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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 6, 2014 - Oct 13, 2014

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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America cover

1. Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

by Robert Whitaker
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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth cover

2. The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

by Irving Kirsch
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A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, 2) cover

3. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, 2)

by Vernor Vinge
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The Way of Zen cover

4. The Way of Zen

by Alan Watts
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Why the West Rules—for Now cover

5. Why the West Rules—for Now

by Giuseppe Baldeschi, Mortimer Von Montbach
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Learning Scala cover

6. Learning Scala

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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food cover

7. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

by Jennifer B. Lee
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Perl Best Practices cover

8. Perl Best Practices

by Damian Conway
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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal cover

9. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop
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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

10. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott
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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) cover

11. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

by Jez Humble
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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

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

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End cover

13. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande
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