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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 30, 2013 - Oct 7, 2013

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We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs And The Forging Of The Electronic Age cover

1. We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs And The Forging Of The Electronic Age

by Bob Johnstone

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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk cover

2. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk

by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

PGP: Source Code and Internals cover

3. PGP: Source Code and Internals

by Philip R. Zimmermann

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Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle cover

4. Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle

by Matthew Symonds

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Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine cover

5. Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine

by Sāmī ʻAbd al-Razzāq ʻAdwān, Dan Bar-On, Eyal J. Naveh, Peace Research Institute in the Middle East

The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community cover

6. The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community

by Katie Hafner

Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor cover

7. Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor

by Paul Lutus

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On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft cover

8. On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King

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The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems cover

9. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

by Jef Raskin

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The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic cover

10. The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

by Mark R. Levin

MongoDB: The Definitive Guide cover

11. MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

by Kristina Chodorow

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Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (2nd Edition) cover

12. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (2nd Edition)

by Randal E. Bryant, Davie Richard O'Hallaron

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Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition cover

13. Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition

by Michael Lee Scott

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Stories of Your Life and Others cover

14. Stories of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang

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Getting Started with Amazon Redshift cover

15. Getting Started with Amazon Redshift

by Stefan Bauer

Gödel's Proof cover

16. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman

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The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Algorithms and Data Structures series) cover

17. The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Algorithms and Data Structures series)

by Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss

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The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities (2 Volume set) cover

18. The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities (2 Volume set)

by Mark Dowd, John McDonald, Justin Schuh

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Great Danes (Barron's Dog Bibles) cover

19. Great Danes (Barron's Dog Bibles)

by Rachel Cawley, John Cawley

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much cover

20. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

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Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based on Algorithmic Probability (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series) cover

21. Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based on Algorithmic Probability (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)

by Marcus Hutter

Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life cover

22. Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life

by Allen Frances

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How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets cover

23. How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

by Felix Dennis

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Computer Organization and Design, Fourth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

24. Computer Organization and Design, Fourth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

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Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love cover

25. Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love

by Marty Cagan

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