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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 22, 2013 - Jul 29, 2013

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Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World cover

1. Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World

by Roger Crowley

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade cover

2. The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade

by Alfred W. McCoy

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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond cover

3. Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

by Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain

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Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press cover

4. Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press

by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair

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Whatever (Serpent's Tail Classics) cover

5. Whatever (Serpent's Tail Classics)

by Michel Houellebecq

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Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (American Empire Project) cover

6. Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (American Empire Project)

by Chalmers A. Johnson

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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter cover

7. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

by Richard Phillips Feynman

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Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business cover

8. Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business

by Kenneth Roman, Joel Raphaelson

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Lisp in Small Pieces cover

9. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec

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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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UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition cover

11. UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition

by Evi Nemeth

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Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup cover

12. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

by Rob Walling

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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

13. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

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Visualizing Data cover

14. Visualizing Data

by William S. Cleveland

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The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) cover

15. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)

by Leland Wilkinson

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Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier cover

16. Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier

by Emily Brady

The New Media Reader (MIT Press) cover

17. The New Media Reader (MIT Press)

by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort

Prometheus Rising cover

18. Prometheus Rising

by Robert Anton Wilson

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Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell cover

19. Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell

by Simon Marlow

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Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories cover

20. Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories

by Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles van Marrewijk

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Algebra: Chapter 0 (Graduate Studies in Mathematics) cover

21. Algebra: Chapter 0 (Graduate Studies in Mathematics)

by Paolo Aluffi

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Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made cover

22. Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made

by Andy Hertzfeld

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Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry cover

23. Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry

by David L Nelson, Michael M Cox

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Value-Based Fees: How to Charge - and Get - What You're Worth cover

24. Value-Based Fees: How to Charge - and Get - What You're Worth

by Alan Weiss

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Let There Be Range!: Crushing SSNL/MSNL No-Limit Hold'em Games cover

25. Let There Be Range!: Crushing SSNL/MSNL No-Limit Hold'em Games

by Cole "Cts" South, Tri "Slowhabit" Nguyen

The Elements of Graphing Data cover

26. The Elements of Graphing Data

by William S. Cleveland

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Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) cover

27. Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

by Peter Sloterdijk

Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods cover

28. Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods

by Nancy Marie Brown, Nina V. Fedoroff

The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman cover

29. The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman

by Timothy Ferriss

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HTML5 Game Development with ImpactJS cover

30. HTML5 Game Development with ImpactJS

by Davy Cielen, Arno Meysman

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox Professional Guides) cover

31. Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox Professional Guides)

by Nicholas C. Zakas

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Building HTML5 Games with ImpactJS: An Introduction On HTML5 Game Development cover

32. Building HTML5 Games with ImpactJS: An Introduction On HTML5 Game Development

by Jesse Freeman