Hacker News Books for 2013

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Hacker News Books for 2013

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2013.

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The Female Brain cover

401. The Female Brain

by Louann Brizendine

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Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional's Guide to Growing a Practice cover

402. Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional's Guide to Growing a Practice

by Alan Weiss

The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books) cover

403. The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books)

by Frank O'Brien

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How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes cover

404. How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

by Peter D. Schiff, Andrew J. Schiff

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Getting Started with Amazon Redshift cover

405. Getting Started with Amazon Redshift

by Stefan Bauer

Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery) cover

406. Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery)

by Charles Platt

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The Price of Admission (Updated Edition): How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates cover

407. The Price of Admission (Updated Edition): How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

by Daniel Golden

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Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy cover

408. Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy

by Matthew R. Simmons

Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World cover

409. Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World

by Steve Kemper

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Free Will (Key Concepts in Philosophy) cover

410. Free Will (Key Concepts in Philosophy)

by Joseph Keim Campbell

JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns cover

411. JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns

by Stoyan Stefanov

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How Economics Shapes Science cover

412. How Economics Shapes Science

by Paula Stephan

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies cover

413. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond

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Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking cover

414. Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

by R. Buckminster Fuller

The Cross-Time Engineer (Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Book 1) cover

415. The Cross-Time Engineer (Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Book 1)

by Leo Frankowski

The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) cover

416. The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)

by Joseph Tainter

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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

417. Programming Collective Intelligence

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The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success cover

418. The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

by Kevin Dutton

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Database Management Systems, 3rd Edition cover

419. Database Management Systems, 3rd Edition

by Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke

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Code cover

420. Code

by Charles Petzold

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The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation cover

421. The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation

by Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson

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The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities (Volume 1 of 2) cover

422. The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities (Volume 1 of 2)

by Mark Dowd, John McDonald, Justin Schuh

Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover

423. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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Lisp cover

424. Lisp

by Patrick Henry Winston, Berthold Horn

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Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition cover

425. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition

by Jon Erickson

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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers cover

426. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens cover

427. Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens

by Nicholas Shaxson

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Readings in Computer Architecture (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

428. Readings in Computer Architecture (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by Mark D. Hill

ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income cover

429. ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income

by Darren Rowse

Blog, Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit, and to Create Community cover

430. Blog, Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit, and to Create Community

by Joy Deangdeelert Cho

The Garbage Collection Handbook (

431. The Garbage Collection Handbook ("International Perspectives on Science, Culture and Society")

by Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss

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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain cover

432. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

by Antonio Damasio

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Calculus by Michael Spivak - 4th Edition (Calculus 4th edition by Michael Spivak) cover

433. Calculus by Michael Spivak - 4th Edition (Calculus 4th edition by Michael Spivak)

by Michael Spivak

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ARM System-on-Chip Architecture cover

434. ARM System-on-Chip Architecture

by Stephen B. Furber

The Gone-Away World (Vintage Contemporaries) cover

435. The Gone-Away World (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Nick Harkaway

Programming in Prolog: Using The Iso Standard cover

436. Programming in Prolog: Using The Iso Standard

by William F. Clocksin, Christopher S. Mellish

The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

437. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

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Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction cover

438. Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

by Colin Ward

Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids cover

439. Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids

by Michael J. S. Belton, Thomas H. Morgan, Nalin H. Samarasinha, Donald K. Yeomans

Logicomix: An epic search for truth cover

440. Logicomix: An epic search for truth

by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou

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How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets – An Essential Primer on How Breakthrough Innovation Gets Funded from Industrial Revolution to Wall Street cover

441. How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets – An Essential Primer on How Breakthrough Innovation Gets Funded from Industrial Revolution to Wall Street

by Andy Kessler

Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition cover

442. Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition

by Arnold Robbins

Science, Strategy and War (Strategy and History) cover

443. Science, Strategy and War (Strategy and History)

by Frans P. B. Osinga

ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Use R!) cover

444. ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Use R!)

