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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 9, 2014 - Jun 16, 2014

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The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types cover

1. The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types

by Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) cover

2. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

by Elinor Ostrom

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Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition cover

3. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition

by Peter Bevelin

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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind cover

4. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

by Jack Trout, Al Ries

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Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur cover

5. Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur

Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications cover

6. Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications

by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, Tadayoshi Kohno

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The Housing Trap: How Buyers Are Captured And Abused And How To Defend Yourself cover

7. The Housing Trap: How Buyers Are Captured And Abused And How To Defend Yourself

by Patrick Killelea

PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance cover

8. PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance

by Gregory Smith

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Mathematical Circles: Russian Experience (Mathematical World, Vol. 7) cover

9. Mathematical Circles: Russian Experience (Mathematical World, Vol. 7)

by Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich Genkin, Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich Fomin, Ilʹi︠a︡ Vladimirovich Itenberg

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Human Factors in Healthcare: Level 1 cover

10. Human Factors in Healthcare: Level 1

by Debbie Rosenorn-Lanng

Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces cover

11. Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces

by Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo

Purely Functional Data Structures cover

12. Purely Functional Data Structures

by Chris Okasaki

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The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin cover

13. The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin

by Francis Spufford

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Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America cover

14. Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section:

15. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Idoru cover

16. Idoru

by William Gibson

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The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet cover

17. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

by Nina Teicholz

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Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance cover

18. Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance

by G. William Domhoff

The Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory of Perception cover

19. The Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory of Perception

by David Kelley

2312 cover

20. 2312

by Kim Stanley Robinson