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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 28, 2014 - Aug 4, 2014

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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 28, 2014 - Aug 4, 2014

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

2. An Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Biology Applications

3. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

4. A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies

5. The Rent Is Too Damn High: What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think

6. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

7. Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima

8. A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!

9. It's Raining Cats and Dogs: An Autism Spectrum Guide to the Confusing World of Idioms, Metaphors and Everyday Expressions

10. Bad Data Handbook

11. Writing GNU Emacs Extensions

12. The Modern Gentleman, 2nd Edition: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice

13. The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos

14. Plundering the Public Sector: How New Labour are Letting Consultants Run off with GBP70 Billion of Our Money

15. Principles of Economics

16. The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing

17. Fortress Rochester: The Inside Story of the IBM iSeries

18. The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration

19. The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition

20. Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice, Second Edition

21. Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood

22. African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design

23. The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter

24. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

25. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

26. Geometric Approximation Algorithms (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs)

27. The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States

28. The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

29. The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

30. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition

31. Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

32. The Secret Life of Plants: a Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

33. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

34. India: A History. Revised and Updated

35. Disturbing The Universe (Sloan Foundation Science Series)

36. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

37. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

38. The Great Divorce

39. Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

40. Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

41. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

42. Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions)

43. Mere Christianity

44. Tao Te Ching

45. The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play