by Hadley Wickham

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An Island to Oneself cover

445. An Island to Oneself

by Tom Neale

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Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions cover

446. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely

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Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude cover

447. Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

by Robert Baer

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition cover

448. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition

by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands

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Great Danes (B.E.S. Dog Bibles Series) cover

449. Great Danes (B.E.S. Dog Bibles Series)

by Rachel Cawley, John Cawley

Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications cover

450. Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications

by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, Tadayoshi Kohno

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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood cover

451. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

by James Gleick

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SPIN Selling cover

452. SPIN Selling

by Neil Rackham

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Polywater cover

453. Polywater

by Felix Franks

The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

454. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup

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The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism cover

455. The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism

by Hernando De Soto

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

456. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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STAY OF EXECUTION A -SORT OF MEMOIR A sort of memoir cover

457. STAY OF EXECUTION A -SORT OF MEMOIR A sort of memoir

by Stewart Alsop

The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton cover

458. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

by Jerome Karabel

Programming in C cover

459. Programming in C

by Stephen G. Kochan

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Interactive Data Visualization for the Web cover

460. Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

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C++ Programming Language, The cover

461. C++ Programming Language, The

by Martin Krieger

Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach cover

462. Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach

by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne

The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT cover

463. The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

by Russ Harris, Steven Hayes

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The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men cover

464. The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men

by Christina Hoff Sommers

When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany cover

465. When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany

by Adam Fergusson

Connections cover

466. Connections

by Burke, James

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On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp cover

467. On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp

by Paul Graham

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The State Against Blacks cover

468. The State Against Blacks

by Williams, Walter E.

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier cover

469. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Glaeser

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Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts-- the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution cover

470. Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts-- the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution

by Steve Lohr

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures) cover

471. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures)

by Daniel L. Everett

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Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal cover

472. Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal

by Oren Klaff

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The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design cover

473. The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design

by Galen Cranz

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A Short History of Technology: From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900 cover

474. A Short History of Technology: From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900

by T. K. Derry

Graph Databases cover

475. Graph Databases

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World cover

476. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

by David Deutsch

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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules cover

477. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

by Steve McConnell

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Vicious Circles: On the Mathematics of Non-Wellfounded Phenomena cover

478. Vicious Circles: On the Mathematics of Non-Wellfounded Phenomena

by Jon Barwise, Lawrence Moss

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The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution cover

479. The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

by T.R. Reid

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) cover

480. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)

by Christopher M. Bishop

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Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations cover

481. Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations

by Karl Eugene Wiegers

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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think cover

482. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think

by Bryan Caplan

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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine cover

483. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

by Charles Petzold

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The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing cover

484. The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing

by Davis, Martin

Team Geek cover

485. Team Geek

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Single Page Web Applications: JavaScript end-to-end cover

486. Single Page Web Applications: JavaScript end-to-end

by Michael Mikowski, Josh C. Powell

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The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

487. The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan

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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (The How To Talk Series) cover

488. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (The How To Talk Series)

by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

489. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

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Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk) cover

490. Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk)

by Andrew Schulman, David Maxey, Matt Pietrek

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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work cover

491. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

by Mason Currey

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xkcd: volume 0 cover

492. xkcd: volume 0

by Randall Munroe

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Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models cover

493. Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models

by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill

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Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Perennial Classics) cover

494. Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Perennial Classics)

by Paul Johnson

High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication cover

495. High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication

by Jeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling, Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Baron Schwartz. Peter Zaitsev. Vadim Tkachenko. Jeremy D. Zawodny. Arjen Lentz. Derek J. Balling

Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming cover

496. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming

by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History cover

497. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne

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Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers cover

498. Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers

by John MacCormick, Chris Bishop

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe cover

499. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

by George Dyson

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The Bomb: A New History – A Weapons Designer's Perspective on Nuclear Policy and National Security cover

500. The Bomb: A New History – A Weapons Designer's Perspective on Nuclear Policy and National Security

by Stephen M. Younger