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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 19, 2014 - May 26, 2014

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The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor cover

1. The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor

by John McPhee

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Oranges cover

2. Oranges

by John McPhee

The Kenkyusha Dictionary of English Collocations cover

3. The Kenkyusha Dictionary of English Collocations

by 市川繁治郎

Android Application Development: Programming with the Google SDK cover

4. Android Application Development: Programming with the Google SDK

by Rick Rogers, John Lombardo, Zigurd Mednieks, Blake Meike

Pattern Classification (Pt.1) cover

5. Pattern Classification (Pt.1)

by Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, Peter Elliot Hart, David G. Stork

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Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age cover

6. Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

by Steven Levy

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Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives cover

7. Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives

by Jeff Schmidt

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer cover

8. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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The Fourier Transform and Its Applications cover

9. The Fourier Transform and Its Applications

by Ronald Newbold Bracewell

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Anthem Other Canon Economics) cover

10. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Anthem Other Canon Economics)

by Mariana Mazzucato

Evolution: The Cutting Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You've Always Wanted cover

11. Evolution: The Cutting Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You've Always Wanted

by Joe Manganiello

Stoic Serenity: A Practical Course on Finding Inner Peace cover

12. Stoic Serenity: A Practical Course on Finding Inner Peace

by Keith Seddon

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon cover

13. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

by Brad Stone

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The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War cover

14. The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War

by Gary D. Solis

Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, 2nd Edition cover

15. Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, 2nd Edition

by Eliot Coleman

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Patterns for Parallel Programming cover

16. Patterns for Parallel Programming

by Timothy G. Mattson

Intel Threading Building Blocks: Outfitting C++ for Multi-core Processor Parallelism cover

17. Intel Threading Building Blocks: Outfitting C++ for Multi-core Processor Parallelism

by James Reinders

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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger cover

18. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson

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Shelter cover

19. Shelter

by Lloyd Kahn

Shelter II cover

20. Shelter II

by Lloyd Kahn, Bob Easton

Street Fight: The Struggle over Urban Mobility in San Francisco cover

21. Street Fight: The Struggle over Urban Mobility in San Francisco

by Jason Henderson

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22. Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to Keep It

by David L. Cohn

Introduction to Functional Programming (Prentice Hall International Series in Computing Science) cover

23. Introduction to Functional Programming (Prentice Hall International Series in Computing Science)

by Richard J. Bird, Philip Wadler

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Lisp in Small Pieces cover

24. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec

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Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design cover

25. Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design

by Richard Bird

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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) cover

26. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown cover

27. Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown

by Eric Blehm

An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

28. An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by John Robinson Pierce

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