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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 4, 2013 - Nov 11, 2013

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

1. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Real-World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C# cover

2. Real-World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C#

by Tomas Petricek, Jon Skeet

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Product Design and Development, 5th Edition cover

3. Product Design and Development, 5th Edition

by Steven Eppinger, Karl Ulrich

How Economics Shapes Science cover

4. How Economics Shapes Science

by Paula Stephan

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Great Boss Dead Boss cover

5. Great Boss Dead Boss

by Ray Immelman

Humans of New York cover

6. Humans of New York

Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won't Tell You About the Internet cover

7. Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won't Tell You About the Internet

by Wallace Wang

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

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

by Nick Turse

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

9. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

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Poland cover

10. Poland

by James Albert Michener

Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

11. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey A. Silverglate

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Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe (Jackson School Publications in International Studies (Paperback)) cover

12. Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe (Jackson School Publications in International Studies (Paperback))

by Daniel Chirot, Anthony Reid

Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage cover

13. Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage

by Kaiser Fung

Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History) cover

14. Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History)

by Frans P. B. Osinga

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Polywater cover

15. Polywater

by Felix Franks

Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face cover

16. Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face

by Dale C. Carson, Wes Denham

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The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation cover

17. The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation

by Greg LeRoy

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Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk) cover

18. Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk)

by Andrew Schulman, David Maxey, Matt Pietrek

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Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models cover

19. Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models

by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill

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High Performance JavaScript cover

20. High Performance JavaScript

by Nicholas Zakas

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Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School cover

21. Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School

by Philip Delves Broughton

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The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

22. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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The Library of Babel cover

23. The Library of Babel

by Jorge Luis Borges

The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience cover

24. The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience

by Rex Hartson, Pardha S. Pyla