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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 2, 2013 - Dec 9, 2013

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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. cover

1. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

by Ron Chernow

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto) cover

2. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Quantitative Value, + Web Site: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (Wiley Finance) cover

3. Quantitative Value, + Web Site: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (Wiley Finance)

by Tobias Carlisle

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Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards (The Wiley Finance Series) cover

4. Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards (The Wiley Finance Series)

by Antti Ilmanen

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Jackass Investing: Don't do it. Profit from it. cover

5. Jackass Investing: Don't do it. Profit from it.

by Michael Dever

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The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders – The Financial Strategies That Lead to Success cover

6. The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders – The Financial Strategies That Lead to Success

by Jack D. Schwager

Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 11 cover

7. Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 11

by Frank D. Luna

Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education cover

8. Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education

by Danielle S. Allen

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Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach (Title Not in Series) cover

9. Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach (Title Not in Series)

by Cynthia A. Barnhart

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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

10. Programming Collective Intelligence

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At Day's Close: Night in Times Past cover

11. At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

by A. Roger Ekirch, Roger A. Ekirch

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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner) cover

12. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by Liaquat Ahamed

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Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's cover

13. Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's

by Ray Kroc

Inside BOSS: South Africa's secret police cover

14. Inside BOSS: South Africa's secret police

by Gordon Winter

The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set cover

15. The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set

by Donald Knuth

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

16. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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The Civilized Engineer cover

17. The Civilized Engineer

by Samuel C. Florman

Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment cover

18. Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

by Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin, Daniel Kahneman

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The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated cover

19. The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated

by Judith Rich Harris

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Cry, the Beloved Country cover

20. Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton

Everyone Poops cover

21. Everyone Poops

by 五味太郎

Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway cover

22. Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway

by Clifford Stoll

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Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results cover

23. Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results

by Drew Boyd, Jacob Goldenberg

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Algorithms (4th Edition) cover

24. Algorithms (4th Edition)

by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne

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Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python cover

25. Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python

by John Guttag

Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science cover

26. Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science

by John M. Zelle

Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach cover

27. Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach

by Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak

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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition cover

28. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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Introduction to the Theory of Computation cover

29. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

by Michael Sipser

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The Nature of Computation cover

30. The Nature of Computation

by Cristopher Moore

High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian cover

31. High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian

by Clifford Stoll

Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II cover

32. Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II

by Stephen Budiansky

Lisp cover

33. Lisp

by Patrick Henry Winston, Berthold Horn

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Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition cover

34. Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition

by Arnold Robbins

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition cover

35. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition

by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands

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The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men cover

36. The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men

by Christina Hoff Sommers

Graph Databases cover

37. Graph Databases

Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

38. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman

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xkcd: volume 0 cover

39. xkcd: volume 0

by Randall Munroe

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Macs For Dummies cover

40. Macs For Dummies

by Edward C. Baig

OS X Mountain Lion Pocket Guide: The Ultimate Quick Guide to OS X cover

41. OS X Mountain Lion Pocket Guide: The Ultimate Quick Guide to OS X

by Chris Seibold

A Simple Guide to the Mac: OS X Mountain Lion Edition cover

42. A Simple Guide to the Mac: OS X Mountain Lion Edition

by Samuel Harris

My iMac: Mountain Lion Edition cover

43. My iMac: Mountain Lion Edition

by John Ray

Hacker's Delight cover

44. Hacker's Delight

by Henry S. Warren

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The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) cover

45. The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)

by Jonathan Schell

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey cover

46. Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey

by Bill Brewster

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

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

by Paul Simon

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Dow 100,000: Fact or Fiction cover

48. Dow 100,000: Fact or Fiction

by Charles W. Kadlec

The Brothers Karamazov cover

49. The Brothers Karamazov

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

DIY Satellite Platforms cover

50. DIY Satellite Platforms

C++ for Java Programmers cover

51. C++ for Java Programmers

by Mark Allen Weiss

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts cover

52. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

by Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson