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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 13, 2014 - Oct 20, 2014

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Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression cover

1. Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression

by W. A. Mathieu

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Code cover

2. Code

by Charles Petzold

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The HIPAA Roadmap for Business Associates: A step-by-step guide to HIPAA/HITECH compliance cover

3. The HIPAA Roadmap for Business Associates: A step-by-step guide to HIPAA/HITECH compliance

by Patricia D King

The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism cover

4. The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism

by Trevor Aaronson

On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace cover

5. On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace

by Dave Grossman, Loren W. Christensen

Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation cover

6. Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation

by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys, Wenzel Jakob

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The Design of the UNIX Operating System cover

7. The Design of the UNIX Operating System

by Maurice J. Bach

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Purely Functional Data Structures (Volume 0) cover

8. Purely Functional Data Structures (Volume 0)

by Chris Okasaki

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Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design cover

9. Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design

by Richard Bird

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Programming Pearls (ACM Press) cover

10. Programming Pearls (ACM Press)

by Jon Louis Bentley

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A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing cover

11. A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing

by Bonnie A. Nardi

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The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error cover

12. The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error

by Sidney Dekker

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Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell (2nd Edition) cover

13. Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell (2nd Edition)

by Richard Bird, Thomas E. Scruggs, Margo A. Mastropieri, Wadler, Edna Bird

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Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure cover

14. Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure

by Jerry Kaplan

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Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal [A Cookbook] cover

15. Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal [A Cookbook]

by Jennifer McLagan

Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age cover

16. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

by Peter Paret, Gordon Alexander Craig, Felix Gilbert

German Army 1933-1945 cover

17. German Army 1933-1945

by Matthew Cooper

Panzer Battles cover

18. Panzer Battles

by F. W. von Mellenthin

Panzer Leader cover

19. Panzer Leader

by Heinz Guderian, General Heinz Guderian

Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach cover

20. Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach

by Alejandro Serrano Mena

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The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton cover

21. The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton

by Tyler Cowen

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage cover

22. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

by Cliff Stoll

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Intimate Lives of the Ancient Greeks cover

23. Intimate Lives of the Ancient Greeks

by Stephanie Lynn Budin

The Glass Cage: Automation and Us cover

24. The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

by Nicholas Carr

SPIN Selling cover

25. SPIN Selling

by Neil Rackham

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The Rest Is Noise cover

26. The Rest Is Noise

by Anonymous

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies cover

27. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond

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Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job cover

28. Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job

by John Mongan

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The Wisdom of Crowds cover

29. The Wisdom of Crowds

by James Surowiecki

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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition cover

30. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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