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

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Showing 1 - 37 of 37 books

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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2. Drugs Without the Hot Air

by David J. Nutt

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Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition cover

3. Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition

by Jason Gregory

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Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience cover

4. Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

by Sally Satel, Scott O. Lilienfeld

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

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

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics) cover

6. Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)

by Stephen Mitchell

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

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

by Steven Pinker

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The I.D. Master: Identity Change Insider Secrets Little-Known Tactics of Identity-Change Professionals cover

8. The I.D. Master: Identity Change Insider Secrets Little-Known Tactics of Identity-Change Professionals

by John Q. Newman

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How to Make Driver's Licenses and Other ID on Your Home Computer cover

9. How to Make Driver's Licenses and Other ID on Your Home Computer

by Max Forge

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Modern Identity Changer: How To Create And Use A New Identity For Privacy And Personal Freedom cover

10. Modern Identity Changer: How To Create And Use A New Identity For Privacy And Personal Freedom

by Sheldon Charrett

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Secrets Of A Back Alley ID Man: Fake Id Construction Techniques Of The Underground cover

11. Secrets Of A Back Alley ID Man: Fake Id Construction Techniques Of The Underground

by Charrett Charrett

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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life cover

12. Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

by Neil Strauss

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Acquiring New ID: How To Easily Use The Latest Technology To Drop Out, Start Over, And Get On With Your Life cover

13. Acquiring New ID: How To Easily Use The Latest Technology To Drop Out, Start Over, And Get On With Your Life

by Ragnar Benson

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Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood cover

14. Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood

by Martin Booth

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Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years cover

15. Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years

by Simon Singh

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Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars) cover

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

by Po-ching Yip

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Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar cover

17. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar

by Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson

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A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (General Grammar) cover

18. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (General Grammar)

by Randolph Quirk

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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language cover

19. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

by Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum

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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

20. 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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The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal cover

21. The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

by Ben Mezrich

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22. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman

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Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress cover

23. Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress

by Peter Tyson

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24. Purely Functional Data Structures

by Chris Okasaki

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Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology cover

25. Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology

by Peter Lucas, Joe Ballay, Mickey McManus

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Quantum Computing since Democritus cover

26. Quantum Computing since Democritus

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UNIX (TM) Relational Database Management (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

27. UNIX (TM) Relational Database Management (Prentice-Hall Software Series)

by Rod Manis, Evan Schaffer, Robert Jorgensen

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The Crime Numbers Game: Management by Manipulation (Advances in Police Theory and Practice) cover

28. The Crime Numbers Game: Management by Manipulation (Advances in Police Theory and Practice)

by John A. Eterno, Eli B. Silverman

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Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare cover

29. Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare

by Michael A. Hoffman

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La sociÃ©tÃ© de dÃ©fiance (French Edition) cover

by Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

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31. Real World OCaml

by Jason Hickey, Anil Madhavapeddy, Yaron Minsky

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

Showing 1 - 37 of 37 books

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

2. Drugs Without the Hot Air

3. Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition

4. Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

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

6. Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)

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

8. The I.D. Master: Identity Change Insider Secrets Little-Known Tactics of Identity-Change Professionals

9. How to Make Driver's Licenses and Other ID on Your Home Computer

10. Modern Identity Changer: How To Create And Use A New Identity For Privacy And Personal Freedom

11. Secrets Of A Back Alley ID Man: Fake Id Construction Techniques Of The Underground

12. Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

13. Acquiring New ID: How To Easily Use The Latest Technology To Drop Out, Start Over, And Get On With Your Life

14. Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood

15. Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years

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

17. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar

18. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (General Grammar)

19. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

20. 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

21. The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

22. Gödel's Proof

23. Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress

24. Purely Functional Data Structures

25. Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology

26. Quantum Computing since Democritus

27. UNIX (TM) Relational Database Management (Prentice-Hall Software Series)

28. The Crime Numbers Game: Management by Manipulation (Advances in Police Theory and Practice)

29. Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare

30. La sociÃ©tÃ© de dÃ©fiance (French Edition)

31. Real World OCaml

32. The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

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

34. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

35. Vicious Circles: On the Mathematics of Non-Wellfounded Phenomena (CSLI Lecture Notes)

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

37. How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive!