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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 5, 2014 - May 12, 2014

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Love Life cover

1. Love Life

by Ray Kluun

Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic cover

2. Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic

by Bart Kosko

Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover

3. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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The World's Wasted Wealth 2: Save Our Wealth, Save Our Environment cover

4. The World's Wasted Wealth 2: Save Our Wealth, Save Our Environment

by J. W. Smith

Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought cover

5. Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought

by Ñāṇananda (Bhikkhu), Nanananda (bhikkhu, monaco buddhista.), Buddhist Publication Society

The Magic of the Mind: An Exposition of the Kalakarama Sutta cover

6. The Magic of the Mind: An Exposition of the Kalakarama Sutta

by Ñāṇananda (Bhikkhu)

Unshadowed Thought: Representation in Thought and Language cover

7. Unshadowed Thought: Representation in Thought and Language

by Charles Travis

New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy cover

8. New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy

by Robert J. Spitzer

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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth cover

9. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

by R. Buckminster Fuller

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10. Critical Path

by R. Buckminster Fuller

Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind: The Zen Journal & Letters of Maura Soshin O'Halloran cover

11. Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind: The Zen Journal & Letters of Maura Soshin O'Halloran

by Maura O'Halloran

Bicycling Science (MIT Press) cover

12. Bicycling Science (MIT Press)

by David Gordon Wilson

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Alternative DNS Servers: Choice and Deployment, and Optional SQL/LDAP Back-Ends cover

13. Alternative DNS Servers: Choice and Deployment, and Optional SQL/LDAP Back-Ends

by Jan-Piet Mens

Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup cover

14. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

by Rob Walling

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Authority: Become an Expert, Build a Following, and Gain Financial Independence cover

15. Authority: Become an Expert, Build a Following, and Gain Financial Independence

by Nathan Barry

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

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

by Timothy Ferriss

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The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

17. The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

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Counterexamples in Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

18. Counterexamples in Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Bernard R. Gelbaum, John M. H. Olmsted

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The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures cover

19. The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures

by Malba Tahan

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The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer cover

20. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

by Charles J. Murray

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Thinking with Data cover

21. Thinking with Data

by Max Shron

Python for Data Analysis cover

22. Python for Data Analysis

by Wes McKinney

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Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

23. Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by John L. Hennessy

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Modern Operating Systems (4th Edition) cover

24. Modern Operating Systems (4th Edition)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos

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The Design of the UNIX Operating System cover

25. The Design of the UNIX Operating System

by Maurice J. Bach

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

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

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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The Man Who Counts cover

27. The Man Who Counts

by Poul Anderson

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

28. Computer Organization and Design, Fifth 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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IBM and the Holocaust : The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation cover

29. IBM and the Holocaust : The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

by Edwin Black

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Inside the Soviet Army cover

30. Inside the Soviet Army

by Viktor Suvorov

The Great Crash 1929 cover

31. The Great Crash 1929

by John Kenneth Galbraith

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Consciousness and the Social Brain cover

32. Consciousness and the Social Brain

by Michael S. A. Graziano

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Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom cover

33. Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom

by Richard A. Burgess

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DAEMON cover

34. DAEMON

by Daniel Suarez

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The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market cover

35. The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market

by Michael Treacy

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Manifold: Time cover

36. Manifold: Time

by Stephen Baxter

Understanding the Linux Kernel cover

37. Understanding the Linux Kernel

by Daniel P. Bovet

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Driving Technical Change cover

38. Driving Technical Change

by Terrence Ryan

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Crackerjack Positioning : Niche Marketing Strategy for the Entrepreneur cover

39. Crackerjack Positioning : Niche Marketing Strategy for the Entrepreneur

by Don Reynolds