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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 24, 2013 - Jul 1, 2013

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking cover

1. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain
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Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience cover

2. Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

by Sally L. Satel, Scott O. Lilienfeld
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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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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

4. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
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Gödel's Proof cover

5. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman
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Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars) cover

6. Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars)

by Yip, Po-ching, Yip Po-Ching, Don Rimmington
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A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language cover

7. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language

by Ted Gioia
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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language cover

8. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

by Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum
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Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar cover

9. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar

by Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson
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Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face cover

10. Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face

by Dale C. Carson, Wes Denham
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Purely Functional Data Structures (Volume 0) cover

11. Purely Functional Data Structures (Volume 0)

by Chris Okasaki
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus cover

12. Quantum Computing Since Democritus

by Scott Aaronson
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O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training cover

13. O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training

by Jerry D. Peek
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Functional JavaScript: Introducing Functional Programming with Underscore.js cover

14. Functional JavaScript: Introducing Functional Programming with Underscore.js

by Michael Fogus
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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty cover

15. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

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

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

by Jon Barwise, Lawrence Moss
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Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal cover

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

by Oren Klaff
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