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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 3, 2013 - Jun 10, 2013

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Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

1. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey A. Silverglate

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Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People through Delegation cover

2. Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People through Delegation

by David Schoenbrod

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

3. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

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The Art of the Rifle cover

4. The Art of the Rifle

by Jeff Cooper

Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

5. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer cover

6. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

7. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System cover

8. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

by Paul Fussell

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Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial (Oxford Science Publications) cover

9. Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial (Oxford Science Publications)

by D. S. Sivia

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy cover

10. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

by David D. Burns

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat (Volume 1) cover

11. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat (Volume 1)

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

Vagrant: Up and Running cover

12. Vagrant: Up and Running

by Mitchell Hashimoto

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Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire cover

13. Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

by Noam Chomsky

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy cover

14. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

by John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt

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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man cover

15. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

by John Perkins

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Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism cover

16. Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism

by Robert Pape

Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion cover

17. Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

by Jay Heinrichs

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The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning cover

18. The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning

by Etta Kralovec, John Buell

Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture cover

19. Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture

by Juliet B. Schor

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

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

by Ben Goldacre

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Elements of Abstract Algebra (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

21. Elements of Abstract Algebra (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Allan Clark

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Abstract Algebra, 3rd Edition cover

22. Abstract Algebra, 3rd Edition

by David S. Dummit

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

23. The Price of Admission: 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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The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must cover

24. The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must

by Robert Zubrin

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Hedgehogging cover

25. Hedgehogging

by Barton Biggs

Fate of the States: The New Geography of American Prosperity cover

26. Fate of the States: The New Geography of American Prosperity

by Meredith Whitney

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The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1 cover

27. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1

by Donald Ervin Knuth

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

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

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) cover

29. Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides)

by Aaron Hillegass

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iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (3rd Edition) (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) cover

30. iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (3rd Edition) (Big Nerd Ranch Guides)

by Joe Conway, Aaron Hillegass

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The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe (Science Masters) cover

31. The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe (Science Masters)

by Paul Davies

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