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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Feb 18, 2013 - Feb 25, 2013

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Showing 1 - 31 of 31 books

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains cover

1. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr

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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other cover

2. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

by Sherry Turkle

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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks cover

3. The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

by Susan Casey

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4. The Speed of Dark

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Communication Between Man and Dolphin cover

5. Communication Between Man and Dolphin

by John Cunningham Lilly

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Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation (Vintage Departures) cover

6. Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation (Vintage Departures)

by Michael Zielenziger

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Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets cover

7. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

by Peter Van der Linden

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8. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena

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Mean Genes: From Sex To Money To Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts cover

9. Mean Genes: From Sex To Money To Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts

by Terry Burnham, Jay Phelan

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Managing Projects with GNU Make (Nutshell Handbooks) cover

10. Managing Projects with GNU Make (Nutshell Handbooks)

by Robert Mecklenburg, Robert William Mecklenburg

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Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use cover

11. Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use

by Fred Trotter, David Uhlman

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Waggoner Cruising Guide's Cruising the Secret Coast: Unexplored Anchorages on British Columbia's Inside Passage cover

12. Waggoner Cruising Guide's Cruising the Secret Coast: Unexplored Anchorages on British Columbia's Inside Passage

by Jennifer Hamilton, James Hamilton

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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It cover

13. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

by Gary Taubes

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14. The Light of Other Days

by Arthur Charles Clarke, Stephen Baxter

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Economics of the Public Sector (Third Edition) cover

15. Economics of the Public Sector (Third Edition)

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4th Edition cover

16. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4th Edition

by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson

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17. The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

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18. Island China

by Ralph N. Clough

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

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

by Tomas Petricek, Jon Skeet

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Expert F# 3.0 (Expert's Voice in F#) cover

20. Expert F# 3.0 (Expert's Voice in F#)

by Don Syme, Adam Granicz, Antonio Cisternino

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21. Programming F# 3.0

by Chris Smith

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22. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

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Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America cover

23. Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America

by Peter Andreas

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Probability and Computing: Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis cover

24. Probability and Computing: Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis

by Michael Mitzenmacher, Eli Upfal

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Road Accidents: Prevent or Punish? cover

25. Road Accidents: Prevent or Punish?

by J. J. Leeming, G. M. Mackay, Karl Friedrich M. Pole, Patrick John Fitzgerald

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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Feb 18, 2013 - Feb 25, 2013

Showing 1 - 31 of 31 books

1. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

2. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

3. The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

4. The Speed of Dark

5. Communication Between Man and Dolphin

6. Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation (Vintage Departures)

7. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

8. The Algorithm Design Manual

9. Mean Genes: From Sex To Money To Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts

10. Managing Projects with GNU Make (Nutshell Handbooks)

11. Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use

12. Waggoner Cruising Guide's Cruising the Secret Coast: Unexplored Anchorages on British Columbia's Inside Passage

13. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

14. The Light of Other Days

15. Economics of the Public Sector (Third Edition)

16. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4th Edition

17. The Wealth of Nations

18. Island China

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

20. Expert F# 3.0 (Expert's Voice in F#)

21. Programming F# 3.0

22. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

23. Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America

24. Probability and Computing: Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis

25. Road Accidents: Prevent or Punish?

26. Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media

27. Object-Oriented Software Construction (Book/CD-ROM) (2nd Edition)

28. Goal Directed Project Management: Effective Techniques and Strategies

29. Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition)

30. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

31. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It