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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 11, 2014 - Aug 18, 2014

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Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness cover

1. Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Wherever You Go, There You Are cover

2. Wherever You Go, There You Are

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

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The Happiness Project One-Sentence Journal for Mothers cover

3. The Happiness Project One-Sentence Journal for Mothers

by Gretchen Rubin

Introduction to Modern Cryptography: Principles and Protocols (Chapman & Hall/CRC Cryptography and Network Security Series) cover

4. Introduction to Modern Cryptography: Principles and Protocols (Chapman & Hall/CRC Cryptography and Network Security Series)

by Jonathan Katz, Yehuda Lindell

An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

5. An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Jeffrey Hoffstein, Jill Pipher, J.H. Silverman

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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

6. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B Irvine

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Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See cover

7. Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See

by Robert Kurson

Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C cover

8. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C

by Bruce Schneier

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theoreme vivant cover

9. theoreme vivant

by Cédric Villani

Opium Fiend: A 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction cover

10. Opium Fiend: A 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction

by Steven Martin

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics) cover

11. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics)

by Charles P. Kindleberger, Robert Aliber

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Underwater Robotics : Science, Design and Fabrication cover

12. Underwater Robotics : Science, Design and Fabrication

by Steven W. Moore, Harry Bohm, Vickie Jensen

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers cover

13. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers

by Tom Standage

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Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (2nd Edition) cover

14. Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (2nd Edition)

by Erik Spiekermann, E. M. Ginger

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Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge cover

15. Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge

by Oded Shenkar

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Kill Decision cover

16. Kill Decision

by Daniel Suarez

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Not On The Label cover

17. Not On The Label

by Felicity Lawrence

The Sleep Lady®’s Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Well and Wake Up Happy cover

18. The Sleep Lady®’s Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Well and Wake Up Happy

by Kim West

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter) cover

19. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

by Steve Krug

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The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband cover

20. The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband

by David Finch

Designed for Use: Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web cover

21. Designed for Use: Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web

by Lukas Mathis

Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture cover

22. Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture

by Jon Stokes

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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty cover

23. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

by David Kadavy

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Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) cover

24. Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)

by Elizabeth Green

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The Ruby Programming Language cover

25. The Ruby Programming Language

by David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto

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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything cover

26. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

by Joshua Foer

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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy cover

27. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

by David D. Burns

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future cover

28. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) cover

29. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

by Tom Vanderbilt

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Thou Shall Not Use Comic Sans: 365 Graphic Design Sins and Virtues: A Designer's Almanac of Dos and Don'ts cover

30. Thou Shall Not Use Comic Sans: 365 Graphic Design Sins and Virtues: A Designer's Almanac of Dos and Don'ts

by Tony Seddon, Sean Adams, John Foster, Peter Dawson

Inner Loops: A Sourcebook for Fast 32-bit Software Development cover

31. Inner Loops: A Sourcebook for Fast 32-bit Software Development

by Rick Booth

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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist cover

32. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson

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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler cover

33. The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler

by Thomas Hager

Data Science at the Command Line cover

34. Data Science at the Command Line

by Jeroen Janssens

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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work cover

35. Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives cover

36. Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives

by Isaiah Hankel

The Scientist & Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing cover

37. The Scientist & Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing

by Steven W. Smith