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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 26, 2013 - Sep 2, 2013

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

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

by Randolph Quirk

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Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar cover

2. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar

by Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson

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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language cover

3. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

by Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum

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Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars) cover

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

by Po-ching Yip

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I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition (Martin Luther King, Jr., born January 15, 1929) cover

5. I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition (Martin Luther King, Jr., born January 15, 1929)

by Martin Luther King

8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Foot cover

6. 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Foot

by Esther Gokhale

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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary cover

7. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

by Linus Torvalds, David Diamond

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Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition cover

8. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition

by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore

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In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State cover

9. In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State

by Charles A. Murray

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Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness cover

10. Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness

by Jeffrey Gitomer

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Sam Walton: Made In America cover

11. Sam Walton: Made In America

by Sam Walton

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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace cover

12. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

by Ricardo Semler

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8 Minute Meditation: Quiet Your Mind. Change Your Life. cover

13. 8 Minute Meditation: Quiet Your Mind. Change Your Life.

by Victor N. Davich

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

14. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

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The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia cover

15. The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia

by Paul Hudak

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The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness cover

16. The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Eric Swanson

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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century cover

17. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

Probability and Measure Theory, Second Edition cover

18. Probability and Measure Theory, Second Edition

by Robert B. Ash, Catherine A. Doleans-Dade

Paint by Number: The How-To Craze that Swept the Nation cover

19. Paint by Number: The How-To Craze that Swept the Nation

by William L. Bird

Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) cover

20. Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

by Frank Salomon

Mathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu cover

21. Mathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu

by Marcia Ascher, Robert Ascher

22. Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand on the Business Battlefield

by David D'Alessandro

ANSI Common LISP cover

23. ANSI Common LISP

by Paul Graham

Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union cover

24. Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union

by Peter Schweizer

Practical Common Lisp cover

25. Practical Common Lisp

by Peter Seibel

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Rule 34 cover

26. Rule 34

by Charles Stross

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A Tremor In The Blood cover

27. A Tremor In The Blood

by David T. Lykken

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Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine! cover

28. Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine!

by Chris Maynard, Bill Scheller

The Four Steps to the Epiphany cover

29. The Four Steps to the Epiphany

by Steve Blank

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The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything cover

30. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

by Guy Kawasaki

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Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life cover

31. Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life

by Barry Oshry

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Mere Christianity cover

32. Mere Christianity

by C. S. Lewis

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Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story cover

33. Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story

by Ember Reichgott Junge

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Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer cover

34. Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer

by Douglas K. Smith, Robert C. Alexander

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover

35. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It cover

36. Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

37. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup

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

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

by Jeff Speck

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The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses cover

39. The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses

by Jesse Schell

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Game Engine Architecture cover

40. Game Engine Architecture

by Jason Gregory

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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) cover

41. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love cover

42. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport

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On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp cover

43. On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp

by Paul Graham

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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules cover

44. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

by Steve McConnell

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Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness cover

45. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

by Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman

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Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us into Temptation cover

46. Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us into Temptation

by Chris Nodder

Physically Based Rendering, Second Edition: From Theory to Implementation cover

47. Physically Based Rendering, Second Edition: From Theory to Implementation

by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys

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Understanding Computation cover

48. Understanding Computation

by Tom Stuart

Programming Collective Intelligence cover

49. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran

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The Algorithm Design Manual cover

50. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena

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Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) cover

51. Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)

by Jon Louis Bentley

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Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R (Statistics and Computing) cover

52. Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R (Statistics and Computing)

by John Chambers

Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition cover

53. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition

by Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman

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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project) cover

54. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project)

by Nick Turse

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