing Science)

by Richard J. Bird, Philip Wadler

Read 2 comments

Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception cover

5. Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception

by Charles Seife

Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) cover

6. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press)

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

Read 41 comments

Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications cover

7. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

by Toby Segaran

Read 21 comments

Algebra cover

8. Algebra

by I.M. Gelfand, Alexander Shen

Read 15 comments

Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything cover

9. Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

by Joshua Foer

Read 5 comments

Jim Cramer's Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Rich cover

10. Jim Cramer's Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Rich

by Michael Z. Williamson

Getting Started in Property Flipping cover

11. Getting Started in Property Flipping

by Michael C. Thomsett

Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies) cover

12. Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies)

by Jimmy Lin, Chris Dyer

Sinatra: Up and Running cover

13. Sinatra: Up and Running

by Alan Harris, Konstantin Haase

The Diversity Myth cover

14. The Diversity Myth

by David O. Sacks, Peter A. Thiel

Read 4 comments

The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Intolerance at Stanford (Independent Studies in Political Economy) cover

15. The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Intolerance at Stanford (Independent Studies in Political Economy)

by David O. Sacks, Peter A. Thiel

The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires cover

16. The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires

by Brian Tracy

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography cover

17. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

by Simon Singh

Read 17 comments

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses cover

18. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

Read 21 comments

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers cover

19. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

by Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur

Read 6 comments

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

20. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

Read 23 comments

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance cover

21. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

by Atul Gawande

Read 2 comments

JavaScript Web Applications cover

22. JavaScript Web Applications

by Alex MacCaw

Read 4 comments

Programming Perl (3rd Edition) cover

23. Programming Perl (3rd Edition)

by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant

The C Programming Language cover

24. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

Read 31 comments

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America cover

25. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Read 10 comments

From Idea to App: Creating iOS UI, animations, and gestures (Voices That Matter) cover

26. From Idea to App: Creating iOS UI, animations, and gestures (Voices That Matter)

by Shawn Welch

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master cover

27. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

by Andy Hunt, David Thomas, Dave Thomas, David . Thomas

Read 21 comments

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

28. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

Read 71 comments

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid cover

29. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Read 24 comments

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

30. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

Read 40 comments

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) cover

31. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman

Read 22 comments

The Oxford Companion to the Mind cover

32. The Oxford Companion to the Mind

by Richard L. Gregory, Richard Langton Gregory

The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience cover

33. The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience

by Martin E. P. Seligman, Karen Reivich, Lisa Jaycox, Jane Gillham

Read 5 comments

Data Structures and Algorithms in Java (2nd Edition) cover

34. Data Structures and Algorithms in Java (2nd Edition)

by Robert Lafore

Head First Java, 2nd Edition cover

35. Head First Java, 2nd Edition

by Kathy Sierra

Read 3 comments

Thinking in Java (4th Edition) cover

36. Thinking in Java (4th Edition)

by Bruce Eckel

Read 3 comments