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

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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter cover

1. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

by Richard Phillips Feynman

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Fluoride the Aging Factor: How to Recognize and Avoid the Devastating Effects of Fluoride cover

2. Fluoride the Aging Factor: How to Recognize and Avoid the Devastating Effects of Fluoride

by John Yiamouyiannis

Corrugated Iron cover

3. Corrugated Iron

by Adam Mornement, Simon Holloway

The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us cover

4. The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us

by Robert Frank, Philip J. Cook

Typographie: A Manual of Design cover

5. Typographie: A Manual of Design

by Emil Ruder

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Detail In Typography cover

6. Detail In Typography

by Jost Hochuli

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science cover

7. Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

by Alan D. Sokal, Jean Bricmont

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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin cover

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

by Masha Gessen

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How to Solve It by Computer (Prentice-Hall International Series in Computer Science) cover

9. How to Solve It by Computer (Prentice-Hall International Series in Computer Science)

by R. G. Dromey

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Intellectual Impostures cover

10. Intellectual Impostures

by Alan D. Sokal, Jean Bricmont

An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics) cover

11. An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)

by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani

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Agile Estimating and Planning cover

12. Agile Estimating and Planning

by Mike Cohn

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The Social Construction of What? cover

13. The Social Construction of What?

by Ian Hacking

How's Your Drink?: Cocktails, Culture, and the Art of Drinking Well cover

14. How's Your Drink?: Cocktails, Culture, and the Art of Drinking Well

by Eric Felten

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine cover

15. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael M. Lewis

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Winning Through Intimidation cover

16. Winning Through Intimidation

by Robert J. Ringer

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And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails cover

17. And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails

by Wayne Curtis

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture cover

18. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

by Martin Fowler

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Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants cover

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

by John Drury Clark

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FAT AND MEAN: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial

20. FAT AND MEAN: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial "Downsizing"

by David M. Gordon

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All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis cover

21. All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

by Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera

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The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It cover

22. The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It

by Marcia Angell

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The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence cover

23. The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence

by Martin Meredith

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

24. 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 Dog Listener: Learning the Language of Your Best Friend cover

25. The Dog Listener: Learning the Language of Your Best Friend

by Jan Fennell

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

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

by Keith Devlin

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Handbook of Mathematics cover

27. Handbook of Mathematics

by I. N. Bronshteĭn, I.N. Bronshtein, K.A. Semendyayev, I. N. Bronshtein, K. A. Semendyayev, Gerhard Musiol, Heiner Mühlig

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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains cover

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

by Nicholas Carr

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

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

by Alice Miller

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Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics) cover

30. Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics)

by Seneca

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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living cover

31. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

by Dale Carnegie

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Schrodinger's Kittens: and the Search for Reality cover

32. Schrodinger's Kittens: and the Search for Reality

by John R. Gribbin

Co-Opetition cover

33. Co-Opetition

by Adam M. Brandenburger, Barry J. Nalebuff

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

by Paul Simon

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Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer cover

35. Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer

by Lynne Cox

Giant Steps cover

36. Giant Steps

by Karl Bushby

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination cover

37. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination

by Neal Gabler

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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life cover

38. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

by Steve Martin

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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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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Sleepfaring: The Secrets and Science of a Good Night's Sleep cover

42. Sleepfaring: The Secrets and Science of a Good Night's Sleep

by Jim Horne

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Probability and Computing: Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis cover

43. Probability and Computing: Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis

by Michael Mitzenmacher, Eli Upfal

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The Uses of the University: Fifth Edition (The Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen) cover

44. The Uses of the University: Fifth Edition (The Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen)

by Clark Kerr

Data Structures and Algorithms in Python cover

45. Data Structures and Algorithms in Python

by Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, Michael H. Goldwasser

Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) cover

46. Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)

by Jon Louis Bentley

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Python Algorithms: Mastering Basic Algorithms in the Python Language (Expert's Voice in Open Source) cover

47. Python Algorithms: Mastering Basic Algorithms in the Python Language (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

by Magnus Lie Hetland

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Git: Version control for everyone cover

48. Git: Version control for everyone

by Ravishankar Somasundaram

The Internet Via Mosaic and World-Wide Web cover

49. The Internet Via Mosaic and World-Wide Web

by Steve Browne

The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves cover

50. The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

by Annie Murphy Paul

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