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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 23, 2014 - Jun 30, 2014

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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

1. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice cover

2. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

by Shunryū Suzuki
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier cover

3. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Glaeser
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Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity cover

4. Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity

by Avram Joel Spolsky
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The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market cover

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

by Michael Treacy
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Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters cover

6. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

by Richard Rumelt
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Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller cover

7. Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

by Donella Meadows
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Team Geek cover

8. Team Geek

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Confessions of an Advertising Man cover

9. Confessions of an Advertising Man

by David Ogilvy
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The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

10. The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto
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Good to Great: A Study of Management Strategies of Companies with Lasting Growth cover

11. Good to Great: A Study of Management Strategies of Companies with Lasting Growth

by Jim Collins
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Full Stack Web Development with Backbone.js cover

12. Full Stack Web Development with Backbone.js

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sed & awk, 2nd Edition cover

13. sed & awk, 2nd Edition

by Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins
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C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

14. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

15. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship cover

16. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship

by Ben Horowitz
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Commodore: A Company on the Edge cover

17. Commodore: A Company on the Edge

by Brian Bagnall
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Elements of Programming Interviews: The Insiders' Guide cover

18. Elements of Programming Interviews: The Insiders' Guide

by Adnan Aziz, Tsung-Hsien Lee, Amit Prakash
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The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations cover

19. The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations

by Jacob Soll
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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

20. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
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Professional JavaScript for Web Developers cover

21. Professional JavaScript for Web Developers

by Nicholas C. Zakas
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