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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 23, 2013 - Sep 30, 2013

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Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present cover

1. Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present

by Michael B Oren

Remembering the Kana: The Hiragana / The Katakana cover

2. Remembering the Kana: The Hiragana / The Katakana

by James W. Heisig, Helmut Morsbach, Kazue Kurebayashi

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Most Probable Position: History of Aerial Navigation to 1941 cover

3. Most Probable Position: History of Aerial Navigation to 1941

by Monte D. Wright

The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation cover

4. The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation

by Thomas Frank

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War cover

5. One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

by Michael Dobbs

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6. A. P. L.: The Language and Its Usage (Prentice-Hall series in automatic computation)

by Raymond Peter Polivka, Sandra Pakin

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Global Catastrophic Risks cover

7. Global Catastrophic Risks

by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic

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Time Management for System Administrators cover

8. Time Management for System Administrators

by Tom Limoncelli

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Models of Oculomotor Control cover

9. Models of Oculomotor Control

by Curtis E. A. Karnow

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Bicycling Science (MIT Press) cover

10. Bicycling Science (MIT Press)

by David Gordon Wilson

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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses cover

11. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming cover

12. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway

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Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness cover

13. Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness

by Itzhak Bentov

The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations cover

14. The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations

by Larry Tye

Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options cover

15. Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests cover

16. Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

by Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce

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Conquests and Cultures: An International History cover

17. Conquests and Cultures: An International History

by Thomas Sowell

Annals of the Former World cover

18. Annals of the Former World

by John McPhee

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Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions cover

19. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely

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Metrophage (Ace Science Fiction Special) cover

20. Metrophage (Ace Science Fiction Special)

by Richard Kadrey

Yes, You Can Get A Financial Life!: Your Lifetime Guide to Financial Planning cover

21. Yes, You Can Get A Financial Life!: Your Lifetime Guide to Financial Planning

by Ben Stein, Phil DeMuth

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