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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 16, 2013 - Dec 23, 2013

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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society cover

1. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman

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The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success cover

2. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

by William Thorndike

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The Web Architect's Handbook cover

3. The Web Architect's Handbook

by Charles Stross

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A Terrible Love of War cover

4. A Terrible Love of War

by James Hillman

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing cover

5. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

by Ted Conover

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

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

by Steven Pinker

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The Anarchist Cookbook cover

7. The Anarchist Cookbook

by William Powell

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The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda cover

8. The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda

by Ali Soufan, Daniel Freedman

The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention cover

9. The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

by Guy Deutscher

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Linux Core Kernel Commentary, 2nd Edition cover

10. Linux Core Kernel Commentary, 2nd Edition

by Scott Maxwell

ML for the Working Programmer, 2nd Edition cover

11. ML for the Working Programmer, 2nd Edition

by Lawrence C. Paulson

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Harold and the Purple Crayon (Purple Crayon Books) cover

12. Harold and the Purple Crayon (Purple Crayon Books)

by Crockett Johnson

A Course in Mathematics for Students of Physics: Volume 1 cover

13. A Course in Mathematics for Students of Physics: Volume 1

by Paul G. Bamberg, Paul Bamberg, Shlomo Sternberg

A Course in Mathematics for Students of Physics: Volume 2 cover

14. A Course in Mathematics for Students of Physics: Volume 2

by Paul Bamberg, Paul G. Bamberg, Shlomo Sternberg

Farther Away: Essays cover

15. Farther Away: Essays

by Jonathan Franzen

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation cover

16. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner

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Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking cover

17. Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

by R. Buckminster Fuller

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Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests cover

18. Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

by Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce

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Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction cover

19. Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

by Colin Ward

The Gone-Away World (Vintage Contemporaries) cover

20. The Gone-Away World (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Nick Harkaway

Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir cover

21. Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir

by Stewart Alsop

Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code cover

22. Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code

by Van Lindberg

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Fate of the States: The New Geography of American Prosperity cover

23. Fate of the States: The New Geography of American Prosperity

by Meredith Whitney

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Mastering Web Application Development with AngularJS cover

24. Mastering Web Application Development with AngularJS

by Pawel Kozlowski, Peter Bacon Darwin

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Gödel's Proof cover

25. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman

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Sagramanda (A Novel of Near-Future India) cover

26. Sagramanda (A Novel of Near-Future India)

by Alan Dean Foster

The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood cover

27. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

by James Gleick

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The Secret History cover

28. The Secret History

by Donna Tartt