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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 2, 2014 - Jun 9, 2014

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The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World cover

1. The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World

by Walter Kiechel

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems cover

2. Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems

by Steve Krug

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How the Immune System Works, Includes Desktop Edition cover

3. How the Immune System Works, Includes Desktop Edition

by Lauren Sompayrac

Secrets of Closing the Sale cover

4. Secrets of Closing the Sale

by Zig Ziglar

Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences (Voices That Matter) cover

5. Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences (Voices That Matter)

by Stephen P. Anderson

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men cover

6. Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

by Lundy Bancroft

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The Circle cover

7. The Circle

by Dave Eggers

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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date cover

8. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date

by Robert X. Cringely

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Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Un derprepared cover

9. Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Un derprepared

by Mike Rose

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Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons cover

10. Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

by George Pendle

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Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight cover

11. Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight

by John W. Foreman

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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition cover

12. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

by Steve Krug

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The Space Child's Mother Goose cover

13. The Space Child's Mother Goose

by Frederick Winsor

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty cover

14. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

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Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies cover

15. Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

by David Bentley Hart

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The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind cover

16. The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind

by Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl

Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications cover

17. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

by Toby Segaran

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The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church...and How to Prepare cover

18. The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church...and How to Prepare

by John S. Dickerson

Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits cover

19. Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits

by Robert C. Townsend, Warren Bennis

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We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs And The Forging Of The Electronic Age cover

20. We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs And The Forging Of The Electronic Age

by Bob Johnstone

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Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions cover

21. Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions

by Gerd Gigerenzer

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Million Dollar Launch: How to Kick-start a Successful Consulting Practice in 90 Days cover

22. Million Dollar Launch: How to Kick-start a Successful Consulting Practice in 90 Days

by Alan Weiss

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Python for Data Analysis cover

23. Python for Data Analysis

by Wes McKinney

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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts cover

24. Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

by Simon Garfield

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Learning Python, 5th Edition cover

25. Learning Python, 5th Edition

by Mark Lutz, David Ascher