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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jan 20, 2014 - Jan 27, 2014

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Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America cover

1. Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America

by Stephen Manes, Paul Andrews

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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking cover

2. Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

by Douglas Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander

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The Gruffalo cover

3. The Gruffalo

by Julia Donaldson

The New Way Things Work cover

4. The New Way Things Work

by David Macaulay

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The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives cover

5. The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

by Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb cover

6. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

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The Silverlake Project: Transformation at IBM cover

7. The Silverlake Project: Transformation at IBM

by Roy A. Bauer, Emilio Collar, Victor Tang

Handbook of Christian Apologetics cover

8. Handbook of Christian Apologetics

by Peter Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli

Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith cover

9. Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith

by Peter Kreeft, Ronald Tacelli

The Catholic Controversy: A Defense of the Faith cover

10. The Catholic Controversy: A Defense of the Faith

by St Francis De Sales

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism cover

11. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

by Timothy Keller

Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated Edition cover

12. Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated Edition

by Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall

Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time cover

13. Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time

by Huw Price

Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming cover

14. Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming

by Jason R. Briggs

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Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison cover

15. Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison

by Allen M. Hornblum

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future cover

16. The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

by Chris Guillebeau

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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life cover

17. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

by Scott Adams

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Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com cover

18. Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com

by Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler

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Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications cover

19. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

by Toby Segaran

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Treasure Islands: Dirty Money, Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole Your Cash cover

20. Treasure Islands: Dirty Money, Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole Your Cash

by Nicholas Shaxson

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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide cover

21. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide

by Douglas Adams

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) cover

22. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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How to Lie with Statistics cover

23. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff

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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies cover

24. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

by Bryan Douglas Caplan

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The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy (Studies in American Thought and Culture) cover

25. The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy (Studies in American Thought and Culture)

by Paul Shankman

Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers cover

26. Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

by Charles Seife

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Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL, Second Edition: Revised OpenCL 1.2 Edition cover

27. Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL, Second Edition: Revised OpenCL 1.2 Edition

by Benedict Gaster, Lee Howes, David R. Kaeli, Perhaad Mistry, Dana Schaa

OpenCL Programming Guide cover

28. OpenCL Programming Guide

by Aaftab Munshi, Benedict Gaster, Timothy G. Mattson

OpenCL in Action: How to Accelerate Graphics and Computations cover

29. OpenCL in Action: How to Accelerate Graphics and Computations

by Matthew Scarpino

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

30. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford

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The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast! cover

31. The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!

by Josh Kaufman

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