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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 7, 2014 - Jul 14, 2014

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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

1. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

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Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (MIT Press) cover

2. Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (MIT Press)

by Jane Margolis, Allan Fisher

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Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing (MIT Press) cover

3. Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing (MIT Press)

by Jane Margolis

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Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking cover

4. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking

by Michael Ruhlman

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The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable cover

5. The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

by James Owen Weatherall

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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood cover

6. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

by James Gleick

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A Software Architecture Primer cover

7. A Software Architecture Primer

by John Reekie, Rohan McAdam, Rohan James McAdam

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The Biology of Cancer cover

8. The Biology of Cancer

by Robert Allan Weinberg

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My Years with General Motors cover

9. My Years with General Motors

by Alfred Sloan

X Users Guide Motif R5 cover

10. X Users Guide Motif R5

by Valerie Quercia, Tim O'Reilly

Beginning Java Objects: From Concepts To Code, Second Edition cover

11. Beginning Java Objects: From Concepts To Code, Second Edition

by Jacquie Barker

Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design cover

12. Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design

by Barbara Liskov, John Guttag

Design Patterns in Ruby cover

13. Design Patterns in Ruby

by Russ Olsen

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Learning JavaScript Design Patterns cover

14. Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

by Addy Osmani

Head First Design Patterns cover

15. Head First Design Patterns

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates

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The Little LISPer, Third Edition cover

16. The Little LISPer, Third Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

Classical Mechanics cover

17. Classical Mechanics

by Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole, John L. Safko

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Dependency Injection cover

18. Dependency Injection

by Dhanji R. Prasanna

The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities (2 Volume set) cover

19. The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities (2 Volume set)

by Mark Dowd, John McDonald, Justin Schuh

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

20. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems cover

21. Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems

by Stephen T. Thornton, Jerry B. Marion

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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work cover

22. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

by Mason Currey

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Ultimate Fighter: Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter cover

23. Ultimate Fighter: Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

by Bill Sweetman

Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It cover

24. Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It

by Ken Alibek, Stephen Handelman

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Irresistible Apps: Motivational Design Patterns for Apps, Games, and Web-based Communities cover

25. Irresistible Apps: Motivational Design Patterns for Apps, Games, and Web-based Communities

by Chris Lewis

Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology cover

26. Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology

by Steven Levy

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Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It cover

27. Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It

by Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor Jr., Stuart Taylor

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Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance cover

28. Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance

by Julia Angwin

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code cover

29. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck

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Design Basics Index cover

30. Design Basics Index

by Jim Krause

A Canticle for Leibowitz cover

31. A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter Miller

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Human Universals cover

32. Human Universals

by Donald Brown

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The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

33. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

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The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence cover

34. The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

by Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson

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