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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 27, 2013 - Jun 3, 2013

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The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual cover

1. The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual

by United States. Department of the Army, United States Marine Corps

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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time cover

2. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

by Jeff Speck

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Pirate Cinema cover

3. Pirate Cinema

by Cory Doctorow

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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

4. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel

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First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan cover

5. First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan

by Gary C. Schroen

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Are Prisons Obsolete? cover

6. Are Prisons Obsolete?

by Angela Y. Davis

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Papillon (P.S.) cover

7. Papillon (P.S.)

by Henri Charrière

Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook cover

8. Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook

by Jacob Perkins

AngularJS cover

9. AngularJS

by Brad Green, Shyam Seshadri

Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) cover

10. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)

by Liping Ma

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Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective (Chapman & Hall/Crc Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition) cover

11. Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective (Chapman & Hall/Crc Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition)

by Stephen Marsland

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The Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or Practice cover

12. The Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or Practice

by Scott Barry Kaufman

Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It cover

13. Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It

by Lawrence Lessig

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Speed-Reading at the Keyboard, Vol. 3 cover

14. Speed-Reading at the Keyboard, Vol. 3

by Edward J. Shanaphy, Stuart Isacoff, Julie Jordan

Optical Illusions: Lucent and the Crash of Telecom cover

15. Optical Illusions: Lucent and the Crash of Telecom

by Lisa Endlich

Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers cover

16. Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers

by B. Jack Copeland

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Python Cookbook cover

17. Python Cookbook

by Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition cover

18. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

by Jared M. Diamond

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Developmental Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies cover

19. Developmental Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies

by Alan M Slater, Paul C Quinn

The Rise of the Meritocracy (Classics in Organization and Management Series) cover

20. The Rise of the Meritocracy (Classics in Organization and Management Series)

by Michael Dunlop Young

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients. by Ben Goldacre cover

21. Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients. by Ben Goldacre

by Ben Goldacre

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HTML for Babies: Volume 1 of Web Design for Babies cover

22. HTML for Babies: Volume 1 of Web Design for Babies

by John C. Vanden-Heuvel, Sr.

Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences cover

23. Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences

by Leonard Sax

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Turing (A Novel about Computation) (MIT Press) cover

24. Turing (A Novel about Computation) (MIT Press)

by Christos H. Papadimitriou

Walden on Wheels: On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom cover

25. Walden on Wheels: On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom

by Ken Ilgunas

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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk cover

26. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

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Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press) cover

27. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)

by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi

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The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure cover

28. The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure

by Juliet Schor

Animals of All Kinds Flash Cards cover

29. Animals of All Kinds Flash Cards

by School Zone Publishing Company Staff

Elements of the Theory of Computation (2nd Edition) cover

30. Elements of the Theory of Computation (2nd Edition)

by Harry R. Lewis, Christos H. Papadimitriou

Learning Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming cover

31. Learning Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming

by Mark Lutz

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Learning Java cover

32. Learning Java

by Patrick Niemeyer, Pat Niemeyer

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The C Programming Language cover

33. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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C++ Primer (5th Edition) cover

34. C++ Primer (5th Edition)

by Stanley B. Lippman

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The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Numbers: Revised Edition (Penguin Press Science) cover

35. The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Numbers: Revised Edition (Penguin Press Science)

by David G. Wells

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Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five cover

36. Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five

by John Medina

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Interactive Data Visualization for the Web cover

37. Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

by Scott Murray

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Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Third Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

38. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Third Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Mark A. Hall

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Startup Chile 101: Everything You Wanted to Know About Living, Working and Doing Business in Chile cover

39. Startup Chile 101: Everything You Wanted to Know About Living, Working and Doing Business in Chile

by Nathan Lustig