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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 9, 2013 - Sep 16, 2013

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The Big Short cover

1. The Big Short

by Michael M. Lewis
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Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants cover

2. Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants

by John Drury Clark
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains cover

3. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults) cover

4. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults)

by Eric Schlosser
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The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip cover

5. The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip

by Keith Devlin
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition cover

6. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition

by Alice Miller
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The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis cover

7. The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis

by Paul Simon
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients cover

8. Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

by Ben Goldacre
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How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes cover

9. How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

by Peter D. Schiff, Andrew J. Schiff
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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think cover

10. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think

by Bryan Caplan
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Programming Pearls (ACM Press) cover

11. Programming Pearls (ACM Press)

by Jon Louis Bentley
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