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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Feb 13, 2012 - Feb 20, 2012

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JavaScript Patterns cover

1. JavaScript Patterns

by Stoyan Stefanov

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High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers cover

2. High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers

by Steve Souders

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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code cover

3. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck

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How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter, New Edition cover

4. How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter, New Edition

by Sherwin B. Nuland

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Intellectuals and Society cover

5. Intellectuals and Society

by Thomas Sowell

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life cover

6. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

by Richard Hofstadter

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Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications cover

7. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

by Toby Segaran

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Discrete Mathematics with Applications cover

8. Discrete Mathematics with Applications

by Susanna S. Epp

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The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing) cover

9. The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing)

by Kees Doets, Jan Eijck

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Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake cover

10. Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding

The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security cover

11. The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon

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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

12. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Robert C. Martin

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Newtonian Casino cover

13. Newtonian Casino

by Thomas A. Bass

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See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism cover

14. See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

by Robert Baer

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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure) cover

15. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure)

by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

16. JavaScript: The Good Parts

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

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The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives cover

17. The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

by Michael Heller

Who Owns the Sky?: The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On cover

18. Who Owns the Sky?: The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On

by Stuart Banner

Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

19. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott

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RESTful Web Services cover

20. RESTful Web Services

by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby

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Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You cover

21. Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You

by John Warrillow

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

22. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Data Structures and Algorithms in Java cover

23. Data Structures and Algorithms in Java

by Adam Drozdek